Download or read book The Greedy and the Gullible written by David W. Smith and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annals of Gullibility written by Stephen Greenspan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide a comprehensive look at the problem of gullibility, this groundbreaking work covers how and why we are fooled in areas that range from religion, politics, science, and medicine, to personal finance and relationships. First laying the groundwork by showing gullibility at play in the writings of historic authors we all know, developmental psychologist Stephen Greenspan follows with chapters that describe social duping across the gamut of human conduct. From people who pour bucks into investment scams, to those who follow the faith of scientologists, believe in fortunetellers, or champion unfounded medicine akin to snake oil, we all know someone who has been duped. A lot of us have been duped ourselves, out of naive trust. It's not a matter of low intelligence that moves us to, without evidence, believe the words of politicians, salesmen, academics, lawyers, military figures, or cult leaders, among others. Greenspan shows us the four broad reasons we become drawn into gullible behavior, and he presents ways people can become less gullible. Greenspan takes us into the vast realm of gullibility from the fictional Pied Piper to the historical Trojan Horse, then through modern-day military maneuvers, political untruths, police and criminal justice scams, and financial and love lies. While there have been earlier books focused on liars and manipulators of all sorts, this is the first to focus on the gullible who are their victims, and how the gullible can become less likely to be taken again.

Download or read book Guerrilla Deal Making written by Jay Conrad Levinson and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets that empower small business owners to take on the big dogs: “You will become a better deal-maker by reading this book.” —Jim Cathcart, author of Relationship Selling Jay Conrad Levinson’s Guerrilla books have sold over thirty million copies—because he knows how individuals and small businesses can thrive even without unlimited financial resources. In this book, he and experienced international consultant Donald Wayne Hendon team up to share one hundred very powerful tactics to empower you in any negotiating situation—whether it’s conducting day-to-day business, buying and selling, or dealing with a boss, a local politician, a homeowners’ association, an insurance company, or bureaucrats at City Hall. “A comprehensive reference book that tells you when to be assertive, when to go on the defense, when to cooperate, and how to handle dirty tricks. I love it!” —Tony Alessandra, author of The Platinum Rule

Download or read book Pseudomagia A Neo Latin Drama written by William Mewe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the Manuscript (MS. R.17.10) in Trinity College, Cambridge. This unpublished play, performed at Emmanuel College probably around 1626, is a late example of a Prodigal Son play.

Download or read book Gullible s Travels written by J. Lee Webster and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From complete innocence to revenge and debauchery. Sexually explosive. Seriously humorous. Humorlessly serious. From shy naivety to kick-ass female empowerment. Based on the story of a true 1st Placed USA team. “Gullible’s Travels: Raw & Uncut” follows the naughty and humorous antics of two friends on a USA ladies sports team and their 1st Place stretch both domestically and internationally. Go USA! Find out what countries were destroyed in their path, on and off the field. In her late 20s, Ryleigh now chews men up and spits them out, but they still come racing to be served up as an entree in her boudoir. Her free-spirited and wildly sexploitive partner in crime Streak has taught her well. This is a long way from her innocent, straight-laced upbringing and abusive relationship she breaks free of. Is it because the only man she truly loves and feels passion for, betrays her? Does she discover the conspiracy against them too late? Will she continue to take revenge on all of the rest of the male population who wrongs her?

Download or read book Greed 7 Deadly Sins Vol 3 written by Pure Slush and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: prose and poetry by A.R. Abbott, M. Baer, A. C. Baird, G. Beck, P. Beckman, J. Bell, D. W. Bressack, H. Brown, M. H. Brownstein, I. Buckler, E. Buttimer, S. Carr, G. Castillo Oriard, C. S. Chesney, J. Chronister, L. M. Crate, J. E. Cricelli, T. Daly, J. Davies, S. DiFalco, W. Doreski, M. Driscoll, M. Estabrook, C. Feild, A. Fish, N. Ghosh, K. Gosse, A. Grenfell, S. Guthrie, S. Hough, M. Hudson, A. Iyengar, C. Johnson, J. Khan, A. Konchalovsy, J. Lambremont Sr, R. Lavalette, L. Lefkowitz, C. Leslie-Bole, M. Lewis-Beck, P. Lingard, JP Lundstrom, DS Maolalai, B. MacWilliams, B. A. Meier, K. L. Merrifield, T. Mico, J. Mills, M. Mittman, P. Nieuwland, E. O Dwyer, C. P. Palmer, M Pauseman, M. J. Porter, M. Quigley, D. Rae, N. Reddick, E. Reilly, L. Rhodes-Ryabchich, C. Rose, R. S. Rosenthal, S. A. Sanders, R. Scotellaro, W. Scheer, J. Slusher, C. Smadja, L. Stice, F. Trecost, L. Tyler, L. Tyrrell, R. Walker, M. Webb, J. Weisman and C. H. Williams

Download or read book The Future of Money written by Oliver Chittenden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of the global economy affects every single one of us. With economic growth threatened by financial regulation and the East and West at competitive odds, the real solutions to global recession can only come through international co-operation. Featuring world leaders, Nobel Prize-winning economists, award-winning writers and opinion formers The Future of Money brings together the finest thinking to suggest solutions to this global predicament.

Download or read book Robin Hood written by Thomas H. Ohlgren and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While references to Robin Hood began to appear as early as the thirteenth century in legal records, the earliest surviving poems did not appear in manuscripts and early printed books until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Several fourteenth-century allusions in the works of William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer suggest that the rymes of Robyn Hood were widely circulating by the 1370s, but, it is vital to note, none of these late fourteenth-century works survives. A better approach, Thomas H. Ohlgren argues, is to focus on what has actually survived rather than on what might have existed. As a result, the poems Robin Hood and the Monk and Robin Hood and the Potter, which survive in two different Cambridge manuscripts of the last third of the fifteenth century, and A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, which was printed at least seven times in the sixteenth century, must receive pride of place in the canon because they have a physical reality as material artifacts - in short, they exist and provide valuable information about the places and times of their composition and dissemination.

Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rules of the Campfire written by Paul S. Moore and published by Water Dragon Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you woke up one day and realized you had memories from more than seventy lives, fluid in every language you’d ever spoken, and recalled all the texts you’d ever read, would you wonder why? It took Asitr forty years to discover the why. Soon after, he appears as a guest on a radio talk show to bait traps with the telling of stories. He tells tales about his life as one of the world’s most popular and quickly forgotten celebrities — of gardening for the Prophet Enoch, eavesdropping on Satan and Baal Zebub, and living between lives in a lost world. They sounded like the tall tales of a crazy man. Twenty years later, a John Doe is found, naked and shivering, on the grounds of the Harbinger Psychiatric Institute, clutching a six-inch orb of blue glass and anxious to tell his own story. Is it a tale of organized insanity inspired by Asitr’s radio appearance? Dr. Henry Milton has what looks like an easy assignment: he has twenty-four hours to evaluate the John Doe and refer him for processing. But John Doe has a timetable of his own. He has less than forty-eight hours to convince Dr. Milton to suspend his disbelief in a supernatural world where activities swirl around us unseen and mingle within our own natural realm.

Download or read book Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior written by W. Fred van Raaij and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government policies, marketing campaigns of banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, and consumers' protective actions all depend on assumptions about consumer financial behavior. Unfortunately, many consumers have no or little knowledge of budgeting, financial products, and financial planning. It is therefore important that organizations and market authorities know why consumers spend, borrow, insure, invest, and save for their retirement - or why they do not. Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior provides a systemic economic and behavioral approach to the way people handle their finances. It discusses the different types of financial behaviors consumers may engage in and explores the psychological explanations for their behavior and choices. This exciting new book is essential reading for scholars of marketing, finance, and management; financial professionals; and consumer policy makers.

Download or read book Henry s Daughter written by Joy Dettman and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series comes a story of love and rescue "The narrative is achingly engrossing" Weekend Australian She had felt a sad pulling feeling in her stomach that day as the car had driven off, like there was a bit of elastic tied around her insides, sort of joining her to those brothers like it went right through that door, and as the car had driven further up the road, that elastic got pulled so tight, it hurt. Lori Smyth-Owen is balancing on the edge of adolescence but feeling years older. She has eleven brothers, nine living at home and the twins, who were stolen by Aunty Eva ... which was lucky for them because there is never enough of anything to go around, except Mavis, Lori's mother, who is so overweight she can barely move. That doesn't stop her plotting to get those twins back. She'll do anything to get them home. Then tragedy strikes and the Smyth-Owen children take desperate measures to save themselves ... and in so doing, discover that blood ties mean everything. PRAISE FOR JOY DETTMAN "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.

Download or read book Why Do You Ask written by Alice Freed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology, and Sociolinguistics-and using as data not just medical, legal, and educational environments, but also less-studied institutions like telephone call centers, broadcast journalism (i.e. talk show interviews), academia, and telemarketing. An international roster of well-known contributors addresses such issues as: the relationship between the syntax of the question and its discourse function; the kind of institutional work that questions perform; the degree to which the questioner can control the direction of the conversation; and how questions are used to repackage responses, to construct meaning, and to serve the institutional goals of speakers. Why Do You Ask? will appeal to linguists and others interested in institutional discourse, as well as those interested in the grammatical/pragmatic nature of questions.

Download or read book Economics for Consumers written by Leland James Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Download or read book A Queer Romance written by Paul Burston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's here and it's queer! Popular culture inhabits all of our lives in one form or another. This book brings together critics, writers and artists to discuss the possibilities of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.

Download or read book Dear Albert written by Harry Herder, Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to fill in the education of young Albert Gore, which seems to have been overlooked by the Massachusetts Institute of Agriculture. It deemed him ready for the civilization of today, but with many holes left in the pursuits in which he ought to have engaged himself. He accepted what they offered, in total, to his detriment, but that may be a successful mode in the Institute. One suspects that is the case. One also suspects that if Albert's daddy had allowed him to pursue his education through the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, he might not have needed these letters. We will help him wherever we can.