?This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today's culture wars.??Hope Jahren
The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to ?hear? hidden bias, slant, and spin?from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures!
Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with ?loaded language??be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you'll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave
unsaid.
Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric?aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here,
passive voice can pardon wrongdoers,
statistics may be a smokescreen,
gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and
irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn't naked; he has a
clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse's roof
becomes flattened (Elephant's foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl
claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . .
Fans of Almossawi's
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn't ask for a better primer on the
less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what's left unsaid?but when you're a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.
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978-1-61519-841-2 (9781615198412)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ali Almossawi is an alumnus of MIT's engineering systems division and Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science. His books include An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, and Bad Choices. His writing has appeared in publications such as Wired. He works and lives in San Francisco.
Alejandro Giraldo holds a degree in graphic design from UPB Medellín and a master's in art direction from ELISAVA (the Barcelona School of Design and Engineering). He runs the clothing company Velmost and works as a freelance illustrator. He lives in Medellín, Colombia.
