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The Lifespan of a Fact

Author	: John D'agata
Publisher	: National Geographic Books
Release Date	: 2012-02-07
ISBN	: 0393340732
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Lifespan of a Fact written by John D'agata and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Broadway Play. An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction. How negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually rejected due to disagreements related to its fact checking. That essay which eventually became the foundation of D’Agata’s critically acclaimed About a Mountain was accepted by another magazine, the Believer, but not before they handed it to their own fact-checker, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay’s eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D’Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D’Agata’s essay, along with D’Agata and Fingal’s extensive discussion around the text. What emerges is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between “truth” and “accuracy” and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other.

The Lifespan of a Fact

Author	: John D'Agata
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2019-08-22
ISBN	: 1529404630
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Lifespan of a Fact written by John D'Agata and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE 'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower. The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay's eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between 'truth' and 'accuracy', and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other. 'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis

The Lifespan of Animals, Volume 5

Author	: G. E. W. Wolstenholme
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2009-09-18
ISBN	: 0470714948
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Lifespan of Animals, Volume 5 written by G. E. W. Wolstenholme and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Advanced Data Warehouse Design

Author	: Elzbieta Malinowski
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2008-01-22
ISBN	: 3540744053
Pages	: 435 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Data Warehouse Design written by Elzbieta Malinowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional work provides readers with an introduction to the state-of-the-art research on data warehouse design, with many references to more detailed sources. It offers a clear and a concise presentation of the major concepts and results in the subject area. Malinowski and Zimányi explain conventional data warehouse design in detail, and additionally address two innovative domains recently introduced to extend the capabilities of data warehouse systems: namely, the management of spatial and temporal information.

Who's Your Source?

Author	: Melissa M. Bender
Publisher	: Broadview Press
Release Date	: 2020-03-15
ISBN	: 1770487247
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Who's Your Source? written by Melissa M. Bender and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While students today have access to more sources of information than ever before, they are not necessarily equipped to make informed judgments about those sources. Teaching students to evaluate sources has become even more challenging in the last year, as issues regarding fake news and “alternative facts” have become a heated matter in conversations taking place in the public sphere. The book will present students with a set of tools that they can use to evaluate any source that they encounter. In addition to learning how to use sources in their writing, students who read Who’s Your Source? will become more savvy consumers of the sources they encounter in their daily lives.

The Lifespan of Animals

Author	: Ciba Foundation
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1959
ISBN	:
Pages	: 370 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Lifespan of Animals written by Ciba Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing: The lifespan of animals

Author	: Ciba Foundation
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1955
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing: The lifespan of animals written by Ciba Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development

Author	: Kevin B. MacDonald
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2012-12-06
ISBN	: 1461237602
Pages	: 417 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development written by Kevin B. MacDonald and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the importance of evolutionary biology for key issues in human development. Illustrates the power of socio- biological approaches in understanding developmental pheno- mena and their importance in generating new, empirically verifiable predictions.

Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Author	: Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2011-04-16
ISBN	: 3642200397
Pages	: 570 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Information and Database Systems written by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNAI 6591 and LNCS 6592 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2011, held in Daegu, Korea, in April 2011. The 110 revised papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers are thematically divided into two volumes; they cover the following topics: intelligent database systems, data warehouses and data mining, natural language processing and computational linguistics, semantic Web, social networks and recommendation systems, technologies for intelligent information systems, collaborative systems and applications, e-business and e-commerce systems, e-learning systems, information modeling and requirements engineering, information retrieval systems, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, intelligent information systems, intelligent internet systems, intelligent optimization techniques, object-relational DBMS, ontologies and knowledge sharing, semi-structured and XML database systems, unified modeling language and unified processes, Web services and semantic Web, computer networks and communication systems.

Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging

Author	: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher	: National Academies Press
Release Date	: 2017-05-11
ISBN	: 0309457513
Pages	: 168 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to examine trends and patterns in aging and factors related to healthy aging in the United States, with a focus on nutrition, and how nutrition can sustain and promote healthy aging, not just in late adulthood, but beginning in pregnancy and early childhood and extending throughout the lifespan. Participants discussed the role of nutrition in the aging process at various stages in life, changes in organ systems over the lifespan and changes that occur with age related to cognitive, brain, and mental health, and explored opportunities to move forward in promoting healthy aging in the United States. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Inhuman Networks

Author	: Grant Bollmer
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2016-08-11
ISBN	: 1501316168
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Networks written by Grant Bollmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

Anti-Ageing Medicines: The Facts, What Works and What Doesn't

Author	: Dr. Marios Kyriazis Author
Publisher	: Duncan Baird Publishers
Release Date	: 2011-12-19
ISBN	: 1780283008
Pages	: 157 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Ageing Medicines: The Facts, What Works and What Doesn't written by Dr. Marios Kyriazis Author and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed and indispensable guide, Dr Kyriazis also provides realistic and easy-to-follow advice on the prevention of a wide range of age-related problems using a combination of lifestyle guidelines and recommended medication. Today we are all increasingly aware that many facets of the ageing process and many chronic conditions often associated with age, such as stroke, dementia, artthritis and heart disease, are preventable. With this knowledge and the growing realization that we do not need to succumb to many of the problems associated with ageing, an insiatable demand has been created for wonder drugs, miracle cures and all manner of remedies and supplements. Not surprisingly, they are not all as effective as they claim! Longevity expert Dr Marios Kyriazis analyses all of the most commonly recommeded remedies, and expands on their strengths and weaknesses. Armed with this knowledge, you will be in a position to make your own choice, in association with your health practitioner, as to the best product to try and the results you are likely to achieve.

The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020

Author	: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2021-04-15
ISBN	: 1493053248
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Theresa Rebeck, Rob Ackerman, Len Jenkin, Stephen Belber, and Tim Blake Nelson, and future stars such as David MacGregor, Reina Hardy, Chris Daftsios, Frank Basloe, and Will Arbery. There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.

Extending the Lifespan

Author	: Klaus Sames
Publisher	: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN	: 9783825885632
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Extending the Lifespan written by Klaus Sames and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects the essays and presentations that were the product of a highly successful international meeting on experimental gerontology, conducted by the German Society for Gerontology and Gerontology in September 2003. In this volume, specialists from a variety of backgrounds address a multitude of issues including: Theories of Aging * Analytical Gerontology * Nutrition and Lifespan * Antioxidants * Genetic Repair * Life Extension Mathematics * Tissue Engineering * Transplantation * Stem Cells * Cryopreservation * Nanotechnology * Criminology * Ethics in Research and Care

The Virginia Quarterly Review

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Low-tech Magazine 2012-2018

Author	: Kris De Decker
Publisher	: Kris De Decker
Release Date	: 2019-03-18
ISBN	:
Pages	: 710 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low-tech Magazine 2012-2018 written by Kris De Decker and published by Kris De Decker. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. Sometimes, past technologies can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when older technology is combined with new knowledge and new materials, or when past concepts and traditional knowledge are applied to modern technology. Inspiration is also to be found in the so-called “developing” world, where resource constraints often lead to inventive, low-tech solutions.

Redox Metabolism and Longevity Relationships in Animals and Plants

Author	: Christine Foyer
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2009-06-02
ISBN	: 1135238928
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Redox Metabolism and Longevity Relationships in Animals and Plants written by Christine Foyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redox Metabolism and Longevity Relationships in Animals and Plants focuses on the recent issues that have emerged in ageing research in both the animal and plant kingdoms. This volume reviews current concepts concerning cellular redox homeostatis and ageing in animals and plants, relationships to programmed cell death, the production of oxidants and dicarbonyls, the ways that different organisms perceive and respond to oxidative, nitration and glycation challenges, and how this might be intricately connected to ageing and lifespan.