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A fun and entertaining way to learn critical thinking and logical reasoning

About the Author

Ali Almossawi holds a Masters in Engineering Systems from MIT and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter where he works as a data visualization designer for Mozilla and a creative director for the design firm Skyrill, while also collaborating on projects with his colleagues at the MIT Media Lab. Ali's work has appeared in publications such as Wired.

Reviews

'I love this illustrated book of bad arguments. A flawless compendium of flaws.'

-- Prof. Alice Roberts, anatomist, presenter of the BBC's 'The Incredible Human Journey'

'A wonderfully digestible summary of the pitfalls and techniques of argumentation. I can't think of a better way to be taught or reintroduced to these fundamental notions of logical discourse. A delightful little book.'

-- Aaron Koblin, Creative Director of the Data Arts team at Google

'Seriously, An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments should be on every school curriculum. Twitter will be a more civil place.'

-- Kevin Tang * BuzzFeed *

'Bad arguments, great illustrations ... gorgeous.'

-- Cory Doctorow * Boing Boing *

'[A] wonderful primer on the logical fallacies that have been screwing up our thinking ... since shortly after the invention of dirt.'

-- Ron Kretsch * Dangerous Minds *

'A great primer for anyone looking to understand logical fallacies ... Pass it along to the arguers - good and bad - in your life.'

-- Lauren Davis * io9 *