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1) Liar & spy
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
2) Liars
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In this program, psychologist John Marsden attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding deception and identify its cues in body language and facial expression. Donald Bickerstaff and Beth Shannon are featured.
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A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during...
7) Liar, Liar
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Whether it's telling a little white lie or a serious betrayal, your brain is built to know when tweaking the truth can be beneficial. This episode will explore why we lie, how often we lie, and what goes on in the brain that allows us to stretch the truth in the first place. If you pay attention, we'll even teach you a few tricks that can help you catch a liar. So stick around as we get to the truth about lying, on Brain Games!
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This program takes a penetrating look at what is happening to American culture as honesty comes to be measured less by truthfulness and more by the reasons for lying and the degree of deception involved. What is to become of a society in which professional ethicists are required to help companies recapture a culture of integrity, a role previously reserved for religion? Experts include Laura Nash, Director of the Institute for Values-Centered Leadership;...
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When roadside assistance operator Jessie Dancing takes a call from real estate tycoon Darren Markson, she thinks she hears him being killed while she's on the phone with him. Jessie travels from Phoenix to her hometown of Tucson to let Markson's wife hear that last communication from her husband. But according to Emily he's very much alive!
10) The Liar's craft
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In this video, Dr. Salvador Minuchin works with a step family seeking assistance with their daughter's habitual lying. Dr. Minuchin initiates a challenge to the family certainty that the symptom was the daughter's lying. The shift from daughter's as a carrier of lying to the father's control over the daughter will change through the session, moving to the parent's control and then to the mother's control.
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Like it or not, humans are adept at the art of lying. Drawing upon the fields of psychology, sociology, technology, philosophy, and criminology, this program sheds light on the complex realities of untruthfulness through the work of researchers who have made lying a subject of profound study: Professor Bella DePaulo, an expert on the communication of deception; Professor Maureen O'Sullivan, an authority on social-emotional intelligence, lie detection,...
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Eve, A 9-year-old hardened by time as a neglected foster child, is used to taking life seriously. So, when she meets Dave, a drunk thirty something who forgot to grow up, she sees an opportunity. The two take a trip to reunite her with her brother, and Dave finds himself on the run from the cops and robbers. Eve and Dave may find that the quickest route to their destination is through each other.
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"This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Michael Lewis. In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor)...
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After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O'Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the...
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