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- catalog abstract ""Lies we Live by explains how diversion, half truths, and misleading statistics are used to manipulate vs. Carl Housman, a distinguished academic who nevertheless writes like a normal person, applies his lively and engaging wit to showing you how to decode: lying with words; lying with numbers and lying with images."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11531884.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Lies we Live by explains how diversion, half truths, and misleading statistics are used to manipulate vs. Carl Housman, a distinguished academic who nevertheless writes like a normal person, applies his lively and engaging wit to showing you how to decode: lying with words; lying with numbers and lying with images."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Term Warfare: How to Lie with Words -- Damn the Statistics: How to Lie with Numbers -- Seeing Is Believing? Don't You Believe It! How to Lie with Images -- I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Confuse You -- I Lie, Therefore I Am: The Existentially Ambiguous Image in Politics -- The Vying Game: Cooking the Books in College Rankings -- The Veiled Variable Rides Again: Tricks of the Trade in Financial Institutions -- There's a Special on Fine Print in Aisle 9: The Tricky Business of Retailing -- Driven to Distraction: How Car Retailers Confuse the Consumer -- Reach out and Confuse Someone: Baffle-Gab on the Phone Line -- You May Already Be a Sucker! Misrepresentation by Mail -- Brave New Bamboozle: Tricky Business over the Internet -- Reality (Sound)bites: How Made-for-Media Pseudo-Events Distort Our View of the World -- Ten Lists of Ten Guidelines for Becoming a Better Consumer of Information -- How and Where to Complain: A Resource Guide for Consumers.".
- catalog extent "229 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415922801 (hc)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "177/.3 21".
- catalog subject "BF637.D42 H68 2000".
- catalog subject "Deception.".
- catalog subject "Truthfulness and falsehood.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Term Warfare: How to Lie with Words -- Damn the Statistics: How to Lie with Numbers -- Seeing Is Believing? Don't You Believe It! How to Lie with Images -- I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Confuse You -- I Lie, Therefore I Am: The Existentially Ambiguous Image in Politics -- The Vying Game: Cooking the Books in College Rankings -- The Veiled Variable Rides Again: Tricks of the Trade in Financial Institutions -- There's a Special on Fine Print in Aisle 9: The Tricky Business of Retailing -- Driven to Distraction: How Car Retailers Confuse the Consumer -- Reach out and Confuse Someone: Baffle-Gab on the Phone Line -- You May Already Be a Sucker! Misrepresentation by Mail -- Brave New Bamboozle: Tricky Business over the Internet -- Reality (Sound)bites: How Made-for-Media Pseudo-Events Distort Our View of the World -- Ten Lists of Ten Guidelines for Becoming a Better Consumer of Information -- How and Where to Complain: A Resource Guide for Consumers.".
- catalog title "Lies we live by : defeating double-talk and deception in advertising, politics and the media / Carl Hausman.".
- catalog type "text".