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Free Download Truth, Lies, and Technology: Real and Fake News in the Digital Age (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas) by Scientific American
English | January 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1684169526 | 178 pages | PDF | 3.53 Mb
With the accelerating rise of online communication, there has also been an unprecedented spread of falsehoods. Readers coming of age in this world of information spreading at speeds faster than ever before may wonder about how technology can spread pervasive lies-and how they can play a part in making it more truthful. This enlightening title aims to guide readers in exploring how technology such as deepfakes and social media algorithms can convincingly distort the truth. They will not only learn to recognize Internet fabrications but also how to stop their spread.

Free Download Pauline Greenhill, "Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths "
English | ISBN: 0814347827 | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives―including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing―renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical.

Free Download Joel Best, "Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0520219783, 0520274709 | EPUB | pages: 190 | 0.2 mb
Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Damned Lies and Statistics is essential reading for everyone who reads or listens to the news, for students, and for anyone who relies on statistical information to understand social problems.

Free Download All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C67BZVN6 | 2024 | 13 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 383 MB
Author: Elizabeth Comen
Narrator: Anna Caputo

Free Download Sr. Reginald Tomas Lee, "Lies, Damned Lies, and Cost Accounting: How Capacity Management Enables Improved Cost and Cash Flow Management"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 163157065X, 1637423594 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 3.3 mb
Business leaders rely on accounting data such as profit and calculated costs as a guide to whether they are making money. Should they? Accounting was designed to report financial performance not model cash flow. Accruals can disconnect cash flow from the timing and extent to which it occurs. Statements of cash flow do not provide insight into what was bought and how efficiently it was used. Costs and profits are not absolute, they change based on the model you use to calculate them. To manage cash, you must manage what you buy and how effectively you use it. The largest expenditure for most companies is capacity; space, labor, materials, equipment, and technology. Unless you model and manage capacity effectively, you will not achieve the cash flow results you seek. This book introduces capacity management, describes cash flow dynamics, and offers ideas about how to manage both. After reading it, you be able to see, understand, and manage cash flow as never before.

Free Download White Lies About the Inuit (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) By John Steckley
2007 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1551118750 | PDF | 2 MB
The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced in classrooms, anthropology and sociology textbooks, and other media, but have been rarely challenged, contributing to misunderstandings that have ultimately, in subtle ways, diminished the stature of Inuit traditional culture.In this lively book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three "White Lies"-the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes. Debunking these popular myths allows him to illustrate how knowledge is shaped by Western social science, particularly the anthropology of the "Other," and that it can be flawed. In the process, students learn not only about Inuit culture, but about the difference between popular and scholarly research.

Free Download Jane Smith, "The Killer’s Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives"
English | ASIN : B0CNV2XHJV | 2024 | pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Exposing Captain Starlight’s twisted life of crime and deceit.

Free Download Wm. Paul Young, "Lies We Believe About God"
English | 2018 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1501128965, 1501101390 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
From the author of the bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of twenty-eight assumptions about God-assumptions that just might be keeping us from experiencing His unconditional, all-encompassing love.

Free Download Preferred Lies: A Journey into the Heart of Scottish Golf by Andrew Greig
English | 2007 | ISBN: 031237299X | 304 Pages | PDF | 37.2 MB
Andrew Greig, poet, novelist, and lapsed golfer, came within moments of death before his surgeon performed a last-ditch operation and saved his life.

Free Download Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir by Kaylie Jones
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0061778702 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 2.0 MB
In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones-the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)-tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease.