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Bad History

Emma Marriott
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Author : Emma Marriott
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843177777

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So many historical 'truths' handed down by teachers or historians, and repeated by the press, prove on closer scrutiny to be at best misleading, and at worst deliberately falsified. Yet they are often so deeply rooted that we take them as fact - America's Founding Fathers must have been democrats, surely, and wasn't Captain Scott 'of the Antarctic' one of history's greatest leaders? Some historical 'facts' are little more than fables, distorted in the retelling; others are the result of deliberate attempts to mislead, or to cover up a discreditable past. Entertaining but authoritative, Bad History debunks a wealth of historical errors, accidental or deliberate. In doing so, it exposes many falsehoods that have wrongly - and sometimes dangerously - influenced our understanding of the world's history.

Bad History

Barrett Watten
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Author : Barrett Watten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021325092

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Poetry. Cultural Writing. The poem looks back on the decades previous to the first Gulf War and forwards--toward a duration of events, which, because the poem is in history, do not cease to occur. In a famous modern definition, an epic poem is a poem including history. In Barret Watten's BAD HISTORY, history includes the poem. The poem, too, becomes the event of its own recording. Watten is the co-editor of POETICS JOURNAL and author of TOTAL SYNTAX, essays on modern and contemporary poetics, as well as the long poems PROGRESS and UNDER ERASURE. He teaches modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Bad Girls Throughout History

Ann Shen
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Author : Ann Shen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452157023

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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World delivers a empowering book for women and girls of all ages, featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a best-selling book you can be proud to display in your home. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in the best sense of the word: they challenged the status quo and changed the rules for all who followed. Explored in this history book, include: • Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. • Sojourner Truth, women's rights activist and abolitionist. • Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. • Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. • Joan Jett, godmother of punk. From pirates to artists, warriors, daredevils, women in science, activists, and spies, the accomplishments of these incredible women who dared to push boundaries vary as much as the eras and places in which they effected change. Featuring bold watercolor portraits and illuminating essays by Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History is a distinctive, gift-worthy tribute to rebel girls everywhere. A lovely gift for teen girls, stories to share with a young girl at bedtime, or a book to display on a coffee table, everyone will enjoy learning about and celebrating the accomplishments of these phenomenal women.

Bad History, Worse Policy

Peter J. Wallison
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Author : Peter J. Wallison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780844772400

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This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act.

Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema

P. McGee
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Author : P. McGee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137012531

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McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds .

Bad Girls Throughout History Flexi Journal

Ann Shen
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Author : Ann Shen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Women
ISBN : 145215399X

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"Featuring 50 iconic illustrations from Bad girls throughout history, this flexi-bound journal highlights the incredible women who changed the rules for all to followed. With beautiful calligraphic quotes and plenty of space for writing or drawing, this is a perfect gift for thoughtful girls everywhere"-- Provided by publisher.

Bad Days in History

Michael Farquhar
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Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426212680

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"Farquhar's ... entries draw from the full sweep of history to take readers through a complete year of misery, including tales of lost fortunes (like the would-be Apple investor who pulled out in 1977 and missed out on a $30 billion-dollar windfall), romance gone wrong (like the 16th-century Shah who experimented with an early form of Viagra with empire-changing results), and truly bizarre moments (like the Great Molasses Flood of 1919)"--

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn
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Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427

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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

The Wicked History of the World

Terry Deary,Martin Brown
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Author : Terry Deary,Martin Brown
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
ISBN : 0439877865

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An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey,Ben Miller
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Author : Huw Lemmey,Ben Miller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839763281

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An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive. Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains, failures, and baddies. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead and notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors tell the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. They examine a cast of kings, fascist thugs, artists and debauched bon viveurs. Imperial-era figures Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Casement get a look-in, as do FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, lawyer Roy Cohn, and architect Philip Johnson. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge mainstream assumptions about sexual identity: showing that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century, one central to major historical events. Bad Gays is a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond questions of identity, compelling readers to search for solidarity across boundaries.

Bad People in History

Roland C. Barker
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Author : Roland C. Barker
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 051716311X

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A companion volume to Bad Times in History, this original from RHVP takes a look at the infamous throughout world history, presented in A-to-Z format. Dictators, terrorists, mass murderers, serial killers, all the villains of history are here.

The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks

Emma Marriott
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Author : Emma Marriott
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843179290

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Here's your chance to introduce yourself to the full spectrum of world history.

A Brief History of Vice

Robert Evans
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Author : Robert Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780147517609

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A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating. Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for women’s rights to the beer that helped create—and destroy—South America's first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home. You’ll learn how to: • Trip like a Greek philosopher. • Rave like your Stone Age ancestors. • Get drunk like a Sumerian. • Smoke a nose pipe like a pre–Columbian Native American. “Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a vivid picture of how bad habits built the world we know and love.”—David Wong, author of John Dies at the End

Dark Persuasion

Joel E. Dimsdale
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Author : Joel E. Dimsdale
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300247176

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A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century’s major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story—one that hasn’t yet ended.

Bad Vibrations

Dr James Kennaway
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Author : Dr James Kennaway
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409456216

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Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.