In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones--the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)--tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease. A true story of privilege, loss, self-discovery, and redemption, Lies My Mother Never Told Me is Jones's unforgettable account of a not-quite-fairy-tale childhood and adulthood defined by two constants: literature and alcohol.
Destined to become a modern classic, Its Wildness Lies in Wait is the definitive guide to not getting played by the lottery. Record-setting lottery jackpots occur regularly around the world, but great riches seem to lie just outside our grasp. So we look for an edge: by using lotto websites, books, software, systems (or wheels), and even the supernatural. But is there an edge? Or is there really no way to increase our chances of winning the lottery, short of buying more tickets? It's time to finally set the record straight by dispelling the many myths surrounding the lottery. In a landmark new book, Mark Jones Lorenzo picks apart dozens of loud, flashy, and false lottery myths. And he argues persuasively that lotto systems, software, and other popular techniques and methods supposedly designed to provide players an advantage are mostly deceptive pseudoscientific nonsense, not satisfying the criteria of mathematical soundness, statistical rigor, or empirical efficacy. Lorenzo, a longtime instructor of mathematics, offers up a sophisticated, carefully reasoned, and powerful meditation on the lottery, exhaustively exploring the many strains of thought in lottery literature from a mathematical, statistical, psychological, philosophical, epistemological, and historical perspective, as well as decoding the computer algorithms--such as full- and abbreviated-wheel creation, historical data analysis, and quick picks' generation, among others--powering lotto software. What's more, the cognitive biases that may help explain why we find ourselves mentally stuck--not just when thinking about the lottery, but with mathematical probabilities in general--are detailed. From the well-known gambler's fallacy to the newly minted distribution-confusion fallacy, understanding how the illusions of control and the limits of prediction muddy the waters is paramount to lotto myth-busting. Brimming with pop culture references, fresh anecdotes, and real-world examples, Its Wildness Lies in Wait has much to offer the lottery novice and expert alike. You'll never play the lotto in quite the same way again after you learn how to spot the lottery lies which lie in wait.
There are those moments in life that are provocative in their very existence, that embed in our minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save us. But some are darker, dangerous. If we allow them to, they control us. Seduce us. Quite possibly even destroy us. The moment Nick 'Tiger' Rogers walked into Sonoma’s Reid Winter Winery and Vineyard and made eye contact with Faith Winter for the first time was one of those moments. Provocative because he knows at least one of her secrets, of which, he suspects she has many. Provocative because she believes he was a stranger to her when they met, but he's not. Provocative because he sought her out, with no intention of touching her. But now he has. Now he wants her. Now he has to have her. But that changes nothing. It doesn’t change why he came for her. He made her trust him. And then he trusted her. He wanted her. He loved her. But now, the lies will be exposed, the truth revealed. Hearts will be broken. Lives shattered. For Nick and Faith, nothing will ever be the same.
The tenth and final novel in the Catrin Sayer series.In the middle of family upheaval during the Covid pandemic, Catrin Sayer takes a career development assignment with the Devon and Cornwall Police. There, at the rank of superintendent, she chairs a reorganisation task force, a far cry from her former operational roles with the Metropolitan Police.During her contract, the violent deaths of a man and his daughter in Tavistock are linked to an art theft. Art crime being Sayer's core expertise, she suddenly has two roles: chair of the task force and oversight of the team investigating the murders. After one perpetrator is identified and arrested, Sayer's actions to achieve further arrests place her career as a police officer at risk.
Don't blame the computers. People are running the show. This is the new edition of the definitive textbook on data visualization. There's added material on fake news and social media disinformation, misinterpretation of metadata, and the uses and abuses of Big Data. If you're using a computer to generate charts for meetings and reports, you don't have to be taught how to lie - you're already doing it. You probably don't know your charts are unreliable, and neither does your audience. So you're getting away with it - until a manager or a sales prospect or an investor makes a bad decision based on the information that you were so helpful to provide. The main focus of How to Lie with Charts is on the principles of persuasive - and undistorted - visual communication. It's about careful thinking and clear expression.
Best friends tell each other the truth – don't they? When North Stone's best friend Kelly Orton is found hanging lifeless in a tree, North knows for certain it wasn't suicide. Kelly had everything to live for – a loving boyfriend, a happy life, and most importantly of all, Kelly would never leave North all by herself. The girls have been friends since childhood, devoted to each other, soul sisters, or at least that's what North has always believed. But did Kelly feel the same way, or was she keeping secrets from her 'best friend' – deadly secrets... When the police refuse to take North's suspicions seriously, she sets out to investigate for herself. But her search soon takes her to a glamorous world with a seedy underbelly, and before long North is out of her depth and getting ever closer to danger. Determined to find the truth, she soon wishes that dead girls could lie, because the truth is too painful to believe... 'In this well written novel the author made me feel North's frustration, and enjoyed the flashbacks of her friendship with Kelly which illustrated their mutual dependence, or was it North's need for Kelly which made their bond so strong?' Anita Davison.
All he wants is to be left alone. But the Solar System has other plans.Joe Drive is done being a spacejet pilot, done fighting the Resistance. Retired to a quiet life on the far side of the Moon. Then an impossible request from the most beautiful woman in the Solar System brings a world of trouble to his door.Now assassins want him dead, the richest and most dangerous Elite in the Solar System wants a quiet word, and a young monk from the obscure Peter Foundation says his mission will affect humanity's future. Somebody has created a Graviton strong enough to kill the Moon, and Joe has no idea why.Joe Drive needs to get off the launch pad and back into the game. He needs to save the girl, protect the Moon, face his old Commander and help the Resistance in their struggle against the Elites. If only to regain his peace and quiet. In a Solar System where everything is up in the air and nothing is what it seems, Joe's best friend is the spacejet pilot's ultimate truth: Gravity Doesn't Lie.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE 2021In a quiet leafy suburb of Kingston upon Thames the police are baffled by a series of seemingly indiscriminate killings, and it appears that the perfect murders are being perpetrated. But is there something linking them together? Could there be a serial killer, a psychopath, on the loose? The British police across the South of England must collaborate with MI5, the drug squad, and Interpol in an effort to track down the culprit. And just as they seem to be getting somewhere it looks like a turf war between the Russian and American mafia might be beginning. Can they reach the truth, before it all goes too far? And will there ever be a happy ending?
Don's True Book of Lies is about an aspiring writer that finds himself in the middle of fantasy and reality as he tries to find his calling in this life.
"‘Truth and Lies in Architecture’ delves deep into the soul of architects and their work." — Naser Nader Ibrahim, Amazing Architecture This is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice. The nature of the great cultural, social, political, environmental, and consumerist challenges facing the contemporary architect are explored, interpreted, and questioned, while drawing connections from architecture theory, philosophy, science, literature, and film sources in an attempt to negotiate the territory between the truth and lies in architecture. These essays written by a leading Australian architect represent a level of comprehensive critical awareness rarely found within the architectural profession and one would be hard pressed to find another comparable figure in contemporary architectural practice. The entire argumentation is impressive, challenging, intellectually at the highest level and beautifully written.
