Double happiness : how bullshit works / Joe Bennett.

By:

Bennett, Joe, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins, 2012.Description: p. cmISBN:

9781869509576 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

Truthfulness and falsehood

DDC classification:

177.3 23

Summary: "Bullshit has always been with us, but the proliferation of media in the last century means we are now drowning in the stuff. If we were to strip bullshit from our conversations, television screens, newspapers and airwaves, we would barely recognize what remained. Bullshit has become so accepted that people cannot only make a living from it, and use it to achieve power, prestige and wealth, they can even win prizes for it. Unironic prizes. In this biting new book Joe Bennett unpacks examples of everyday bullshit, commercial, spiritual and political, from New Zealand and around the world to expose the techniques that underlie it"--Publisher information.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Non-Fiction - New Zealand	Waimate Non-Fiction	Non Fiction	177.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		a00625453

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"Bullshit has always been with us, but the proliferation of media in the last century means we are now drowning in the stuff. If we were to strip bullshit from our conversations, television screens, newspapers and airwaves, we would barely recognize what remained. Bullshit has become so accepted that people cannot only make a living from it, and use it to achieve power, prestige and wealth, they can even win prizes for it. Unironic prizes. In this biting new book Joe Bennett unpacks examples of everyday bullshit, commercial, spiritual and political, from New Zealand and around the world to expose the techniques that underlie it"--Publisher information.

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