Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World, Paperback

Reducere. Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global rec...

The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of e...

The first book about Jane Austen to dissect the industry around her - a completely original approach to one of Britain's most enduring popular nove...

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times ...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we'v...

From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped hist...

Reducere. The choice is clear: truth, justice, freedom or lies, injustice, bondage? The good life and a just society depend on truth telling, but perhaps we ...

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From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

Reducere. Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As a...

Reducere. Every week a terrorist attack, riot, or political scandal makes the headlines--and we feel the world around us shaking again. We struggle to separa...

DescriptionThe story of the cocktail --"the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet, " according to H.L. Mencken --featuring 45 recipes fo...

Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Ashley WardNu...

A post-truth world, where emotions are more influential than facts, has a profound impact on how history is produced and consumed. Looking at theor...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Teacher Misery perfectly encapsulates the comical misery that has become the teaching profession. Morris' strange, funny, and sometimes unbelievabl...

Recounts the fascinating story of spies and spying from the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the Ancient Greeks and Romans to the high-tech surveil...

Reducere. DescriptionMore Teacher Misery is the second volume in the Teacher Misery series In More Teacher Misery Morris tackles even more of the hilarious, ...

The first complete history of Star Wars, from Lucas's early drafts to the present day.

Reducere. In his memoir, O. G. Fillmore Slim breaks down how he went from being the most prolific pimp in America, the legendary gentleman Mack, to an eminen...

Reducere. Description"A sharp portrait of the US shale revolution." -- Financial Times Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking's...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 240Collection: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and PerformancesPublication date: 2022...

Publisher: Hatje CantzIllustration(s): 68 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 248 x 309 x 19Cover type:...

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .Illustrations: 4 bla...

Reducere. Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its t...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): William J. (MIT Smart Cities, E14-433D) MitchellNumber of pages: 283Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 1...

DescriptionFrom celebrated public intellectual and New York Times bestselling author, Stanley Fish, comes an urgent and sharply observed look at on...

How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contest...

Sinead Burke is an advocate, activist, teacher, British vogue cover model and happens to be a little person at three and a half feet tall. Her debu...