Lies We Live By: Defeating Doubletalk and Deception in Advertising, Politics, and the Media
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1. Verfasser: Hausman, Carl (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2014
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Beschreibung:Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Term Warfare: How to Lie with Words; 2 Damn the Statistics: How to Lie with Numbers; 3 Seeing Is Believing? Don't You Believe It! How to Lie with Images; 4 I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Confuse You; 5 I Lie, Therefore I Am: The Existentially Ambiguous Image in Politics; 6 The Vying Game: Cooking the Books in College Rankings; 7 The Veiled Variable Rides Again: Tricks of the Trade in Financial Institutions; 8 There's a Special on Fine Print in Aisle 9: The Tricky Business of Retailing
9 Driven to Distraction: How Car Retailers Confuse the Consumer10 Reach out and Confuse Someone: Baffle-Gab on the Phone Line; 11 You May Already Be a Sucker! Misrepresentation by Mail; 12 Brave New Bamboozle: Tricky Business over the Internet; 13 Reality (Sound)bites: How Made-for-Media Pseudo-Events Distort Our View of the World; Ten Lists of Ten Guidelines for Becoming a Better Consumer of Information; How and Where to Complain: A Resource Guide for Consumers; Index
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Beschreibung:240 pages
ISBN:9781136684739
1136684735

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