Covidiots

Author : Steven Harris
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covidiots written by Steven Harris and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covidiots - Idiotic acts and bizarre behaviour", is a tongue-in-cheek look at humankind's stupidity in the face of the biggest crisis the modern world has seen. With stories including bumbling politicians, amateur inventors, and people that chose to follow blindly whatever advice they found online, these bite-sized tales will make you wonder how on earth we survived the Covid-19 pandemic. A snap-shot of human behaviour, written with wit and a touch of British humour during the early spring of 2020, this book does not forget the sad losses the world has suffered, but does bring a little much needed light-heartedness to tough times. Put it on your coffee table, or leave it next to your toilet. Whoever picks this book up and reads it will find a story they will enjoy and want to share the next time talk of those we now know as covidiots rears its head. ***Now with updated afterword, July 2021***

Author : Christina The
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814893978
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Former Covidiot: Tales of panic buying, surviving and finding humour during the Coronavirus Pandemic written by Christina The and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronavirus or to use its hippier name, the Covid 19 pandemic has affected everyone across the globe, regardless of race, age, sex or religion. With an astute sense of observation, Christina Thé has been inspired by how people behave in times such as this. “Locked-up” at home for 56 days, she has written these pieces to cheer up her friends and business associates; and to counter all the gloom and doom that is in the news. Though the incidents are all based on real incidents that have happened, the characters have been slightly exaggerated, as this is after all, a book of humour. We can empathise and relate to her stories as it is how we all behave, or we know someone just like that, even if we refuse to publicly admit to such irrational actions. It is an entertaining work written with wit and humour.

Author : Shedletsky, Leonard
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799874419
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationalist Bias in Communication Theory written by Shedletsky, Leonard and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While communication theory has not recognized the implications of the social intuitionist model, psychologists have gathered an impressive body of evidence to support the theory. In social cognition research, there was the idea that human inferential processes are conscious, rational, logical, and accurate, and this belief continues somewhat in the behavioral sciences although there is evidence that it is incorrect. A fresh examination is needed on just how these inferences by the receiver and the implications by the sender, carried out at high speed, impact our understanding of the communication process. Simply put, until now the default case in communication theory is the belief that we consciously reason and then we act. However, that may not be entirely true. Rationalist Bias in Communication Theory applies social intuition theory to human communication. This book explores how research has missed accounting for a critical fact about human communication in the theories of communication, namely that we as humans can respond to one another and to all kinds of stimuli faster than we can deliberate. By applying intuitive cognition to communication, a new light can be shed on the communication process, which is what the chapters prove and discuss. This book is valuable for social scientists, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in new theories in communication theory.

Author : Antonio Moreno-Ortiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031527194
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Large Social Media Corpora written by Antonio Moreno-Ortiz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ferrari King
Publisher : Ferrari King
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Left Wants You to be Poor, The Right Wants You to be Ignorant written by Ferrari King and published by Ferrari King. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you noticed that people on the extreme left complain about anyone trying to make money and believes money, promotions and good jobs should be handed to them? Have you noticed that the people on the extreme right seem so ignorant of basic science and history?

Author : Ferrari King
Publisher : Ferrari King
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a misanthrope thinks about your ideology: Your ideology and religion means little to a misanthrope written by Ferrari King and published by Ferrari King. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this little eBook I will describe some annoying things that exist.

Author : Tina Sikka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004536418
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupted Knowledge written by Tina Sikka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Disrupted Knowledge, editors Tina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls present a collection of critical essays that interrogate social and cultural relations emerging out of the intersecting 'disruptions' of Covid-19 and the possibilities that these 'disruptions' contain.

Author : Jorah Kai
Publisher : More Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1959604007
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Of The Rat written by Jorah Kai and published by More Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE YEAR OF THE METAL RAT, 2020, was a time of panic, uncertainty, and great division. CHINA, VIETNAM, CANADA, SAUDI ARABIA, ITALY, ARGENTINA, AMERICA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES, NETHERLANDS, GUATEMALA, UGANDA, THE U.K., SINGAPORE, RUSSIA… As the pandemic spread, some wore masks and socially distanced to protect the vulnerable, while others protested all public health measures as a form of tyranny and caused loud and obnoxious mass disruptions to critical infrastructure in a jarring display of 'personal freedom.' Fake news and echo chambers enabled 'alternative facts,' while unhinged narratives and cartoonish conspiracies ran rampant, often trumping coverage of legitimate and existential converging catastrophes. In YEAR OF THE RAT, the sequel to the international best-seller 'The Invisible War' (Kai's Diary), Jorah Kai documents the world’s largest ‘Zero Covid bubble’ while the outside world handles the pandemic uniquely. Reaching out to friends across the globe, he weaves their stories together. Thirty-six writers from 33 cities in 16 countries share their daily struggles, hopes, and fears for the YEAR OF THE RAT as the SARSCOV2 virus spreads catastrophe to every corner of the globe. "It’s ... the metaphor of the yin and the yang. I’d say right now; we are in the yin. It’s a kind of disaster. It’s sad. And on the yang side... it looks like some sort of a mathematical balance that I cannot explain." - JCVD “I would have done the whole thing for a donut and a tuna fish sandwich. The money meant nothing. It was the opportunity to at least prove to myself that I wasn’t a liar, that I wasn’t living a life of disillusionment. When you think of yourself as being a very creative person, and turn around and realize you’ve been leading a lie.” - Sylvester Stallone (Rocky). "At the beginning of the pandemic, Jorah Kai led a plucky band of frontline workers and activists to fight the pandemic with science. Some called him a harbinger, others a ‘pandemic guru’ as they navigated an increasingly bizarre world of book deals, TV appearances, speaking engagements, and a recovery event with his childhood hero, martial arts movie star Jeanne Claude Van Damme. But nothing could prepare him for what came next..." - The Narrator

Author : Laura Dodsworth
Publisher : Pinter & Martin
ISBN 13 : 178066723X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A State of Fear written by Laura Dodsworth and published by Pinter & Martin. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It's also about how the government weaponised our fear against us – supposedly in our best interests – until we were one of the most frightened countries in the world. But why did the government deliberately frighten us? How has this affected us as individuals and as a country? Who is involved in the decision-making that affects our lives? How are behavioural science and nudge theory being used to subliminally manipulate us? How does the media leverage fear? What are the real risks to our wellbeing? Ahead of any official inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Dodsworth explores all these questions and more, in a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion of an extraordinary year in British life and politics. With stories from members of the general public who were impacted by fear, anxiety and isolation, and revealing interviews with psychologists, politicians, scientists, lawyers, Whitehall advisers and journalists, A State of Fear calls for a more hopeful, transparent and effective democracy.

Author : William McInnes
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 073365066X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yeah, Nah! written by William McInnes and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. From the simpler times of childhood to today's testing (and unprecedented!) times, or when we're wasting time, enjoying sporting times or hitting the big time, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation. Our love of plain speaking communicates the essence of the thing to our mates, to those in the know - and to those who should know better. Part memoir, part manifesto, this warm, witty, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny collection will have you thinking about what you say, how you say it and what that really says about us as a nation. Praise for the writing of William McInnes 'Warm and engaging . . . feels a little bit like home' Daily Telegraph 'If there is a quintessence of Australia at its best, William McInnes has distilled it' The Age 'Warm, nostalgic, funny and undeniably Australian' Sydney Morning Herald