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“dave levitan”

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  • Not a Scientist

    How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

    by Dave Levitan ...
    An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected officials attack scientific findings that conflict with their political agendas. The next time you ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012

    Edited by Jason Healey ...
    A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012 is the first book of its kind- a comprehensive, accessible history of cyber conflict. A Fierce Domain reaches back to look at the major "wake-up calls," the major conflicts that have forced the realization that cyberspace is a harsh place where nations and others contest for superiority. The book identifies the key lessons for policymakers, and, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Exposed

    Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Germany and Propaganda in World War I

    Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War

    by David Welch ...
    Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a weapon of the first order. This, despite the fact that propaganda had been regarded by the German leadership, arguably for the first time, as an intrinsic part of the war effort. In this book, David Welch ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Funding your Career in Science

    From Research Idea to Personal Grant

    by Ritsert C. Jansen ...
    Dreaming of a successful future in science? This practical guide for students, postdocs and professors offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you get the funding to start or consolidate your own research career. From preparing and writing effective career grant applications, to understanding how funding agencies will evaluate them, it provides guidance to enhance your skills and combine ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Creativity in the Classroom

    Case Studies in Using the Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    Edited by Paul McIntosh, Digby Warren ...
    This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Confronting Theory

    The Psychology of Cultural Studies

    by Philip Bell ...
    Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Stephen King on the Small Screen

    by Mark Browning ...
    This book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen King’s television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories. Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case-by-case basis, in a highly readable and engaging way. He also considers the relationship between the big ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Lies of the Land

    An Honest History of Political Deceit

    by Adam Macqueen ...
    Trust in our politicians is at an all-time low. We're in a "post-truth" era, where feelings trump facts, and where brazen rhetoric beats honesty. But do politicians lie more than they used to? And do we even want them to tell the truth? In a history full of wit and political acumen, Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen dissects the gripping stories of the biggest political lies of the last half ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethics and Cyber Warfare

    The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare

    by George Lucas ...
    From North Korea's recent attacks on Sony to perpetual news reports of successful hackings and criminal theft, cyber conflict has emerged as a major topic of public concern. Yet even as attacks on military, civilian, and commercial targets have escalated, there is not yet a clear set of ethical guidelines that apply to cyber warfare. Indeed, like terrorism, cyber warfare is commonly believed to be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Prototype Politics

    Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

    by Daniel Kreiss ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Given the advanced state of digital technology and social media, one would think that the Democratic and Republican Parties would be reasonably well-matched in terms of their technology uptake and sophistication. But as past presidential campaigns have shown, this is not the case. So what explains this odd disparity? Political scientists have shown that Republicans effectively used the strategy of ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Art and Science of Documentation Management

    by Lakhmi Jain, Graziella Tonfoni ...
    As information becomes increasingly accessible through newly-introduced technologies, the human mind seeks a more comprehensive interpretation of the world in which we live. In order to manage this information overload, we must carefully reconsider our attitude towards documentation. While acknowledging the value of the standard guidebooks' hard rules on documentation management, Tonfoni advocates ... Read more

    $34.99 USD