Deception by Design
Deception by Design

Author: Trish Beaudet

Publisher:

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781940354033

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Interior designer Isabella Hughes has created a perfect life for herself. Raised on a farm in Ohio, she has paved her way to the top of the design world and married the love of her life, leaving her meager upbringing behind her. The owner of an upscale firm in Manhattan, Isabella is the epitome of a successful businesswoman. But the demon of self-doubt still haunts her. It threatens to destroy everything: her career, her marriage, and even her life. Yes, Isabella has issues-abandonment issues. She was left by her mother when she was younger. Professionally, she is rock solid, but personally, she is unsteady. When Grayson Hughes came into her life, he was her knight in shining armor. Now, ten years into their supposedly happy marriage, Grayson becomes hostile and cruel. Unbeknownst to Isabella, Grayson is harboring a dark secret. While Isabella maneuvers through the turmoil of her personal life, she is awarded the design project of her dreams. To help her down this unfamiliar path, she relies on her new business manager, Julian Grossaint, seeking not only his guidance, but also comfort in his arms. As Isabella's life spins out of control, the ramifications of her betrayal turn deadly. Is Grayson's bizarre behavior to blame, or has Isabella unknowingly concocted her own Deception by Design? This book is intended for mature audiences.

Pushing Cool
Pushing Cool

Author: Keith Wailoo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 022679427X

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Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as “the best place to buy menthols.” Black smokers overwhelmingly prefer menthol brands such as Kool, Salem, and Newport. All of this is no coincidence. The disproportionate Black deaths and cries of “I can’t breathe” that ring out in our era—because of police violence, COVID-19, or menthol smoking—are intimately connected to a post-1960s history of race and exploitation. In Pushing Cool, Keith Wailoo tells the intricate and poignant story of menthol cigarettes for the first time. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden persuaders who shaped menthol buying habits and racial markets across America: the world of tobacco marketers, consultants, psychologists, and social scientists, as well as Black lawmakers and civic groups including the NAACP. Today most Black smokers buy menthols, and calls to prohibit their circulation hinge on a history of the industry’s targeted racial marketing. In 2009, when Congress banned flavored cigarettes as criminal enticements to encourage youth smoking, menthol cigarettes were also slated to be banned. Through a detailed study of internal tobacco industry documents, Wailoo exposes why they weren’t and how they remain so popular with Black smokers.

The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era
The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era

Author: Alison MacKenzie

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 303072154X

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This edited book collection offers strong theoretical and philosophical insight into how digital platforms and their constituent algorithms interact with belief systems to achieve deception, and how related vices such as lies, bullshit, misinformation, disinformation, and ignorance contribute to deception. This inter-disciplinary collection explores how we can better understand and respond to these problematic practices. The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design will be of interest to anyone concerned with deception in a ‘postdigital’ era including fake news, and propaganda online. The election of populist governments across the world has raised concerns that fake news in online platforms is undermining the legitimacy of the press, the democratic process, and the authority of sources such as science, the social sciences and qualified experts. The global reach of Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms has shown that they can be used to create and spread fake and misleading news quickly and without control. These platforms operate and thrive in an increasingly balkanised media eco-system where networks of users will predominantly access and consume information that conforms to their existing worldviews. Conflicting positions, even if relevant and authoritative, are suppressed, or overlooked in everyday digital information consumption. Digital platforms have contributed to the prolific spread of false information, enabled ignorance in online news consumers, and fostered confusion over determining fact from fiction. The collection explores: Deception, what it is, and how its proliferation is achieved in online platforms. Truth and the appearance of truth, and the role digital technologies play in pretending to represent truth. How we can counter these vices to protect ourselves and our institutions from their potentially baneful effects. Chapter 15 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Camouflage and Art
Camouflage and Art

Author: Henrietta Goodden

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780906290873

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Henrietta Goodden explores the development of the extraordinary ideas which were to play such an important part in defeating the enemy in the air, on land and at sea.

Evil by Design
Evil by Design

Author: Chris Nodder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-06-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1118654811

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How to make customers feel good about doing what you want Learn how companies make us feel good about doing what they want. Approaching persuasive design from the dark side, this book melds psychology, marketing, and design concepts to show why we’re susceptible to certain persuasive techniques. Packed with examples from every nook and cranny of the web, it provides easily digestible and applicable patterns for putting these design techniques to work. Organized by the seven deadly sins, it includes: Pride — use social proof to position your product in line with your visitors’ values Sloth — build a path of least resistance that leads users where you want them to go Gluttony — escalate customers’ commitment and use loss aversion to keep them there Anger — understand the power of metaphysical arguments and anonymity Envy — create a culture of status around your product and feed aspirational desires Lust — turn desire into commitment by using emotion to defeat rational behavior Greed — keep customers engaged by reinforcing the behaviors you desire Now you too can leverage human fallibility to create powerful persuasive interfaces that people will love to use — but will you use your new knowledge for good or evil? Learn more on the companion website, evilbydesign.info.

Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things
Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things

Author: Charles A. Kamhoua

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 1119593360

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An essential guide to the modeling and design techniques for securing systems that utilize the Internet of Things Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things offers a guide to the underlying foundations of modeling secure Internet of Things' (IoT) techniques. The contributors—noted experts on the topic—also include information on practical design issues that are relevant for application in the commercial and military domains. They also present several attack surfaces in IoT and secure solutions that need to be developed to reach their full potential. The book offers material on security analysis to help with in understanding and quantifying the impact of the new attack surfaces introduced by IoT deployments. The authors explore a wide range of themes including: modeling techniques to secure IoT, game theoretic models, cyber deception models, moving target defense models, adversarial machine learning models in military and commercial domains, and empirical validation of IoT platforms. This important book: Presents information on game-theory analysis of cyber deception Includes cutting-edge research finding such as IoT in the battlefield, advanced persistent threats, and intelligent and rapid honeynet generation Contains contributions from an international panel of experts Addresses design issues in developing secure IoT including secure SDN-based network orchestration, networked device identity management, multi-domain battlefield settings, and smart cities Written for researchers and experts in computer science and engineering, Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things contains expert contributions to provide the most recent modeling and design techniques for securing systems that utilize Internet of Things.

The Art and Science of Military Deception
The Art and Science of Military Deception

Author: Hy Rothstein

Publisher: Artech House

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1608075516

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It is said that deception among people in a civilized society is something to be loathed even though it seems to be part of human nature; but deception in war is a virtue. Properly designed and executed, stratagems reduce the horrific costs of war. This book is a comprehensive collection of classic articles on deception, hand-picked and expertly introduced by well-known experts on military deception. The purpose of this book is to set in motion a renaissance for using deception as an instrument of statecraft. The various sections are designed to cumulatively provide sufficient breadth and depth on the subject to satisfy both the novice as well as the expert. Packed with expert commentary, interesting background information, and original readings, this book provides the reader with sufficient knowledge to pursue General Eisenhower’s vision for the proper role of deception in support of the national interest.

Trademark and Deceptive Advertising Surveys
Trademark and Deceptive Advertising Surveys

Author: Shari Seidman Diamond

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614384748

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Focusing on the issues that trademark surveys address, this book offers practical tools for recognizing and appreciating good survey methodology and distinguishing valuable evidence. The authors examine design and analysis topics relevant when presenting, defending, or critiquing a survey. Combining theory and practice in one resource, it features actual and hypothetical cases while discussing how the courts have addressed these issues. Current and authoritative, this book provides strategic guidance on how to identify important issues, understand options, and the best way to handle them.

Do Good
Do Good

Author: David B. Berman

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 032157320X

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Deception
Deception

Author: Robert W. Mitchell

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780887061073

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Mitchell and Thompson have compiled the first interdisciplinary study of deception and its manifestations in a variety of animal species. Deception is unique in that it presents detailed explorations of the broadest array of deceptive behavior, ranging from deceptive signaling in fireflies and stomatopods, to false-alarm calling by birds and foxes, to playful manipulating between people and dogs, to deceiving within intimate human relationships. It offers a historical overview of the problem of deception in related fields of animal behavior, philosophical analyses of the meaning and significance of deception in evolutionary and psychological theories, and diverse perspectives on deception--philosophical, ecological, evolutionary, ethological, developmental, psychological, anthropological, and historical. The contributions gathered herein afford scientists the opportunity to discover something about the formal properties of deception, enabling them to explore and evaluate the belief that one set of descriptive and perhaps explanatory structures is suitable for both biological and psychological phenomena.