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  The Curious Person's Guide to...

  David G. McAfee

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  With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story—and its ability to negatively impact all of us—grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive or biased news reports, they tend to define fake news as anything with which they happen to disagree, thus compounding the problem even further. Seeking to bring some much-needed clarity to the subject, journalist David G. McAfee documents the myriad definitions of “fake news” and its various incarnations throughout history, from ideologically motivated disinformation operations to commercially motivated misinformation campaigns. Demonstrating that we are all culpable in the creation of the current pandemic, he presents a number of practical and actionable suggestions for combating it. In the end, however, he argues that each of us, no matter our political bent, have an important role to play in curbing the insidious spread and most dangerous effects of fake news.

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  Asian Shorts

  Owen Jones, Trevor Aindow,...

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  Asian Shorts came about because of a sequence of events on one weekend in May 2015. A friend was telling me that he had several short stories with Asia as a backdrop, I was saying that I had a few as well, another friend sent me an email that he wanted to write a short on Pattaya, and one of my Thai cousins sent me her latest photo, the one on the cover of this book. 
  It was like somebody was trying to tell me something, or several were anyway.

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  Woodrow Wilson: Speeches...

  Woodrow Wilson, Josephus Daniels

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  Woodrow Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement, and during his first term he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal, He led the United States during World War I and was one of the 3 key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations. 
  Contents: 
  Biography of Woodrow Wilson  
  Inaugural Addresses:
  First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
  Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1917)
  State of the Union Addresses
  I State of the Union address (2 December 1913)
  II State of the Union address (8 December 1914)
  III State of the Union address (7 December 1915)
  IV State of the Union address (5 December 1916)
  V State of the Union address (4 December 1917)
  VI State of the Union address (2 December 1918)
  VII State of the Union address (2 December 1919)
  VIII State of the Union address (7 December 1920)
  Other Addresses:
  First Address to Congress
  Address on the Banking System
  Address at Gettysburg
  Address on Mexican Affairs
  Understanding America
  Address before the Southern Commercial Congress
  Trusts and Monopolies
  Panama Canal Tolls
  The Tampico Incident
  In the Firmament of Memory
  Memorial Day Address at Arlington
  Closing a Chapter
  Annapolis Commencement Address
  The Meaning of Liberty
  American Neutrality
  Appeal for Additional Revenue
  The Opinion of the World
  The Power of Christian Young Men
  Address before the United States Chamber of Commerce
  To Naturalized Citizens
  Address at Milwaukee
  The Submarine Question
  American Principles
  The Demands of Railway Employees
  Speech of Acceptance
  Lincoln's Beginnings
  The Triumph of Women's Suffrage
  The Terms of Peace
  Meeting Germany's Challenge
  Request for Authority
  The Call to War
  To the Country
  The German Plot
  Reply to the Pope
  Labor must be Free
  The Call for War with Austria-Hungary
  Government Administration of Railways
  The Conditions of Peace
  Force to the Utmost
  Presidential Decisions:
  The State of War: The President's Proclamation of April 6, 1917
  Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany

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  Chronicle The - Book Two -...

  Mr Punch

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  The Chronicle - BOOK TWO (April to June) 
   
  Are you ready for an unforgettable adventure into the past? Then climb aboard and join Oscar Wilde in America amused at the sight of local gun slingers looting the house where outlaw Jesse James had been killed a few days earlier. Meet John Betjeman as he implores the BBC to engage the impoverished Dylan Thomas while  Jane Austen demands the return of her unpublished novel. Austen Chamberlain rages at Hitler for sending a wreath emblazoned with the Swastika to be placed at the foot of the Cenotaph. And did you know that the first F.A. Cup Final took place at the Oval in 1882? You'll also encounter Alan Bennett, H.Rider Haggard, Henry VIII and many more and we’ll all join J. Bruce Ismay as he climbs aboard the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic. 
    
  “It’s WONDERFUL.  In fact, I would describe it as one of the all-time audio greats... an unmissable five-star production.”  (The Guardian) 
  “I recommend the reader to hunt down and buy this series wherever it may be found.”  (The Spectator) 
  “The whole endeavour is a beguiling jigsaw.”  (Sunday Times) 
   
  Dramatised and performed by a distinguished cast of over 30 actors, including Charles Dance, Harriet Walter, David Suchet, Timothy West, James Bolam, Maureen Lipman, Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joss Ackland, Eleanor Bron, John Sessions, Imogen Stubbs. 
   
  Also available as part of the CHRONICLE BOX SET, over 11 hours of audio bliss.

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  Stemming the Tide

  Simon Strantzas

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  "Stemming the Tide" is a short horror story by Simon Strantzas, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.  
  The tide at Hopewell Rocks comes in every six hours and thirteen minutes. Sometimes, it brings the dead with it. 
  Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

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  Working for Justice

  Amy B. Chesler

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  When beloved educator Hadas Winnick was murdered, her sleepy, affluent hometown of Calabasas was rocked to the core. More shocking than her killing, though, was the process of convicting her admittedly guilty murderer.Calabasas is a quiet, well-to-do California town often referred to as “The Bubble.” But on September 25th, 2007, that bubble burst with the murder of oneof its longtime residents—high school math teacher Hadas Winnick. The upscale community was rocked by her gruesome death, but as shocking as the tragedyseemed, the years of abuse she faced that preceded it were more so. Even more devastating still, was the effort and time it took to sentence her murderer toprison, and the power that our systems-in-place allowed him while on his way there. Follow Hadas’s daughter, award-winning blogger Amy Chesler, on her oftenheart-wrenching—but eventually heart-warming—road to justice.

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