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Book Synopsis Looks Can Be Deceiving by : Jim Conners
Download or read book Looks Can Be Deceiving written by Jim Conners and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is just time spent between bouts of self-pity and his next drink for Dirk Crandell, a salty small-town newspaper writer. Then an intriguing letter crosses his desk from a young woman in LA. What follows for Crandell is a life-changing series of twists and turns as the promise made to the young woman in the letter leads him into a web of conspiracy, deception, and deception. As he delves further into this small towns sinister series of events, some going back twenty years, he begins to unravel a cover-up of deadly proportions. Joining forces with his seductive managing editor, Kristen Harden, he discovers not only that Looks Can Be Deceiving but hazardous to your health as well.
Book Synopsis Looks Can Be Deceiving by : Quinn Ward
Download or read book Looks Can Be Deceiving written by Quinn Ward and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a single parent long for someone to call Daddy? Everything I do is to make sure my daughter has a good life. More often than not, that means I have to ignore my own desires, but she's worth it. Working at a kink club might not have been my best move, but the tips make up for the torture of being faced with my fantasies every night. One night, that's all William asked for... One night will never be enough for me. As soon as I felt his arms holding me while I fell asleep in his lap, I was hooked. He encourages me to be little, but understands it's not something I can give him all the time. He loves me just as I am, whether I'm little and needy or on my knees and begging for him. When the sides of my life collide, will it all be too much for William? Looks Can Be Deceiving is the second book set at The Lodge, the quirkiest kink club in Annandale. It features an overworked single dad and a retired soldier who avoids any structure in his life until his boy needs mandated nap time and play time.
Book Synopsis Books Can Be Deceiving by : Jenn McKinlay
Download or read book Books Can Be Deceiving written by Jenn McKinlay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cupcake Bakery Mysteries comes the start of a series about a library where the mysteries refuse to stay in the fiction section... Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he’s found murdered—and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast—before they throw the book at the wrong person.
Download or read book The Go-Giver written by Bob Burg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition with expanded content is available now, “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea” An engaging book that brings new relevance to the old proverb “Give and you shall receive” The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman. Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of “go-givers:” a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a real estate broker, and the “Connector,” who brought them all together. Pindar’s friends share with Joe the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and teach him how to open himself up to the power of giving. Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to giving—putting others’ interests first and continually adding value to their lives—ultimately leads to unexpected returns. Imparted with wit and grace, The Go-Giver is a heartwarming and inspiring tale that brings new relevance to the old proverb “Give and you shall receive.” From the Hardcover edition.
Book Synopsis Family Portraits by : Randy McCracken
Download or read book Family Portraits written by Randy McCracken and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor and Bible teacher Randy McCracken offers an intimate look at lesser-known members of 1 and 2 Samuel's four main families--those of Samuel, Eli, Saul, and David. Examining characters unfamiliar to many Bible readers, he reveals important lessons for today.
Book Synopsis Looks Can Be Deceiving by : H. Wardwell
Download or read book Looks Can Be Deceiving written by H. Wardwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have read Mission Statement then you realize that people and things are not always as they seem. Looks can be Deceiving, especially when there is a little magic afoot. In this exciting second installment of the Tales of the Investigator series, the unusual inhabitants of the Bermuda Triangle once again join forces with the world's most unlikely Private Investigators to try and track down four juvenile delinquent alligator-people known as the Instigators. They escaped from their home in the Bermuda Triangle and each possesses a magical spell known as the Veil of Arthur, enabling them to disguise their real appearances. Needless to say, catching them proves to be a monumental challenge. These little rascals lead the search team on a merry chase across several continents, but each time they are within grasp they manage to give their pursuers the slip. The Instigators must be apprehended and returned to their home, not just because they are out having a good time at everyone else's expense, but because someone else is looking for them as well. If he, or more aptly put 'it,' gets his hands on them first, history will become irreversibly altered and the beginning of the end will soon be upon each and every inhabitant of the earth. So, if this book should suddenly disappear while you are reading it, you'll know that the mission wasn't exactly successful. Better hold on tight. It's going to be an adventure you'll never forget.
Download or read book Spectres written by Judith Clark and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As both curator and exhibition designer, Judith Clark addresses the relationship of contemporary fashion to history, creating a collage of visual references which offer a fascinating insight into the origins of current themes, such as alienation, trauma and phantasmagoria. Details of historic dress and images of nineteenth-century fairground architecture lead into the work of contemporary designers such as Vikto & Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Veronique Branquinho, Hussein Chalayan, Christian Lacroix and Shelley Fox. The ideas for the installation draw on a skeletal early industrial/metropolitan aesthetic, while the mannequins belong to the history of dolls and wax effigies, embodied in the mask-like catwalk make-up of Pat McGrath. This book includes a coda by fashion historian Caroline Evans, author of 'Fashion on the edge', from whom Clark has drawn assumptions about comtemporary dress, and an illustrated essay on the idea of the scaffold by Russian avant-garde architect Yuri Avvakumov. Also reproduced are designs commissioned by Clark for a giant shadow lantern from the celebrated New York fashion illustrator Ruben Toldeo, and sketches for customised mannequins by jeweller Naomi Filmer. The final section features photographs of the dramatic installations constructed for the exhibition." -- back cover.
Book Synopsis Looks Are Deceiving by : Bill VanPatten
Download or read book Looks Are Deceiving written by Bill VanPatten and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-nine-year old Will Christian, a self-identified Latino and gay man, stumbles across a body during a routine bicycle ride. As bodies pile up-all Latino, all gay-Will wonders if his town is confronted with a series of hate crimes. Driven by insatiable curiosity, a commitment to the first victim's family, and the haunting memory of the unsolved murder of his best friend, he enlists the help of his new boyfriend, José Torres, to track down the killer using a gay dating app-setting him on a search for a killer in the secretive underside of the down-low lifestyle in a small, Central California town. "A highly readable whodunit that's well grounded in social issues." Kirkus Reviews "Loved it! A cozy mystery/thriller with an unlikely and admirable hero, and a meaningful message..." Reedsy Discovery "A top-notch, deliciously readable mystery . . . Great storytelling, a quirky hero, and an intelligent plot make VanPatten's latest in the A Will Christian Mystery series a winner for mystery fans.. . . Finely constructed and gripping, this story of deception, murder, personal prejudices, and the search for truth is both a compelling character study and an engrossing mystery. Fans of both gay and the cozy mystery genre will find common ground in this twisted tale of love, murder, and intrigue." The Prairies Book Review
Book Synopsis Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by : Shankar Vedantam
Download or read book Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.
Book Synopsis How to Lie with Statistics by : Darrell Huff
Download or read book How to Lie with Statistics written by Darrell Huff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to outsmart a crook, learn his tricks—Darrell Huff explains exactly how in the classic How to Lie with Statistics. From distorted graphs and biased samples to misleading averages, there are countless statistical dodges that lend cover to anyone with an ax to grind or a product to sell. With abundant examples and illustrations, Darrell Huff’s lively and engaging primer clarifies the basic principles of statistics and explains how they’re used to present information in honest and not-so-honest ways. Now even more indispensable in our data-driven world than it was when first published, How to Lie with Statistics is the book that generations of readers have relied on to keep from being fooled.
Book Synopsis Lying and Deception in Everyday Life by : Michael Lewis
Download or read book Lying and Deception in Everyday Life written by Michael Lewis and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-02-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare...."-- Montaigne "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.'" -- Tennessee Williams Truth and deception--like good and evil--have long been viewed as diametrically opposed and unreconcilable. Yet, few people can honestly claim they never lie. In fact, deception is practiced habitually in day-to-day life--from the polite compliment that doesn't accurately relay one's true feelings, to self-deception about one's own motivations. What fuels the need for people to intricately construct lies and illusions about their own lives? If deceptions are unconscious, does it mean that we are not responsible for their consequences? Why does self-deception or the need for illusion make us feel uncomfortable? Taking into account the sheer ubiquity and ordinariness of deception, this interdisciplinary work moves away from the cut-and-dried notion of duplicity as evil and illuminates the ways in which deception can also be understood as a adaptive response to the demands of living with others. The book articulates the boundaries between unethical and adaptive deception demonstrating how some lies serve socially approved goals, while others provoke distrust and condemnation. Throughout, the volume focuses on the range of emotions--from feelings of shame, fear, or envy, to those of concern and compassion--that motivate our desire to deceive ourselves and others. Providing an interdisciplinary exploration of the widespread phenomenon of lying and deception, this volume promotes a more fully integrated understanding of how people function in their everyday lives. Case illustrations, humor and wit, concrete examples, and even a mock television sitcom script bring the ideas to life for clinical practitioners, behavioral scientists, and philosophers, and for students in these realms.
Book Synopsis Deceit and Self-Deception by : Robert Trivers
Download or read book Deceit and Self-Deception written by Robert Trivers and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We lie to ourselves every day: about how well we drive, how much we're enjoying ourselves - even how good looking we are. In this ground-breaking book, Robert Trivers examines not only how we self-deceive, but also why, taking fascinating examples from aviation disasters, con artists, sexual betrayals and conflicts within families. Revealing, provocative and witty, Deceit and Self-Deception is one of the most vital books written this century, and will make you rethink everything that you think you know. 'Original and important . . . remarkable, thick with ideas.' Financial Times 'One of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought.' Steven Pinker 'A swift tour of links between deception and evolutionary progress . . . fascinating.' Economist 'I devoured it from cover to cover . . . exhilarating.' Guardian 'A powerful book . . . essential for anyone who wants to try to counter their own unconscious biases.' Independent
Book Synopsis Looks Can be Deceiving by : South Dakota. Department of Social Services
Download or read book Looks Can be Deceiving written by South Dakota. Department of Social Services and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Looking Like what You are by : Lisa Walker
Download or read book Looking Like what You are written by Lisa Walker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import. Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed. Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory. In the book's final chapter, "How to Recognize a Lesbian," Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.
Book Synopsis In the Water They Can't See You Cry by : Amanda Beard
Download or read book In the Water They Can't See You Cry written by Amanda Beard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seven-time Olympic medalist describes her battles with depression, eating disorders and substance abuse in spite of her successful career, recounting how she hid her struggles from her loved ones before seeking help and finding renewal in the birth of her son. 75,000 first printing."
Book Synopsis Looks Can Be Deceiving by : Henry Wardwell
Download or read book Looks Can Be Deceiving written by Henry Wardwell and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have read Eye of the Beholder then you realize that people and things are not always as they seem. Looks can be Deceiving, especially when there is a little magic afoot. In this exciting second installment of the Tales of the Investigator series, the unusual inhabitants of the Bermuda Triangle once again join forces with the world's most unlikely Private Investigators to try and track down four juvenile delinquent alligator-people known as the Instigators. They escaped from their home in the Bermuda Triangle and each possesses a magical spell known as the Veil of Arthur, enabling them to disguise their real appearances, at will. Talented as the Investigators may be, they are no match for juvenile delinquents with supernatural powers. The fact that they are only half-human makes the pursuit that much more challenging. And apprehend them they must, before it's too late!
Book Synopsis Lying and Deception by : Thomas L. Carson
Download or read book Lying and Deception written by Thomas L. Carson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Carson argues that there is a moral presumption against lying and deception that causes harm, he examines case-studies from business, politics, and history, and he offers a qualified defence of the view that honesty is a virtue.
