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- A MUST READ FOR ALL AMERICANS
- How to Argue and Win Every Time . . .
- Gerry Spence is one of the few who gets it Right about what's wrong in America.
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Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture
Gerry Spence
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ASIN: 031236153X
Release Date: 2006-10-03 |
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Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.
Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God’s and Jesus’s names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread falsehoods as if they were facts. They occupy the bully pulpit of the new American hate culture: the television and radio programs watched and heard by millions of people that shape the opinions and set the agendas of churches, school boards, political action groups, and ultimately those we have elected to represent all of us.
Gerry Spence takes dead aim at the media demagogues who wield their power with such virulent effect. Using the full force of his own rhetorical skill—developed through decades as a legendary defense attorney—Spence exposes the people behind the words, and carves their arguments with the rough edge of his tongue. Anyone who has had it up to here will cheer to see these bullies met and conquered on their own turf.
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wtf?.......2007-07-04
I made it to page 13, and even that was hard to do. I guess I'll just skim thru some of the chapters.
What bugs me is its sloppy argumentation and inexplicable commentary. Here is an example. In a paragraph on page 13, he writes and comments on something someone said, "'...There are people on this earth who should never be allowed to give birth.' This sounds like eugenics, the discredited science of human improvement by better breeding, a favorite of the Nazis". How is this eugenics? It would be if the quote was part of a broader statement that some classes of people should not have kids. But, Spence does not show this. Then in the next paragraphs, commenting on a statement by N. Grace to the above, Spence asks, "To hate the unborn?". Now what does any of what was being discussed have anything to do with hating the unborn? In fact, to me it sounds like the exact opposite, doesn't it? If you don't want kids being born and raised in neglect and danger, you ARE loving the unborn.
Will the book get any better? It would be bad if it did not. Balancing commentary is needed to the spew of the hate mongers who rely on fake intellectualism and the pseudo-spiritual lip service of the far right.
A MUST READ FOR ALL AMERICANS.......2007-05-29
Gerry Spence has done a valuable public service in writing this book about the emerging hate culture that has this great nation on a path to doom. All Americans could benefit from his history lessons about the very striking similiarity of the "war on terror" and the propaganda used in Nazi Germany in the wake of the Reichstag fire. Additionally, most Americans even today do not know that the basis for the invasion of Iraq was outlined in the Project for New American American Century goals and objectives for the use of war to promote a concept of global domination.
Gerry Spence has done an effective job in teaching us that we must learn from history or we are doomed to repeat its failures.
Gerry Spencer will be regarded as a prophet when the conservative hate culure has finally achieved its goal and the United States is nothing more than a theocracy. The Fourth Reich is indeed emerging in America today and Gerry Spence has given us the warning that we need to turn off the television and educate ourselves on the facts.
How to Argue and Win Every Time . . ........2007-05-19
That's another of Gerry Spence's books, and anyone who reads "Bloodthirsty Bitches . . ." will see why he does. This book is on the money - irrefutable. Hate sells, and the public discourse has reached its nadir. We're in a lot of trouble.
Gerry Spence is one of the few who gets it Right about what's wrong in America........2007-05-07
After having read this book, I'm glad we have lawyers in this country as they truly are the gatekeepers of freedom in this country. I've read his book and looked at the data and the reasonings\logics. He makes a very compelling case for what's wrong with the fascist conversatives thinking and actions. I don't need to add futher to what other reviewers have been saying. The conservatives and crippled politicians worships their god; the corporate god.
This book did mentioned that some people in America believes that America is already a fascist state. I tend to agree; as the violent propaganda against the innocents and stripping of liberty(from reporters and certain minorities) have already occurred. Read the book and think and find out for yourself.
NEW WORLD.......2007-05-06
THIS BOOK IS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS BY A COURAGEOUS AND THOUGHTFUL MAN.EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT AND THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT IT!!A MILLION STARS!!THANK YOU GERRY SPENCE!!AGAIN!!
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This book brings together experts from a variety of perspectives on bioengineered food, which holds the promise of radically reducing hunger in the third world but which is mired in political controversy.
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Negative stereotypes about immigrants and strangers exist in all societies and countries. For many, immigrants represent a threat and a challenge to the ingrained habits and traditions of the majority, which leads to friction. Using three neighboring small towns in Sweden as case studies, Stories about Strangers follows the local discourse, primarily through the daily newspaper of the communities, to assess and evaluate the views and/or prejudices about immigrants.
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- A Fact-Free Diatribe
- debunks oversimplified media-hyped paranoia
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Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?: How Pessismism, Paranoia, and a Misguided Media are Leading Us Toward Disaster
H. Aaron Cohl
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In the last twenty years, incidents of crime have declined by 25 percent.Automobiles of today emit just 1 percent of the pollution that spewed from cars of the 1970s.The national recycling rate is about 22 percent-seven times the rate of only ten years ago.The average human life span continues to increase.Given all of these positive trends, why do so many people envision a bleak future for the world? More to the point, why are so many people scaring themselves to death?In this lively and accessible expose, author H. Aaron Cohl reveals how media madness and simple human psychology fuel the fires of paranoia. He demonstrates how alarming headlines ("Breast Cancer Strikes One in Eight Women,", U.S. News and World Report) are frequently derived from misunderstood or misquoted statistics ("Breast cancer strikes on in eight women at age 95," National Cancer Institute).Readers will learn the encouraging realities of asbestos, drive-by shootings, and pesticides. Cohl also dispels misconceptions about mad cow disease, the greenhouse effect, and the dangers of air travel. Fresh, funny and informative, Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death? is a perfect antidote to sensationalized headlines of today's newspapers. H. Aaron Cohl has written a book that will put many troubled minds at ease.
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Scary!.......2003-10-08
I wasn't worried about much at all until I saw this book. Apparently it's not only the case that pessimism, paranoia and misguided media are very widespread, but we're also heading for disaster! I was vaguely aware of the first three, but wasn't particularly worried about it until this book pointed out the latter. Now I'm battling pessimism and paranoia that I had never known before. Is this book enough to prevent the impending doom? This book is scaring me to death!
A Fact-Free Diatribe.......1998-12-14
In this weak and pointless polemic, the author treats the complex subject of dietary fat in just 3 pages. After assailing some of the scare-mongering about saturated fat, he vaciliates for several paragraphs about whether we should or should not worry. Finally, he concludes "ancient wisdom has prescribed moderation." "We shouldn't be scaring ourselves to death over cancer," he proclaims, but rather "thanking our scientists and physicians for allowing us to live longer." I found this superficial and opinionated tract without merit.
debunks oversimplified media-hyped paranoia.......1998-10-30
This book debunks oversimplified media-hyped paranoia. What I don't get is why so many people apparently prefer to scare themselves to reading rational books like this. It's a pop book, though: few references.
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When health, safety, or environmental risks take center stage, communicating risk information can be a daunting challenge. The increased visibility of global terrorism and other catastrophic emergencies underscores the potential for human tragedy -- along with economic, social, and political consequences. Communication must be targeted, understandable, and effective without inadvertently provoking hostility and mistrust. For 10 years, Risk Communication, a handbook of strategies and guidance for conveying risk information effectively, has proved to be a valuable resource on areas such as current laws, stakeholder participation methods, and working with the news media. This significantly expanded third edition contains all new sections on communicating about acts of bioterrorism and other emergencies, developing messages, and using facilitated deliberation and alternative dispute resolution methods. Sections on using technology in communication, choosing visuals, understanding stigma and privacy issues, and evaluating communication results have been expanded to include the latest methods and research-driven examples.
A valuable resource for 10 years, Risk Communication is divided into the following self-contained parts: (1) Background information on basic theories and practices, (2) Planning a communication effort, (3) Putting risk communication into action, (4) Evaluating risk communication efforts, and (5) Communicating risk during and after an emergency.
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very detailed book on risk communication.......2007-01-18
This is a good book for learning about the details of risk communications. It is quite detailed and systematic.
No Risk in Buying THIS Book!.......2004-10-20
No Risk In Buying This Book!
I've been in the Environmental Risk Communication (RC) field for ten years, medicine for thirty. Often I've wished there was a text or overview of RC that was readable by professional and layperson alike. Little did I know: Regina Lundgren and Andrea McMakin have accomplished this, and the results are a resounding "Wow!" In the Third Edition of "Risk Communication, A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks" (Regina started with the first one; Andrea joined in for the latter two), they present an orderly, comprehensive, understandable, well-referenced, indexed, annotated and glossaried RC bible for anyone just launching into or well-ensconced in the field.
I've often said that RC can be used not only in the "classic" situations (nicely defined alliteratively in this book as "care, crisis and consensus"), but also in one-on-one domestic and professional settings. This book presents information and advice useful to and usable by just about any reader, as one would expect from a work by two communicators. There are numerous examples, case studies, tables, graphs, charts and margin key points (noted with a diamond) that go along with the very readable text (written at the appropriate level, of course). One moves from cover to cover with the ease of reading a novel, the steps to well-executed RC clearly and comprehensively (yet with remarkable simplicity) delineated. There is a start, a middle and an ending, and one feels as though the next natural step is to go out and try the recipe immediately. (I would not suggest, however, that this is a cookbook, only that it reads as easily and the results could be rewarding.)
I suspect many have and many more will hone their skills as this fine work becomes more familiar to those in the rapidly growing, essential and dynamic field of Risk Communication. There is "no risk in buying this book!" I highly recommend it and urge it on anyone who has dealt or will deal with environmental, safety and health "wicked problems" involving concerned stakeholders. That sigh of relief you hear is you, as you find solutions to---or at least direction toward---the challenges you face.
Essential handbook for those communicating risks.......2004-08-31
Straightforward and well-designed, this 400+ page book tells you how to explain risks to your workers, your stakeholders, and the public effectively. This book gives you the information you need to understand, plan, start, finish, and evaluate your plan to communicate environmental, safety, or health risks.
This guide, which is based on extensive research in the field, is filled with clear visuals and valuable checklists. The examples pulled from the authors' experiences reinforce the messages, often with a touch of humor and grace. For example, never give a presentation during moose hunting season.
A new chapter devoted to communicating in emergenices, such as bioterrorist attacks, provides valuable research and guidelines for building the infrastructure you need NOW, before the emergency, as well as what to do during and after the emergency.
If your job involves communicating risks, you'll want to read this book.
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Risk (Concepts in the Social Sciences)
Roy Boyne
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* Is risk always measurable?
* Why are some risks more important?
* Do we take a lot more risks now?
* On whom can we rely for advice?
* How critical is the sociology of risk for understanding contemporary society?
The term 'risk' occurs throughout contemporary social analysis and political commentary. It is now virtually a legal requirement that large organizations throughout the world establish formal risk assessment and risk management procedures. Increasingly dense communication and media networks alert huge numbers of people and organizations to a widening range of threats and possibilities. A basic understanding of the risks themselves may require specific technical knowledge of basic chemistry, or the psychology of motivation, or of contrasting interpretations of injustices deep within the past. However, at the same time as attending to specific risks, there are general questions such as those above which invite reflection.
This wide-ranging and concisely written text is devoted to these general questions, exploring issues such as the measurement of risk in its social context, the idea that the mass media or the political opposition always exaggerate risk, and the notion that the advice of the expert is the best we can get as far as risks are concerned. It asks if there are more risks now and whether a certain level of risk is inevitable or even desirable, and considers for example whether interference with nature has led us to a world which is just too full of risks. Each chapter in the book builds towards a basic picture of risk in the contemporary world, and of the place of the concept of risk within the social sciences today.
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Risk by Roy Boyne.......2005-09-21
This book is an excellent resource for any student or scholar researching the risk analysis. The book is well written. It is accessible to the all levels of experience in the field of sociology and economics.
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Life's Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World
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We live in a dangerous world. Numerous hazards can strike us down from infectious diseases and genetic disorders to food poisoning and car crashes. Furthermore, the advances in information technology enable consumers to be more aware of these problems as the latest data on new hazards is spun around the world in a matter of seconds.
As part of the opinion forming sector (as a think tank researcher and opinion editorial writer) Roger Bate has contributed to this information exchange. His writing over the past five years, as reflected in this book, has focussed on 5 key themes:
1. Hazards are as likely to come from natural as from man-made substances.
2. The linear no-threshold hypothesis is rubbish (i.e. the dose makes the poison).
3. An entire industry has developed to scare us into stopping certain activities, or making us feel guilty for continuing them, or lobbying to have them banned by government.
4. The public are quite capable of making decisions that involve complex trade-offs if only we would let them; indeed not letting them causes enormous problems as government bodies do not have the dispersed knowledge to do this, and are subject to interest group pressure.
5. There are innumerable benefits, as well as costs, from risk taking.
Most articles concerning risk avoid mentioning any of the above five themes.
The articles for this book were originally published in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economic Affairs, and The Sunday Times. An introduction will draw all the articles together.
Up to date discussion of current issues and scientific controversies.
Covers five key themes that most articles on risk do not mention.
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A unified presentation of environmental model development, implementation, and testing
Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches model development, model implementation, and model testing skills in a unified manner, crosscutting the three "media" comprising environmental systems—air, water, and soil—by focusing on parallels and similarities between them, and introducing a new generation of multimedia models. No other single volume offers comprehensive coverage of chemical transport and fate in all three environmental media, including the resulting impacts on the biosphere and human health, with a focus on the fundamental processes underlying environmental modeling.
Integrated Environmental Modeling provides broad-based training in the development of pollutant transport and fate models in air, water, and soil, with a focus on five essential competencies:
- Understanding the fundamental process principles that govern contaminant transport and transformations in multimedia environments, emphasizing the parallels and links between different media
- Learning model development skills, starting from the simplest conceptual models and building more complex and realistic models that couple component process modules at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales of resolution
- Using statistical methods and data sources to estimate input parameters and characterize model sensitivity and uncertainty
- Gaining hands-on experience with computer-aided implementation and evaluation of fate and transport models using realistic case study examples
- Applying fate and transport models to evaluate pollutant interactions with the biosphere, particularly in human exposure modeling and health risk assessment
Complete with case studies, Integrated Environmental Modeling is a valuable, single-source tool for senior and graduate students in environmental science and engineering courses on pollutant transport, remediation, and risk assessment, and an essential reference text for professionals in industry, consulting, and government agencies responsible for environmental assessment and risk analysis.
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