Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action explores a wide variety of issues and concepts connected to making arguments, responding to the arguments of others, and using good critical thinking skills to analyze persuasive communication.

Based on feedback from users and instructors, the new fifth edition of David Lapakko’s Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action:

• promotes civil discourse through expanded emphasis on sender/receiver ethics.
• integrates updated examples – includes…

Joe and Louise moved to Hidden River, Wyoming, a charming mountain town of 2,149 people, eight years ago to escape dangers from their past and to find safety and seclusion. They came with buried memories they tried to forget. Joe became the sheriff of Hidden River. His wife Louise began writing and eventually publishing poetry. They met Sam, a rancher and a hardware store owner, and his wife Joyce. The two couples became close friends. Things began to change when Jesse and his ten-month-old daughter took over The Brocade Couch, a popular antique store on main street. Joe and Louise…

There's a town in Wyoming called Hidden River, tucked in the foothills of the Rockies with a river running through it. It's the perfect place for Jesse to settle in with his ten-month-old daughter, away from the streets of New York. What led him here? What happened to make him leave his life in the big city? The Brocade Couch is a story about second chances and facing one's life with the courage to change. It is about forgiveness, love, and new beginnings. There is a beautiful brocade couch in an antique shop where people can sit and look out the window at the…

By the time he graduated from high school, Jack thought he had it all figured out. Was he in for a shock! He Didn't Know What He Didn't Know follows Jack's winding, often dizzying odyssey on the path to adulthood. He encounters sex and romance, relationships, school, jobs, politics, family life, and cultural differences--along with all of their attendant joys, sorrows, and life lessons.