The Book Of Truth And Facts

Author : Bart Vautour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1988784379

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The Truth about Facts by Bart Vautour Pdf

An A-to-Z compendium that finds the wonder in information overload. The Truth About Facts makes intimate the seeming noise of information and facts by using the tradition of the alphabet book to get back to basics: to make room for wonder, devotion, and a reinvigorated role for poetry in both quick and methodological thought. Vautour leads his readers on an info-drenched, abecedarian jaunt that is both tongue-in-cheek and unquestionably earnest. Ranging from topics as assorted as Brazil Nuts and Juggling to meditations on Rememoration and the Zodiac, The Truth About Facts moves between the surety of aphorism and the anxieties of critique. "The Truth about Facts subtly and satisfyingly illuminates already existing connections in the seemingly far-flung."--Canadian Literature "If, like me, you find yourself randomly clicking through Wikipedia articles late into the night, you will love this delightful ramble through the facts."--Sachiko Murakami

Author : NoNieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781541564329

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Truth Is by NoNieqa Ramos Pdf

Named one of the best YA Latinx books of 2019 by Remezcla and HipLatina. A Bustle Book Club Selection A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning Puerto Rican teen. Fifteen-year-old Verdad doesn't think she has time for love. She's still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca; dealing with the high expectations of her hardworking Puerto Rican mother and the absence of her remarried father; and keeping everyone at a distance. But when she meets Danny, a new guy at school—who happens to be trans—all bets are off. Verdad suddenly has to deal with her mother's disapproval of her relationship with Danny as well as her own prejudices and questions about her identity, and Danny himself, who is comfortable in his skin but keeping plenty of other secrets. In her luminous, raw, and open-hearted exploration of identity, grief and first love, NoNieqa Ramos has created an unforgettable character in Verdad.The Truth Is offers a complex look at a brilliant, queer, neurodifferent girl, the mother who loves but doesn't understand her, and a fabulously drawn group of street kids who can't save themselves but just might save her. A brilliantly written breathtaking book. I couldn't put it down! —Michelle Ruiz-Keil, author of All of Us with Wings A brilliant, beautiful, moving story of ecstasy and loss and tragedy and hope, The Truth Is demands to be read. The fast-moving plot bristles with literary and classical references, but the deepest insights—and there are plenty—come from the unforgettable observations and conclusions of its main character, Verdad de la Reyna, an unforgettably brave and complicated heroine who confronts profoundly disturbing, real-world challenges with the help of friends, both present and past. Nonieqa Ramos follows up The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary with another superb novel guaranteed to break the reader's heart before trying to mend it." —Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick, authors of Snowsisters NoNieqa Ramos's un-flinching voice and writing style continues to cement her as a force to be reckoned with in the YA world. —Mia García, author of The Resolutions

Author : Jill Abramson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501123214

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Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson Pdf

Former executive editor of The New York Times and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston Globe) report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits old vs. new media. “A marvelous book” (The New York Times Book Review), Merchants of Truth is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. “Abramson provides this deeply reported insider account of an industry fighting for survival. With a keen eye for detail and a willingness to interrogate her own profession, Abramson takes readers into the newsrooms and boardrooms of the legacy newspapers and the digital upstarts that seek to challenge their dominance” (Vanity Fair). We get to know the defenders of the legacy presses as well as the outsized characters who are creating the new speed-driven media competitors. The players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (The Washington Post), Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (The New York Times), Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed), and Shane Smith (VICE) as well as their reporters and anxious readers. Merchants of Truth raises crucial questions that concern the well-being of our society. We are facing a crisis in trust that threatens the free press. “One of the best takes yet on journalism’s changing fortunes” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Abramson’s book points us to the future.

Author : Jess Berentson-Shaw
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9781988545356

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A Matter of Fact by Jess Berentson-Shaw Pdf

"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 : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Crown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525574835

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The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends—originating on both the right and the left—that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant. With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times.

Author : Hartry Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199241712

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Truth and the Absence of Fact by Hartry Field Pdf

Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts.Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology. The essays on truth, meaning, and the attitudes show a development from a form of correspondence theory of truth and meaning to a more deflationist perspective.The next set of papers argue that a place must be made in semantics for the idea that there are questions about which there is no fact of the matter, and address the difficulties involved in making sense of this, both within a correspondence theory of truth and meaning, and within a deflationary theory. Two papers argue that there are questions in mathematics about which there is no fact of the mattter, and draw out implications of this for the nature of mathematics. And the final paper arguesfor a view of epistemology in which it is not a purely fact-stating enterprise.This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.

Author : Huw Price
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631150781

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Facts and the Function of Truth by Huw Price Pdf

Author : Publications International Ltd
Publisher : Book of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1680227556

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The Book of the Truth Behind the Story by Publications International Ltd Pdf

"Filled with practical and particular information on questionable rumors, mysterious happenings, and events. Including political figures and their histories, local destinations and the events that made them what they are, the origins of ostensible hauntings and unbelievable myths, and fast facts on some of today's most popular technologies."--Amazon.com

Author : Kavanagh,Michael D. Rich
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781977400130

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Truth Decay by Kavanagh,Michael D. Rich Pdf

Political and civil discourse in the United States is characterized by “Truth Decay,” defined as increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring of the line between opinion and fact, an increase in the relative volume of opinion compared with fact, and lowered trust in formerly respected sources of factual information. This report explores the causes and wide-ranging consequences of Truth Decay and proposes strategies for further action.

Author : Lee McIntyre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262345989

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Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre Pdf

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.” What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

Author : Mikael Wulff,Anders Morgenthaler
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062486431

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Truth Facts by Mikael Wulff,Anders Morgenthaler Pdf

Welcome to Truth Facts, a collection of information graphics that poke fun at societal quirks and everyday absurdities through charts and graphs. Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler have taken the internet by storm with their humorous and perceptive infographics that turn commonplace phenomena into clever commentary. In distilling keen observations about universal experiences into elegant charts and graphs, Truth Facts gets to the heart of the paradoxical and wonderful world we all share, and puts modern reality into perspective in a funny and visceral way. These simple, colorful graphics explore societal quirks and everyday oddities, such as what happens when you call customer service (anything but service), when banks are open (only when you’re at work), the biggest lies on the internet (“LOL”), and much more. Playfully teasing readers even as it explores themes like perception vs. reality, this compendium of life’s truthiest facts prods us to laugh at ourselves, own up to our shortfalls, accept the strangeness of the world we live in, and continue on—happier and more connected to one another than ever before.

Author : Staten Hoover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692460381

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Truth Verified by Staten Hoover Pdf

Truth Verified is a unique evangelistic tool designed to promote, increase, and defend your faith. It is filled with photographs, historical facts and archeological discoveries to support the Bible's authenticity. Bridging facts to faith to reduce the distance for one to take a leap of faith with confidence. Christianity is not a hoax or a fairytale, it is a historical truth based on actual events. Some people today make their decision on a whim; pursuing or refusing religion based on emotional reasons instead of intellectual ones. Perhaps they do not read the Bible, because they merely do not own one. Certainly in our fast pace world, the mainstream simply do not set aside time to conduct a sincere investigation or research. Therefore, the sole purpose of this pamphlet is to bring the research to you. Even as a Christian, I am amazed of how much evidence supports the Bible! I could not possibly provide all the evidence here. It would literally take a collection of encyclopedias to do so! Some individual historical records could be argumentative when singled out. However, when you consider the numerous external evidences collected. It is not commonsensical to suggest so many discoveries are coincidental. Many atheist have searched the world to prove Christianity false only to end up accepting it as truth. You hold in your hands now, a new revelation which could enrich your life. A bridge from fact to faith. The external evidence can likewise now become internal. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time. The above Bible verse found in 1 Timothy 2:5-6 sums it up. The hoax or lie is all religions lead to the same God. We may all take different paths, yet they all somehow lead to heaven. This perception is false and so far from the truth. Christianity is not "man-made." There is only one true God, one true heaven, and one true path.

Author : Vindex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : ONB:+Z175330802

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Old Truths, and Established Facts, Being an Answer to a Very New Pamphlet Indeed by Vindex Pdf

Author : Varadaraja V. Raman
Publisher : Beech River Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780979377860

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Truth and Tension in Science and Religion by Varadaraja V. Raman Pdf

"An examination of the frameworks of science and religion that provides a multi-cultural view of how they affect our perception of the truth"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Readers Digest
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0762105232

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Reader's Digest the Truth about History by Anonim Pdf

Presents a collection of facts and details about historical happenings and famous people and uncovers the myth and misconceptions of some accounts as well as shedding light on those thought to be authentic.