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Political Deceptions And Delusions
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Author : Thomas Carl Spelling
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-25
Political Deceptions And Delusions written by Thomas Carl Spelling and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from Political Deceptions and Delusions To write a preface for one's own mental product is like introducing one's self to a strange audience. If it give the work a good send off, it performs the office of an advertisement; if it speak of the merits of the work with undue modesty, it is of no practical value, and the time taken to write, as well as that taken to read it, is wasted. In our day a vast amount of fraud is practiced in every line of human activity. Clothes are made to sell, with little regard to their wearing qualities. Great factories are occupied by manufacturers of snide jewelry, which is advertised as so many carats solid gold. Makers of surgical appliances, like jackals pursuing a wounded horse, are on the trails of cripples, anxious to extort from them the last dollar, for contrivances at exhorbitant prices which soon break or fail to answer the purpose as advertised. Quacks prey on the sick and invalided by similar methods. People in cities, especially the poorer classes, are drained of their earnings in high prices for stale or non-nutritious foods, and poisoned with adulterated drugs. But the most dangerous and harmful of all the cheats and imposters are self-serving politicians and bogus statesmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Political Deceptions And Delusions
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Author : Thomas Carl Spelling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Political Deceptions And Delusions written by Thomas Carl Spelling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Carriers categories.
Political Deceptions Delusio
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Author : Thomas Carl 1853 Spelling
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Political Deceptions Delusio written by Thomas Carl 1853 Spelling and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Deceit Delusion And Detection
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Author : W. Peter Robinson
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1996-02-21
Deceit Delusion And Detection written by W. Peter Robinson and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Who tells lies? Where, when, and how? Why do people tell lies, and when are they deemed acceptable? Deceit, Delusion, and Detection is a remarkable book that examines these questions across a variety of institutional and interpersonal contexts. Author W. Peter Robinson explores ways in which people develop their skills of deception and discusses the feasibility and art of lie detection. This volume reveals the cultural biases inherent in varying modes and interpretations of lying, paying special attention to the Western world and its values. Looking at lying from a social psychological perspective, Robinson analyzes it in terms of language and language usage. This book is accessible enough for the general public yet scholarly enough for academia. Deceit, Delusion, and Detection is particularly geared toward advanced students in communication studies and cognate areas such as social psychology, linguistics, or media studies. "Deceit, Delusion, and Detection is appropriate for graduate and postgraduate researchers in social psychology, sociology, and political science. . . . Several of the chapters . . . stand on their own as reviews of the research literature on the development of deception, on lying in face-to-face interaction, and on the history and effectiveness of the polygraph. . . . I have learned much from studying the collage W. Peter Robinson creates in Deceit, Delusion, and Detection." --Marsha D. Walton in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
The 15 Biggest Lies In Politics
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Author : Major Garrett
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The 15 Biggest Lies In Politics written by Major Garrett and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Political Science categories.
It's always been difficult in politics to separate the truth from the lies. In this strongly argued yet nonpartisan book, Garrett and Penny draw on their combined decades of experience watching government work to illuminate the deceptions and delusions to which we as citizens are subjected every election season. The pervasive falsehoods explicated in this study include: Tax Cuts Are Good Social Security Is a Sacred Government Trust Medicare Works Money Buys Elections Republicans Believe in Smaller Government Democrats Are Compassionate The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics aims to reveal, as noted in the introduction, "the most insidious lies spun by special-interest groups, parroted by politicians, and accepted by the media."
Useful Delusions The Power And Paradox Of The Self Deceiving Brain
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Author : Shankar Vedantam
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Useful Delusions The Power And Paradox Of The Self Deceiving Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Psychology categories.
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.
Political Self Deception
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Author : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Political Self Deception written by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with Philosophy categories.
Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.
The Politics Of Lying
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Author : L. Cliffe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2000-03-17
The Politics Of Lying written by L. Cliffe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-17 with Political Science categories.
This book provides the first attempt to synthesise what is a pervasive phenomenon, and one that is mentioned tangentially in many political analyses, but nowhere receives the systematic and theoretical treatment that its significance to the working of 'democratic' political practice deserves. It will thus be a volume that should interest a range of scholars in government and political theory, in comparative politics and communications.
Beautiful Deceptions
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Author : Philipp Schweighauser
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Beautiful Deceptions written by Philipp Schweighauser and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Undergrowth Of Science Delusion Self Deception And Human Frailty
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Author : Walter Gratzer
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-09-13
The Undergrowth Of Science Delusion Self Deception And Human Frailty written by Walter Gratzer and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-13 with Science categories.
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in this book are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of all, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment, and ruined reputations. Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans; phantom diseases that called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roues and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in all their absurdity, tragedy, and pathos.