Calling Bullshit
Calling Bullshit

Author: Carl T. Bergstrom

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0525509208

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Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data. “A modern classic . . . a straight-talking survival guide to the mean streets of a dying democracy and a global pandemic.”—Wired Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. We are fairly well equipped to spot the sort of old-school bullshit that is based in fancy rhetoric and weasel words, but most of us don’t feel qualified to challenge the avalanche of new-school bullshit presented in the language of math, science, or statistics. In Calling Bullshit, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data. You don’t need a lot of technical expertise to call out problems with data. Are the numbers or results too good or too dramatic to be true? Is the claim comparing like with like? Is it confirming your personal bias? Drawing on a deep well of expertise in statistics and computational biology, Bergstrom and West exuberantly unpack examples of selection bias and muddled data visualization, distinguish between correlation and causation, and examine the susceptibility of science to modern bullshit. We have always needed people who call bullshit when necessary, whether within a circle of friends, a community of scholars, or the citizenry of a nation. Now that bullshit has evolved, we need to relearn the art of skepticism.

How to Defend Australia
How to Defend Australia

Author: Hugh White

Publisher: La Trobe University Press

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1743820976

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A brilliant and important book about Australia’s future Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White considers these questions and more. With exceptional clarity and frankness, he makes the case for a reconceived defence of Australia. Along the way he offers intriguing insights into history, technology and the Australian way of war. Hugh White is the country’s most provocative, revelatory and yet realistic commentator on Australia’s strategic and defence orientation. In an age of power politics and armed rivalry in Asia, it is time for fresh thinking. In this controversial and persuasive contribution, White sets new terms for one of the most crucial conversations Australia needs to have. ‘This book, by one of Australia’s leading defence policy thinkers, will be a very important contribution to our national discussion in coming years. Hugh White tackles many challenging issues and opens up the new debate that we need to have as Australia plots its course through a changing international environment.’—Robert O’Neill, former Chichele Professor of the history of war, University of Oxford ‘Hugh White is among our most knowledgeable and practised strategists. While I am strongly supportive of the US alliance, How to Defend Australia is a serious work from a serious patriot that requires close reading. It deserves a wide audience.’—Kim Beazley

The Doctor Calling
The Doctor Calling

Author: Meredith Appleyard

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1760142077

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What Laura was about to do wasn't easy. To become embroiled in a family's turmoil, their grief, their anger, their secrets, wasn't safe, or clever. Rebuilding her life again after unexpected tragedy, GP Laura O'Connor flees Adelaide, and her medical career, for a quiet life in rural Potters Junction. She's looking to escape her own family dramas. The last thing she expects is to become caught up in another's. Jake Finlay is a man with a troubled past and a passion for risk-taking. After years away from his small home town, he's hell-bent on keeping his distance. But his father is dying and this could be the last chance they have to make amends. As Laura and Jake come together over the care for the frail man, they experience an irresistible attraction. Will facing death help them both to grab hold of life? And might love be just what the doctor ordered? Reviews for The Country Practice 'A page-turning romance with a medical flavour capturing the essence of rural Australia. Meredith Appleyard is a fresh new country voice.' Tricia Stringer 'A refreshing take on traditional rural romance novels . . . a beautiful and intriguing tale about country life.' Weekly Times

Melbourne and around Rough Guides Snapshot Australia (includes the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island and the Dandenongs)
Melbourne and around Rough Guides Snapshot Australia (includes the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island and the Dandenongs)

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Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1409361020

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The Rough Guide Snapshot to Melbourne and around is the ultimate travel guide to this vibrant city and its surrounding region. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, whether you're on a foodie tour of the city's world-class restaurants or catching an Aussie Rules match at the MCG, exploring Chinatown's narrow lanes or wine-tasting in the Yarra Valley. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for a few days or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Australia, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Australia. Full coverage: the city and its suburbs, as well as sights around Melbourne including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island, Phillip Island, the Yarra Valley and the Dandenongs, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula. (Equivalent printed page extent 108 pages).

Calling for Change
Calling for Change

Author: Sheila McIntyre

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2006-06-28

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0776618598

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Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada.

Australia Revenged
Australia Revenged

Author: Boomerang

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Australia Revenged" by Boomerang. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.