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By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : Seema Yasmin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1665900059
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 : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399551344
Jack and Annie’s biggest, most exciting book of facts is their greatest adventure outside the tree house! Jack and Annie have been all over the world in their adventures in the magic tree house. And they’ve learned lots of incredible facts along the way. Now they want to share them with you! Get ready for a collection of the coolest, weirdest, funniest, grossest, most all-around amazing facts Jack and Annie have ever encountered. With full-color photographs and fun comments from Jack and Annie, this is the essential fact book for all Magic Tree House fans.
Author : Chuck Norris
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1414334494
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 D'Agata
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1529404630
NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE 'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower. The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay's eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between 'truth' and 'accuracy', and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other. 'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis
Author : Thomas Fuchs
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Provides information about Hitler on a variety of subjects with a chronology included.
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525581790
A New York Times bestselling author and the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of The Good Egg deliver a perfectly timed, funny read-aloud about the importance of telling the truth. There once was a fact who could not lie. But no one believed him. When the Authorities lock the sad little fact away, along with other facts, the world goes dark. But facts are stubborn things. With the help of a few skillful fact finders, they make a daring escape and bring truth back to brighten the world. Because after all, "a fact is a fact" and that's that! Truth be told, this spare, ingenious story reads like a modern-day parable. Bestselling author, Jonah Winter, and the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of The Good Egg, Pete Oswald, pair together to remind us of the importance of honesty and truth during a time of lies and fake news.
Author : Andrew Wojtanik
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426309473
Whether you are studying for a test at school of just seeking to expand you knowledge of the world, you'll find this to be an invaluable tool.
Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 1998-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226675262
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 : Scott Bateman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101608374
Have you ever wanted to dazzle your friends with your command of history, science, and other important matters? No? Then this is the book for you. Ronald Reagan once famously said, “Facts are stupid things.” The book you hold in your hands will prove it. Did you know that Albuquerque’s population is 78% chupacabra and 22% victim? Do you know why civilization started in Mesopotamia, and not Boise? And did you know the reason you shouldn’t stare at the Sun is that it will probably shoot you and turn your skin into a rain poncho? Disalmanac is a handy compendium of false facts covering everything from world history and economics to pop culture, sports, and more. All of which are incorrect, but try not to be so judgy about it. But wait, there’s more. You’ll also discover a generous supply of Random Bonus Facts from the likes of Michael Ian Black, Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Weird Al Yankovic, and other luminaries who may or may not have a good grasp of the facts.