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Never have I ever : a novel
\"Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it--teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when the mysterious and alluring Angelica Roux arrives on her doorstep one book club night.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Negotiation in Middlemarch
We analyze a negotiation drawn from George Eliot’s great novel
. Eliot is renowned as a perceptive chronicler of social interaction, and she understood the process of negotiation and its role in the community perhaps as well as anyone. The negotiation in question is between a wealthy banker and a former associate who sets out (or perhaps just ends up) blackmailing him. From this negotiation we draw insights into the importance of preparation and the prenegotiation, empathy, and the fostering of relationships (even when you would prefer not to); and the problems of focusing on one’s own BATNA rather than your counterparts’. We consider six key negotiation lessons for the fictional negotiator (and for us) and reflect on the difficulty of negotiations in which one's self‐regard is at issue in addition to material goods. We conclude with a brief account of how both fictional and “nonfictional” negotiations further our understanding of how to learn about and improve negotiation practice.
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Closer to the chest
Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and bully them. Mags and Amily will have to track down someone who leaves few clues behind.
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La puissance séductrice des économies prédatrices : fragrance de santal dans la contrebande des ressources environnementales en Inde du Sud
Le présent article traite de la fabrique chaotique du capitalisme prédateur à partir d’une étude ethnographique des logiques déployées par une chaîne d’acteurs impliqués dans l’éradication successive de deux essences forestières dans le sud de l’Inde, des années 1980 à aujourd’hui. Il retrace une histoire de la contrebande de ces bois précieux dans deux États indiens frontaliers et de la criminalisation d’une population dite « tribale » engagée au plus bas de l’échelle des chaînes de prédation. Grâce à l’incertitude générée par les entrelacements mafieux entre le politique, l’État, l’économie ainsi qu’entre le légal et l’illégal, de multiples opportunités économiques, dangereuses mais rémunératrices, s’ouvrent néanmoins à ces acteurs du trafic, mais aussi aux policiers, avocats, juges, et politiciens-contrebandiers. Les saisir requiert des « prises de confiance » risquées, parfois mortelles, mais indispensables pour espérer s’élever dans cette économie. La prédation capitaliste des ressources environnementales assure ici sa reproduction par la puissance séductrice d’une activité illicite, attirante et menaçante, qui oblige ceux qui y prennent part à se trouver simultanément dans des positions de proie et de prédateur. Cette réversibilité des positions stimule une participation complice à la contrebande : en étant à la fois proie et prédateur, créditeur et endetté, extorqueur et extorqué, chacun devient potentiellement éligible à l’obtention d’un micro-privilège ou d’un micro-bénéfice. Ces logiques prédatrices se déclinent dans des gammes relationnelles asymétriques marquées par une distinction troublée entre amitiés et trahisons, fiction et réalité, extorsion et protection, ainsi que dette, don et coercition. De tels environnements sont propices à des sous-marchés de la prédation, encouragés par des acteurs juridiques et policiers qui utilisent la loi comme une arme pour extorquer les travailleurs du bois qu’ils arrêtent. Loin de se situer hors du capitalisme, nous montrons que cette économie illicite, par ses usages de la loi et de la violence, en est une forme pleinement contemporaine.
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One mile under : a Ty Hauck novel
\"A pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross, about a whitewater rafting guide who investigates a suspicious death and uncovers a multinational conspiracy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lessons in Impunity
This essay is one in a series concerned with language ordeals, in which I examine particular discursive practices involving the self-suppression of voicing. Here I link examples of blackmail or extortion in crime fiction and the more discreet but real practices in commerce and the academy. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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The girl I used to be
\"The morning after real estate agent Gemma Brogan has dinner with a prospective client, she's furious at herself for drinking so much. But there will be more to regret than a nasty hangover. She starts receiving mementos from that night: A photo of a hallway kiss. A video of her complaining about her husband. And worse, much worse. The problem is, she doesn't remember any of it. As the blackmailing and menace ramp up, Gemma fears for her already shaky marriage. The paranoia, the feeling that her life is spiraling out of control, will take her back to another night, years ago, that changed everything. And Gemma will realize just how far the shadows from her past can reach\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Where the bones are buried
Dinah Pelerin's peaceful life in Berlin with boyfriend, Thor, is jeopardized when her Seminole mother, Swan, comes to visit carrying a headful of blackmail schemes and lies. When they result in murder, Swan is the obvious suspect and it is up to Dinah, like it or not, to get her mom out of it.
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LESSONS IN IMPUNITY
This essay is one in a series concerned with language ordeals, in which I examine particular discursive practices involving the self-suppression of voicing. Here I link examples of blackmail or extortion in crime fiction and the more discreet but real practices in commerce and the academy.
Journal Article