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"Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth... Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager from her first marriage. Emilia is an ordinary mom - and she's also the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels. But when writing her tenth - and most difficult - book, life takes a disturbing an incident mimicking the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence,...
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"It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more filled with wildly implausible conspiracy theories. 'Dogwhistles and Figleaves' explores certain ways in which such changes -- both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech -- have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role. Some dogwhistles (such...
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