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January 2019Fakes and Forgeries, Revised Edition
by Suzanne Bell, Ph.D.
Praise for the previous edition: "...fascinating...excellent...a must-have for teen researchers and browsers alike."—Booklist Fakes and forgeries have existed since humans began creating art and written language. Laws against forgery existed in ancient Egypt, as skilled craftsmen made glass imitations of precious gemstones. Today, science has become a key partner in the battle against forgers as the techniques of forgery advance. Stamps, money, art, and historical artifacts are only a few of the objects that are commonly forged, and scientists working in forensic labs often work hand-in-hand with artists, museums, linguists, and historians to study artifacts and documents.Fakes and Forgeries, Revised Edition looks at the modern tools of computers, printers, and scanners to create questioned documents and counterfeits. Beginning with an overview of fakes and forgeries from ancient times to the present, this eBook examines the art of analyzing evidence—from lottery tickets and voting ballots to stamps and envelopes. Chapters include: History and Pioneers The Scientific Approach Dyes and Pigments; Inks and Paints Detecting Document Forgery Counterfeiting Currency Forging Art, History, and Science Conclusion: The Future of Fakes, Forgeries, and Counterfeits.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022Our real life in tombs
by Angela Blumberg, Andrew Smith, Anna Barton
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June 2023Dust between Earth and Heaven
by Pan Feng has published many essays, stories, and mini-stories in national literary journals, including "Love to the Western Hunan", "Sunshine Journey", "The Cattle", "The Fake Buddha", "The Chess Game", etc.
The novel, Dust between Earth and Heaven, is a literary work created by Pan Feng, an author born in Hunan, based on his family history, which spans a century.
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March 2019Nachgefragt: Medienkompetenz in Zeiten von Fake News
Basiswissen zum Mitreden
by Theisen, Manfred / Illustriert von Ballhaus, Verena
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Framing
The social art of influence
by Mikael Klintman
A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we think about it. In today's chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem - often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is. In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a cutting-edge toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives. Combining insights from the social sciences, economics and evolutionary biology, he lays out a four-part approach to understanding how information is 'framed' for us, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size. Demonstrating this approach through an array of real-world examples, from climate change denial to the subtle messaging of caviar ads, Klintman reveals how canny communicators mislead us without relying on overt deception. At the same time, he probes the deeper evolutionary and cultural roots of our susceptibility to frames.
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February 2020Ru Lin Wai Shi
by Wu Jingzi
A long satirical novel depicting a group of intellectuals. It depicts the absurdities and hypocrisies of the Confucian scholars who were poisoned by the Eight Sticks, deprecates and satirises the fake Confucian scholars and famous scholars, and criticises the corrupt worldly atmosphere of the time. It is an example of ancient Chinese satire, pioneering the use of fiction as a direct commentary on real life.
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April 2018Country Teachers
by Liu Xinglong
This is the collection of stories of Liu Xinglong, includingCountry Teachers, The Village Secretary, Recitation at Dusk, Going to Beijing with Tea-Leaf on a Shoulder Pole, Cabbage and Turnip, The Fake City and so forth. In these stories, Liu Xinglong mainly seeks human merits from ordinary people, speaks highly of nobleness of common people and portrays the ordinary-but-not-mediocre images. Due to these works, Liu Xinglong has been regarded as the representative writer of “new realistic novel”.
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September 2021Ponto de Ruptura
by Olufunke Ogundimu
Olufunke Ogundimu explora neste potente conto a sua escrita afrofuturista, num 2087 aterradoramente próximo, quando tudo muda, menos a barreira entre quem tem e quem não tem. Onde os pobres ficaram do lado fora de onde é fácil negar a realidade, num mundo distorcido de quem acredita que mudança climática é fake news. Até o planeta terra atingir o ponto de ruptura e mover as areias dos grandes desertos arrasando fronteiras nacionais, cidades, assoreando rios e oceanos impondo novas formas de viver aos humanos.
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April 2024Fact-Immune
Why science denial is so dangerous and how we can protect ourselves against it
by Holm Gero Hümmler
The phenomenon of anti-scientific disinformation has been discussed in the recent past under the acronym FLICC (Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry-picking and Conspiracy theories), especially as it pertains to the topic of climate change. What is generally missing however is a more comprehensive consideration of science denial in diff erent disciplines with a critical examination of the central arguments and a comparison of the parallels. Holm Gero Hümmler dedicates himself to this task in this readable and fact-orientated book on topics such as genetic engineering, mobile phone networks, radioactivity, and chips that are implanted under the skin for medical reasons.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2021Erosion
by Artem Chapeye
After a young couple returns from their vacation to the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, they discover that the world as they once knew it no longer exists. Tragedy happened and survivors are forced to adapt to the harsh conditions of their new reality: overcoming deeply-rooted fears, they try to forge another world where they can unite with those who still retained their humanity. Will the couple be able to survive, make alliances with others, and give birth to a new generation? Will the insidiousness of human nature manifest itself in this new world? Chapeye's post-apocalyptic novel, diluted with beautifully melancholic and black humor, is a kind of artistic study of people's behavior in critical situations when everything that once seemed stable falls apart.
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The Adventures in the Forbidden City
by Liang Fangfang
In this set of fiction books for children, the three little protagonists experienced such an adventure: they fell into the sundial tunnel in the forbidden city and got to know a dragon named “Big Loach”. They entered the world of the famous painting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival and went to market, distinguished between real and fake bronze kings, and hosted a negotiation for peace in a country with powerful arms that had experienced tens of thousands of years of war… Finally, they returned to their own world. Through the adventure, the three little protagonists have obtained knowledge about traditional Chinese culture related to the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, ancient wooden buildings, collections of books, and legends of mythical beasts. And more importantly, they have gained courage, wisdom, friendship and love.
