[PDF] In Fact eBook

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412

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By intelligence officials for intelligent people

Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226675181

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How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.

Author : Mark Henry
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0717190390

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This optimistic guide to Ireland at 100 tells our national story through facts and stats, placing Ireland under the microscope to chart 100 achievements of the past 100 years. Ireland remained one of the most poverty-stricken nations in Europe for decades after the State was formed. Yet now, it has the second-highest standard of living in the world. Author Mark Henry has gathered the data to tell an under-told story of our national progress across every aspect of Irish life. He identifies the factors that account for Ireland's extraordinary success, as well as the five most prominent psychological biases that prevent us from recognising how far we have come. He also highlights the greatest challenges that we must now address if we are to continue to progress in the century ahead. While there is still more to be done, In Fact illustrates that Ireland, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than you might think.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399551344

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Jack and Annie’s biggest, most exciting book of facts is their greatest adventure outside the tree house! Jack and Annie have been all over the world in their adventures in the magic tree house. And they’ve learned lots of incredible facts along the way. Now they want to share them with you! Get ready for a collection of the coolest, weirdest, funniest, grossest, most all-around amazing facts Jack and Annie have ever encountered. With full-color photographs and fun comments from Jack and Annie, this is the essential fact book for all Magic Tree House fans.

Author : Seema Yasmin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1665900059

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From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies. What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make sense of it anymore? Well, we have to. As conspiracy theories and online hoaxes increasingly become a part of our national discourse and “truth” itself is being questioned, it has never been more vital to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction, and media literacy has never been more important. In this accessible guide, Dr. Seema Yasmin, an award-winning journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor, traces the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape and teaches young readers the skills that will help them identify and counter poorly-sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Evidence (Greek law)
ISBN : 0472131885

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The Discovery of the Fact draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history, to take a very modern perspective on an underexplored but essential domain of ancient legal history. Everyone is familiar with courts as adjudicators of facts. But legal institutions also played an essential role in the emergence of the notion of the fact, and contributed in a vital way to commonplace understandings of what is knowable and what is not. These issues have a particular importance in ancient Greece and Rome, the first western societies in which state law and state institutions of dispute resolution visibly play a decisive role in ordinary social and economic relations. The Discovery of the Fact investigates, historically and comparatively, the relationships among the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome. Societies wanted citizens to conform to the law, but how could this be insured? On what foundation did ancient courts and institutions base their decisions, and how did they represent the reasoning behind their decisions when announcing them? Slaves were owned like things, and yet they had minds that ancients conceded were essentially unknowable. What was to be done? And where has the boundary been drawn between questions of law and questions of fact when designing processes of dispute resolution?

Author : Andrew Wojtanik
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426309473

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Whether you are studying for a test at school of just seeking to expand you knowledge of the world, you'll find this to be an invaluable tool.

Author : Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9780801488498

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Shapiro traces the genesis of the fact, a modern concept that originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England.

Author : Chuck Norris
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1414334494

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For the first time, Norris gives readers not only his favorite "facts about himself, but also the stories behind the facts and the code by which he lives his life.