Why should we avoid telling lies and why should we avoid liars? How do lies destroy communities? How do lies destroy families? What is a liar’s fast, and how can it help us? Find out the answers in The Truth About a Lie.
This book is a collection of 29 of the most popular blog posts and chapters on deception written by Dr. Bella DePaulo, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of lying and detecting lies.
In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse?
'This is devastatingly good' Heat From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls comes a gripping emotional thriller of love and obsession and the nature of coercive control.
Everyone lies every now and then. Little white lies are often told to spare someone's feelings, and big lies are sometimes told to keep people out of trouble. Why are lying and deception so widespread, and are they always wrong?
Can you be honest enough to admit to yourself that you lie? If you have the courage to accept it, then this book 17 Lies That Are Holding You Back & The Truth That Will Set You Free is for you.
More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich “No one,” Hannah Arendt observed, “has ever counted truthfulness as ...