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Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157488641X
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : Mark Henry
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717190393
This optimistic guide to Ireland at 100 tells our national story through facts and stats, placing Ireland under the microscope to chart 100 achievements of the past 100 years. Ireland remained one of the most poverty-stricken nations in Europe for decades after the State was formed. Yet now, it has the second-highest standard of living in the world. Author Mark Henry has gathered the data to tell an under-told story of our national progress across every aspect of Irish life. He identifies the factors that account for Ireland's extraordinary success, as well as the five most prominent psychological biases that prevent us from recognising how far we have come. He also highlights the greatest challenges that we must now address if we are to continue to progress in the century ahead. While there is still more to be done, In Fact illustrates that Ireland, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than you might think.
Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226675183
How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
Author : Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 0801488494
Shapiro traces the genesis of the fact, a modern concept that originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England.
Author : Seema Yasmin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665900041
From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies. What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make sense of it anymore? Well, we have to. As conspiracy theories and online hoaxes increasingly become a part of our national discourse and “truth” itself is being questioned, it has never been more vital to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction, and media literacy has never been more important. In this accessible guide, Dr. Seema Yasmin, an award-winning journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor, traces the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape and teaches young readers the skills that will help them identify and counter poorly-sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
Author : Lee Gutkind
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393326659
A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre. Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished in this new turf, all originally published in the groundbreaking journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now in its tenth anniversary year. Many of the writers here are crossing genres—from poetry to fiction to nonfiction. Annie Dillard provides the introduction, while Gutkind discusses the creative and ethical parameters of this new genre. The selections themselves are broad and fascinating. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic contemplates raucous gatherings at his Uncle Boris's apartment, while John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt of his own life. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog, and Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti.
Author : Robert C. Koons,Timothy Pickavance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119116097
The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics. Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics
Author : George Shominov
Publisher : BookCountry
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781463003777
The author, George Shominov, was born in 1958, wrote a book based on his own long-term experience the practical Yoga of Sleep and Dreams, narrates about passing from simple dreams to Conscious Dreams, further improvement of Consciousness and eliminating dual perception of Life (esoteric, philosophy)...
Author : Jess Berentson-Shaw
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9781988545356
"Today it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are increasingly hard to debunk. How do we convincingly explain the difference between good information and misinformation? A matter of fact explores the science of communicating and presents innovative ways to talk effectively (and empathetically) about contentious information"--Publisher information.
Author : National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Cancer
ISBN : MINN:30000005198035
Author : Michael LeMahieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199890408
Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211338129
Author : Chuck Norris,Todd DuBord
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781414334493
For the first time, Norris gives readers not only his favorite "facts about himself, but also the stories behind the facts and the code by which he lives his life.
Author : John Proffatt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368725488
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498239844
Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.