
Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality. Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes.
Brief and bracing, the trouble with reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity. Dick, she dissects this strategy, and jonathan swift, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not.
Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Enter Donald J. And she offers hope. And there is also the inevitable reckoning.
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

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Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era

A post-truth era is an era of willful irrationality, reversing all the great advances humankind has made. The steps we can take to better evaluate news, advertisements, and reports are clearly detailed. Euphemisms like “fringe theories, ” “extreme views, ” “alt truth, ” and even “fake news” can literally be dangerous.
Ultimately, levitin turns to what underlies our ability to determine if something is true or false: the scientific method. He grapples with the limits of what we can and cannot know. Let's call lies what they are and catch those making them in the act. Wordy arguments on the other hand can easily be persuasive as they drift away from the facts in an appealing yet misguided way.
Investigating numerical misinformation, Daniel Levitin shows how mishandled statistics and graphs can give a grossly distorted perspective and lead us to terrible decisions. These lies are getting repeated. As levitin attests: Truth matters. New york times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track.
Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us

It seems obvious, for example, that people respond to incentives; yet policy makers and managers alike frequently fail to anticipate how people will respond to the incentives they create. And although successful products or companies always seem in retrospect to have succeeded because of their unique qualities, predicting the qualities of the next hit product or hot company is notoriously difficult even for experienced professionals.
Watts' argument has important implications in politics, and marketing, business, as well as in science and everyday life. Crown Business. Social trends often seem to be driven by certain influential people; yet marketers have been unable to identify these “influencers” in advance.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

. 1 new york times bestsellerthe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy.
Demagoguery and Democracy

A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery—and how we can defeat it What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. Them. Why is it dangerous? Demagoguery is democracy’s greatest threat. It erodes rational debate, so that intelligent policymaking grinds to a halt.
Dutton. W w norton Company. But, as professor patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It's unlikely that trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman. Cnnoriginally published in 1985, neil postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century.
Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Tim duggan. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. Jonathan yardley, the Washington Post Book World W w norton Company.
Dutton. Crown Business. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.
On Bullshit

By virtue of this, frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, and wry humor, psychological insight, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying.
. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. W w norton Company. Crown Business. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true.
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Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice: 2nd Edition

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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Tim duggan. W w norton Company. Acclaimed journalist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, activist, and “brand bullies. From this unique perspective, she argues that trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over.
Dutton. It is not enough, to merely resist, she tells us, to say “no. Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes, ” a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.
Amusing ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Crown Business. This timely, helping us understand just how we got here, and how we can, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, collectively, come together and heal.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Used book in Good Condition. On Bullshit. Tim duggan. Dutton. W w norton Company. Amusing ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. This edition of mcluhans best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars.
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