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Author : Dubravka Ugre I
Release : 1998
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Culture of Lies by : Dubravka Ugre I
Download or read book The Culture of Lies written by Dubravka Ugre I. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and cynical collection of essays, observations, and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia.
Author : Marilyn McEntyre
Release : 2021-05-11
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, 2nd ed by : Marilyn McEntyre
Download or read book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, 2nd ed written by Marilyn McEntyre. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the pervasiveness of vitriol and dishonesty today, language needs to be revived and restored. In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Marilyn McEntyre exposes the commercial and political forces that affect public discourse in American culture and counters with twelve constructive “strategies of stewardship”—such as challenging lies (including widely tolerated forms of deception and spin), fostering the art of conversation, and encouraging playfulness and prayerfulness in writing and speaking. The second edition of this timely and timeless book includes updated cultural references and questions for reflection and discussion at the end, allowing a new generation of readers to apply McEntyre’s wisdom in a world that struggles with truth and graceful language more than ever before.
Author : Paul H Weaver
Release : 1998-10-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 641/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis News and Culture of Lying by : Paul H Weaver
Download or read book News and Culture of Lying written by Paul H Weaver. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul H. Weaver's News and the Culture of Lying uses hard evidence to expose the "culture of lying," a propensity of news organizations to obscure the true meanings of news events and distort the public's conception of reality. News and Culture of Lying examines the relationship between journalists and the sources of their stories, argues that the media create an artificial sense of permanent emergency, and describes what must be done to restore credibility.
Author : Susan Jacoby
Release : 2008-02-12
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 121/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Age of American Unreason by : Susan Jacoby
Download or read book The Age of American Unreason written by Susan Jacoby. This book was released on 2008-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of “junk thought” that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
Author : Kyoko Mori
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 778/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Polite Lies by : Kyoko Mori
Download or read book Polite Lies written by Kyoko Mori. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new. In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.
