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Description for In Fact
Paperback. A fact can be a slippery thing. Shorn of context, it can lend undeserved authority to a shoddy opinion; artfully combined with other facts, it can crowd out dissent. And it is not always clear that we do respect the things. This book aims to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
'Prospect magazine is the sharpest, wittiest and increasingly the most important journal of opinion in Britain' 'Facts are stupid things,' Ronald Reagan told the Republican National Convention in 1988. And in the six years I've been compiling the 'In fact' column for Prospect, I have occasionally felt the same. Yet for the most part we tend to revere facts; they drive scientific development, they fuel political debate, they fill up amusing books. A fact can be a slippery thing. Shorn of context, it can lend undeserved authority to a shoddy opinion; artfully combined with other facts, ... Read more
'Prospect magazine is the sharpest, wittiest and increasingly the most important journal of opinion in Britain' 'Facts are stupid things,' Ronald Reagan told the Republican National Convention in 1988. And in the six years I've been compiling the 'In fact' column for Prospect, I have occasionally felt the same. Yet for the most part we tend to revere facts; they drive scientific development, they fuel political debate, they fill up amusing books. A fact can be a slippery thing. Shorn of context, it can lend undeserved authority to a shoddy opinion; artfully combined with other facts, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Preface Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848090033
SKU
KI20003289
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Prospect
Complier Tom Nuttall was the senior and online editor of Prospect Magazine and compiled the In Fact column for seven years.
Reviews for In Fact
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Tony Blair Prospect magazine is the sharpest, wittiest and increasingly the most important journal of opinion in Britain. Anyone who wants to know what good minds ... Read more
Tony Blair Prospect magazine is the sharpest, wittiest and increasingly the most important journal of opinion in Britain. Anyone who wants to know what good minds ... Read more