Download or read book Beautiful Deceptions written by Philipp Schweighauser and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions examines how these and other artists of the era at times acknowledge art's dues to other social realms—religion, morality, politics—but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of aesthetics as "the science of sensuous cognition" and the writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller, Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it responds to shifts in social and political organization.

Download or read book Beautiful Deception written by Yasmeen Suri and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Error filled teachings reflect an artificial light that beckons to those that are wandering in darkness. According to Bible, the end times will be marked by widespread deception, counterfeit miracles, and the appearance of false prophets. Each of these evils will contribute to an atmosphere that will deceive an untold number of people throughout the world. Satan disguises himself as an "angel of light" and his ministers as ministers of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). Jesus has warned us that the signs and wonders to come from these false "angels of light" will be so deceptive, that if we do not seek the truth then we will be deceived. Lies have many elements of truth in them. Unfortunately, there are many professing Christians today that rely on their own "feelings" as to whether something is of God. Experience should never validate truth, and to judge something on how it "feels" or "looks" rather than testing it against God's Word and sound doctrine is a road that will lead to ruin. This is the perfect "set-up" for the Antichrist. Yasmeen Suri was born in India believing in the new age gods of her culture and converted to Christianity years later. She is a licensed ordained minister and speaks and sings professionally across the world. Yasmeen has regularly appeared on the 700 Club, TBN, TCT, National and International radio, churches, and conventions and sharing the dangers of "spiritual deception." She regularly sings the U.S. " National Anthem" and "God Bless America" for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, U. S. Military, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, Access of Dearborn, Major Sports Teams, and Conventions.

Download or read book A Most Beautiful Deception written by Melissa Morelli Lacroix and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacroix’s poems connect readers to the physical and emotional struggles of Chopin, Schumann, and Debussy.

Download or read book Beautiful Deception written by Kabelo and published by Stephanie Bruer. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana, Malik Johnson and his two childhood friends Mac and Blaze are the owners of Club Exotics "the hottest strip in New Orleans!" As they branch off in different directions, Blaze heads down the road of being the next biggest drug kingpin, while Mac tries to stay level minded and remain focus on the club. As for Malik, he gets married and have three children, but he realized things are not always as they seem when it comes to family, lies and murder. If he's not careful, his newly found relationship may bring death to them all.

Download or read book Beautiful Deception written by Celia Crown and published by Celia Crown. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We have always been greedy.” All three of them are star-crossed lovers, tattered strings colored with tragic red yet with an unwavering bond. Doctor Kian with grace and tailored malevolence. FBI agent, Remo, with corrupted honor and violence. One paved the way with dependency, and the other followed with a lock behind him. The trust was ingrained into her mind, a smooth transition of memories into another, and Maya doesn’t know when that memory happened. One is crazy, the other isn’t any less insane, and nobody knows the sins resting peacefully in their hearts. Maya’s efforts to live a normal life fail when an invitation lures her to a snow-capped villa, and she’s stuck with two men who make her head dizzy and her instincts go haywire. They pay a little too much attention to Maya and are unaffected by the chaotic aftermath of a guest mysteriously dying. Keeping Maya was always the objective, and they didn’t mind sharing.

Download or read book Deception s Princess written by Esther M. Friesner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage.

Download or read book Beauty in Deception written by Charmaine Pauls and published by Charmaine Pauls. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m a decoy, another woman’s double, and now her enemy has taken me.” A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE My life is governed by three rules. Don’t get caught. If caught, play the role. Win time until rescue arrives. My life depends on playing the role convincingly. I’ve been trained for that role since the age of fifteen. For ten long years, I’ve been taught to be someone else, to respond to a different name, and to live in another woman’s shadow. Evie Warren is the most coveted mafia princess in the country, and I’m her double. I’m the decoy, her stunt girl, so to speak. So when I break the first rule, I know it’s bad. I know it’s going to get worse when the man who carjacked my convoy gives me two options, telling me he hopes I won’t choose the second one. And when he calls me Evie, he confirms my worst suspicion. The attack was premeditated. There can only be two reasons why he wants to take Evie. He wants her either for ransom or for revenge, and Bell Warren, her father, has more enemies than money. Note: Beauty in Deception is a short standalone novel with a HEA and no cliffhanger. The book is part of the Diamond Magnate Collection. You don’t have to read the other books to follow the story. The Diamond Magnate collection in order: Standalone Novels (Dark Arranged Marriage & Mistaken Identity Romance) Beauty in Deception Beauty in the Broken Diamonds are Forever Trilogy (Dark Mafia / Kidnapping Romance) Diamonds in the Dust (Book 1) Diamonds in the Rough (Book 2) Diamonds are Forever (Book 3) Beauty in the Stolen Trilogy (Dark Heist Romance) Stolen Lust (Book 1) Stolen Life (Book 2) Stolen Love (Book 3) Beauty in Imperfection Duology (Dark Arranged Marriage Romance) Imperfect Intentions (Book 1) Imperfect Affections (Book 2)

Download or read book Masters of Deception written by Al Seckel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

Download or read book Deceptions written by Judith Michael and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Sabrina and Stephanie--"identical twin sisters [who] exchange lives for better or worse"--Cover.

Download or read book A Wonderful Deception written by Warren B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after writing Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church, former New Age follower Warren B. Smith continues to reveal how Rick Warren and other Christian leaders-wittingly or unwittingly-are leading the church into a spiritual trap. Rick Warren's Broad Way examines church metaphors, concepts, and beliefs that are essentially the same as those being used in today's New Age teachings. And while biblical prophecy is being minimized and explained away, the "New Science" is being used to prepare the world-and the church-to accept a new spirituality and a false New Age Christ. This book explains how all the puzzle pieces are in place for the "strong delusion" described in 2 Thessalonians. Rick Warren's Broad Way pierces right into the heart of this deception while preparing believers in Jesus Christ to effectively stand against it.

Download or read book Deceptions written by Rebecca Frayn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW WELL CAN A MOTHER EVER REALLY KNOW HER CHILD? Julian and Annie have only just announced their forthcoming marriage when Annie’s twelve-year-old son, Dan, fails to come home from school. Despite an extensive police investigation, the days turn into weeks and it is as if Dan has vanished into thin air. Over the next three years Annie refuses to give up hope that somewhere her son is alive and will one day return home. Julian, meanwhile, can’t help but yearn for Annie to put the past behind her and move on. Then, out of the blue, a call brings shocking news of Dan’s fate. And far from being over, it seems the mystery of his disappearance is only just beginning. In spare, searing prose, Deceptions addresses our simultaneous need for—and wariness of—human connection and the extremes that we are driven to by these competing impulses. Marking British literary star Rebecca Frayn’s arrival in the United States, this is fiction at its riveting best.

Download or read book Passions and Deceptions written by Sabine Hake and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise. In a general introduction to his silent and early sound films (1914-1932) and in close readings of his comedies, Sabine Hake focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema. Exploring Lubitsch's depiction of femininity and the influence of his early German films on his entire career, she argues that his comedies represent an important outlet for dealing with sexual and cultural differences. The readings cover The Oyster Princess, The Doll, The Mountain Cat, Passion, Deception, So This Is Paris, Monte Carlo, and Trouble in Paradise, which are interpreted as part of an underlying process of negotiation between different modes of representation, narration, and spectatorship--a process that comprises the conditions of production in two different national cinemas and the ongoing changes in film technology. Drawing attention to Lubitsch's previously neglected German films, this book presents the years until 1922 as the formative period in his career.

Download or read book Beauty and the Bounty Hunter Vengeance Deception and Redemption in the Old West written by Lori Handeland and published by Lori Handeland. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Lori Handeland: Vengeance, Deception and Redemption in the Old West Once Upon a Time . . . Beauty Became the Bounty Hunter Cathleen Chase was an unassuming farmer’s wife until her husband was gunned down in front of her. Desperate for revenge, she offered con artist Alexi Romanov anything if he would school her in the art of the dodge. Alexi didn’t realize he’d turned Cathleen Chase into Cat O’Banyon, a ruthless bounty hunter who would stop at nothing to catch the man who murdered her husband, until she was gone. That she took the heart he didn’t know he had along with her surprised him even more. Now Cat has a bounty on her head. Hunted by every gunslinger from Abilene to St. Louis to Denver, she won’t last long without an ally. With little choice, she turns to Alexi for help. But, again, he has his price. Again, she will pay any cost. To survive, they must trust each other, but in a relationship forged from deception and lust, is trust even possible? And if they can’t learn to trust, can they ever learn to love? Fans of Cynthia Roberts, Isabel Keats and Kirsty McCafrey will love this gritty, steamy, emotional tale of the Old West.

Download or read book American Enchantment written by Michelle Sizemore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.

Download or read book Beautiful Deception written by Morgan James and published by Author Morgan James. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is the greatest risk of all For Giuliana Capaldi, life can't get much better. As the new events coordinator for Briarleigh Lodge and Resort in the remote mountain town of Pine Ridge, Jules has a job she loves and friends she adores. When Eric proposes, it seems as if she finally has everything she's ever wanted. But her newfound happiness is threatened when she learns the shocking details of the night her father was killed-and that Eric saw everything. Torn between familial obligation and devotion to the man she loves, Jules knows she must risk everything and tell him the truth of her past. Sheriff of Pine Ridge, Eric Donahue takes care of his own. When Jules is kidnapped by the man who's been hunting her for months, he'll stop at nothing to bring her home safely-even if it means facing his demons and going back to the one place he swore never to step foot in again. As he searches for Jules, a tangled web of betrayal and deceit begins to unravel, and Eric discovers a shattering truth that could tear them apart forever... *Beautiful Deception is book two of the Deception Duet. Each book can be read as a standalone, but they are best enjoyed in order for maximum reading pleasure. Book One - Pretty Little Lies Book Two - Beautiful Deception The Deception Duet is set in the same world as the Frozen in Time trilogy, so be sure to start with Jack and Mia's story! Book One - Unrequited Love Book Two - Undeniable Love Book Three - Unbreakable Love

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Download or read book The Deception Duet written by T.K. Leigh and published by Carpe Per Diem . This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Deception Duet, now available in one convenient edition. He's undercover. She's the target. Can he resist falling for her? Mackenzie Delano craves control in every aspect of her life. From her business life. To her social life.To her love life… Until she crosses paths with a mysterious man who seems to break down the walls she spent the past several years erecting. Tyler Burnham has lived the past few years with one rule in mind... Never fall in love. But when he must form an intimate relationship with a sharp-tongued woman in order to obtain the location of a man deemed an enemy of the State, he finds himself straying from that rule. Will Tyler be able push his feelings aside and recover the information he needs? Or will he risk his mission and their lives in order to follow his heart? ​​​​​​​Find out today in this gripping story of secrets, intrigue, and betrayal. What readers are saying: "I was at the edge of my seat the entire time reading this.You will go through an entire range of emotions and be physically exhausted by the time you get to the last page. THAT is the measure of a good book... I didn't want it to end." - A Risque Affair Book Blog "Are you looking for an emotional, thought provoking, sexy read that will leave you on the edge of your seat, begging for more? Chasing the Dragon is your ticket for a wild and steamy ride." - Typical Distractions Book Blog "If I had to describe this book in two words it would be FORE PLAY. The best...foreplay you have ever experienced in your whole entire life." - D&S Book Blog Topics: contemporary romance, military romance, series, romantic suspense series, mystery, modern romance, urban romance, Boston, Massachusetts, Texas, South Padre Island, Colombia, multicultural romance, Spanish, CIA, Army, Army Ranger, schizophrenia, Boston romance, wealthy, USA today, USA today bestseller, steamy romance, suspenseful romance, hot romance, T.K. Leigh, T.K. Leigh romance, second chance romance, musician, music romance, new york sexy, page-turner, amnesia, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, angst, alpha male, possessive, intrigue, dominant, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, navy, navy SEAL series, former military, security romance, private security romance, billionaire, billionaire romance, wealthy hero, protect, damsel in distress, assault, drama, action and adventure, action romance, former soldier, soldier, romantic, military, emotional, HEA, alpha, dom, childhood friends, young love, strong female, sensual, angst, betrayal, boston, fated love, psychological, tortured hero, corruption, crime, thriller, hot love story