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Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice (Wiley Series in Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law)

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Detecting Lies & Deceipt
Excellent survey of psychological literature on deception
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Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice (Wiley Series in Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law)
Aldert Vrij
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Why do people lie, and how can lies be detected? There is now a substantial psychological literature relating to these fundamental questions, and this book reviews the relevant knowledge in detail, before focusing on guidelines for best practice in detecting deception. Psychological research is now available on individual differences in lying behaviour (gender differences, age differences and personality). There is also interesting research evidence of the ways in which deception is reflected both in real objective non-verbal behaviour and also in the perceived non-verbal cues which can help or mislead the observer in detecting deception. Although the book does include a major survey of the physiological aspects of deception and the polygraph as a method of detection, it also includes a thorough review of current knowledge of content analysis and validity assessment of speech and written statements. The book ends by discussing how professionals can improve lie detection by focusing on key aspects of the behaviour of the liar and by awareness and control of their own behaviour.

Covers all three aspects of deceptionnon-verbal cues, speech and written statement analysis, and physiological responses
Focuses on the behaviour and perceptions of the observer which can hinder the process of detection
Based on the authors expert review of the research and evidence, and on his practical experience and connections with several police forces

"Without doubt, this book is the most important contribution to research and practice in lie detection to be published in years. For the first time research about verbal, nonverbal and physiological correlates of truth telling and deception are reviewed comprehensively in one text. This book will benefit those who have to decide whether people are telling the truth or lying, because it both reviews contemporary research and provides practical guidelines." Frans Willem Winkel, Free University of Amsterdam President EAPL (European Association of Psychology and Law) This book is aimed at students, academics and professionals in psychology, criminology, policing and law.

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Detecting Lies & Deceipt.......2002-10-04

I found this book to the most informative and useful reference of all those I have read regarding the subject and techniques relating to detecting deception by means of statement analysis in it's various forms. Easy to read. Easy to understand. It will remain a guide to forensic investigators, polygraphists and the like for many years to come.

Excellent survey of psychological literature on deception.......2001-08-20

This is an extraordinary book, a well-written and clear survey of the psychological literature on deception written by one of the leaders in the field. Extremely thorough, and although sophisticated enough for professionals it is nevertheless useful for students and non-psychologists. As a lawyer and academic who writes on psychology and the law, I found it enormously helpful in preparing an article on the admissibility of expert testimony on lie-detection techniques. Having written on the subject before, and being more adept at legal rather than psychological research, I was thrilled to find such a clear and thorough collection of sources and commentary on the myriad social science research on lie-detection, and have already used the book's index to locate and look up numerous studies with which I was previously unfamiliar.

EXCELLENT BOOK ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LIE DETECTION.......2000-06-14

This book was very helpful on the psycholgy and tell tale signs of lies.One of the most informative and straight forward books that I have read on the subject.I would definitely recomend this to anyone intested in the psycholgy aspect of lies.

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

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Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
Barry M. Lando
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An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein's crimes reveals the story his trial never will.

In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein's crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But, just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the United States and its allies turned their backs: U.S. troops destroyed huge weapons caches to prevent them from falling into rebel hands and blocked rebels trying to reach Baghdad. In the end, tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, were massacred.

Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S. and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and '70s to his offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and persisted in international sanctions long after they had proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, lethal.

Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and scholarship to present a complete picture of what really happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing—for the first time—the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent.

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Web of deceipt.......2007-06-26

most excellent & informative. brings the hypocrisy of the western world out into the light. a must read.

The One Book No US Politician Will Read, That You SHOULD Read.......2007-06-19

This is one of two books that I have read together, both documenting the decades of deceit by both the US and UK governments, and to a much lesser degree, by France, Germany, and Russia, among others.

The two compelling facts that stay with me as I put the book down, are two:

1) From Churchill to Kennedy to Bush (Cheney), all of our Presidents in the US, but most especially Reagan, Bush, Clinton (Brzezinski), and the current and failed crew of neo conservatives that use Bush Junior as a talking doll, have been complicit--let me spell that again--complicit in the mass murders, the massacres, the torture that we first condoned and now practice ourselves. The US White House denizens are all long overdue for formal indictment, at least by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The author documents, very ably, a long string of broken promises (e.g. to the Bedouin leader for a free Arab state in return for help in WWI, to the Kurds, etc.) and complicity in mass murder. In the author's views, the sanctions are a war crime against the children, women, and elderly of Iraq, a war crime that lasted thirteen years.

2) Salaam Hussein was a creature spawned in large part by the CIA. Although I have spent 30 years in the intelligence business, it was not until I embarked on my broad non-fiction reading program that I have been able to understand that the CIA specifically, but all the rest of the classified intelligence community, is complicit in mass murders, genocides, running cocaine into the US to wipe out poor communities now addicted to crack, made affordable by the CIA's drug runners, and made politically kosher because Wall Street demands drug money--laundered drug money--for its liquidity.

I join Lee Iacocca in asking, "Where is the outrage?" There is not a candidate for President today, not even Ron Paul, who can outline in chapter and verse, as I now can on the shoulders of the 900+ authors whose hard-earned insights I have absorbed these past six years, the evil that Lionel Tiger and others show is inherent in industrialization and the centralization of power. We need to destroy the current corrupt elections process, implement electoral reform across the board, and start putting bright honorable people in office, instead of these nakedly immoral and profoundly evil creatures who will inflict any sacrifice, impose any burden, on We the People so that they may profit.

A few of the many gems from this superb work:

1) All our Presidents in recent time have lied to us, and the most humiliating of all of these lies was not the weapons of mass destruction, but the abandonment of the Kurds and the refusal to listen when Iraqi generals approached Iraqi dissidents who in turn came to the Department of State only to be shunned away. Salaam Hussein promised to leave Kuwait, but US wanted to destroy his army, and refused to hold off on what proved to be 40 hours of pure slaughter. Gulf II was not only more lies, but the active suppression of facts and dissident views, not least of which were General Tony Zinni's views--he was called a traitor by Condolezza Rice, who appears to know nothing of honor, decency, and truthfulness.

2) CIA is creating more long-term havoc than it is worth. I am finally persuaded, with absolute certainty, that we need to get out of the covert action business. CIA should become the National Analysis Agency, and the small clandestine arm should be limited to multinational operations against transnational crime and terrorism, with an Inspector General in every Station.

3) Jimmy Carter, advised by Zbig Brzezinski, comes out of this book looking both more ignorant and more unscrupulous than Reagan or either of the Bushies. Brzezinski not only masterminded the tacit okay for Pakistani development of nuclear weapons in return for aid in Afghanistan, he also began the process of helping Salaam Hussein acquire, develop, and utilize weapons of mass destruction, and I hold Brzezinski directly accountable for the mass murder of Kurds, Iraqi Shiites, and Iranians.

There are many other notes from this book that I have, but rather than lay them out here I am going to simply say that this book moves to the top of my list of books on evaluating the Iraq misadventure that has given us a $2 trillion debt and 75,000 amputees whose lives are forever shattered ***for no good reason***

The betrayal of the public trust by both the Executive and Congress, by both politicians and senior civil servants and military flag officers, has been outrageous. The author uses the words ignorance, arrogance, incompetence, amorality, illegality, hypocrisy, and cynicism sparingly. This is not a vendetta book. This is a reasons indictment and joins a host of other books that demand the immediate impeachment not only of the sitting President and Vice President, but also of the Republican ***and*** Democratic leadership in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

I am ashamed of our Republic and what these amoral thieves have done "in our name." I am disheartened by the knowledge that all of our brave troops have died, been disabled, and suffered for ***no good reason.*** This makes me very angry. Angry enough to begin speaking out, pleading with America to wake up and find within itself the means for a non-violent restoration of the Constitution and We the People as individuals with liberty for all, lest America be disgraced, and our children's' futures sacrificed, forevermore. Shame, shame, shame.

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And, so we solemnly pray for..........2007-05-24

Barry M. Lando presents a virtual rogue's gallery of the good Christian boys and girl who the knuckleheads at my church pray for, apparently because they have put young men and women from our community at the point of the spear to "fight for our freedom." The author's revelations appear authentic, and are not as surpising as they should be. As a veteran, not a hero, of Desert Storm, I remember the TV interview of the young African American soldier from our fort who was raring to go to Kuwait to "restore democracy." Apparently, the poor sap did not realize Kuwait never had democracy and he himself, as a black in the south, did not either. It was about oil then and is about oil, and a rather dangerous vendetta mixed with bizarre religious tones now. How fascinating that we propped up both Iran and Iraq during a lengthy and bloody conflict that killed both civilain and soldier alike. Then, we merrily ran sanctions that killed perhaps half a million or more children in Iraq, while at the same time, praying, wailing and beating their chests in agony when a brain dead woman was taken off life support. This rather reminds me of the Kingston Trio's "Merry Minuet." Perhaps this is something more than irony, but I do not know what it is. Colon Powell and Tony Blair were added to the cast of villians. I had hoped Powell had been duped by the sock puppet, but he appeared to go along of his own volition. I should have figured Blair all along, considering the imperialistic horrors that have been inflicted upon the Southwest Asian Peninsula by his country for more than a century. The civilian and military deaths add up to quite a tidy total, but as Stalin would have agreed, this is merely a statistic and no one cares. So, this is why I gave the book a 3 star. It is a swell documentation of a murderous disaster, but it does not accomplish a darn thing. This book will not cause one policy change. America will still believe the president, inspired by Jesus, is fighting the war to protect us from terrorism, instead of actually fanning the fires of terrorism. Since the publication of this book, things have gotten from bad to worse. One voice on Christian radio denouncing gay marriage will get more attention than all the press run of this title. Folks who wish to read more books on this subject, which also have not changed a darn thing, might read "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer and "Sleeping with the Devil" by Robert Baer.

They're all Idoits.......2007-04-03

After reading this book, you'll discover that Bush isn't the only idiot when it comes to the current Iraq situation. In fact the idiocy of today goes way way back. It's a fasinating history and make you realize that our leaders don't read history because they foolishly repeat it. In the case of W, it makes you wonder what the hell he thought he was going to do once he got there. Makes you appreciate George W's policy of not going to Bagdad during the Gulf war, though he screwed up too. And Clinton! Don't even get me started... Buy the book, read the book, it's very very good.

The usual gang of idiots.......2007-03-27

When Saddam Hussein's Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction, the George Iran-Contra Bush administration denied it for political purposes. And years later when Hussein's Iraq rid itself of W.M.D., the George A.W.O.L. Bush administration denied it for political purposes. Such has been the plight of the people of Iraq, who have suffered as pawns of greater nations for 85 years, as author Barry Lando itemizes in his book WEB OF DECEIT.

WEB OF DECEIT traces the anguish of the Iraqis since that nation's inception under the thumb of Winston Churchill's England. As WEB OF DECEIT moves on through the bad Bush to the worse Bush, names such as Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney come back like cancers you hoped would stay in remission.

Read WEB OF DECEIT, which author Lando should have titled THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS. But when the idiots in question are people such as Dick Cheney, MAD magazine could object to borrowing the slogan.

Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy

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Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy
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What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists run in the same social circles as the powerful people they cover? When the President and his administration trade press access for loyalty? You get a complicit, uncritical press greasing the skids to a brutal war, conspiring to out a CIA agent, and muddying the waters of a grand jury investigation. In the fearful aftermath of 9/11, much of America’s pride — its free press — became an unquestioning propaganda arm.

Marcy Wheeler’s Anatomy of Deceit documents how the media promoted the Bush administration’s justification for war — that Iraq was on the verge of acquiring weapons of mass destruction — even though much of it was debunked. And it provides a play-by-play account of how Vice President Dick Cheney’s office first used the media to target a critic, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and then to avoid criminal charges in the CIA leak case.

While the media was beating the drums of war and cozying up to the administration, citizen journalists were digging for the truth. Wheeler's compelling account tells the story, as it needs to be told — from outside the Beltway's cocktail circuit.

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Refreshing Straight Talk.......2007-05-08

Wheeler stayed with her story that's thoroughly documented. The clearly-written presentation is factual but not boring, truthful without the embellishment so common today. A quick and excellent read.

How to write the plain truth: Anatomy of Deceit.......2007-04-02

Outstanding. Clear and simple writing. In this media world of "spin, spin, spin", this stands out as an exceptional example of how NOT to spin but to speak the truth.

Must Read!!.......2007-03-25

Wonderful book, a must read, great timeline and detail information! Buy one for yourself and a second to share with others!

Find Out Just How Much The Media Got Wrong.......2007-03-22

Wheeler's concise, insightful dissection of the Plame outing case has only one flaw: Of necessity, it went to press before the Libby trial started.

I've been following this case for years, and I thought I knew a lot about it. But Wheeler's grasp of it just blows me away. For instance, she shows just how closely the Bush people worked with favored reporters like Judy Miller to sell the invasion of Iraq. (When Condi Rice made her infamous "mushroom cloud" statement, she was quoting nearly verbatim a passage of a piece Miller had written the night before and which Rice either saw online or in her morning dead-tree version of the NYT.)

You owe it to yourself to buy this book.

Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer.......2007-03-20

...and out a spy? She must have missed the news story about Richard Armitage, a Clinton appointment, admitting HE was the one who "outed" Valerie Plame. And if she is truly a NOC, why didn't Fitzgerald charge ANYONE with a crime?

Only buy if you own a tinfoil hat.

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

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A superior work of literary criticism
An indispensable book
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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
René Girard
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A superior work of literary criticism.......2003-02-11

Though Girard admits in an interview that when he wrote this book he was indulging in the dubious pleasure of debunking, it is still an excellent entree into the mimetic hypothesis. The book outlines the important theory of "triangular" or "mimetic" desire, which states that the notion of a desire original to the subject is a romantic lie, and that human beings borrow one another's desires. The book is also a monumental contribution to the study of the history of literature, showing that the evolution of society is tracked and analyzed by the great novelists, who alone in the Western world have understood the mimetic foundations of human interaction.

An indispensable book.......2001-08-17

Groucho Marx said "I wouldn't be a member of any club that would be stupid enough to have me". In DECEIT, DESIRE and THE NOVEL, Girard and his wonderful translator Yvonne Freccerro help us explore that dilemma of self-distaste, and the ever-receding goal of acceptance.

The book argues that the novel as a form is historically preoccupied with one particular dilemma: That when young, each of us believes that the OTHERS have some passport to community that we ourselves lack. The path through life (to maturity or to death) takes place through imitation of, and competition with, those persons who seem to have achieved what we wish ourselves to achieve. As part of this, we often chase after objects whose possession promises to "transform" us into someone else. Think of Swann and high society, Don Quixote and knighthood. If we tilt at windmills-- or seek achievements we don't value once we have them-- it may be because we thought these symbols will yield not merely themselves but also what they symbolize: Don Quixote hopes to become a knight, Swann hopes to become an aristocrat.

When the transformation doesn't happen-- when, for example, Groucho Marx becomes a member of the country club and discovers he's still as uncouth as he always was -- the possession disappoints. The victim then either matures, or sets off on another treasure hunt.

There has never been a work of literary criticism so revealing of the human psyche as DECEIT, DESIRE AND THE NOVEL. Girard's book focuses on envy, but in the process reveals a path to becoming genuine. If nothing else, this book will send you back to Proust, Cervantes and Stendhal greedy for text.

triangular mimesis.......2000-06-21

Girard's work in _Deceit, Desire & the Novel_ is a psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism. It explores the relationship between the subject and object of desire, attributing the cause of desire to a third party, the mediator. He uses Proust, Dosteyvsky, Stendhal and Flaubert as models. Overall, it is engaging, easy to read and absolutely necessary for anyone interested in critical theory.

Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion

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Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion

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An overweight woman in a sexless marriage wrestles with the rules of desire.

A young man recounts the high-wire act of sharing the woman he loves with both her husband and another boyfriend.

A female sergeant in the Missouri National Guard, fresh from Iraq, tells what she is not supposed to tell about the woman she is not allowed to love.

These are just a few of the people whose stories are included in Modern Love, a collection of the fifty most revealing, funny, stirring essays from the New York Times’s popular “Modern Love” column. Editor Daniel Jones has arranged these tales to capture the ebb and flow of relationships, from seeking love and tying the knot to having children and finding love that endures. (Cynics and melancholics can skip right to the section on splitting up.) Taken together, these essays show through a modern lens how love drives, haunts, and enriches us.

For anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex, or made a lasting connection, and for the voyeur in all of us, Modern Love is the perfect match.

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Modern Love for new lover.......2007-06-03

I would recommend this book to all who are interested in all aspects of "LOVE": woman, man, marriage, partnership, childbirth, feelings, concepts, etc. The stories are honest and real. Reading then in the first person really engages me into the stories. I gained a lot of perspective of what's love in the 21 centry.

Adorable love tales you can relate to.......2007-04-15

I adore the Modern Love column in the Sunday NY Times and was very excited when I stumbled upon this selection of 50 stories. They are splendid tales of love, disappointments, break-ups and make-ups which could be read and reread forever. 21st century Casanovas and Anna Kareninas text message, e-mail, blog, google and use other communications means which were not part of our grand-parents' romance repertoire but have become our second nature. In the end, it's about the same passion, connections, feelings...

Daniel Jones has organized the book in six chapters - seeking, finding, breeding, staying, leaving and bound - the parts of a relationship cycle, so there is something for everyone to relate to. My personal favorite is "The Chicken's in the Oven, My Husband's Out the Door", a witty story by Theo Pauline Nestor about her divorce and the ensuing communications to family and friends.

review, plus responding to Sue H........2007-03-26

...um, well I'm not accomplished at ALL as a writer and I made it in - That's the first piece I've ever written that was published in a national publication and certainly the only piece of my writing that's ever been in a book...so the bios just make us all SEEM accomplished I think. And Dan Jones is a really really good editor - great to work with.

I am so glad to be in such good company - and I loved reading the stories all over again, even though they were quite memorable the first time I read them in the NYT. I am sure there will be another collection out anon...Jennifer J.

Sunday Reading Throughout the Week.......2007-03-25

One of my favorite features in the Sunday New York Times is "Modern Love" in the Styles section. It's not unusual for my husband to look up from the breakfast table to see either a smile spread across my face or tears rolling down upon it in response to the weekly submission. I'd even mentioned to a friend last year what a great idea it would be to publish a collection of these stories, so I was delighted when I recently saw, in the NY Times Book Review appropriately enough, that one had been. I'm hoping this is just the beginning of a series as I never tire of reading all aspects of love - tragic, romantic, familial, sustaining. All of the authors included in this edition are, not surprisingly, fairly accomplished writers with a background in the field but I hope future editions will incorporate tales from less recognized contributors as well.

Honest Love.......2007-03-22

The book, Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion gives the reader, within a few minutes of reading, the chance to enter the completely honest mind of another person telling a "love story." Often insightful to the human condition and the quirks of happenstance that happen in the lives of real people. Like a secret history you'd only tell a friend, this book is full of them! Just imagine fifty unusually honest secrets you've never heard before all about modern life and love.

Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised and Updated Edition)

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Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised and Updated Edition)
Paul Ekman
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From breaking the law to breaking a promise, how do people lie and how can they be caught? Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, has now updated his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and methods for uncovering lies. From the deception strategies of international public figures, such as Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon, to the deceitful behavior of private individuals, including adulterers and petty criminals, Ekman shows that a successful liar most often depends on a willfully innocent dupe. His study describes how lies vary in form and can differ from other types of misinformation, as well as how a person's body language, voice, and facial expressions can give away a lie but still escape the detection of professional lie hunters—judges, police officers, drug enforcement agents, Secret Service agents, and others. Photographs and line drawings.

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Good data, interesting style.......2007-05-13

This book has lots of important information, not the least of which is to correct many misconceptions about signs of deceitfulness and the distinction between signs of anxiety and signs of deceit.

Ekman does a good job of defining important categories of non-verbal behavior and correlating increases or decreases in each of the categories with different emotional states. However, the specific facial changes associated with genuine versus feigned emotional expression identified in this book offers nothing new.

I particularly liked the author's narrative style. It was reminiscent of accounts written by 19th Century scientists who were trying to discover fundamental principles by observing natural phenomena and describing them in careful, objective language. The bonus to the reader is the raw data provided with specific conditions carefully and objectively described. The studies employ ingenious designs to elicit desired emotion and, because of the detailed description, allow the reader to formulate hypotheses and draw conclusions -- some of which may differ from those of the author.

Much of the information about deceitfulness presented here is just common sense, but Ekman does a good job of categorizing this information and presents well-described objective data from which his conclusions are drawn.

An awful mess of a book.......2006-03-27

For anyone interested in detecting lies in the marketplace, politics, and marriage: this is the last book you should buy. Slight exaggeration aside, there are probably 3 semi-valuable pages in this book.

Ekman spends about 275 pages trying to convince you that even if you believe someone is lying, you might be wrong...or, actually, you may be right...The entire book is a dizzying succession of tautologies. He is so scared that you will read his hypotheses (which are of no practical value - who can spot a "micro-expression" without buying his $50 software and training on it for a month?) and accuse an innocent person of lying (or vice versa) that he has rendered this book useless. If you are a masochist and are interested in reading a book where an insecure researcher talks to himself for hundreds of pages, by all means buy this book.

There IS a reliable protocol for detecting lies, and there are at least a couple of books that I know of that go over it in detail, in less than 200 pages.

Ekman is better than he is given credit.......2005-01-25

Dr Eckman may disappoint his readers by not giving them what they want: A simple protocol for determining whether or not someone is lying. There is a simple reason: There isn't one.

Other books will defraud the reader by giving them techniques that in reality don't work. Dr Eckman pounds in one central point - that there is no one single way to detect dishonesty. He calls any belief to the contrary "the Brokaw Hazard," named after Tom Brokaw, who believes that circumlocution is the omnipresent sentinel of a lie. He also develops the concept of the "Othello Error," that cautions the reader against actually causing lie signals by accident (named after the literary Othello, who assumed that his wife's sobbing was for her lover, but in reality she was sobbing because of her husband's rage over the incorrectly presumed affair.). He gives many tips, including a checklist in an appendix that might help the reader to detect lies, but most of the material is embedded deep within the text. He helps the reader to develop a dynamic approach to detecting lies; approaches that are developed as detection begins. He exhorts the reader to use NUMEROUS well-defined clues to develop the case for the conclusion that someone is lying.

The biggest flaw in the book is on its cover. The cover suggests that this is a practical book. It is more of a research paper. This is what makes it reliable - the fact that such a complete study is contained within. But the average reader will look for a standard protocol for detecting lies - but the Brokaw Hazard tells us there is none.

Dr. Ekman Needs to Hire a Professional Writer!.......2001-10-23

The book is fascinating, to say the least. I think people need to take a "realistic approach" to applying the knowledge acquired by reading the book. My one big fault with the book is that whoever actually "wrote" the book is terrible with regard to constructing sentences and expressing ideas! I had to read some things twice in order to make sure I was receiving the information as intended. Dr. Ekman needs to invest in a professional writer who can more clearly express his thoughts, intents and ideas. Hard reading and unneccesarily so!

The title of this book is a lie........2001-05-22

The title of this book suggests a practical approach: "Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage". However the actual content is very different. Thorough the whole book the author mainly explains the results of some experiments he has done at the university. The results are interesting but non practical at all. Actually, it seems to me that the main conclusion of the book is that there are no reliable methods or tests to find out if someone is lying. The references to marriage, politics and the marketplace are just anecdotical and non substantial to the book.

I am not saying that the book is not interesting. What I'm saying is that the title is deceiving and seems to be only a marketing strategy to make it attractive to more people. That is not exactly honest, specially for a book dealing with lies and deceit.

The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information

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"Formerly ignorance was the enemy, today it is falsehood."
Excellant - A Must read for all lovers of Democracy

The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information
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"Formerly ignorance was the enemy, today it is falsehood.".......2005-08-29

Our future depends "on the correct or incorrect, honest or dishonest use of information." "Formerly ignorance was the enemy, today it is falsehood." Communism and Nazism are both dead, hence it's an interesting point that the Left wants to keep Nazism "alive," so to speak; apparently to sustain the myth that the Right is the danger which we must remain vigilant against, as they continue to trumpet the notion of collectiveness and anti-capitalism under other guises; as well as the notion that enlightened government can transform society if given the power to do so. In a way this is to be expected: "A school of thought that knows it is in a state of decline struggles even more fiercely to preserve its identity." Revel is not at all surprised consequently that French textbooks even into 1980 continued to embellish Sovietism. (I'd add further that Hitler denunciations still out number anti-Stalin comments 1000-1. Moreover, how many films touching on Lenin or Stalin have been made? Why nothing on film about communism/Soviet brutality in Eastern Europe and the Baltics/ Soviet Gulags/Red terror wholesale murderings/show trials & Soviet anti-semitism...just to name a few subjects that are ignored while Nazi issues/characters/events feature in countless films.) But just because the French Revolution, and its communistic offspring, can be seen to have proved a failure (in Eastern Europe, the USSR, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, North Korea, et al) doesn't mean fans of such states' 'motives' have reconsidered their inclined views. As Lauret Fabius, the former socialist prime minister of France, has put it: "Socialism is a direction." As long as it can claim anything supposedly positive (Castro's famed health system, for instance) it gets a pass on everything else. That's why Stalin always got the benefit of any possible doubts from those so inclined; and such explains the Left's silence when the Soviet Union singed a pact with Hitler, and later when it invaded Czechoslovkia, Hungary, & Afghanistan (all the while railing against the WEST over Pinochet's Chile and South African apartheid & other such states led by more Rightist governments). Last year on TV I saw a prominent author (Simon Winchester) toss an aside that "of course I have great admiration for the Rosenbergs." This notwithstanding the publication, just several years ago, of the "Venona" cables & Russian documents which conclusively prove that the Rosenbergs were traitors. Such is the epitome of Mr. Revel's point: "Arguments/disoveries are not imposed by intellectual conviction." Revel quotes Jonathan Swift in support of this notion: "You cannot reason a person out of something he has not been reasoned into." Such folks are simply going to hold onto their instinctive beliefs & society is going to simply have to wait them out. Revel compares the dyanamic to the developement of science. Scientific theories often do not triumph over other theories on facts, but rather by having the staying power to hold their own while the previous theories wither on the vine (and the previous theory adherents give way to a succeeding generation). In short, with all our developement in education, the accessibility of travel & information, etc., we as a people are not getting any wiser. Society is getting wiser, however, but unfortuantely at high cost. (The lesson of failed communism, of government not being able to transform society without recourse to terror, cost tens of millions of lives.) Things would be a lot easier, of course, if people tried using their own brains more. Once something fails over and over again it behooves us to recognize that fact and consider alternate means to achieve the goal at hand. Likewise, throwing money at problems that have made neglible progress with the wheebarrels full of funding that they have already received is simply not rational. How many times have you heard, "You know, you have a point there. Maybe I'm wrong & ought to reconsider this issue." Instead of taking /

Excellant - A Must read for all lovers of Democracy.......1999-11-17

Revel shows the major paradox of the 20th century. When we have a vast array of information at our fingertips, we simply overlook the truth out there and embrace the lies given. He shows that Democracies only thrive in an aura of truth but they will ultimately fail in a arena of lies. He poignantly shows how the politicians, scientists, educators and the media give up truth to follow their own agenda propagated by fallacies.

Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit

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Unbelievably Informative and Funny
Thorough and general treatment of practice of deceipt
Ecellent psychological look at lying.

Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit
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Unbelievably Informative and Funny.......2006-07-31

I am a compulsive liar. I admit it. I read this book and now I have greater insight into why I lie all of the time. A great read even if you are "honest."

Thorough and general treatment of practice of deceipt.......1999-12-03

A certain dry humour makes the book very readable. The description of social pressures in learning to lie, and animal world comparisons, are a useful perspective. The central theme - the danger of lying to oneself, or self deception - is of great importance in working in any large organisation. I would prescribe it as essential reading for managers and directors of most modern organisations Many readers may lack the objectivity to appreciate and believe the reports contained in the book, though they are well researched and well documented. I hope the next edition may spend more time in coping with lies. There are 13 pages in this book on therapeutic approaches toward the deceitful person. The comments on "groupthink", which involves bias of group behaviour, could also be expanded in future editions, with comments on the efficacy of countermeasures.

Ecellent psychological look at lying........1999-06-13

Straightforward. Well written and referenced. A very well laid out book with excellent references for further study on the subject. I gained a great appreciation for the psychological causes of lying. Highly recommended.

The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

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eye opening
This book will make you laugh AND vomit at the same time
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Beautiful, heartbreaking, and important

The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
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In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, yes and then, suddenly, walked out of his life and made Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road traveling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil, and Russia to discover the true worth of this shining gem. He traveled to Japan to understand how diamonds were linked with engagements and delved into the history of our own American romance with the diamond ring. He gained entry to DeBeers, the London diamond merchants. He visited shopping mall jewelers with starry-eyed couples. Through all of his travels, he searched for an answer to the question, How has one stone created empires, ruined lives, inspired lust and emptied wallets throughout history? A diamond version of Susan Orleanss The Orchid Thief, The Heartless Stone is a journey to the cold heart of the worlds most unyielding gem.

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eye opening .......2007-01-06

and now that a movie is out on the same topic, perhaps the book gains more interest. if you have a heart, you should stop buying diamonds, read this book and then see if you still desire them ... if so, at least you'll know which ones you should buy.

This book will make you laugh AND vomit at the same time.......2006-12-19

I purchased this book on Friday and sat in the parking lot of the book store reading it until I realized two hours had passed.

The authors engaging narrative and extraordinary depth in terms of reasearch for each topic he covers related to the diamond trade is remarkable and so addictive, the book is virtually impossible to put down...which is why I devoured it in one night.

The author relates his experiences in such a way that even though the subject matter is mostly horrifying, there were moments of such outrageous hypocrisy and incredulity that I found myself laughing at the some of the more benign incidents because if I didn't laugh there would be no recourse but to cry myself into a fetal position while hiding under the bed.

The revulsion began when the author related the children eating sandwiches made with shoe polish, the people in Africa whose limbs were amputated to keep them from voting, the miners who were evicerated because thugs dressed as police thought they had swallowed a diamond.

But the waves of nausea that were induced by those repulsive revelations were NOTHING compared to the uncontrollable wretched gagging created by the documented evidence of the greedy machinations perpetuated by the De Beers Diamond Cartel.

I never thought about diamonds the way the De Beers corporation seems to think I SHOULD think about them. As in I should hate myself if I don't have one.

The putrid aggressive marketing campaign related to diamonds was shocking to read about ESPECIALLY when the author relates how De Beers were able to change an entire culture just with a simple but aggressive marketing campaign. The chapter dealing with De Beers shoving diamonds down the throats of Japanese was appalling in the extreme. Especially the ad campaign suggesting men were worthless for not spending three months salary on a diamond for their woman. It was galling to hear about how the De Beers advertisers went into American schools to "educate" girls on why they needed a diamond??? It was breathtaking to finish the book and turn on the tv and see first hand the nature of venal advertising campaigns whose primary goal seems to be toward making people feel small and inadequate if they don't have an iPod, an xbox or in the case of this book...A diamond.

The author has a great line about how nefarious the diamond trade is because the advertising executives have effectively convinced the world to spend millions of dollars on what amounts to nothing more than rocks. And they are not even rare rocks. The reason they are "so hard to find" is because these cartels have a chokehold on the industry by hiding all of them in their underground vaults so they can keep the prices up.

This book was a gut wrenching eye opener especially the final chapter when the author interviews a couple who are in the process of "investing" in their first diamond.

He asks how they feel knowing that the diamond they were about to purchase might have passed through the gastric system of a murdered miner in Angola the man replies.

"why do I care, it doesn't affect me"

And THAT was the worst part of the book. It captured the real horror of the diamond trade. That being the abject apathy of western consumer culture where material ownership supercedes any sense of basic humanity.

This book was shocking, appalling, terrifying, depressing and left me feeling hopeless and sad. For such a visceral reaction I wanted to give it five stars but opted for four because of what was a GLARING and Crimminal omission.

I hope for the paperback edition the author and publishers will offer an epilogue with definitve information on what we can ALL do to affect a change in the industry so that children don't have to polish stones in India, so that voters can keep their arms and so that Americans will put the welfare of fellow human beings ABOVE owning a DAMN ROCK.

Outstanding.......2006-11-17

I think that this book is a marvelous accomplishment and I am so impressed with the author's efforts. I give him an A+ on three counts. First, it seems like an incredibly well-researched that seems like it must have taken a very long time to write, especially when all the travel time is factored in. If we assume that the author was not an expert on diamonds going into the project (which may not be a correct assumption), then everything he learned (and well conveys to the reader) is mind-boggling. Second, it was just beautifully written. Third, he discusses every imaginable "facet" (pun intended) of the world of diamonds and there seems to be not a single issue left unaddressed. I congratulate the author on this book.

what a disturbing book.......2006-10-06

I haven't even finished reading this book yet and I'm already feeling queasy about my own diamond ring, which incidentally I haven't worn in a few years due to an allergic reaction. When my husband and I bought it, it was definitely the most expensive thing either of us had ever shelled out money for, except our co-op apartment. Neither of us knew about the bloody history of the industry and the likelihood that the "forever" symbol of our love was so tainted. I'd like to sell it and donate the proceeds to charity. At least then it would do something good for somebody.

Beautiful, heartbreaking, and important.......2006-09-12

As others here have noted, Tom Zoellner's book is comprehensive, engaging, and deeply troubling for those of us who had planned to proudly wear a diamond one day. In addition to these observations, I'd like to point out several other aspects of the book that place it a step above similar works of non-fiction.

Zoellner refuses to be scary or pedantic. He is evenhanded in his treatment of some of the the more insidious players in the global diamond trade, and when he details the industry's atrocious practices, it is backed by exhaustive research, both on-the-ground and from reputable secondary sources.

Zoellner also stands out as a non-fiction writer with a particular talent for strikingly beautiful prose. As the book progresses, his metaphors become increasingly precise, and his descriptions of landscapes and expressions are vivid and poetic, to a point where I often found myself thinking, "Yes, that is exactly the way to describe that thing."

Finally, Zoellner's reporting transcends collection and interpretation of facts. He obviously connected with many of his subjects (despite the worlds between them), giving him access to stories, traditions, and emotions that are sometimes devastating, sometimes beautiful, but always a revelation for the average Western reader.

In telling the deeply personal story of how a diamond forever changed the course of his life, Zoellner also recounts the lives of so many others whose fate was determined by a stone, which itself remains unchanged.

Your Honest Deceit 1 (Your Honest Deceit)

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A GREAT read!!!
Another marvellous Yaoi from dramaqueen !

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In college, Kuze secretly harbored feelings for adjunct law lecturer, Kitahara. However, Kuze sealed away those emotions. Seven years later, Kuze finds himself working as Kitahara's assistant because of a bizarre coincidence. What's more, Kitahara is no longer wearing his wedding ring.

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Review.......2007-05-18

I'm impressed with the story and the clean lines of each panel in this graphic novel. Looking foward to the next installment of this story.

A GREAT read!!!.......2007-03-02

Beautiful artwork, a seme that reminds me of the best of Naona Boura's work!
The story's feel is a calmer, more adult romance. Of silent misunderstandings and taking the time to work out emotions. Our seme, the lawyer Kitahara is absolutely adorable in his emotional chibi form, while very often it's Kuze, the law secretary and uke that is seriously, and aggressively pursuing this love.
I loved this one and am already waiting in line for vol 2!!!

Another marvellous Yaoi from dramaqueen !.......2006-11-24

This is another great Yaoi from DramaQueen. This mangaka's artwork is clean lined, the facial expressions vividly alive. Such expressive eyes!

2 stories here. The titled story is excellent, the characters likable. Maybe Kitahara's (seme) love for Kuze (uke) could have been better explored. After all Kitahara is the much older and supposedly more worldly-wise guy (the mangaka's reference to geezer here is quite funny), was married once, has never shown any inkling that he goes for guys and never made love to one. On the other hand, Kuze is an acknowledged gay, with past experience with other guys. But this is Yaoi and it is heartening to have Kuze's deeply harboured love for Kitahara finally reciprocated. The scenes leading to Kitahara's declaration of love are heartwarming and sprinkled with comical moments. The development of their relationship from there onwards is humorous yet warm and tender.

The sex is tastefully done too and here the mangaka does an excellent job building up the emotions.

The second story is the usual student and teacher relationship but this mangaka's humorous style lift the story up a few notches, providing us with another entertaining read.

I like this mangaka's style, her dialogue light toned yet effectively emotional. And the small panels of caricatures just add to the enjoyment of her stories.

Well done DramaQueen. Looking forward to the continuation of Kuze's and Kitahara-sensei's story.

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