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A Book of Falsehoods

Author : Jaan Kross
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 085705516X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Falsehoods written by Jaan Kross and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer 1578. A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our hero's life's work. But though it is an instant success, as it was in Rostock and numerous German cities, not everyone is happy to see it published. A group of local gentry denounce it to the town council as "a book of heinous falsehoods", and lobby for Balthasar to relieved as pastor of Holy Ghost Church. But all is not lost. Balthasar may call on a powerful ally - if he is willing to pay the price. In this final volume, fierce storms, along with famine, war and plague, continue to be loosed upon Livonia. Balthasar's personal life, too, is fraught with turbulence and loss, much of it stemming from his own jealousy and suspicion.

Book of Lies

Author : Metzger, Richard
Publisher : Disinformation Books
ISBN 13 : 1938875109
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Book of Lies written by Metzger, Richard and published by Disinformation Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic and magical experiences Techgnosis author Eric Davis writes about H.P. Lovecraft Robert Anton Wilson writes about the similarities between Aleister Crowley and Timothy Leary Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" ask if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era. Other contributors or subjects written about include Brian Barritt, Vere Chappell, Ida Craddock, Joe Coleman, Nevill Drury, Stephen Edred Flowers, T. Allen Greenfield, Gary Lachman, Anton Lavey, Peter Levenda, Grant Morrison, Michael Moynihan, Rosaleen Norton, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Tracy Twyman. It's all here and more!

The Excellence of Falsehood

Author : Deborah L. Ross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183162
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Excellence of Falsehood written by Deborah L. Ross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only excellence of falsehood... is its resemblance to truth," proclaims a clergyman in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. He argues that romances are bad art; novels, he implies, are better. This clergyman's remarks—repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century—are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels. Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen did not take the clergyman's advice to heart. To them, the "falsehood" of romance was by no means self-evident, nor was the superior "excellence" of the novel. In theory, many of them accepted the distinction, but their works combined aspects of the romance and the novel in ways that brought them into conflict with the critical establishment. The texts discussed here illustrate a process of development both in the novel and in the conditions of women's lives. Tensions between romance and realism enabled women writers to question official versions of reality and to measure life against a romance ideal. By altering readers' perceptions and judgments, these authors gradually altered the reality that novels "resemble" and set up new combinations of romance and realism for future writers. This give-and-take between fiction and life is seen most dramatically in the way a "romantic" notion gradually comes to be treated in novels as both "real" and right. Ross follows one such notion—that women have matrimonial preferences—to the point where romance and reality merge. Ross's study brings to light an important part of the history of the novel not yet incorporated in theories and histories of the genre.

The Book of Lies

Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lies written by Aleister Crowley and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Lies was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley under the pen name of Frater Perdurabo. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive." The book consists of 91 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

The Penguin Book of Lies

Author : Philip Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140157338
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Lies written by Philip Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Lies

Author : Teri Terry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544900480
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lies written by Teri Terry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both?"--Provided by publisher

Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

Author : Aron Ra
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1634310799
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism written by Aron Ra and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution. Those with a sympathetic ear often fail to critically examine these creationist claims, leading to an ill-informed public and, perhaps more troubling, ill-advised public policy. As Aron Ra makes clear, however, every single argument deployed by creationists in their attacks on evolution is founded on fundamental scientific, religious, and historical falsehoods–all of them. Among their most popular claims is that evolution is a religion, that there are no transitional species, that there are no beneficial mutations, and that supposedly sacred scripture is the infallible word of God. Yet, as the evidence and data plainly show, each of these claims is demonstrably and unequivocally false. There is simply no truth to creationism whatsoever, and the entire enterprise rests on a foundation of falsehoods. This book explains and exposes the worst of these lies, and should be read by all who honestly care about following the evidence no matter where it might lead in pursuit of the truth.

Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth

Author : The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982151072
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth written by The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In perilous times, facts, expertise, and truth are indispensable. President Trump’s flagrant disregard for the truth and his self-aggrandizing exaggerations, specious misstatements, and bald-faced lies have been rigorously documented and debunked since the first day of his presidency by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker staff. Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth is based on the only comprehensive compilation and analysis of the more than 16,000 fallacious statements that Trump has uttered since the day of his inauguration. He has repeated many of his most outrageous claims dozens or even hundreds of times as he has sought to bend reality to his political fantasy and personal whim. Drawing on Trump’s tweets, press conferences, political rallies, and TV appearances, The Washington Post identifies his most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers, and most dangerous deceptions. This book unpacks his errant statements about the economy, immigration, the impeachment hearings, foreign policy, and, of critical concern now, the coronavirus crisis as it unfolded. Fascinating, startling, and even grimly funny, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth by The Washington Post is the essential, authoritative record of Trump’s shocking disregard for facts.

The Misinformation Age

Author : Cailin O'Connor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300241003
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Misinformation Age written by Cailin O'Connor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.” —Kirkus Reviews Editors’ choice, The New York Times Book Review Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively. “[The authors] deftly apply sociological models to examine how misinformation spreads among people and how scientific results get misrepresented in the public sphere.” —Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American “A notable new volume . . . The Misinformation Age explains systematically how facts are determined and changed—whether it is concerning the effects of vaccination on children or the Russian attack on the integrity of the electoral process.” —Roger I. Abrams, New York Journal of Books

Falsehood and Fallacy

Author : Bethany Kilcrease
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487588615
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Falsehood and Fallacy written by Bethany Kilcrease and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falsehood and Fallacy emphasizes that in our politically divided landscape, we all need to be able to read and research more critically in order to make well-reasoned arguments.

The Book of Common Fallacies

Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616083360
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you thought you knew was...

Lies and Falsehoods

Author : Bernard Keane
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743587953
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Lies and Falsehoods written by Bernard Keane and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. All politicians lie. They twist the truth, exaggerate and spin. But blatant lying has now become a standard part of political discourse, led by Donald Trump and carried on by Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison. Combine this with an all-out assault on the truth in public debate along with the biggest communications revolution since the printing press, and you have a disaster in real time: a sea of fake news, hyper-partisanship and polarisation. No society or democracy can function without trust, and the consequences of this profound shift are clear. The first step to a remedy is in understanding both the liars and the environments in which they lie. Lies and Falsehoods does exactly that, in this highly readable and incisive account of how we found ourselves in this fractured post-truth world, and how we might get out. From Crikey and Hardie Grant Books, The Crikey Read is a series that brings an unflinching and truly independent eye to the issues of the day in Australia and the world.

Donald Trump's Book of Lies

Author : Samuel Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977018328
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Donald Trump's Book of Lies written by Samuel Allen and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-27 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his speeches, interviews, and many tweets on the Twitter social media platform U. S. President Donald J. Trump has been very careless with the facts. This has been noted by media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and analysts such as Politico Magazine and Politifact, which regularly post corrections.Misstatements made before and during the 2016 presidential campaign have been noted in a companion volume titled "Deciding the Future of America: An Evaluation of the Trump Presidency." This book continues with debatable statements made since Mr. Trump took office. The author believes that such a collection is worthwhile because many items on Mr. Trump's agenda are based on "facts" that are easily proved to be wrong.

Liars

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197545130
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Liars written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem. Lying has been with us from time immemorial. Yet today is different-and in many respects worse. All over the world, people are circulating damaging lies, and these falsehoods are amplified as never before through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. Liars are saying that COVID-19 is a hoax. They are claiming that vaccines cause autism. They are lying about public officials and about people who aspire to high office. They are lying about their friends and neighbors. They are trying to sell products on the basis of untruths. Unfriendly governments, including Russia, are circulating lies in order to destabilize other nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States. In the face of those problems, the renowned legal scholar Cass Sunstein probes the fundamental question of how we can deter lies while also protecting freedom of speech. To be sure, we cannot eliminate lying, nor should we try to do so. Sunstein shows why free societies must generally allow falsehoods and lies, which cannot and should not be excised from democratic debate. A main reason is that we cannot trust governments to make unbiased judgments about what counts as "fake news." However, governments should have the power to regulate specific kinds of falsehoods: those that genuinely endanger health, safety, and the capacity of the public to govern itself. Sunstein also suggests that private institutions, such as Facebook and Twitter, have a great deal of room to stop the spread of falsehoods, and they should be exercising their authority far more than they are now doing. As Sunstein contends, we are allowing far too many lies, including those that both threaten public health and undermine the foundations of democracy itself.

The Death of Truth

Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525574832
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Truth written by Michiko Kakutani and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Book of Lies

Author : M. Hirsh Goldberg
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780688084431
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lies written by M. Hirsh Goldberg and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling some of the greates,t and smallest, lies ever told, the author presents a humorous collection of untruths, white lies, schemes, and scams

Falsehood in Wartime.

Author : Arthur Ponsonby
Publisher : Scriptorium
ISBN 13 : 9781777543624
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Falsehood in Wartime. written by Arthur Ponsonby and published by Scriptorium. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the enemy. The ignorant and innocent masses in each country are unaware at the time that they are being misled, and when it is all over, only here and there are the falsehoods discovered and exposed. As it is all past history and the desired effect has been produced by the stories and statements, no one troubles to investigate the facts and establish the truth. Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time, but in war-time the authoritative organization of lying is not sufficiently recognized. Yet the deception of whole peoples is not a matter which can be lightly regarded. This well-known book by the Englishman Arthur Ponsonby, a member of the British Parliament, opens our eyes and shows us how politicians and journalists deceive and lie to incite people to war. Anyone who applies the realizations in this book, originally published in 1928, to modern-day media reportage will see that we are still subject to this kind of manipulation from above, regardless whether our governments have openly declared war on the enemy of their choice, or not.