Desert Deceit
Desert Deceit

Author: Maarten Loose

Publisher: Manuscript Master

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9403748621

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In the gritty underworld of 1940s Las Vegas, Vincent "Vinnie" Moretti reigns supreme, a mob boss with a code of honor and a heart of contradictions. The glamorous facade of The Golden Grotto Casino masks a city teeming with deception, betrayal, and dark secrets. When Vinnie's old friend and rival, Benjamin Sirocco, meets a tragic end, Vinnie is thrust into a deadly game of vengeance and power. Joined by the captivating jazz singer Susannah "Susie" Devereaux, Vinnie navigates the treacherous landscape of organized crime, facing off against the ruthless Don Friddi and the corrupt Councilman Harrison Sinclair. As alliances shift and danger looms, Vinnie must confront his own inner demons to protect the woman he loves and secure his legacy. "Desert Deceit: A Tale of Old Vegas" is a gripping noir thriller that weaves a tale of ambition, loyalty, and the high stakes of the Las Vegas strip. In a city where shadows hide the darkest sins, can Vinnie rise above his past to forge a future worth fighting for?

Dazzled and Deceived
Dazzled and Deceived

Author: Peter Forbes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0300178964

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Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious - but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature's ploys? "Dazzled and Deceived" tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes' cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism.

The Book of Marvels
The Book of Marvels

Author: Mark Jenkins

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781426204098

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Focusing on a time when the world had not been fully mapped or traveled, this book presents sights as witnessed through the eyes of Charles Darwin, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Meriwether Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Willa Cather, and many others.

Deception
Deception

Author: Robert M. Clark

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1506375243

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Bridging the divide between theory and practice, Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence provides a thorough overview of the principles of deception and its uses in intelligence operations.

Wanderer of the Wasteland
Wanderer of the Wasteland

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: Amereon Limited

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Zane Grey, premier chronicler of the American West and legendary storyteller, is sure to captivate new and loyal fans with this reissue of the last of his four Western epics.

Desert Mirage
Desert Mirage

Author: Martin D. Yant

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1616140100

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Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, author Martin Yant argued in a newspaper column that Saddam Hussein's military machine wasn't nearly the menace President Bush said it was. Rather than being a well-equipped and battle-hardened million-man Wehrmacht at the command of another Adolf Hitler, Yant suggested that the Iraqi army appeared to be a war weary, smaller, supply-short force at the command of another Manuel Noriega.When the Persian Gulf War ended in February of 1991 in the U.S. led coalition's rout of the Iraqi army, Yant set out to write Desert Mirage to show how the Bush administration had deliberately deceived Americans into supporting the pursuit of power disguised as the pursuit of principle - at the cost of an estimated 375,000 lives.In the process, Yant shows how the liberation of Kuwait, whose occupation the Bush administration helped cause - either by ineptness or design - was merely a pretense for assertion of American power in the Middle East.Yant pieces together his convincing case from thousands of reports from dozens of sources that sporadically seeped through the administration's veil of deceit to reveal that the thunderously triumphant 'Desert Storm' was actually a deviously devised 'Desert Mirage' with far more foreboding causes and consequences than what the public could ever imagine.In the best tradition of contrarian journalism and worth consideration. - Kirkus Reviews

Brokers of Deceit
Brokers of Deceit

Author: Rashid Khalidi

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0807044768

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Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States’ involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the “Reagan Plan” of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration’s proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama’s retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel’s favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.

Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium
Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium

Author: J. Jonathan Gabay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 0750683201

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Marketers, creative writers, and individuals for whom copywriting forms part of their job are often required to produce innovative and engaging copy in a short space of time. Creativity is not always to hand, and therefore on some occasions additional help is required to find the right phrase, description or slogan. Gabay's Copywriting Compendium contains a wealth of inspiring tips, ideas and descriptions to aid the writing process, such as advice on spelling and grammar, examples of rhyming words, suggested euphemisms, and odd facts.