Escaping Pretense

Author : Deborah Jean Miller
Publisher : Opal Stone Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998048932

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Escaping Pretense by Deborah Jean Miller Pdf

What if you could disappear forever? Pretense Abdicator is whip-smart, socially awkward and angry. When passed over for a well-deserved promotion at the prestigious financial firm of Crawford Spectrum, she hatches a get-even plan. Embezzle money from her wealthiest clients, assume a new identity, and flee the country. With over $2 million stashed in an offshore bank account under an alias, Pretense is certain she has pulled off the perfect crime. Only one more money transfer and she is home free. But on September 11, 2001, she is summoned to her manager's office on the eighty-ninth floor of the World Trade Center. As her boss and the FBI are confronting her with ironclad evidence of embezzlement, a passenger plane hits the North Tower and Pretense makes a run for it. Left with only the clothes on her back and the master key tucked inside the locket dangling from her neck, she must escape the burning building before it’s too late. Can she make it? Inspired by the real-life tragedy of 9/11, this fascinating tale of deception and redemption will hold you in its grip as the story beautifully unfolds along the path of self-discovery.

Author : Per Mollerup
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262039482

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Pretense Design by Per Mollerup Pdf

How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them. After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a range of examples for each: beautification, amusement, substitution, and deception. Beautification, he explains, includes sunless tanning, high heels, and even sporty accessories for a family car. Amusement includes forms of irrational otherness—columns that don't hold anything up, an old building's façade that hides a new building, a new Chinese town that mimics an old European town. Substitution pretends to be a natural thing: plastic laminate is a substitute for wood, Corian a substitute for marble, and prosthetics substitute for human organs. Deception doesn't just bend the truth; it suspends it. Soldiers wear camouflage to hide; hunters use decoys to attract their prey; malware hides in a harmless program only to wreak havoc on a user's computer. With Pretense Design, Per Mollerup adds a new concept to design thinking.

Author : Heather Graham,Harley Jane Kozak,Alexandra Sokoloff
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459256019

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The Keepers: L.A. Box Set by Heather Graham,Harley Jane Kozak,Alexandra Sokoloff Pdf

The Gatekeeper by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham Keeper of the Night by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham Keeper of the Moon by Harley Jane Kozak Keeper of the Shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff Keeper of the Dawn by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham In their new Keeper roles, these extraordinary women must balance the fate of the world with their desires. The Keepers: L.A. is a dark and epic paranormal quartet led by NYT bestselling author Heather Graham in THE GATEKEEPER, followed by KEEPER OF THE NIGHT, KEEPER OF THE MOON by Harley Jane Kozak, KEEPER OF THE SHADOWS by Alexandra Sokoloff and KEEPER OF THE DAWN by Heather Graham.

Author : Heather Graham
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460300893

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Keeper of the Night by Heather Graham Pdf

New Keeper Rhiannon Gryffald has her peacekeeping duties cut out for her—because in Hollywood, it's hard to tell the actors from the werewolves, bloodsuckers and shape-shifters. Then Rhiannon hears about a string of murders that bear all the hallmarks of a vampire serial killer, and she must confront her greatest challenge yet. Together with Elven detective Brodie McKay, they head to Laurel Canyon, epicenter of the danger, where they uncover a plot that may forever alter the face of human-paranormal relations.

Author : Isaac Grant Thompson,Irving Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103642585

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The American Reports by Isaac Grant Thompson,Irving Browne Pdf

Author : Indiana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117304555

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Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana by Indiana Pdf

Author : Indiana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74643364

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Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana, Administrative Officers, Trustees and Superintendents of the Several Benevolent and Reformatory Institutions ... by Indiana Pdf

Author : Indiana. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Indiana
ISBN : IND:30000083209613

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Biennial Report of ... , Secretary of State of the State of Indiana for the Two Years Ending October 31, ... to the Governor by Indiana. Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Indiana. Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2998635

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Report of the Secretary of State by Indiana. Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Barbara from Harlem
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682615867

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Escaping the Racism of Low Expectations by Barbara from Harlem Pdf

I was a liberal by default. I asked no questions. I had no answers. I just pulled the lever to vote for Democrats as was expected of me. Most of my fellow Black Americans do not fully understand what the term “liberal” means, or who or what they are voting for. And, in turn they don’t realize how harmful those “liberal” policies are to our freedoms and liberties as Americans. I was born into a culture that believes Black equals Democrat. A broken home, failed marriage, and a feeling of victimization fueled my need for inclusion, which the Democratic Party fulfilled. As an activist and member of the NAACP and Democratic Clubs in Harlem, the men I looked up to—the Rev. Jesse Jackson (whom I also campaigned for), Congressman Charlie Rangel, and Rev. Al Sharpton—reinforced the negative perceptions that shaped my world. But just like false prophets, the false narrative that has been spoon-fed to us by Black leaders, the Black community, the media, and progressive politicians has enslaved Blacks in a victimhood mentality and entitlement mindset. But my eyes were opened to reject victimhood and lack of accountability. My journey has proven to me that when you have clarity of conscience, love of God, and a deep-seated belief in America’s goodness, your life will be enriched and your focus will change to one of accountability.

Author : South Carolina. Attorney General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
ISBN : MINN:31951D026369239

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Annual Report of the Attorney General for the State of South Carolina to the General Assembly by South Carolina. Attorney General's Office Pdf

Author : Karlis Racevskis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438416687

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Modernity's Pretenses by Karlis Racevskis Pdf

Modernity's Pretenses undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe. Racevskis argues that modernity's elaborate designs for rationalizing the world have mainly functioned as covers and alibis (i.e., pretenses). Modernity's promise to liberate humanity from superstition, injustice, and want has been a tactic for making exploitation seem noble and for lending barbarism an aura of progress. Racevskis examines the mechanisms and history of the pretending that mark the modern world and surveys the critical approaches that have proven most effective in dispelling the credibility of pretenses.

Author : South Carolina. Attorney General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
ISBN : OSU:32437011313323

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Annual Report of the Attorney General of South Carolina to the General Assembly by South Carolina. Attorney General's Office Pdf

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101190692

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False Pretenses by Catherine Coulter Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter’s first contemporary suspense novel: the explosive story of how one woman survives the destruction of her perfect life—and the dubious intentions of three mysterious men... A famous concert pianist married to a wealthy international business tycoon, Elizabeth Carleton is the envy of all—until the night her husband is stabbed in the chest with an ice pick and everything falls apart. Accused of murder, Elizabeth has little hope of being exonerated until a surprise witness appears to give her an airtight alibi. The jury finds her not guilty. The only thing is: She’s never met the man who testified on her behalf. Free and completely bewildered, Elizabeth must now cope with the financial empire her husband left behind and his family, who want to destroy her. Then three men suddenly appear in her life. Can she trust any of them? Or is one of them a murderer?

Author : Mads Hennen
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647023942

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Escaping the Aventine (HB) by Mads Hennen Pdf

Escaping the Aventine By: Mads Hennen Is a captor truly free? Can people connected to each other through debt or love ever really be free, even if they are not in captivity? Escaping the Aventine explores themes of captivity, relationships, and family.