The Oldest Trick In The Book

Author : Ben M. Debney
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811555699
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oldest Trick in the Book written by Ben M. Debney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried out under cover of moral panic, highlighting the process of ‘Othering’ common to each and theorising a historical model of panic-driven scapegoating from the results. Building this model from case studies in witch panic, communist panic and terrorist panic respectively, The Oldest Trick in the Book builds an argument that features common to each case study reflect broader historical patterning consistent with Churchill’s maxim. On this basis it argues that the periodic construction of bogeymen or ‘folk demons’ is a useful device for enabling the kind of victim-playing and victim-blaming critical to protecting elite privilege during periods of crisis and that in being a recurring theme historically, panic-driven scapegoating retains great ongoing value to the privileged and powerful, and thus conspicuously remains an ongoing feature of world politics.

Author : Yuan Gao
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountains written by Yuan Gao and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hieronymus Bosch-Stiftung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783981569513
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oldest Trick in the Book . a Compendium about the Cups and Balls in Graphic Arts written by Hieronymus Bosch-Stiftung and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitchell Symons
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448121477
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You written by Mitchell Symons and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVER WONDERED . . . Why we have tonsils? Is there any cream in cream crackers? Why is the sea blue? And if kangaroos keep their babies in their pouches, what happens to all the poo?! Mitch Symons answers all these crazy questions and plenty more in this wonderfully funny and addictive book for children from 8 to 80! And yes, eating bogeys is good for you . . . but only your own!

Author : Ellis Stanyon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486405308
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks written by Ellis Stanyon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tricks for amateurs and professionals alike -- from relatively complex maneuvers involving mathematical calculation to simple tricks for beginners such as "The Traveling Ace."

Author : J V James
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oldest Trick in the Book written by J V James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice for the orphan child - time to find out the Truth. Lyle Frakes here again, and this time we sure got some trouble. After almost getting robbed by the world's youngest gang of train robbers, we arrive in Cheyenne to hunt down the skunks who killed Mary's parents. Seems like half the dang town's in cahoots - and with the big horse race in town, and my old friend Wally Davis being targeted too, we got backshooters coming at us from every direction. As usual, there's no shortage of men who can't wait to throw themselves at my fists, or test out my guns against theirs. And then there's these threatening letters I keep having to hide from my wife to keep her from worrying. Well, you know what they say - when you bite off more than you can chew, you best keep right on chewing!

Author : Richard Rohr
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1524762105
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Christ written by Richard Rohr and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.

Author : Richard Kaufman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762762578
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knack Magic Tricks written by Richard Kaufman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From simple to advanced, and using household and inexpensive props, Knack Magic Tricks includes tricks using cards, coins, handkerchiefs, and fruit, as well as mental tricks, anytime tricks, standup tricks, and tricks especially for kids (to be performed both for them and by them).

Author : Kim Stafford
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341374
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do written by Kim Stafford and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of “talking recklessly,” there was a code of silence about hard things: “Why tell what hurts?” As childhood pleasures ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his troubles. Against a backdrop of the 1960s — puritan in the summer of love, pacifist in the Vietnam era — Bret became a casualty of his interior war and took his life in 1988. 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do casts spells in search of the lost brother: climbing the water tower to stand naked under the moon, cowboys and Indians with real bullets, breaking into church to play a serenade for God, struggling for love, and making bail. In this book, through a brother’s devotions, the lost saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy.

Author : Lyz Lenz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1541762827
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belabored written by Lyz Lenz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belabored, Lyz Lenz will "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, contributing editor at MarieClaire.com). Written with a blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, Belabored is an impassioned and irreverent defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people. Lenz shows how religious, historical, and cultural myths about pregnancy have warped the way we treat pregnant people: when our representatives enact laws criminalizing abortion and miscarriage, when doctors prioritize the health of the fetus over the life of the pregnant patient in front of them, when baristas refuse to serve visibly pregnant women caffeine. She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two children and seeing how the sacrifices demanded during pregnancy carry over seamlessly into the cult of motherhood, where women are expected to play the narrowly defined roles of "wife" and "mother" rather than be themselves. Belabored is an urgent call for us to trust women and let them choose what happens to their own bodies, from a writer who "is on a roll" (Bitch Magazine).