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This is a book that manages to be interesting, useful and beautiful at the same time, to appeal to both teenagers and adults, to entertain and inform

«The History of Lies. How We Are Deceived tells about various manipulations, fakes and frauds. Often they were initiated by enterprising and creative fraudsters or happened by chance and have not been debunked for decades, in part because those involved do not want to lose publicity.

The book also contains effective tools that will be useful for both teenagers and adults. Readers will learn how to safely use social media, watch YouTube videos, and check the information they consume from various sources every day.

The Portal's publications are a "first aid book" for parents and teachers.

How to improve mindfulness and critical thinking? How to learn to take care of information hygiene? What apps can be used to find out if a photo has been edited in Photoshop? How to behave safely on social media? You will find the answers in this edition of the portal.

The uniqueness of the Portal books lies in a special system that helps adults find the right words to discuss psychological issues with children and understand the historical context more deeply. For each printed edition, a team of educators, psychologists, and historians has developed detailed backgrounder with QR codes and game bookmarks containing

• historical backgrounds - information about the historical period from expert historians;
psychological support - comments from professional psychologists and recommendations for discussing important points and difficult issues
• questions to the text - a system of questions that will help you to work through the text meaningfully and deeply with your child.

The Portal's books are created in a series that form a holistic historical picture for children.

The series of non-fiction for teenagers is designed to tell readers aged 11+ about various phenomena, events and processes in a non-trivial way. Each of the books is complemented by bright and stylish illustrations, photographs, tables and infographics.

To date, in addition to «History of Lies», the series includes «Reactors Do Not Explode. A Brief History of the Chornobyl Disaster» by Kateryna Mikhalitsyna and Stanislav Dvornytskyi, «The Inhabited Planet. How Seven Billion of Us Became Seven Billion by Halyna Hlodz, A Common Language. How Words Are Born and Live by Anastasia Levkova and «Bizarre Kyiv by Tetiana Strizhevska. The series will be gradually updated with new books.

The Portal's publication is an interesting storytelling based on a scientifically verified historical background. Your children will become interested in the history and culture of Ukraine and the world without rote learning - in adventures and fascinating stories!