The Truth Society
The Truth Society

Author: Noelle Molé Liston

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 150175081X

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Noelle Molé Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. Liston scrutinizes Italy's late twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, she examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and rationality into ideas that needed saving. With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the "post-truth" world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. Liston argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing. Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured, circulated, and processed. The Truth Society offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.

The Aquila Trials
The Aquila Trials

Author: Kruti Shah

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 1648997619

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The monetization of medicine is merely in its cradle. - Ronit Arora, CEO, Meridian Labs In Frankfurt, an affluent heir faces his nemesis ten years after a miraculous cure. In Kolkata, an eminent NGO doctors the health records of unwitting sex workers. In cyberspace, an invisible army distorts consumers’ reality. And in Mumbai, biotechnologist Shubhra Sen connects the dots through ‘The Aquila Trials.’ In the maze of a clinical trial gone awry, Shubhra is set against an opponent who will stop at nothing to rise to the echelons of the Global Billionaire CEO Club. A kaleidoscopic perspective on pharmacracy lays bare the commercialization, politicization, and ritualization of medicine. Pitting the strategies of Chanakya against those of Sun Tzu, communications specialist Kruti Shah unfolds a story of Big Pharma greed, corporate arm-twisting, and thrill.

What is a Disaster?
What is a Disaster?

Author: Enrico Louis Quarantelli

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0415178991

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Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions? In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions are highlighted, through the book's unique juxtaposition of the authors separately advanced views. A reaction paper to each set of views is presented by an experienced disaster researcher; in turn, the original authors provide a response to what has been said about their views. What is a Disaster? sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications for both theory, study and practice.

The Aquiliad
The Aquiliad

Author: Somtow Sucharitkul

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780671454432

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In another dimension where Rome never fell, General Titus and Aquila, a captured Indian, journey to the new world, where they discover flying saucers, time travelers, and Aztec gold

Geoethics
Geoethics

Author: S. Peppoloni

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1862397260

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This Special Publication will be an important tool for geoscientists, aimed at increasing the awareness of their societal role and responsibility in conducting education, research and practice activities. What are the responsibilities of a geoscientist ? And what motivations are needed to push geoscientists to practice the Earth sciences in an ethical way? The major environmental challenges affecting human communities require not only a strictly scientific and technical preparation by the geoscientists, but also a reflection on their broader obligations towards society. It is important that geoscientists consider geoethics as an indispensable framework on which to base their training and activity. The principles of geoethics can guide them to pursue the common good by weighing the benefits and costs of each choice, and identifying eco-friendly and society-friendly solutions that guarantee the respect of the right balance between human life and the dynamics of the Earth. Communication and dissemination of geosciences should become core activities in building a knowledge-based society, which is able better to protect itself and the Earth ecosystems in order to guarantee a life in harmony with our planet for future generations.

The Trials of Socrates
The Trials of Socrates

Author: C. D. C. Reeve

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780872205895

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This unique and expertly annotated collection of the classic accounts of Socrates left by Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon features new translations of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from Phaedo by C. D. C. Reeve, Peter Meineck's translation of Clouds, and James Doyle's translation of Apology of Socrates.

Innovative Internet Computing Systems
Innovative Internet Computing Systems

Author: Herwig Unger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 3540480803

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international workshop on Innovative Internet Computing Systems, IICS 2002, held in Khlungsborn, Germany, in June 2002. The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from over 30 submissions. Among the topics addressed are large-scale distributed computing infrastructures presenting new challenges to information and Web technology, the management and retrieval of web-based information, content classification, web-based communities management, structure and retrieval of information from large distributed data bases, and the representation of the distributed nature of information by means of graph-theoretical models.

The Best of Alastair Reynolds
The Best of Alastair Reynolds

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9781473216365

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This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers