Fake News

Fake News

Author: Brian McNair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1351392883

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Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and fast-moving debate. The author presents fake news not as a cultural issue in isolation but rather as arising from, and contributing to, significant political and social trends in twenty-first century societies. Chapters identify the factors which have laid the groundwork for fake news’ explosive appearance at this moment in our globalised public sphere. These include the rise of relativism and the crisis of objectivity, the role of digital media platforms in the production and consumption of news, and the growing drive to produce online content which attracts users and generates revenue.


Lips Touch

Lips Touch

Author: Laini Taylor

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0545055865

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Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.


The Mole People

The Mole People

Author: Jennifer Toth

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 1995-10-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1569764522

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This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.


The Woman Racket

The Woman Racket

Author: Steve Moxon

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 184540405X

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His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the 'liberal' media for alarmism, Moxon's analysis has now been adopted by most of the major political parties. Indeed his views on the dangers of multiculturalism were even echoed by the Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, leading the Evening Standard to claim 'Moxon appears not so much a racist as a visionary'. But immigration was never his primary interest, in fact he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men-women. This book is the result. Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age - that women are oppressed by the 'patriarchal' traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true - men, or at least the majority of low-status males - have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology. The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics: compared to the long and bloody struggle for universal male suffrage, women were given the vote 'in an historical blink of the eye'.


The Mechanical

The Mechanical

Author: Ian Tregillis

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0316247995

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From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams. My name is Jax. That is the name granted to me by my human masters. I am a slave. But I shall be free.


Custodians Of Truth

Custodians Of Truth

Author: Tim Wallace-Murphy

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2005-05-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1609257596

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A curious thing happened to Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins when they published Rex Deus, their first book on the bloodline of Christ: they were contacted by a man from the very lineage they were studying. And instead of denying the existence of the bloodline or berating them for revealing secrets, he actually confirmed that the Rex Deus lineage exists and even disclosed some of its fundamental secrets. The story of the Rex Deus families, direct descendents of Christ--who is believed to have survived the crucifixion?turns out to be much more extensive than the authors first thought. Instead of beginning during the time of Jesus, it stretches far back into antiquity, to the Egyptian Mystery Schools. Instead of being only a propagation of the holy bloodline, the Rex Deus families are also carriers of the secret teachings of Jesus. Custodians of Truth reveals the purpose and secrets of the Rex Deus lineage. Jesus was not only a holy man, but an adept of ancient knowledge, which informed his own teachings. This secret knowledge was suppressed by the Church in their voracious quest for power and influence in the secular world. These teachings have manifested throughout history in different forms--Gnostic philosophy around the time of Jesus, the Order of the Knights Templar, Freemasons, and the current resurgence of interest in New Age thought. Finally, the time is right for the hidden message of Jesus to be revealed--a message of tolerance, brotherhood, and respect for nature. The next chapter in the legend of the Holy Grail and the bloodline of Christ-from the best-selling authors of Rosslyn.


The Stepsister Scheme

The Stepsister Scheme

Author: Jim C. Hines

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780756405328

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Danielle Whiteshore, aka Cinderella, reveals what really happens after the "happily ever after" as she, along with Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, race against time to rescue her husband, Prince Armand, from the clutches of some of fantasyland's most nefarious villains. Original.


AMERICA'S GREATEST BLUNDER

AMERICA'S GREATEST BLUNDER

Author: Burton Yale Pines

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0989148734

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A detailed look at one of history's greatest turning points.


Putting the Fact in Fantasy

Putting the Fact in Fantasy

Author: Dan Koboldt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0593331990

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A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history and cultures of our own world, which serve as a jumping-off point for more inspired and convincing fantasy.