Trust Is a Dangerous Game

Trust Is a Dangerous Game
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Publisher: Jingjing Lin
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781646820177

Jingjing Lin is a conceptual visual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes.She is known for the wide range of approaches in her art, explores the depths of social and personal identity,, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox.

The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game
Author: Richard Connell
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2023-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8728187490

Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".

Dangerous Games

Dangerous Games
Author: Lora Leigh
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429916257

"Leigh's pages explode with a mixture of erotic pleasures." -RT Book Reviews #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lora Leigh's sexy Navy SEALs series, the Tempting SEALs, is red-hot, sexy romantic suspense at its best, featuring men who will stop at nothing to proect their country and all they love no matter how dark the danger, no matter what demons they must face. And when these men love, their passion runs deep and hard. Navy SEAL Clint" Iceman" McIntire earned his name by being the ultimate warrior. He's untouchable, unstoppable and he takes no prisoners. Having crushed an infamous drug cartel in Columbia, Clint was nothing short of an American hero. Now he's home on a much-needed leave, but instead of some R & R, he finds himself neck-deep in the hottest kind of trouble with his best friend's seemingly innocent little sister, Morgana Chavez, the only woman who has the power to bring him to his knees...Morgana has been secretly working with the DEA to uncover a thriving date-rape drug, which leads her to a shadowy faction that is more deadly than anything her team has ever encountered. Now, it's up to Clint to keep this beautiful, determined agent out of harm's way, even while the explosive passion between them threatens to consume them both. But these Dangerous Games will bring Morgana and Clint to the very edge of high stakes danger and perilous desire.

Dangerous Games

Dangerous Games
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1588367681

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid these and other common traps in thinking to which many fall prey. This brilliantly reasoned work, alive with incident and figures both great and infamous, will compel us to examine history anew—and skillfully illuminates why it is important to treat the past with care.

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Publisher: CCH Australia Limited
Total Pages: 2289
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ISBN: 1921873809

Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark

Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark
Author: Lucia Peters
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1452179905

What begins as a test of bravery or a sleepover activity—chanting in front of a mirror, riding an elevator alone, taking pictures in the dark—can become something . . . dangerous. This compendium collects the most spine-chilling games based on urban legends from around the world. Centuries–old games such as Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board are detailed alongside new games from the internet age, like The Answer Man, a sinister voice that whispers secrets to whomever manages to contact him with a cellphone. With step-by-step instructions, historical context, and the stakes for each game, this black handbook is the ideal gift for anyone looking for a late-night thrill—but beware who, or what, may come out to play.

Dangerous Games

Dangerous Games
Author: Joseph Laycock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520284917

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.

Aftershock

Aftershock
Author: Kevin Tumlinson
Publisher: Happy Pants Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN ALEX KAYNE never stops running. It’s just who she is. But when Kayne looks into a series of patent thefts that lead her to billionaire technologist ROSS ECKHART, she finds herself running out of road. Is Eckhart who he appears to be? AGENT ERIC SYMON is dealing with his new duties and responsibilities, as a member of the HISTORIC CRIMES UNIT. And finding himself working under AGENT ROLAND DENZEL—the man that Symon holds responsible for derailing his FBI career—is making the job tough to handle. In pursuit of a stolen piece of art, hidden on an exotic animal ranch in Oklahoma, Symon finds himself facing down more than career challenges. This could be the fight of his life. And when these two cases collide, the aftershock will change everything for Kayne, Symon, and Historic Crimes itself.

Let Us Be Greater

Let Us Be Greater
Author: Michelle Madrid
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1608688488

THE PATHWAY TO HEALING AND LIGHT FOR ADOPTEES Adoption is a lifeline of support and opportunity for countless people, but it can bring challenges and emotional conditions that are often silenced or left unaddressed, including PTSD, risk of suicide, and fear of abandonment. Author Michelle Madrid has experienced these challenges as a foster child and international adoptee and now as an adoptive parent and adoptee-empowerment coach. Michelle has learned that the complex emotions and psychological turmoil of adoption — including feelings of involuntary exile, anger, distrust, confusion, and unworthiness — are best healed through identification, exploration, and understanding. Written with compassion and authenticity, Let Us Be Greater will help adoptees and their families feel heard, seen, and understood as they work to build open, fulfilling, and healthy relationships.

A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game
Author: Tanis Rush
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595386199

Detective Daniel Dillon has made it his life's work understanding the human mind. Trapped with seventy-eight other hostages inside a restaurant that has been wired to explode in twenty-four hours, he has only a short time to figure out the motives of this eerily brilliant madman who calls himself Abraham. Andrea 'Andie' Taylor, a romance novelist visiting Washington, D.C., is one of the other hostages. She survived a hellish childhood only to find herself embroiled in this terrifying situation in ways that even she could not have imagined in one of her books. She feels uncharacteristically drawn to the detective, but at the same time, she has to forge a connection with Abraham in order to keep the two men from turning a dangerous situation into a deadly, explosive one. Three extraordinary minds brought together by extraordinary circumstances, none of them sure who they can trust. It's a dangerous game they're all playing, a game that no one is guaranteed to survive.