[PDF] True False eBook

Author : Miles Klee
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939293995

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Klee’s last book, his first, was variously hailed as “sharply intelligent” (Publishers Weekly) and “harsh, spastic” (Justin Taylor): we like to think of True False as intelligently spastic, or sharply harsh—disquieting and funny. A collection of stories that range from the very short to the merely short, these forty-four tales evoke extraordinary scenes in an understated manner that’s marked Klee one of today’s most intriguing writers. From the apocalyptic to the utopic, from a haunted office building to a suburban pool that may be alive, a day in the mind of a demi-god Pythagoras to a secret race to develop artificial love, True False captures a fractured reality more real than our own.

Author : Cindy L. Otis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250239508

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"If I could pick one book to hand to every teen—and adult—on earth, this is the one. True or False is accessible, thorough, and searingly honest, and we desperately needed it." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda A former CIA analyst unveils the true history of fake news and gives readers tips on how to avoid falling victim to it in this highly designed informative YA nonfiction title. "Fake news" is a term you’ve probably heard a lot in the last few years, but it’s not a new phenomenon. From the ancient Egyptians to the French Revolution to Jack the Ripper and the founding fathers, fake news has been around as long as human civilization. But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on the idea of finding the truth. In True or False, former CIA analyst Cindy Otis will take readers through the history and impact of misinformation over the centuries, sharing stories from the past and insights that readers today can gain from them. Then, she shares lessons learned in over a decade working for the CIA, including actionable tips on how to spot fake news, how to make sense of the information we receive each day, and, perhaps most importantly, how to understand and see past our own information biases, so that we can think critically about important issues and put events happening around us into context. True or False includes a wealth of photo illustrations, informative inserts, and sidebars containing interesting facts and trivia sure to engage readers in critical thinking and analysis. This title has common core connections.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307806499

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One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, “interpretation,” “sense memory,” “The Method”—David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.

Author : Patricia Lauber
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688169198

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Through a true-or-false format, presents statements about the history, uses, and behavior of horses and discusses them.

Author : Trevor Romain
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Test anxiety
ISBN : 9780439241632

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Offers proven strategies, practical advice, and information to help readers survive in all kinds of test situations, including tips on overcoming test anxiety and procrastination, preparing for tests, the pros and cons of guessing, and more.

Author : Meredith Maran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470944838

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Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them. Her accusation and estrangement from her father caused her sons to grow up without their only grandfather, divided her family into those who believed her and those who didn't, and led her to isolate herself on "Planet Incest," where "survivors" devoted their lives, and life savings, to recovering memories of events that had never occurred. Maran unveils her family's devastation and ultimate redemption against the backdrop of the sex-abuse scandals, beginning with the infamous McMartin preschool trial, that sent hundreds of innocents to jail—several of whom remain imprisoned today. Exploring the psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific causes of this modern American witch-hunt, My Lie asks: how could so many people come to believe the same lie at the same time? What has neuroscience discovered about the brain's capacity to create false memories and encode false beliefs? What are the "big lies" gaining traction in American culture today—and how can we keep them from taking hold? My Lie is a wrenchingly honest, unexpectedly witty, and profoundly human story that proves the personal is indeed political—and the political can become painfully personal.

Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545202043

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A young science series in a fun question and answer format.

Author : Charles Travis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027280835

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Pragmatics often begins by supposing that specifying and describing truth bearers is a proper task for semantics. The main thrust of the present work is to show why truth and truth bearers lie essentially beyond the descriptive reach of semantics, and to outline a theory of truth bearers as a proper and fundamental task for pragmatics. It is also common for treatments, or definitions of truth to be confused with substantive theories about truth bearers, with a variety of unfortunate results. This monograph suggests a way of separating these tasks, and shows how many problems are thus avoided. Some emphasis is placed on the generally universal — i.e., nonlanguage-specific — character of pragmatic topics, and of truth. These issues occasion a discussion of semantic paradoxes, and of several relativities in the notion of truth.

Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545003962

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Presents facts on various pets, including dogs, cats, hamsters, gerbils, fish, and rabbits.

Author : Michael Schneider
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1452047227

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I found myself having paranormal experiences. For a long time I thought I was crazy till I took a picture and saw a shadow in the back ground. So I went round other location locations to see if I can find other images of ghosts. To my surprise there was lots of images that had weird stuff in them. I now believe there are thing out there that have not been explain and I will keep looking for the answers! In this book I have put some true stories in and some false stories. See if you can find out the true or the false without looking in the back of the book.