Search Results - "distortion"

Distorting the law politics, media, and the litigation crisis / by Haltom, William

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Distorted mirrors Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

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Undermining science suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration / by Shulman, Seth

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The Supreme Court's retreat from Reconstruction a distortion of constitutional jurisprudence / by Scaturro, Frank J.

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Detecting malingering and deception : forensic distortion analysis (FDA-5) / by Hall, Harold V., Poirier, Joseph G.

Table of Contents: “…Foundational Issues in Deception -- Deception in Contemporary Times -- Involuntary Distortion -- The Applied Forensic Distortion Analysis Model -- Evaluation Process Guidelines -- Deception and Nonverbal Behavior -- Deception in Nonhumans -- Deception in Children -- Deception in Adolescents -- Deception in the Elderly -- Civil Law and Deception -- Malingered Neuropsychological Deficits -- Faked Pain and Loss of Sensation -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Deception -- Interviewing and Deception -- Competency and Deception -- Criminal Responsibility and Deception -- Faked Amnesia and Recall Skills -- Psychosis and Deception -- Hallucinations and Deception -- Deception and the Systemic Problem of Substance Abuse -- Violence Risk Analysis and Deception -- Trends and Future Directions.…”
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Bias : a CBS insider exposes how the media distort the news / by Goldberg, Bernard, 1945-

The miseducation of the West how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world /

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Education governance for the twenty-first century overcoming the structural barriers to school reform /

“…How current education governance distorts financial decisionmaking.…”
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State-local governmental interactions by Zimmerman, Joseph Francis, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…State governments and their political subdivisions -- The state-local government legal relationship -- State-local fiscal relations -- State mandated local government expenditure distortions -- State responses to local government problems -- The federal influence -- A partnership approach.…”
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Individaul Accounts for Social Security Reform : International Perspectives on the U.S. Debate / by Turner, John A. (John Andrew), 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Individual accounts and social security reform -- Introduction to individual accounts -- Individual accounts in social security reform : the debate -- Agency risk and the management of individual account investments by corporations and mutual funds -- Individual management risk -- Labor market issues -- Benefits and taxes -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendix A : Dealing with financial market risks : guarantees in individual accounts -- Appendix B : Labor market distortions due to contribution evasion and avoidance.…”
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Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / by Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Burgess and parole prediction -- The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing -- The critique of actuarial methods -- The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency -- The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost -- The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment -- Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing -- A case study on racial profiling -- Shades of gray -- The virtues of randomization.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Hang 'em high law and disorder in western films and literature / by Herzberg, Bob, 1956-

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Black and blue the origins and consequences of medical racism / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

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The Union war by Gallagher, Gary W.

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