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Would They Lie to You?: How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People
Robert S. Hutton
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Description for Would They Lie to You?: How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People
Hardcover. You can steer a truck through the gap between a lie and the simple truth. This book tells you how to load the truck. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
How do you apologise when you're not sorry? Where can you make a fortune out of pretending to know the future? What's the best way to steal credit and avoid blame? These are the vital life skills that people need if they're going to make their way in the world. And they all involve one ingredient: flannel, the art of not saying what you mean. It's not exactly lying, but it's definitely not telling the truth. In Romps, Tots and Boffins, Robert Hutton brilliantly 'laid bare' the true meanings of the words we read in the papers. Following popular demand, ... Read more
How do you apologise when you're not sorry? Where can you make a fortune out of pretending to know the future? What's the best way to steal credit and avoid blame? These are the vital life skills that people need if they're going to make their way in the world. And they all involve one ingredient: flannel, the art of not saying what you mean. It's not exactly lying, but it's definitely not telling the truth. In Romps, Tots and Boffins, Robert Hutton brilliantly 'laid bare' the true meanings of the words we read in the papers. Following popular demand, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783960088
SKU
V9781783960088
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About Robert S. Hutton
Robert Hutton is the author of Romps, Tots and Boffins (E&T, 2013). He has been UK political correspondent for Bloomberg since 2004; previously, he worked at the Mirror and Financial Times. Having read Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Edinburgh University, he is believed to be the only member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery to have built a rugby-playing robot. ... Read more
Reviews for Would They Lie to You?: How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People
Brutally funny
Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail; The irresistible vade mecum of every prangmeister and cock-up artist.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London; 'a stocking-fillerish contribution for the political nerd in your life'
Helen Lewis, Guardian's best political books of the year; 'Confused? Of course you are. You're supposed to be. But help is at hand: Hutton's handbook ... Read more
Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail; The irresistible vade mecum of every prangmeister and cock-up artist.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London; 'a stocking-fillerish contribution for the political nerd in your life'
Helen Lewis, Guardian's best political books of the year; 'Confused? Of course you are. You're supposed to be. But help is at hand: Hutton's handbook ... Read more