Slanted

Author : Sharyl Attkisson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062974709

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Slanted by Sharyl Attkisson Pdf

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the media’s misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more. When the facts don’t fit their Narrative, the media abandons the facts, not the Narrative. Virtually every piece of information you get through the media has been massaged, shaped, curated, and manipulated before it reaches you. Some of it is censored entirely. The news can no longer be counted on to reflect all the facts. Instead of telling us what happened yesterday, they tell us what’s new in the prepackaged soap opera they’ve been calling the news. For the past four years, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has been collecting and dissecting alarming incidents tracing the shocking devolution of what used to be the most respected news organizations on the planet. For the first time, top news executives and reporters representing every major national television news outlet—from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBC—speak frankly, confiding in Attkisson about the death of the news as they once knew it. Their concern transcends partisan divides. Most frightening of all, a broad campaign in the media has convinced many Americans not only to accept but to demand censorship over journalism. It is a stroke of genius on the part of those seeking to influence public opinion: undermine public confidence in the news, then insist upon “curating” information and divining the “truth.” The thinking is done for you. They’ll decide which pesky facts shouldn’t cross your desk by declaring them false, irrelevant, debunked, unsafe, or out-of-bounds. We have reached a state of utter absurdity, where journalism schools teach students that their own, personal truth or chosen narratives matter more than reality. In Slanted, Attkisson digs into the language of propagandists, the persistence of false media narratives, the driving forces behind today's dangerous blend of facts and opinion, the abandonment of journalism ethics, and the new, Orwellian definition of what it means to report the news.

Author : Simon Tam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1733629114

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Slanted by Simon Tam Pdf

When Simon Tam started an Asian American dance rock band called The Slants, he didn't realize that he was starting an entire movement around freedom of expression and discussions on identity. The band flipped stereotypes with their bombastic live shows and community activism. But when Simon applied to register a trademark on the band's name, the government dragged him all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.Slanted is the story of an indomitable spirit who so believes in the idea of justice that he's willing to risk everything along the way for the dignity of self-identity. Simon shares a deeply personal account that will take you from anime conventions to the Supreme Court, all in the name of justice. The story provides a raw look at our legal system with unflinching honesty and offers timely insights on freedom of speech, how to connect with others we disagree with, and the power of music.Gripping, funny, enlightening, and ultimately uplifting, Slanted proves that no obstacle is too difficult to conquer --as long as you have a little heart and a lot of rock n' roll. It's an irrepressible story that is fresh, alive, and defines what it means to be American.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497607231

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Slant by Greg Bear Pdf

The “reigning master of hard-edge science fiction takes a chilling look at the plausible near-future” in this cyberpunk sequel to Queen of Angels (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance. However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho’s investigation finds a dark danger lurking in the recesses of the “dataflow.” Entertainment, virtual pornography, neo-Luddite separatists, an unknown artificial intelligence—everything seems to be intertwined in a vast conspiracy. As technology fails so too does the society perched high atop it. Perfection is a high pedestal from which to fall.

Author : Kateri Mary Carmola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3443847

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Slanted Truths by Kateri Mary Carmola Pdf

Author : Colin P. Britcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN : NASA:31769000513914

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Subsonic Sting Interference on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Family of Slanted-base Ogive-cylinders by Colin P. Britcher Pdf

Author : Victor A. Miroshnikov
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781618964069

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Harmonic Wave Systems: Partial Differential Equations of the Helmholtz Decomposition by Victor A. Miroshnikov Pdf

Harmonic Wave Systems is the first textbook about the computational method of Decomposition in Invariant Structures (DIS) that generalizes the analytical methods of separation of variables, undetermined coefficients, asymptotic expansions, and series expansions. In recent years, there has been a boom in publications on propagation of nonlinear waves described by a fascinating list of partial differential equations (PDEs). The vast majority of wave problems are reducible to one-dimensional ones in propagation variables. However, a list of publications with two- and three-dimensional applications of the DIS method is brief. The book offers a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the DIS method in two and three dimensions using the PDE approach to the Helmholtz decomposition that provides the most general background for mathematical modelling of harmonic waves in fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, heat transfer, and other numerous areas of science and engineering, which are dealing with propagation and interaction of N internal waves.

Author : Tandra Ghose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3490652

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Depth Cue Combination and Slant Anisotropy by Tandra Ghose Pdf

Author : Peter Newell
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788726330229

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The Slant Book by Peter Newell Pdf

Watch out! A little boy comes rushing down a hill, through busy streets, a pasture, a tennis yard and a meadow — before finally coming to rest, safely in a haystack. Peter Newell’s’s own hilarious, topsy-turvy illustrations fill the pages of the classic "The Slant Book", which was one of the earliest ‘picture books’. This first edition from 1910 is guaranteed to still entertain both young and old. Peter Newell (1862-1924) was an American artist, author and illustrator of children’s books. Creating his own picture books, such as "The Hole Book" and "The Slant Book", he also illustrated first editions of books by authors such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll.

Author : Slanted
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034611220

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TypoLyrics by Slanted Pdf

Grafikdesigner lieben Musik. Das zeigt nicht zuletzt die große Begeisterung der Leser des Typografie-Magazins „Slanted" für die Rubrik „Typo Lyrics", in der Gestalter Musik mithilfe von Schrift ganz neu interpretieren. Für die gleichnamige Publikation haben sich renommierte Grafikdesigner wie Fons Hickmann sowie junge Talente aus der ganzen Welt von Songtexten zu innovativen Font-Designs inspirieren lassen. Entstanden ist eine Sammlung faszinierender Visuals – „Schriftbilder", die zeitgenössische Fonts auf eine etwas andere Weise präsentieren. Das außergewöhnliche Zusammenspiel von Schriftgestaltung und Musik macht die Fonts lebendig und bringt sie regelrecht zum Tanzen. Im Gegensatz zu klassischen Musterbüchern oder Schriftenfächern wird so ein besonderer, emotionaler Zugang zur Typografie geschaffen, der das große Ausdruckspotenzial von Schriften deutlich macht. Analog zur traditionellen Schriftklassifikation gliedert sich das Buch in elf Kapitel, die sich jeweils mit einer Schriftfamilie und Songtexten einer bestimmten Musikrichtung auseinandersetzen.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002656514

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf

Author : Bang-Yen Chen,Mohammad Hasan Shahid,Falleh Al-Solamy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789811600210

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Complex Geometry of Slant Submanifolds by Bang-Yen Chen,Mohammad Hasan Shahid,Falleh Al-Solamy Pdf

This book contains an up-to-date survey and self-contained chapters on complex slant submanifolds and geometry, authored by internationally renowned researchers. The book discusses a wide range of topics, including slant surfaces, slant submersions, nearly Kaehler, locally conformal Kaehler, and quaternion Kaehler manifolds. It provides several classification results of minimal slant surfaces, quasi-minimal slant surfaces, slant surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector, pseudo-umbilical slant surfaces, and biharmonic and quasi biharmonic slant surfaces in Lorentzian complex space forms. Furthermore, this book includes new results on slant submanifolds of para-Hermitian manifolds. This book also includes recent results on slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Hermitian manifolds, which are of extensive use in general theory of relativity and potential applications in radiation and electromagnetic fields. Various open problems and conjectures on slant surfaces in complex space forms are also included in the book. It presents detailed information on the most recent advances in the area, making it valuable for scientists, educators and graduate students.

Author : Bang-Yen Chen,Mohammad Hasan Shahid,Falleh Al-Solamy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789811600173

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Contact Geometry of Slant Submanifolds by Bang-Yen Chen,Mohammad Hasan Shahid,Falleh Al-Solamy Pdf

This book contains an up-to-date survey and self-contained chapters on contact slant submanifolds and geometry, authored by internationally renowned researchers. The notion of slant submanifolds was introduced by Prof. B.Y. Chen in 1990, and A. Lotta extended this notion in the framework of contact geometry in 1996. Numerous differential geometers have since obtained interesting results on contact slant submanifolds. The book gathers a wide range of topics such as warped product semi-slant submanifolds, slant submersions, semi-slant ξ┴ -, hemi-slant ξ┴ -Riemannian submersions, quasi hemi-slant submanifolds, slant submanifolds of metric f-manifolds, slant lightlike submanifolds, geometric inequalities for slant submanifolds, 3-slant submanifolds, and semi-slant submanifolds of almost paracontact manifolds. The book also includes interesting results on slant curves and magnetic curves, where the latter represents trajectories moving on a Riemannian manifold under the action of magnetic field. It presents detailed information on the most recent advances in the area, making it of much value to scientists, educators and graduate students.

Author : Doug Dutra
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613254325

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Chrysler Slant Six Engines by Doug Dutra Pdf

Now 60 years old, your Slant Six could probably use some freshening up. Slant Six engine expert Doug Dutra has produced this volume to walk you through every aspect of disassembly, evaluation, rebuild, and reassembly in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format. The book also covers modifications, showing how to squeeze the most out of your engine. The year 1960 was an important one in auto manufacturing; it was the year all of the Big Three unveiled entrants in a new class of car called the compact. Chrysler's offering, the Plymouth Valiant, was paired with its redesigned 6-cylinder engine entrant, the Slant Six, known by its nickname the "leaning tower of power." This engine powered the Valiants when they swept the top seven positions in the newly christened compact race that precluded the Daytona 500. With its legacy intact, Chrysler's Slant Six powered Mopar automobiles for decades to come in three displacement offerings (170, 198, 225). With millions of Slant Six engines built over the 30-plus years that the engine was produced, it’s always a good idea to have this book handy, as you never know when the next "leaning tower of power" will find its way into your garage! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Author : Edward B. Geisler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Visibility
ISBN : IND:30000088239987

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Development and Evaluation of a Tower Slant Visual Range System by Edward B. Geisler Pdf

Author : Jacob Stewart-Halevy
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520344068

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Slant Steps by Jacob Stewart-Halevy Pdf

Slant Steps explores the vital role of the semi-periphery—artistic communities working between the provinces and the metropole. Premised on the collective fascination with the found object Slant Step, the book details a history of encounters among artists, filmmakers, critics, and others operating in and out of the Bay Area during the long 1960s. They revised the terms of the counterculture, the appeal of consumer goods, and the surfaces and materials of industrial design and contemporary sculpture. Whether extending to international exchanges or shrinking to local coteries, these circles helped develop process, funk, and conceptual art as they forged new directions for the art world and its members. Yet when these groups degraded their own works alongside those of their rivals, they made their political and aesthetic commitments difficult to decipher, reorganizing the ties between the visual arts and the New Left. Merging sociologies of art with the tradition of social art history, Jacob Stewart-Halevy uncovers the oblique perspectives and values of the semi-periphery, revealing its enduring impact upon contemporary art, above all in the field of pedagogy.