Download or read book The Amsterdam Deception written by Tony Ollivier and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NIGHT ON THE TOWN IN AMSTERDAM TURNS INTO A DEADLY GAME OF DECEPTION "International intrigue at the highest level, and with grave stakes...Wildly entertaining." - Robert Dugoni, #1 Bestselling Author of THE LAST AGENT Awarded 2023 Readers Favorite Bronze Medal - Thriller/Espionage Awarded 2022 Canadian Book Club awards for best Mystery/Thriller David Knight is abducted from Amsterdam’s Red-Light district and dragged to a clinic owned by Richard Reynolds, a billionaire with a serious problem. A prototype for a device that could save Reynolds’ company has gone missing and the only one who knew its whereabouts, a Cold War spy, is dead. To find the missing device, Reynolds forces David to undergo a procedure to "host" the last thirty seconds of the spy’s memories. The procedure goes awry, however, and the spy’s memories, skills, and abilities download into David and break him free from Reynolds’ clinic. Dazed and disoriented, David stumbles out into the Amsterdam night and into a world he has only ever encountered in spy novels. As the hunt begins, Reynolds needs David alive, but a rich televangelist wants him dead. Another man’s memories become David’s only protection in a battle between religious greed and corporate profits.

Download or read book The Amsterdam Deception written by Tony Ollivier and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his first international tour with the prestigious National Ballet of Canada, dancer David Knight is the unfortunate wing man to his best friend as they gawk in Amsterdam's famous red-light district. He'd jet lagged, tired from punishing rehearsals and just wants to crawl into his hotel bed. But when two thugs grab him and knock him out, he's thrown into a world he only knows through spy novels. David is brought to a clinic owned by Billionaire Richard Reynolds who has a problem. A prototype for a device that can save his company has gone missing and its location is locked up in the memories of very dead cold war spy. To find the device he needs David to 'host' the last 30 seconds of the spy's memories to extract the location. But the procedure goes awry. All the spy's memories flow into David, and the memories aren't happy. The memories take over Davis and breaks him free from Reynold's clinic. He stumbles into the Amsterdam night. Dazed and disoriented.Reynolds needs him alive to find the device, while a TV evangelist wants him dead as the device could derail the millions of dollars of donations his ministry receives every day.David is being hunted by people he doesn't know, in a city he's never been and driven by memories he doesn't want. Can another man's memories protect him long enough for him to return to his old life?

Download or read book Deception written by Steven Winer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Hyland, a real estate developer during the real estate boom in the early 2000s, partnered with Josef Rynsburger, a Dutch investor; and a Dutch bank whose president was Hagan Vinke to construct six high-end developments in Florida. Hyland’s partnership with its connection with the Dutch bank borrowed over $1.5 billion for the development of their projects. Both Rynsburger and Vinke created several deceptions to defraud Hyland out of his profits. Vinke, as the president of the Dutch bank, also deceived both Hyland and Rynsburger because of his greed along with concerns that some, or all, the developments would fail as the real estate boom dissipated. Those deceptions along with other creative deceptions by individuals involved with the developments caused not only several murders but also the largest foreclosure in the history of Southwest Florida in the amount of just under $1 billion. Deception takes the reader into the mystery of solving the deaths and where all the diverted money disappeared as well as unraveling the deceptions to determine who becomes a millionaire, who loses everything, or even worse.

Download or read book Artful Deceptions written by Catherine Emerson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from a conference organized at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in April 2004.

Download or read book Irony Deception and Humour written by Marta Dynel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled from the series House, which help appreciate the complexities of the three concepts at hand. Apart from affording new insights into the nature of irony, deception and humour, this book critically examines previous literature on these notions, as well as relevant aspects of Grice's philosophy of language. Giving a state-of-the-art picture of untruthfulness, this publication will be of interest to both experienced and inexperienced researchers studying Grice’s philosophy, irony, deception and/or humour.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Deception written by Timothy R. Levine and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Deception examines lying from multiple perspectives drawn from the disciplines of social psychology, sociology, history, business, political science, cultural anthropology, moral philosophy, theology, law, family studies, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and more. From the “little white lie,” to lying on a resume, to the grandiose lies of presidents, this two-volume reference explores the phenomenon of lying in a multidisciplinary context to elucidate this common aspect of our daily lives. Not only a cultural phenomenon historically, lying is a frequent occurrence in our everyday lives. Research shows that we are likely to lie or intentionally deceive others several times a day or in one out of every four conversations that lasts more than 10 minutes. Key Features: More than 360 authored by key figures in the field are organized A-to-Z in two volumes, which are available in both print and electronic formats. Entries are written in a clear and accessible style that invites readers to explore and reflect on the use of lying and self-deception. Each article concludes with cross references to related entries and further readings. This academic, multi-author reference work will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers within social and behavioral science programs who seek to better understand the historical role of lying and how it is employed in modern society.

Download or read book The Art Of Self Deception written by William Kronick and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the autumn of 2007 to the next fall, much will happen politically and economically in the life of the United States and the world - bank failures, home foreclosures, the victorious campaign of Barack Obama, the Iraq war ending...Much will also happen in the personal and professional life of Ben Hawthorne, who is about to devote a year to making a fi lm that will profoundly aff ect the rest of his days. At sixty-seven how much time remains for him to work at his calling - directing features - isn’t a primary concern, for he’s been blessed with quality projects during a long career, mentored early on by the aging John Huston: major prestige, awards, modest wealth and his exceptional wife, Martha, came his way during the past fi fteen years. His excellent health and physical attractiveness are the envy of many of his peers. Matthew Fleming is one of a few superstars a studio could consider backing in these parlous times, but when it’s a modestbudgeted suspense fi lm Matt proposes in his Producer role - a remake of an early Forties hit but mainly forgotten Alfred Hitchcock fi lm, Shadow of a Doubt, which the studio owns, it’s a done deal. Th e actor off ers Ben a partnership on this project, to be rewritten ASAP and rushed into production so Matt can return to his New York Rep Th eatre Company. Jessica Marlowe, Ben’s discovery for his controversial erotic drama, Th e Cry of Sirens, nearly a decade prior, now called ‘the young Meryl Streep’, will share credit with Désiree Peters in the key ingenue role. Désiree, a precociously talented actress of twenty-one has only performed on the stage, yet adapts readily. Also a generation or more younger than anyone on the picture, her mores bewilder her elders. During the fi lming in Petaluma, north of San Francisco, and in an L. A. studio, Ben must keep alert to everything on the set. Yet he misses major moments, psychological and sexual, in the off -camera reality of relationships, including his own. When, at the end of shooting, one of his leading ladies commits suicide he realizes he may have been the cause of the tragedy. His guilty conscience forces him to write down, for his young wife to evaluate after he’s dead, his sins of omission and commission during production. Knowing the facts would she still respect, much less love him?

Download or read book Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies written by Cristiano Castelfranchi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major problems in the development of virtual societies, in particular in electronic commerce and computer-mediated interactions in organizations, is trust and deception. This book provides analyses by various researchers of the different types of trust that are needed for various tasks, such as facilitating on-line collaboration, building virtual communities and network organizations, and even the design of effective and user-friendly human-computer interfaces. The book has a multi-disciplinary character providing theoretical models of trust and deception, empirical studies, and practical solutions for creating trust in electronic commerce and multi-agent systems.

Download or read book Property Rites written by Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "colored" cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife had lied to him about her racial background. The subsequent marital annulment trial became a massive public spectacle, not only in New York but across the nation--despite the fact that the state had never outlawed interracial marriage. Elizabeth Smith-Pryor makes extensive use of trial transcripts, in addition to contemporary newspaper coverage and archival sources, to explore why Leonard Rhinelander was allowed his day in court. She moves fluidly between legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North to show how notions of race, property, and the law were--and are--inextricably intertwined.

Download or read book Detecting Deception written by Pär Anders Granhag and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception with a focus on the ways in which new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field. Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of deception and their implications for real-world practice Examines current challenges in the field - such as counter-interrogation strategies, lying networks, cross-cultural deception, and discriminating between true and false intentions Reveals a host of new approaches based on cognitive psychology with the potential to improve practice and results, including the strategic use of evidence, imposing cognitive load, response times, and covert lie detection Features contributions from internationally renowned experts

Download or read book On the Edge of Truth and Honesty Principles and Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern Period written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, deceit and fraud were common issues. Acutely aware of the ubiquity and multiplicity of simulation and dissimulation, people from this period made serious efforts to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon, trying to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable, pleasant and unpleasant, wicked and virtuous forms of deceit, and seeking to unravel its principles, strategies, and functions. The twelve case-studies in this volume focus on the use of deceit by several groups of people in different spheres of life, as well as on its representation in literary and artistic genres, and its conceptualization in philosophical and rhetorical discourses. The studies testify to the rich variety of deceitful strategies applied by people from the early modern period, as well as to the subtlety and diversity of the conceptual frameworks they construed in order to grasp the many aspects of the elusive yet all-pervasive phenomenon of deceit. Contributors include: Daniel Acke, Jacques Bos, Wiep van Bunge, Evelien Chayes, Paul J.C.M. Franssen, Paul van Heck, Toon van Houdt, Alfons K.L. Thijs, Bert Timmermans, Johannes Trapman, Mark van Vaeck, Natascha Veldhorst, and Johan Verberckmoes.

Download or read book The Arts of Deception written by James W. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Arts of Deception, James Cook explores the distinctly modern mode of trickery designed to puzzle the eye and challenge the brain. Upsetting the normally strict boundaries of value, race, class, and truth, the spectacles offer a revealing look at the tastes, concerns, and prejudices of America's very first mass audiences.

Download or read book Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion written by Lynn Hunt and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions. In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices. Bernard Picart and The First Global Vision of Religion approaches this much-cited but little-studied work from a variety of angles. Its fifteen scholarly essays examine Bernard and Picart's authorial and artistic strategies, the handling of religious difference in Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses, and the cultural context that fostered the creation of one of the most influential works of comparative religion ever published.

Download or read book Securities Fraud written by Louis L. Straney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete, expert guide to securities and investment fraud Filled with expert guidance for detection and prevention of all kinds of securities fraud and investment misconduct, Securities Fraud helps you identify red flags of fraud and offers practical ways to detect and prevent it. Written by a Wall Street professional with three decades of experience spanning the most critical period of our financial markets This book challenges classic fraud theories, describing how to dismantle information silos that permit fraudsters to conceal their activities. Begins with an overview of the evolution of securities regulation and the impact of securities fraud Offers real cases and examples which illustrate recurring themes and red flags Provides the first guide of its kind to offer a complete look at the various kinds of securities fraud and investment misconduct Securities Fraud is the essential guide you need for a bird's-eye view of fraud that may be taking place even now within your own organization and with your portfolio.

Download or read book Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets written by Carol Alexander and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying malpractice and misconduct should be top priority for financial risk managers today Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets identifies potential issues surrounding all types of fraud, misconduct, price/volume manipulation and other forms of malpractice. Chapters cover detection, prevention and regulation of corruption and fraud within different financial markets. Written by experts at the forefront of finance and risk management, this book details the many practices that bring potentially devastating consequences, including insider trading, bribery, false disclosure, frontrunning, options backdating, and improper execution or broker-agency relationships. Informed but corrupt traders manipulate prices in dark pools run by investment banks, using anonymous deals to move prices in their own favour, extracting value from ordinary investors time and time again. Strategies such as wash, ladder and spoofing trades are rife, even on regulated exchanges – and in unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges one can even see these manipulative quotes happening real-time in the limit order book. More generally, financial market misconduct and fraud affects about 15 percent of publicly listed companies each year and the resulting fines can devastate an organisation's budget and initiate a tailspin from which it may never recover. This book gives you a deeper understanding of all these issues to help prevent you and your company from falling victim to unethical practices. Learn about the different types of corruption and fraud and where they may be hiding in your organisation Identify improper relationships and conflicts of interest before they become a problem Understand the regulations surrounding market misconduct, and how they affect your firm Prevent budget-breaking fines and other potentially catastrophic consequences Since the LIBOR scandal, many major banks have been fined billions of dollars for manipulation of prices, exchange rates and interest rates. Headline cases aside, misconduct and fraud is uncomfortably prevalent in a large number of financial firms; it can exist in a wide variety of forms, with practices in multiple departments, making self-governance complex. Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets is a comprehensive guide to identifying and stopping potential problems before they reach the level of finable misconduct.

Download or read book Deception written by Rachel Taylor and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological in some circumstances, the central argument of this book is that lying can be a skilled behaviour which is necessary to allow adolescents to establish autonomy. Deception builds on the recent influential developmental challenge model (Hendry and Kloep, 2002, 2009), exploring how it can provide a useful explanatory framework for the development of the skill of deception in adolescence. Interpersonal and forensic settings for deceptive behaviour are referred to, and illustrated with reference to both published research and new data obtained from a variety of different interviews and focus groups with young people. It also considers how the choice to communicate truthfully is as important as the choice to communicate deceptively in illuminating the developmental process. It concludes with a discussion of how adolescents’ deceptions could be detected and presents a range of strategies to maximize the effectiveness of interpersonal interactions with suspected deceivers. By considering everyday, forensic and clinical deception situations, this book is ideal for academic researchers, practitioners working with children and young people, as well as parents. The observations, interviews and focus groups provide a unique insight into the factors influencing young people’s communication choices, and integrate research from developmental, social and forensic psychology.

Download or read book Managing Fraud Risk written by Steve Giles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strategic, practical, cost-effective approach to fraud prevention In troubled economic times, the risk of fraud and financial crime increases. In our post credit crunch environment, new laws and tougher penalties for financial crime mean that if you are in business, you have a responsibility to help fight fraud. However, to design effective, proportionate fraud controls for your business, you need a complete picture of all the risks. Managing Fraud Risk shows you where to look for fraud, setting out a route-map for finding and fighting fraud risks in your business, with the practical, strategic advice you need. Combining the latest theory with forensic risk analysis, this book reveals how you can provide assurance to your Board and stakeholders. Practical examples are used to clearly show cost-effective techniques for preventing and detecting business fraud. An innovative fraud awareness quiz enables you to easily apply the theories and principles. Answers questions such as: Who commits more fraud: men or women? How many of your employees are prepared to falsify documents? Essential information to ensure your procedures are sufficient to meet compliance with new international legislation increasing the liability of directors and managers in cases of fraud and corruption Takes a new perspective from the point of view of business risk, making it unique to other texts that take only an auditing, investigative, or specialist approach This route-map is essential reading to help you navigate the complex landscape of business fraud.