Defying Deception

Defying Deception
Author: Jonathan K. Corrado
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 166678964X

Comprehensive training and well-established tactics are the trademark qualities of a solid and robust military training program designed to win wars. As a result, well-trained soldiers can think and act soundly while engaged in warfare. Like soldiers, Christians must similarly train to become prepared to make biblically-sound choices while engaged in spiritual warfare—specifically, deception. Deception, as clearly conveyed in the Bible, is Satan’s weapon of choice, therefore, if understood properly, can be thwarted effectively. Defying Deception: A Field Guide to Understanding and Countering Satan's Strategy of Deception is a book for those who want to raise their awareness of the enemy’s strategies and to mature their spiritual walk by offsetting the enemy’s deceptive methods with practical means. That said, this field guide establishes a parallel between Satan’s deceptive tactics and military Psychological Operations (PSYOP), operations to convey false information to influence emotions, motives, and reasoning because both seek to lead people into falsehood to influence decision-making in a destructive way. This field guide discusses Satan’s deceptive strategy within the context of PSYOP. Armed with this information, practical defensive strategies are developed using well-established, effective military tactics to assist readers in overcoming spiritual deception.

Defining Deception

Defining Deception
Author: Costi Hinn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2018
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9780986444241

Defining Deception offers the academic learner studious sourcing for biblical discernment but is also written in a loving and relational style allowing everyday readers to better relate with friends and family who¿ve fallen victim to the trappings of modern miracle and mystical movements. Hinn and Wood have proven that we can value and share truth without appearing to be ¿angry¿ about it. The book includes a raw Testimony section containing stories of rescue from around the globe along with a thrilling Q&A section highlighting the modern confusion around gifts of the Spirit, hearing from God, and popular bands like Jesus Culture.

Cheating, Corruption, and Concealment

Cheating, Corruption, and Concealment
Author: Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107105390

Looks at cheating, corruption, and concealment to focus on motivations, justifications, influences, and reductions of dishonesty.

Duped

Duped
Author: Timothy R. Levine
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0817359680

A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff’s appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a near-universal human tendency to operate within a mindset that can be characterized as a “truth-default.” We uncritically accept most of the messages we receive as “honest.” We all are perceptually blind to deception. We are hardwired to be duped. The question is, can anything be done to militate against our vulnerability to deception without further eroding the trust in people and social institutions that we so desperately need in civil society? Timothy R. Levine’s Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception—truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially. Further, because most deception is enacted by a few prolific liars, the so called “truth-bias” is not really a bias after all. Passive belief makes us right most of the time, but the catch is that it also makes us vulnerable to occasional deceit. Levine’s research on lie detection and truth-bias has produced many provocative new findings over the years. He has uncovered what makes some people more believable than others and has discovered several ways to improve lie-detection accuracy. In Duped, Levine details where these ideas came from, how they were tested, and how the findings combine to produce a coherent new understanding of human deception and deception detection.

The Kiss of Deception

The Kiss of Deception
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805099239

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Deception

Deception
Author: Brooke Harrington
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080475649X

Deception offers a broadly accessible overview of state-of-the-art research on lies, trickery, cheating, and shams by leading experts in the natural and social sciences, as well as computing, the humanities, and the military.

Levitation

Levitation
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: G.T. Labs
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2007
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0978803701

Presents the story of illusions, with such characters as The Scientist, The American, The Inventor, and The Heir.

The Glorious Deception

The Glorious Deception
Author: Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786715121

A fascinating chronicle of the great Chinese illusionist Chung Ling reveals his mastery of magic and his double life as an American passing himself off as Chinese, which was revealed when he died dodging bullets during his performance of "Defying the Bullets."

The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250834619

A young woman finds herself caught up in international intrigue—and gets her heart stolen—in The Art of Deception from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, “the queen of romantic suspense” (The Columbus Dispatch). Adam Haines claims to be an admirer of Phillip Fairchild’s artistry, wishing to practice the craft as a student of the famous painter. Phillip’s daughter Kirby believes her father is blind to Adam’s flattery and suspects he’s hiding something. An attempt on Kirby’s life reveals the truth after Adam saves her. He’s an investigator seeking a missing Rembrandt painting and the trail leads to Phillip, who’s been known to traffic in forged and stolen art. Now, as Adam and Kirby risk their lives to protect her father and stop dangerous criminals, they also take a chance on the love that’s growing between them.

Age of Deception

Age of Deception
Author: T.A. White
Publisher: T.A. White
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2020-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass. It offers a path to independence and freedom that is too tempting to deny. Not everyone welcomes this lost daughter of Roake. There are those who fear what her presence might bring to light. Betrayal stalks the halls of Kira’s birthplace—its roots embedded deep in the events that claimed her parent’s lives and set her on her current path. Walking the wire’s edge between truth and deception will test the person Kira has become as she separates ally from betrayer. An old enemy has put into motion a plan that could topple the balance of power in the universe. Letting them succeed spells doom—but the price might be more than Kira is willing to pay.