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Lies The They Teach in School
Herb Reich
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Description for Lies The They Teach in School
Paperback. Our cherished culturally shared beliefs stem from a variety of sources, many of which propagate old wives' tales, myths, self-serving fantasies, innocent fallacies, or sheer nonsense. This title exposes errors that have been perpetuated for far too long. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
It is a cliché that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such items are taught in schools. They are passed down to us by our families and friends and have become part of our shared cultural knowledge. And they are wrong. Touching on a number of topics— including history, current events, government, sports, geography, and popular culture—Lies They Teach in School exposes errors that have been perpetuated for far too long. ... Read more
It is a cliché that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such items are taught in schools. They are passed down to us by our families and friends and have become part of our shared cultural knowledge. And they are wrong. Touching on a number of topics— including history, current events, government, sports, geography, and popular culture—Lies They Teach in School exposes errors that have been perpetuated for far too long. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781616085964
SKU
V9781616085964
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99-15
About Herb Reich
Herb Reich spent fifteen years as senior acquisition editor at John Wiley & Sons. Before that, he administered the behavioral science publishing program at Basic Books and served as editorial director of the Macmillan Book Clubs. Along the way, he spent two post-grad years affiliated with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York; edited The Odyssey Scientific ... Read more
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