33 Results for : mendacity
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Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 246min
Are American businesses generally less ethical than their counterparts around the world? Does a particular unethical mentality exist in the American business-culture? This book presents a number of cases of unethical conduct at American companies, along with a part on such conduct in companies in other regions of the world.Rather than following with the traditional orientation to ethical decision-making, the emphasis here is on the underlying mentality out of which the decisions come. The mentality itself, often times mendacious, is presented here as inherently unethical in itself. A variety of industries are represented so to demonstrate such a lower common denominator. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cory Schaeffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101655/bk_acx0_101655_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Night Visitor: A Shaman Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 825min
The morning after the aged Ute shaman receives a perplexing visit from a silent, disheveled matukach "magician," Daisy's neighbor, Nathan McFain, discovers something astonishing buried in the dirt on his foundering Colorado dude ranch: The bones of gargantuan beast from a prehistoric age. It is a find of enormous scientific importance that attracts the attention of a wide variety of individuals: Noted paleontologist Moses Silver and his archaeologist daughter Delia; pillars of the scientific community Robert Newton and Cordell York; an Arkansas sharpie named Flye, an overly interested local antiques dealer… and Charlie Moon of the Southern Ute Police Department. At the McFain spread primarily to keep an eye on the disreputable Flye, Moon is curious about the strange old bones ....and wary as well. For things this ancient and rare have been known to inspire evil deeds in the past, including avarice, mendacity, and murder. And, when one of the prime players in this timeless drama vanishes without a trace, Charlie worries that his greatest fears have been realized. But while Charlie investigates the unexplained disappearance - and a very suspicious death that follows soon after - using rational and accepted police methods, his Aunt Daisy is being drawn by forces preternatural into a grimly related mystery. For craven murder is not the exclusive domain of contemporary Man - and a cry for justice from the past has reached Daisy Perika and tow, extraordinary young girls in her care, ensnaring them all in something old, dark, and dangerous. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Romy Nordlinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013386/bk_adbl_013386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 946min
Lillian Hellman was a giant of 20th-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donna Postel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009773/bk_adbl_009773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Journeyer (eBook, ePUB)
Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now, in his new novel The Journeyer, Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and, insatiably curious, becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages and women.In more than two decades of travel, Marco was variously a merchant, a warrior, a lover, a spy, even a tax collector - but always a journeyer, unflagging in his appetite for new experiences, regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor, the love of adventure, the zest for the rare and curious that are Jennings's hallmarks - is the epic account, at once magnificent and delightful, of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.- Shop: buecher
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The Fembot of Norway: RILF; Robots I'd Like to Find, Book 33 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
Coke cans, pizza boxes, and darkness surround Bill Blakley. At 46, Bill’s will became dead to the complexities of 21st century living. The world was again at war, the stock market recently crashed, and he wants to expatriate to Norway. Within the dark confides of his two room apartment, peace, love, and sex all coexist without the price of mendacity. The white walls are chipped with rust, mildew and insects. The black mold carpet reek of chewing tobacco, red wine, and urine. For Bill had fired his maid two years ago because of "creative differences".Life, achieving even an emotion, or tasting food, friendships, family were all just a shallow pool to him. But he did have his faith in himself, in the Mother Mary. His mom and dad dead. His family rejects his call for unity years ago. Classmates became creeps, and the press hounded his trail. Bill won the Pulitzer Prize for what he calls "Bullshit" two years ago. 2020, after 14 years in the service, Billy decided to watch porno all day and write all night. Traffic shotbys on the freeway are the norm. Most people even in the burbs turn off all lights at night, and had armed guards outside the front and back porches.“What in the hell is wrong with CNN (Constant Nazi News Bill's nickname for this news station)! All this spin meister bit with the news!" And people wonder why people are the way they are!” Bill said with a sigh of disbelief. A small 60 watt bulb was the only companion he knew, besides the Internet. For he had become dependent on this wonder to provide the utilities, the avenue to travel, and the supply to his daily necessities.“For those of you who enjoy futuristic science fiction, exploring the human race merging with Robots, this book is for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randall Owens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227616/bk_acx0_227616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding - Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies - resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don’t ask where the water comes from. They don’t see a city with the nation’s highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don’t see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead - where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017457/bk_adbl_017457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green
Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green: ab 3.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Mendacity Quirk Slipstream Snafu
Mendacity Quirk Slipstream Snafu: ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Virtues of Mendacity
The Virtues of Mendacity - On Lying in Politics: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Mendacity of Hope
The Mendacity of Hope - Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism: ab 7.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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