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Book Synopsis The Crosswords Club Collection by : Will Weng
Download or read book The Crosswords Club Collection written by Will Weng and published by Random House Puzzles & Games. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crosswords Club Collection returns with more of the puzzles enjoyed by the subscribers of the exclusive mail-order service that provides original Sunday-size crosswords. In addition to these special puzzles, there is a unique Answers section, which provides interesting tidbits about each crossword.
Book Synopsis The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles Book by : Meg Clemens
Download or read book The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles Book written by Meg Clemens and published by Everything. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stump your friends and family with this fun, challenging math puzzle book! Who knew that math could be so cool? Crammed with games, puzzles, and trivia, The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book puts the fun back into playing with numbers! If you have any fear of math—or are just tired of sitting in a classroom—The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book provides hours of entertainment. You’ll get so caught up in the activities, you won’t even know you’re learning! Inside, you’ll be able to: -Decode hidden messages using Roman numerals -Connect the dots using simple addition and subtraction -Learn to create magic number squares -Use division to answer musical riddles -Match the profession to numerical license plates
Book Synopsis Word Searches For Dummies by : Denise Sutherland
Download or read book Word Searches For Dummies written by Denise Sutherland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel-friendly puzzle-packed book that keeps the brain in shape One of the best ways to exercise the mind is through word and logic games like word searches and Sudoku. Studies have shown that doing word searches frequently can help prevent diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia. Word Searches For Dummies is a great way to strengthen the mind and keep the brain active plus, it's just plain fun! This unique guide features several different types of word searches that take readers beyond simply circling the answer: secret shape word searches, story word searches, listless word searches, winding words, quiz word searches, and more. It provides a large number of puzzles at different levels that will both test and exercise the mind while keeping the reader entertained for hours.
Book Synopsis 1975 Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book by : Mega Media Depot
Download or read book 1975 Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book written by Mega Media Depot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH THIS Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR 1975 LOVER LIGHT UP WITH DELIGHT! This edition covers the year events of 1975. This combination book will keep your trivia, crossword word search and sudoku fans busy for years. Our Trivia Quiz will test your knowledge of the year 1975. This Trivia Quiz is in a multiple choice format. It has the look and feels of an old school test! At the end of the quiz, there is a scoring grade to see how smart you really are. Next are some of the most challenging traditional Crossword puzzles you can find. Each of these crossword puzzles is huge and will keep you entertained for hours. These puzzles cover a variety of topics and will keep every level of puzzler challenged and entertained. Our Fill In crossword puzzles (also known as Fill-It-Ins or Word Fills) is different from the traditional crossword puzzle in that we supply you with the words, instead of clues and you need to complete the grid. We call these Mosaic Crosswords! You will enjoy these challenging puzzles. Everybody loves a word search puzzle! Our word search puzzles are challenging for both adults and children hiding the words both front and backward as well as diagonal. These word search puzzles will include a variety of different words ensuring a great puzzle experience. Do you like Sudoku? We provide 4 levels of Sudoku puzzles ranging from very easy to very hard. We are sure there will be a level for you to enjoy. If you're looking for a gift, for any occasion, that your 1975 Lovers will actually use and enjoy for years to come, then check out the 1975 Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book! Customized Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book speak to their recipients on a more personal level, making them feel special. Plus, Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book is universally functional gifts, for both kids and adults. It is proven that Trivia Crossword Word Search Sudoku puzzles are a great way to reduce stress and increase self-esteem all while keeping your small motor skills active. This new Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book will delight both existing fans and new puzzle enthusiasts as they discover this timeless and unique collection of entertainment. These puzzles are designed to keep you challenged and engaged, so sharpen your pencils and get ready! The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that cognitive puzzles such as Trivia Crossword Word Search and Sudoku puzzles "can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body." THE ONLY AUTHORIZED SELLER OF THIS 1975 Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book IS MEGA MEDIA DEPOT. MEGA MEDIA DEPOT DELIVERS THE HIGHEST QUALITY 1975 Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book. Our Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book are printed and shipped in the United States. MEGA MEDIA DEPOT Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book ARE 8 1/2 by 11 MAKING PUZZLE SOLVING EASY. REST ASSURED WITH OUR MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. All Mega Media Depot products come with a 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee. IT'S BOUND TO BECOME A FAVORITE 1975 GIFT. So what are you waiting for? Click the Add-to-cart button and get yours while supplies last.
Download or read book Power Failure written by Mimi Swartz and published by Currency. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written by prizewinning journalist Mimi Swartz, and substantially based on the never-before-published revelations of former Enron vice-president Sherron Watkins, as well as hundreds of other interviews, Power Failure shows the human face beyond the greed, arrogance, and raw ambition that fueled the company’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the new century, Ken Lay’s and Jeff Skilling's faces graced the covers of business magazines, and Enron’s money oiled the political machinery behind George W. Bush’s election campaign. But as Wall Street analysts sang Enron’s praises, and its stock spiraled dizzyingly into the stratosphere, the company’s leaders were madly scrambling to manufacture illusory profits, hide its ballooning debt, and bully Wall Street into buying its fictional accounting and off-balance-sheet investment vehicles. The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums. Among the cast of characters Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins observe with shrewd Texas eyes and an insider’s perspective are: CEO Ken Lay, Enron’s “outside face,” who was more interested in playing diplomat and paving the road to a political career than in managing Enron’s high-testosterone, anything-goes culture; Jeff Skilling, the mastermind behind Enron’s mercenary trading culture, who transformed himself from a nerdy executive into the personification of millennial cool; Rebecca Mark, the savvy and seductive head of Enron’s international division, who was Skilling’s sole rival to take over the company; and Andy Fastow, whose childish pranks early in his career gave way to something far more destructive. Desperate to be a player in Enron’s deal-making, trader-oriented culture, Fastow transformed Enron’s finance department into a “profit center,” creating a honeycomb of financial entities to bolster Enron’s “profits,” while diverting tens of millions of dollars into his own pockets An unprecedented chronicle of Enron’s shocking collapse, Power Failure should take its place alongside the classics of previous decades – Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker – as one of the cautionary tales of our times.
Book Synopsis The Geography of Thought by : Richard Nisbett
Download or read book The Geography of Thought written by Richard Nisbett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment...and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" - drawn to the perceptual field as a whole, and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behaviour.
Book Synopsis Brain Games Family Feud Puzzles by : Publications International, Limited
Download or read book Brain Games Family Feud Puzzles written by Publications International, Limited and published by Publications International, Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzles from the legendary game show Family Feud! Solve these word searches in the style and format of the show. Contains 70 word search puzzles with up to 8 real survey answers you must guess to complete the puzzle. Each puzzle uses a classic Family Feud survey question covering topics like food, love, animals, and everyday life. Spiral binding helps the book lay flat. Answer key in the back of the book. 160 pages
Book Synopsis What Every Person Should Know About War by : Chris Hedges
Download or read book What Every Person Should Know About War written by Chris Hedges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Book Synopsis The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by : Nicholas Carr
Download or read book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains written by Nicholas Carr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Book Synopsis Late for Tea at the Deer Palace by : Tamara Chalabi
Download or read book Late for Tea at the Deer Palace written by Tamara Chalabi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Tamara Chalabi, Iraq is more than a country of war and controversy; it is a place of poignant memory. For much of the twentieth century, the Chalabis were among the most influential families in Iraq. In the 1920s they were at the forefront of their country's awakening to modernity, and they played an integral part in the establishment of its monarchy. As courtiers, politicians, businessmen, rebels, merchants, and scholars, the Chalabis enjoyed vast privilege until the end of the 1950s, when they were forced to flee to the land of exile, myth, and imagination, where their beloved homeland took on the quality of a phantom country. In between came rebellions, foreign interventions, and the transformative development of oil wealth. But in 2003, after a lifetime of exile, Tamara arrived in Baghdad just ten days after the city's fall, in the company of her father, Ahmad Chalabi, a leading opposition figure against the Saddam regime. Late for Tea at the Deer Palace chronicles a daughter's return to a homeland she'd known only through stories and her own imagination. As she investigates four generations of her family's history, Tamara offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern family life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. The story is populated by an array of unforgettable characters, among them Tamara's great-grandfather Abdul Hussein Chalabi, who as a member of the Ottoman parliament witnessed the end of the empire in Baghdad and the birth of the modern Iraqi state at the hands of the British; her grandfather Abdul Hadi Chalabi, who became one of the wealthiest men in Iraq and had strong ties with the British during World War II; and her grandmother Bibi, a grande dame who presided over Iraq's social and political life during Baghdad's 1920s and '30s heyday as the Paris of the Middle East. At once intimate and magisterial, Late for Tea at the Deer Palace vividly captures the rich, overlooked history of a country that has been uprooted by war and a family that has persevered by never forgetting its dreams or its past.
Download or read book The Creative Habit written by Twyla Tharp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird. All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin...
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning by : K. Ann Renninger
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning written by K. Ann Renninger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading researchers in educational and social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience, this edited volume is suitable for a wide-academic readership. It gives definitions of key terms related to motivation and learning alongside developed explanations of significant findings in the field. It also presents cohesive descriptions concerning how motivation relates to learning, and produces a novel and insightful combination of issues and findings from studies of motivation and/or learning across the authors' collective range of scientific fields. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on motivational constructs and their measurement, which can be used by multiple and distinct scientific communities, both basic and applied.
Book Synopsis Why Don't Students Like School? by : Daniel T. Willingham
Download or read book Why Don't Students Like School? written by Daniel T. Willingham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills "Mr. Willingham's answers apply just as well outside the classroom. Corporate trainers, marketers and, not least, parents -anyone who cares about how we learn-should find his book valuable reading." —Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis The Improv Handbook by : Tom Salinsky
Download or read book The Improv Handbook written by Tom Salinsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.
Download or read book WALC 6 written by Leslie Bilik-Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive series of tasks and functional carryover activities allowing for integration of language and cognitive skills for neurologically-impaired adolescents and adults with diverse levels of functioning. Exercises cover a broad scope of skills including orientation, auditory comprehension, verbal expression, and reading comprehension.
Book Synopsis Astronomy Hobbyist Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Bookwith Adult Coloring Book Pages by : Mega Depot
Download or read book Astronomy Hobbyist Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Bookwith Adult Coloring Book Pages written by Mega Depot and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy Hobbyist Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Bookwith Adult Coloring Book Pages ATTENTION! Before you buy this Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book with Adult Coloring Book Pages - take notice that Cover is custom and related to Astronomy. All of the puzzles and coloring pages are not related to Astronomy, but instead make up some of the most challenging puzzles and coloring pages we could create, making this the perfect gift! WITH THIS Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book with Adult Coloring Book Pages, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR Astronomy Lover LIGHT UP WITH DELIGHT! This combination book will keep your trivia, crossword, sudoku, coloring and word search fans busy for years. This makes the perfect gift for any occasion. Our crossword puzzles are the most challenging puzzles on the market. We have included some of the most challenging crossword puzzles you will find anywhere. You are guaranteed hours of enjoyment. Our crossword puzzle tests your universal knowledge on a variety of topics. Fill In Crossword puzzles differ from the traditional crossword puzzle in that we provide the words for you and your job is to fill them into the crossword puzzle. Don't be fooled into thinking this is easy as there are multiple words with the same amount of letters which makes completing the puzzles very challenging. Everybody loves a word search puzzle! Our word search puzzles are challenging for both adults and children hiding the words both front and backward as well as diagonal. The sheer size of these puzzles will keep you entertained for hours. Our Sudoku Puzzle section offers the best in Sudoku entertainment! We have included only the most challenging sudoku puzzle, so get your pencils (and thinking caps) ready. If you like tough Sudoku puzzles, then look no further. Customized coloring books are universally functional gifts, for both kids and adults. It is proven that coloring is a great way to reduce stress and increase self-esteem all while keeping your small motor skills active. If you're looking for a gift for any occasion, that your Astronomy Lover will actually use and enjoy for years to come, then check out the Astronomy Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book with Adult Coloring Book Pages! Customized Crossword Word Search Color & Sudoku activity puzzle books speak to their recipients on a more personal level, making them feel special. Plus, Crossword Word Search Color & Sudoku activity puzzle books are universally functional gifts, for both kids and adults. It is proven that Crossword Word Search Coloring & sudoku puzzles are a great way to reduce stress and increase self-esteem all while keeping your small motor skills active. This new Stress Relieving Time Wasting Trivia Quiz Crossword Fill in Word Search Sudoku Activity Puzzle Book with Adult Coloring Book Pages will delight both existing fans and new puzzle enthusiasts as they discover this timeless and unique collection of entertainment. These puzzles are designed to keep you challenged and engaged, so sharpen your pencils and get ready! The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that cognitive puzzles such as Crossword Word Search & Sudoku puzzles "can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body."
Book Synopsis The Lifespan of a Fact by : John D'Agata
Download or read book The Lifespan of a Fact written by John D'Agata and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
