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The betrayers : a novel
Escaping his political opponents in a Crimean resort town, disgraced Israeli politician Baruch Kotler runs into a former friend who had him sent to the gulag forty years prior and must reconcile with his betrayer and his own poor choices.
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A spell of good things
\"A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two people caught in the riptides of wealth, power, poverty, and corruption, by the celebrated author of Stay With Me\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing
The widespread prevalence and persistence of misinformation in contemporary societies, such as the false belief that there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism, is a matter of public concern. For example, the myths surrounding vaccinations, which prompted some parents to withhold immunization from their children, have led to a marked increase in vaccine-preventable disease, as well as unnecessary public expenditure on research and public-information campaigns aimed at rectifying the situation. We first examine the mechanisms by which such misinformation is disseminated in society, both inadvertently and purposely. Misinformation can originate from rumors but also from works of fiction, governments and politicians, and vested interests. Moreover, changes in the media landscape, including the arrival of the Internet, have fundamentally influenced the ways in which information is communicated and misinformation is spread. We next move to misinformation at the level of the individual, and review the cognitive factors that often render misinformation resistant to correction. We consider how people assess the truth of statements and what makes people believe certain things but not others. We look at people's memory for misinformation and answer the questions of why retractions of misinformation are so ineffective in memory updating and why efforts to retract misinformation can even backfire and, ironically, increase misbelief. Though ideology and personal worldviews can be major obstacles for debiasing, there nonetheless are a number of effective techniques for reducing the impact of misinformation, and we pay special attention to these factors that aid in debiasing. We conclude by providing specific recommendations for the debunking of misinformation. These recommendations pertain to the ways in which corrections should be designed, structured, and applied in order to maximize their impact. Grounded in cognitive psychological theory, these recommendations may help practitioners—including journalists, health professionals, educators, and science communicators—design effective misinformation retractions, educational tools, and public-information campaigns.
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Federalism in Fidelity: Samuel Relf, the Early American Novel, and the Limits of Textual Representation
This essay joins recent studies of Federalist politics and early American fiction by arguing that, in writing Infidelity; or, The Victims of Sentiment (1797), Samuel Relf engages with issues central to his work as a journalist and editor at the Federalist newspaper the Philadelphia Gazette. Infidelity 's epistolary structure affords Relf a means to tease out issues central to textual representation, some of which he solves with the use of a third-person narrator. A similar narratorial solution can be found in Relf's later editorials on Gabriel's Rebellion. In this way, this essay approaches the often-acknowledged but largely overlooked relationship that exists between early American novelists' fiction writing and their work as Federalist intellectuals.
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Power failure
\"Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Re-imagining a Muslim Courtesan as a Virangana vis-avis Kenize Mourad's In the City of Gold and Silver
Life histories of historical figures are often complemented by fiction based on these lives. Such narratives form contributing strands to the idea of the Indian nation. A gendered figure whose life stories have been an integral part of identity politics is the Virangana. As a warrior woman personifying the nation, the figure of the Virangana is reiterated time after time to serve different political ideologies. Subaltern narratives have often been overlooked in the dominant construction of identities. Begum Hazrat Mahal, a contemporary of Lakshmibai and a significant part of the 1857 Revolt, finds meagre documentation. The paper will attempt to excavate the historical narratives of the Begum from the marginalized archives, to study Kenize Mourad's novel In the City of Gold and Silver (2013). It will question the making of the nationalist narrative in which a Muslim courtesan has little place. It will interrogate the popular trope of the Virangana, and include an unconventional Muslim courtesan as a feminist symbol. Keywords: Muslim courtesan, woman in politics, identity politics, re-imagining lives, Virangana.
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