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La verdad se parece al diamante en que tiene numerosas facetas y casi infinitas aristas. Igual que la piedra preciosa brilla en todas direcciones, la verdad proyecta sus destellos esclarecedores en dirección a muchos puntos. Seamos sinceros. La propaganda, la mentira, el bulo, la noticia falsa, va con nosotros casi desde que el mundo es mundo. Son cualquier cosa menos nueva. Jalonan nuestra historia unas veces como consecuencia de la observación inexacta de un suceso o de la difusión de un testimonio imperfecto acerca del mismo, y otras son pura falsedad. Reconozcamos que jamás conoció el hombre un régimen de «verdad» objetiva. Estudiosos hay que incluso sostienen que lo normal han s...
¿Y si Gutenberg no hubiera inventado la imprenta? ¿Cómo ayudó la prensa de la época a Jack el Destripador? ¿Cómo nacieron las tertulias radiofónicas? ¿Cómo contó la prensa el naufragio del Titanic? ¿Por qué Francisco de Sales es el patrón de los periodistas? ¿Es verdad que la censura franquista censuró a Franco? ¿Cuál fue el primer juicio mediático en España? ¿Quiénes fueron los primeros «fotógrafos» de lo paranormal? Descubra estas y muchas otras incógnitas que rodean la fascinante historia del periodismo. Desde el día en que Superman se suicidó hasta como el Ku-Klux-Klan manipuló a la prensa para su propio beneficio. Desde las fotos trucadas de Hitler en Henday...
Increasing use of ketamine as a recreational drug in Asia, Europe, and America is a great burden on society at large, leading to aspirational strain, unemployment, and crime. These societal effects have led to growing interest among researchers and clinicians in ketamine's effects on various systems of the body. Ketamine: Use and Abuse reviews the
A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” ―Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale with spiritual depth that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want―money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls...
Explores the role of fire in Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, providing unique insights into the assembly and evolutionary convergence of ecosystems.
Biomass burning profoundly affects atmospheric chemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate and may have done so for millions of years. Bringing together renowned experts from paleoecology, fire ecology, atmospheric chemistry, and organic chemistry, the volume elucidates the role of fire during global changes of the past and future. Topics covered include: the characterization of combustion products that occur in sediments, including char, soot/fly ash, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; the calibration of these constituents against atmospheric measurements from wildland and prescribed fire emissions; spatial and temporal patterns in combustion emissions at scales of individual burns to the globe.
From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege, translated by Edith Grossman. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures ...
An “important and gripping” memoir by the woman who blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica and the data industry’s unethical practices (The Washington Post). When Brittany Kaiser joined Cambridge Analytica—the UK-based political consulting firm funded by conservative billionaire and Donald Trump patron Robert Mercer—she was an idealistic young professional, a veteran of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign with degrees in human rights law and international relations. Her goal was to utilize data for humanitarian purposes, most notably to prevent genocide and human rights abuses. But her experience inside Cambridge Analytica opened her eyes to the tremendous risks this unregulated indust...