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Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news
have fostered calls for government regulation and industry
intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These
proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the
definition of fake news or its origins. Media scholar Nolan Higdon
contends that expanded access to critical media literacy education,
grounded in a comprehensive history of fake news, is a more
promising solution to these issues. The Anatomy of Fake News offers
the first historical examination of fake news that takes as its
goal the effective teaching of critical news literacy in the United
States. Higdon employs a critical-historical media ecosystems
approach to identify the producers, themes, purposes, and
influences of fake news. The findings are then incorporated into an
invaluable fake news detection kit. This much-needed resource
provides a rich history and a promising set of pedagogical
strategies for mitigating the pernicious influence of fake news.
This second volume of From the Vault continues where its
best-selling original left off, in 1950. Spanning thirty years,
From the Vault, Vol. 2 is chock full of photographs from The
Windsor Star archives, with fascinating and fun chapter
introductions by local reporter and award-winning historian Craig
Pearson.
This book is about the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880 to 1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle. Peter D. McDonald examines the cultural politics of the period by considering the social structure of the literary world in which these writers worked. By tracing the complex network of relationships among writers, publishers, reviewers and readers, McDonald demonstrates the importance of social history and publishing to questions of critical interpretation.
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of
Chemicals (GHS) addresses classification and labelling of chemicals
by types of hazards. It provides the basis for worldwide
harmonization of rules and regulations on chemicals and aims at
enhancing the protection of human health and the environment during
their handling, transport and use by ensuring that the information
about their physical, health and environmental hazards is
available. The sixth revised edition includes, inter alia, a new
hazard class for desensitized explosives and a new hazard category
for pyrophoric gases; miscellaneous amendments intended to further
clarify the criteria for some hazard classes (explosives, specific
target organ toxicity following single exposure, aspiration hazard,
and hazardous to the aquatic environment) and to complement the
information to be included in section 9 of the Safety Data Sheet;
revised and further rationalized precautionary statements; and an
example of labelling of a small packaging in Annex 7.
`...the elegant joy with which she lived her life came to her so
naturally - in the delight she took in the highest forms of
culture, especially music, in her house in Italy surrounded even in
the hottest summer by its cool green lawn, in her always
beautifully styled appearance, but above all in producing at Thames
and Hudson books that attested to her great respect for high
culture - one might have imagined nothing had happened to her to
cause anything but total delight in the world' David Plante Eva
Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, wrote this memoir for
her granddaughters, and it is a private story of a remarkable
20th-century life. The youngest child of a principled and
avant-garde mother and a Jewish father, she was born in Berlin and
grew up there in the Twenties, in the world of Marlene Dietrich and
Leni Riefenstahl, when anything was possible. Her wide knowledge of
the fine arts was the result not of any formal education but of her
work for art dealers, at a time when great collections were
changing hands. Her mother for a time had a gallery for
contemporary artists, and through other relatives she knew the
world of music. But this was a world in the grip of traumatic
change. Pursued by the Gestapo, Eva, her second husband Wilhelm
Feuchtwang and their baby son Stephan left Berlin in 1938, first
for Rotterdam, then London. Wilhelm was interned in the Isle of
Man, and Eva was at her wits' end. Then came another change: she
was visited with a message from her husband by Walter Neurath, an
Austrian art historian and publisher who had come to England
earlier and also been interned, but was soon released to continue
his publishing of books for Adprint, where he had created the
`Britain in Pictures' series. Offered a job by Walter, Eva grasped
the opportunity to re-create herself in her own right as picture
researcher, layout designer and art director. In 1949 they founded
a new publishing house, Thames & Hudson, and married in 1953.
Her life with Walter moved in circles of art, archaeology and
history, among friends including Henry Moore, Harold Acton, John
Julius Norwich and Roy Strong. The memoir ends in 1981, but Eva's
work continued until 1999, the year she died, and the story is
filled out by her son, Stephan Feuchtwang. The book is illustrated
with photographs from Eva Neurath's family albums.
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