The Department of Denials

The Department of Denials

Author: Anurag Mathur

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780143032007

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The Best-Selling Author Of The Inscrutable Americans And Making The Minister Smile Returns With Another Entertaining Story In The Department Of Denials. In This Latest Venture, Babar Thakur Babs To His Friends A Youth Fresh Out Of College In Search Of An Identity And Direction In Life, Sets Off On A Trip To Fulfil His Dream Of Becoming The Prime Minister Of India One Day. In The Best Traditions Of All Heroic Odysseys, He Starts Out On His Quest Alone. Soon, He Is On A Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Corridors Of Power, Witness To The Shenanigans Of Netas And Babus. Chief Among Them Is The Minister Balak Kumar, Who, Repeatedly At The Receiving End Of Various Allegations From The Opposition, Finally Decides To Centralize All Denials Under One Authority, Namely, The Department Of Denials. And He Asks Babs'S Father, Bahadur Prasad Thakur, To Head The Newly Created Department. The Stage Is Thus Set For An Unending Run Of Situations, Alternately Bizarre And Funny.


Denial

Denial

Author: Jared Del Rosso

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1479847887

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"In this new book, Jared Del Rosso argues that to understand contemporary social problems we need to become aware of the strategies that people use to deny the existence of those very problems. Drawing on research in sociology, criminology, psychology, and communication studies, Del Rosso develops a new vocabulary for describing denial and its consequences. With examples from everyday observations, current events, and social scientific research, Del Rosso also reveals just how widespread and varied the uses of denial are. Some uses of denial can help people repair their interactions and relationships with others. But most uses of it allows problems to fester, unrecognized. We need, Del Rosso concludes, forms of acknowledgement to surface long-denied problems. But more than that, we need collective forms of action to remedy the harms that those problems and our denial of them have done"--


Delay, Deny, Defend

Delay, Deny, Defend

Author: Jay M. Feinman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-03-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1101196289

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An expose of insurance injustice and a plan for consumers and lawmakers to fight it Over the last two decades, insurance has become less of a safety net and more of a spider's web: sticky and complicated, designed to ensnare as much as to aid. Insurance companies now often try to delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend these actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation. Jay M. Feinman, a legal scholar and insurance expert, explains how these trends developed, how the government ought to fix the system, and what the rest of us can do to protect ourselves. He shows that the denial of valid claims is not occasional or accidental or the fault of a few bad employees. It's the result of an increasing and systematic focus on maximizing profits by major companies such as Allstate and State Farm. Citing dozens of stories of victims who were unfairly denied payment, Feinman explains how people can be more cautious when shopping for policies and what to do when pursuing a disputed claim. He also lays out a plan for the legal reforms needed to prevent future abuses. This exposé will help drive the discussion of this increasingly hot- button issue.


Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial

Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial

Author: Roger W. Cobb

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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This is the first book devoted to examining why some issues proposed by aggrieved individuals or groups are denied access to policy agendas. The book contains case studies that look at the policy process from the perspective of the strategies opponents often use to ensure agenda denial--strategies usually motivated by perceived threats to widely held world views and identities.


Inscrutable Americans

Inscrutable Americans

Author: Anurag Mathur

Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788129129802

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"Gopal, a naive Indian exchange student, goes to America to study chemical engineering. With his absurd notions of the country, Gopal encounters the travails of shopping in departmental stores, the hazards of bar-hopping and of learning the difference between friendship and love the hard way"--Back cover.


Education Denied

Education Denied

Author: Katarina Tomasevski

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9781842772508

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This unique contribution to global educational debate and policymaking aims to highlight the adverse impacts on children and young people of not having access to effective formal education. The author is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. In reviewing the emerging commitment to universal education and the difficult history of trying to give effect to this commitment, particularly in the past half century, the author draws on three bodies of literature - on education specifically, on the development process generally, and on human rights. Her intention is to develop an approach which shifts the debate from sheer numbers of pupils, funding mechanisms and the recent preoccupation with market forces to a deeper discussion about what the right to education should really comprise, how governments and other institutions actually go about, or fail in, giving effect to it on a universal and non-discriminatory basis, and what happens to young people within the educational process itself. The book is an indispensable tour d'horizon of the history and problems encountered in the global quest for universal education. It also points up the discrimination and abuses of power this quest has involved and what needs now to be done.


A World of Turmoil

A World of Turmoil

Author: Stephen J. Hartnett

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1611863929

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The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years. A work of sweeping historical vision, A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World War II and the start of the Long Cold War; the almost-nuclear war over the Quemoy Islands in 1954–1955; the détente, deceptions, and denials surrounding the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué; the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995–1996; and the rise of postcolonial nationalism in contemporary Taiwan. Diagnosing the communication dispositions that structured these events reveals that leaders in all three nations have fallen back on crippling stereotypes and self-serving denials in their diplomacy. The first communication-based study of its kind, this book merges history, rhetorical criticism, and advocacy in a tour de force of international scholarship. By mapping the history of miscommunication between the United States, China, and Taiwan, this provocative study shows where and how our entwined relationships have gone wrong, clearing the way for renewed dialogue, enhanced trust, and new understandings.


Government Secrecy

Government Secrecy

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13:

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