Author: Lucy B. Ford
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533155286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Curtis seemed like the perfect man: handsome; intelligent; successful; clean of limb, clear of eye. Little did poor Mattie know that the man with whom she'd blindly fallen in love was living a double life. A gripping novel of one man's dishonesty and its shocking consequences that will engross readers to the very last page.
Author: Roger W. Shuy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019066990X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, prosecutors, and undercover agents use deceptive ambiguity with their subjects and targets, thereby creating misrepresentations through their uses of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and grammar. This misrepresentation also can strongly affect the perceptions of later listeners, such as judges and juries, about the subjects' motives, predispositions, intentions, and voluntariness. Deception is commonly considered intentional while ambiguity is often excused as unintentional, in line with Grice's maxim of sincerity in his cooperative principle. Most of the interactions of suspects, defendants, and targets with representatives of law enforcement, however, are oppositional, adversarial, and non-cooperative events that provide the opportunity for participants to stretch, ignore, or even violate the cooperative principle. One effective way law enforcement does this is by using ambiguity. Suspects and defendants may hear such ambiguous speech and not recognize the ambiguity and therefore react in ways that they may not have understood or intended. The fifteen case studies in this book illustrate how deceptive ambiguity, whether intentional or not, is used as commonly by police, prosecutors and undercover agents as it is by suspects and defendants.
Author: J. B. Hixson
Publisher: Lucid Books
ISBN: 1935909495
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Author: Ulrike Tancke
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Deceptive Fictions: Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing explores the widespread narrative concern with trauma and violence, and their interactions with identity, meaning, ethics, history, memory and various other related issues in a selection of novels by prolific contemporary British and Irish writers. Interrogating the strategic functions of trauma and violence, the book argues that these texts can be read as counter-narratives to, or a backlash against, still-prevalent critical paradigms informed by poststructuralist and postmodern thought. Trauma and violence are invoked as narrative tools to communicate the centrality of the body and of biological and material constraints on human actions. This emphasis on reality and the experiential ties in with the novels’ consistent focus on the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning. In so doing, they signal a move in contemporary fiction towards a textual practice that can most fruitfully be approached along the lines of an individualistic, evolutionary, corporeal and experiential narratology, which self-consciously reflects on the manipulative potentials of narrative.
Author: Victor Ostrovsky
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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A detailed look at the hidden agenda within Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.
Author: Joseph A. Klein
Publisher: World Ahead Publishing
ISBN: 0974670146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Harry Truman was a pragmatist who saw in the UN a forum for sovereign, independent nations to iron out their differences. But for globalists, the goal has always been a 'true world government.' This thinking now infests the UN from top to bottom.In this disturbing and timely book, Joe Klein exposes the globalist's true agenda - stripping the US of its independence in order to make the world's only superpower, and its citizens, subservient to the desires and whims of dictators, tyrants and nameless bureaucrats. Having failed to win over US public opinion, globalists are trying to rally world opinion against America while encouraging US courts to turn to international law--as opposed to the Constitution and Bill of Rights - for 'guidance' when making judicial decisions, thus imposing globalism on the US by fiat. Simultaneously, they are weaving a tangled web of treaties and trans-national organizations (like the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Treaty) to gradually ensnare and destroy our nation.They must be stopped. This is the book to do it.
Author: David M. Wolf
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1637644086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Big Game By: David M. Wolf Through a clever scheme, they took five million dollars by force from an armored truck. Years after the heist, neither the money nor the culprits have been found. But the money can’t stay hidden forever, especially when more and more players join the chase. In a story about greed and the lengths to which people will go to satiate it, tenuous alliances are formed, and traps are set. With a disbarred lawyer investigating, the quest for the money involves an intricate web of characters, some united by their past, and most consumed by their lust for money.
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Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1612157084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Author: Dr. Jack Pruett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456892800
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Over the last 30 years, an outstanding author and researcher named Zecharia Sitchin has written a total of nine books which describe a race of ancient beings who came to Earth about 450,000 years ago. These books go into great detail about these beings and their activities on Earth. Sitchin's books are based on ancient tablets found in Mesopotamia, the lands of the Garden of Eden described in the Bible. The Grandest Deception is a book that is based on Sitchin's work and the Bible; it describes how the ancient tablets and the Bible are related to current events. The Grandest Deception describes how the Earth was created and how mankind was created. It also describes the conditions that mankind will face during the New World Order; as well as the fate of mankind if we continue down the path that we are presently on.
Author: Gary Cephas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984519468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Intersection is a novel of Christian fiction. I would call it hard fiction because the subject matter is adult oriented. There are no apple-cheeked little children holding kittens in a field of daisies, only real people in realistic life situations where God influences some. There is family drama, tough dialogue, some violence, redemption, tears, and cheers. There is excitement and action, capped off by an ending that has the power to change a readers life. Such are the components of Intersection.
