Northeast Ohio's top meteorologist hosts this collection of monthly and daily weather statistics, storm safety tips, skygazing suggestions, miscellaneous fun facts, and entertaining short essays about weather, pets, sports, and other favorite topics. Includes guest essays by local TV and radio personalities and other friends of Dick Goddard.
Nobody explains Cleveland's weather better than Dick Goddard, twice rated the most popular local weathercaster in America. Now his first book makes weather easier to understand -- and fun to learn about -- with month-by-month facts, folklore, storm tips, and weather wit. Humorous short essays range from stargazing to global warming.
From people of the year-to the perfect games of the year. Information of all the countries of the world. Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, & U.S. Societies and Associations.
Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.
Cleveland television meteorologist Dick Goddard shares stories, cartoons, facts, and essays about weather, pets, Ohio history, the television business, and other topics.
How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy—particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality—and how it has damaged democracies of the past. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States. How Propaganda Works shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.
