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21) City of lies
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"John Harper has just made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more than thirty years is alive, though lying in a coma in a Manhattan hospital. Returning home to New York brings with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet Harper could never have prepared himself for the truth. Confronted with the reality of his father's existence, Harper finds himself seduced by a lifestyle that he seems to have inherited--an underworld...
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Through and entertaining and highly instructive story, the book shows how the most personal and organizational problems result from a pervasive yet little-known problem called "self-deception." You will discover what self-deception is, how we get trapped in it, how it undermines personal achievement and organizational performance, and-most importantly-the surprising way to solve it."--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Acheron Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Self-deception is common and universal, and the cause of most human tragedies. Of course, the science of self-deception can help us to live better and get more out of life. But it can also cast a murky light on human nature and the human condition, for example, on such exclusively human phenomena as anger, depression, fear, pity, pride, dream making, love making, and god making, not to forget age-old philosophical problems such as selfhood, virtue,...
24) Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Two distinguished psychologists look at the role of self-justification in human life, explaining how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assess the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveal how it can be overcome.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge (including one previously unpublished) showcases heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. The novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James's...
26) Scandalous
Author
Series
Banning sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Liespotting" links three disciplines - facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field - into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception and get the information they need to successfully conduct their most important interactions and transactions.
28) Irresistible
Author
Series
Banning sisters trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon - the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like joice heth, a black woman whome he pretended...
30) Deceived
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two bodies in an isolated canyon on the edge of L.A. One with saddlebags filled with diamonds. That's how it begins for Liz Towne, a stunning blonde with a devout husband who has given up a prime job for reasons Liz cannot understand--for "Mac" MacDonald, a Gulf War vet who's done time in prison and is just now finding his way back to normal life--and for Roxanne "Rocky" Towne, Liz's sister-in-law, who suspects things she cannot prove. All three...
31) V for Vendetta
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A psychology professor who is "one of the world's leading authorities on deception" describes and explains the prevalence and consequences of deception, including marital infidelity, little white lies, career-driven resume lies, and how we teach children to lie. He provides "evidence of how integral lying is to our culture." -- Publisher info
Author
Series
Baer Creighton volume 2
Publisher
Hardgrave Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Six days before Baer Creighton cut down a cabal of dogfighters, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared while walking home from school in Asheville, North Carolina. Witnesses later claimed they saw her in the back of a police car. Twenty-five years before that, an illegal fireworks plant blew up in Benton, Tennessee, killing eleven, and raining M100 firecrackers over half a county. A few days later, a thirteen-year-old boy learned his highest calling...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant...
38) Lucky penny
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Colorado marshal David Paxton gets a letter from a stranger claiming to be his wife and pleading with him to come for her and his daughter, he dutifully responds and is saddled with a ready-made family
39) Tangerine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunning debut novel--a chilling and unexpected portrait of a female friendship set in 1950's Morocco. This is Patricia Highsmith for the 21st century" --
Arriving in Tangier with her new husband only to encounter the estranged best friend she has not seen in more than a year, Alice allows her friend to introduce her to the rhythms and culture of Morocco, only to be quickly stifled by the woman's controlling nature.
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