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In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet....
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William Agosta is Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University and a Visiting Investigator at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratory. He is the author of Chemical Communication and Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees.
The tobacco plant synthesizes nicotine to protect itself from herbivores. The female moth broadcasts sex pheromones to attract a mate, while a soldier ant deploys an alarm pheromone to call for help. The carbon dioxide...
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From Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, comes the powerful follow-up to his national bestseller Miracles and Massacres, which was praised as "moving, provocative, and masterful" (Michelle Malkin, bestselling author of Culture of Corruption).
Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? You've probably...
Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? You've probably...
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Naruto volume 44
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日本語
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Hinata is kidnapped; the search for a Bikochu beetle begins.
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Naruto volume 44
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Hinata is kidnapped; the search for a Bikochu beetle begins.
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P. T. Barnum, best-known for his own use of hoaxes in his popular Barnum & Bailey Circus, found that the use of hoaxes was acceptable when the audience was getting the entertainment they paid for. When it came to religious hoaxes, fraud, and swindling, Barnum was avidly against it. He even went so far as to offer $500 to any medium who could prove that they actually could reach the dead. In this exposé of humbugs and the scams they perpetuate, he...
28) Dream deceivers
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First Run Features
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[2014?]
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Two young men shoot themselves in a churchyard. Ray Belknap dies; James Vance, severely disfigured, survives. Their parents take heavy-metal icons Judas Priest to court, claiming the band 'mesmerized' their sons. The unprecedented trial is the framework for this one-of-a-kind, Emmy-nominated documentary.
30) Deceived
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Private justice volume 3
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For three years, Kate Marshall has been grieving the loss of her husband and their four-year-old son in a boating accident. But when she spots a familiar-looking child on an escalator in the mall, she is convinced it is the son she thought was dead. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan. The former Secret Service agent is dubious but agrees to investigate. Digging into the case he discovers that the...
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"Molly Pink's excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel's new cable talk show 'Creating with Crochet' has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she's there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It's a win-win...or so it 'seams.' The situation gets a bit knotted when channel producer Michael Kostner confides to Molly his...
32) Deceived
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Hannah Smith novels volume 2
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2013.
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Hannah Smith uncovers a museum scam that is seeking contributions from her neighbors and friends in Sulfur Wells while investigating a twenty-year-old cold case.
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Wealthy American industrialist Aubrey Nelson has invited the Duke and Duchess of Westbrook to visit his family's Newport seaside "cottage" for the summer. With his parents' departure from New York delayed, Aubrey's mother sends him ahead to oversee preparations for their guests. But when he arrives, he's surprised to find the house and staff in disarray. With much to do and little time, Aubrey comes to rely on the housekeeper, a lovely young Irish...
35) Deceived
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Deceived-Rae cannot stand his job as secretary to Prince Benedict, and the feeling is entirely mutual. In the aftermath of yet another fight, Rae lights upon the idea of giving Benedict a taste of his own seduction throughout the three day masque about to take place. But a deception meant to put a rakish prince in his place reveals a man Rae never expected, and a secret he never anticipated...
Scandalous-Since the death of his parents, who lived...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder. And Only to Deceive. For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their...
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"From the New York Times #1 bestselling author comes a riveting true-crime mystery set on a sleepy island in the Pacific Northwest: a man is murdered and the long list of suspects includes an aging beauty queen and her boyfriend. One wintery night on quiet Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington, Russ Douglas spent Christmas with his estranged wife, Brenna. She agreed to let him visit his children even though they were headed for divorce. He left...
38) Deceived
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The fourth installment in the popular Jennie McGrady mystery series
Jennie McGrady's search for her missing father lands her in a lot of hot water, and now she's got to get out of Portland-fast. To Jennie's relief, her grandmother's response is a Caribbean cruise, where tropical breezes and endless beaches await. But danger is still on her heels.
Lisa Calhoun has only one thing in common with her cousin Jennie: their age. A petite beauty with sparkling...
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Traitor's game volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Now firmly on the side of the Coracks, sixteen-year-old Kestra Dallisor plans to use the magic Olden Blade to kill the evil Lord Endrick, but when she fails, Endrick turns her into one of his Ironheart soldiers, without any memory of her rebellion, and bound to obey him, his spy within the Coracks; the rebel Simon is desperate to return her to the Kestra he loves, but he is reluctant to use the magic that might heal (or destroy) her--and neither Simon...
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Europe was in chaos at the end of the second World War. As the allied troops moved in, those alive who had backed Hitler or engineered a profitable war for their own ends, fled. Rolf von Breusch, murderer, Nazi and now recovering alcoholic, leaves Switzerland, and under cover of an easily obtained new identity – Ian David Ross – finds sanctuary at the Eidelweiss Pensione where he is employed in lieu of rent. It is indicative of Rolf's nature that...