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City by the Sea Circle of Magic Series #3
[Buy it!] | Debra & Macdonald James D. Doyle | USD 23.88
(Fri May 31 16:52:43 2024) | Biblio | Manyhills Books | Troll Associates, USA, Date: 1990. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illustrator: Judith Mitchell. Medium Trade Paperback. 132 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Troll Associates, USA, 1990. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** Illustrator: Judith Mitchell. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; ISBN: 0816718318. ISBN/EAN: 9780816718313. Inventory No: 19030002.. 9780816718313 1990. Troll Associates ISBN 0816718318 9780816718313 [AU] |
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Conspiracy (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | Michael Shermer | USD 29.99
(Fri May 31 16:52:50 2024) | Abebooks | Grand Eagle Retail | ISBN10: 1421444453, ISBN13: 9781421444451, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Hardcover Hardcover. "A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today's complicated geopolitical landscape."Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theorieswho believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and Vatican conspiracy theories, fears about fluoridated water, speculations about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the notions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false-flag operation and 9/11 was an inside job. In Conspiracy, Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theorieswho believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational statusand even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan); and, tragically, some adults do conspire to sexually abuse children. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control play a role in conspiratorial cognition patterns, as do certain personality traits. This engaging book will be an important read for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking. "The author discusses how we should think about conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, which conspiracy theories are likely to be true or false and what criteria we can use to assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous conspiracism and reestablish trust in our democratic institutions, in the media, and in one another"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2022]
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