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The Art of Deception is a book by Kevin Mitnick that covers the art of social engineering. [1] [2] Part of the book is composed of real stories and examples of how social engineering can be combined with hacking. All, or nearly all, of the examples, are fictional but quite plausible.
The Trout memo, written in 1939, is a document comparing the deception of an enemy in wartime with fly fishing. [1] Issued under the name of Admiral John Godfrey, Britain's director of naval intelligence, according to the historian Ben Macintyre it bore the hallmarks of having been written by Godfrey's assistant Ian Fleming, who later created the James Bond series of spy novels.
The book is written almost entirety in dialogue and is presented as the research notes for Roth’s earlier novel The Counterlife.The novel marks the first time Roth uses his own name as the name of the protagonist within a fictional work; he had previously used himself as a main character in a work of non-fiction - The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, and would do so again in the memoir ...
Victor John Ostrovsky (born 28 November 1949) is an author and intelligence officer who was a case officer in the Israeli Mossad for 14 months before his dismissal. After leaving the Mossad, Ostrovsky authored two books about his service with the Mossad: By Way of Deception, [1] a #1 New York Times bestseller in 1990, and The Other Side of Deception several years later.
He is the head of Deception, Disinformation and Psychological Operations, and his maverick but brilliant successes have led to his nickname "The Deceiver." The stories had previously been filmed as Frederick Forsyth Presents, a miniseries for British television, in 1989 and 1990, with McCready played by Alan Howard. The book followed in 1991.
In 2010, Howard Friel wrote The Lomborg Deception, a book-length critique of Cool It, which fact-checks all of Lomborg's claims against the book's references and tests their authority and substance. Friel has said he found "misrepresentation of academic research, misquotation of data, reliance on studies irrelevant to the author’s claims and ...
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (2011, Basic Books, ISBN 0465027555) by Robert Trivers is a book that examines the evolutionary explanations for deceit and self-deception. Trivers focuses primarily on humans but he includes examples from many other organisms as well.
Her first book, A Season to be Born, was published in 1973.It was a diary of the birth of her daughter, with photographs by the baby's father, John Arms. [1]A second book, Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America, appeared in 1975, which became a best-seller, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; [3] By 1979, it had sold more than 150,000 copies.