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Book Secrecy and Deceit

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  • Author : David Martin Gitlitz
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780826328137
  • Pages : 708 pages

Download or read book Secrecy and Deceit written by David Martin Gitlitz and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.

Book Secrets and Lies

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  • Author : Dale F. Eickelman
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 2004-08
  • ISBN : 9781405119924
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Secrets and Lies written by Dale F. Eickelman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrecy, deception, and lying are as basic to social life as sharing, trust, and community. Yet most moral and ethical codes treat secrecy and lying as dangerous and wrong, or at best as necessary evils appropriate to unusual or extreme situations. As part of the “social imaginary” of any society—accepted and shared background understandings concerning how families, communities, organizations, and institutions operate—learning to keep secrets, deceive, lie, and deny are part of the moral rules-in-use is an integral part of becoming a full and trusted person. In recent years, secrecy and lying have become increasingly recognized in the social imaginary of most societies, but there remains a strong tendency to deflect attention from recognizing the pervasiveness importance of secrecy and lying. Tales of government deception, corporate fraud, and the sexual improprieties of heads of state and royalty enter into public discussion throughout the world. Spy novels in American and European societies make secrecy and deception an adventure, yet deflect attention from the extent to which secrecy and lying are so much apart of the ordinary fabric of society that calling attention to their pervasiveness is dismissed as cynicism or hypocrisy. Police training manuals inculcate techniques of deception and deceit, and the defenders of such techniques consider them appropriate provided that interrogators use them to ascertain the “truth” and stay within bounds accepted by courts, lawyers, and formal review boards—or at least do not come to their formal attention. Whether practices of lying or deception are given the softer label of “deniability” in politics or no label at all, as in corporate deception or advertising, family life, secrecy and lying are pervasive values that help define the boundaries of person, community, and belonging. This book suggests how secrecy and lying can be made a more explicit element of the anthropology of knowledge. As an alternative to a moralizing approach to the subject, it shows how secrecy and lying work in practice—and why they are tolerated and even admired—in different cultural and social contexts. The book, an estimated 200 pages manuscript, is intended to provoke new thinking on the subject and awareness of the role of secrecy and lying in society.

Book Secrecy and Deceit

    Book Details:
  • Author : David M. Gitlitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 677 pages

Download or read book Secrecy and Deceit written by David M. Gitlitz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ethics of Deception

Download or read book The Ethics of Deception written by Diego Rubio and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secrecy and Deceit

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  • Author : Willie James
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08-21
  • ISBN : 9780692160602
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Secrecy and Deceit written by Willie James and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See through the eyes of Mike, Brittany, and Devon as their choices dictate their fate. Short Story #1: Mike gets hired at the prestigious tech giant 'Black Rose Inc' and gets into an intimate relationship with his boss. Short Story #2: Brittany becomes suspicious of her best friend and husband's relationship after offering her a place to stay. Short Story #3: Shortly after saying 'I do', Devon develops an intimate bond with a newly hired married woman. He is forced to choose between her and his wife. Each story contains two alternate endings. Bad decisions and dead ends await you at every turn. Will you reach a happy ending or a shocking twist? The choice is in your hands.

Book The Politics of Lying  Government Deception  Secrecy  and Power

Download or read book The Politics of Lying Government Deception Secrecy and Power written by David Wise and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How government deception, official secrecy, and misuse of power have eroded Americans' confidence in their government.

Book Lies  secrecy and deceit in healthcare

Download or read book Lies secrecy and deceit in healthcare written by Brian T. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telling Lies  Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace  Politics  and Marriage  Revised Edition

Download or read book Telling Lies Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace Politics and Marriage Revised Edition written by Paul Ekman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes gestures and other clues that indicate a person may be lying, explains why people lie, and discusses the controversy surrounding lie detector tests.

Book A Drizzle of Honey

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  • Author : David M. Gitlitz
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2000-09-25
  • ISBN : 1466824778
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book A Drizzle of Honey written by David M. Gitlitz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing their religion at home. From these testimonies and other primary sources, Gitlitz & Davidson have drawn a fascinating, award-winning picture of this precarious sense of Jewish identity and have re-created these recipes, which combine Christian & Islamic traditions in cooking lamb, beef, fish, eggplant, chickpeas, and greens and use seasonings such as saffron, mace, ginger, and cinnamon. The recipes, and the accompanying stories of the people who created them, promise to delight the adventurous palate and give insights into the foundations of modern Sephardic cuisine.

Book The Politics of Misrepresentation

Download or read book The Politics of Misrepresentation written by Paul Allen Pannkuk and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bad Blood

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  • Author : John Carreyrou
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-05-21
  • ISBN : 1524731668
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Bad Blood written by John Carreyrou and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. “Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story] virtually to perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.

Book Teller s War

Download or read book Teller s War written by William J. Broad and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals how the father of the H-bomb sold the nation the pipe dream called Star Wars. Broad shows how Teller disregarded evidence, ignored colleagues, and continued to promote the Star Wars program. Ultimately, more than $25 billion was misspent on this system, still more a dream than reality. Photographs and line drawings.

Book Master of Deceit

Download or read book Master of Deceit written by Marc Aronson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the story of America during J. Edgar Hoover's reign as head of the FBI.

Book Deception

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  • Author : Janice Johnson
  • Publisher : Outskirts Press
  • Release : 2017-09-29
  • ISBN : 9781478762140
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Deception written by Janice Johnson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception: Lies and Secrets Two sets of identical twins marry, and both couples have daughters. These first cousins, Camilla and Karmen, are almost identical in appearance themselves, so much so that they are often mistaken for twins. As adults, they decide to trade places. They follow an elaborate ruse against an unsuspecting doctor who has his own secrets as well as a psychopathic hillbilly who is following his own path of revenge. What transpires is a weekend fraught with deceptions and secrets. Janice Johnson's novel Deception: Lies and Secrets is a delicious romance as well as a taut suspense story. Readers won't be able to stop turning the pages as the importance of honesty, the consequences of deceit, and the dangers of lying become ever clearer with each spellbinding scene.

Book Living in Silverado

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  • Author : David M. Gitlitz
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 0826360807
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Living in Silverado written by David M. Gitlitz and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico’s silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico’s major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the reales, the hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico’s early settlers. Unlike traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of Mexico’s early secret Jews.

Book Secrets and Lies

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  • Author : David Southwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781741508178
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Secrets and Lies written by David Southwell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secrets

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  • Author : Sissela Bok
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1989-12-17
  • ISBN : 0679724737
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Secrets written by Sissela Bok and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-12-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.