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Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research
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Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure compliance with ongoing demands for money. This article identifies similarities and differences between domestic violence and romance fraud. We argue that thinking through domestic violence and romance fraud together offers potential benefits to both bodies of research.
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Two-part inventions : a novel
Two-part inventions begins when Suzanne, a concert pianist, dies suddenly of a stroke in the New York City apartment she shares with her producer husband Philip. Rather than mourn in peace, Philip becomes deeply paranoid: their life is based on a fraud and the acclaimed music the couple created is about to be exposed. Philip had built a career for his wife by altering her recordings, taking a portion of a song here and there, from recordings of other pianists. Syncing the alterations seamlessly, he created a piece of flawless music with Suzanne getting sole credit.
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BOOKS:'Past Imperfect' delves into historians' cheating jags
\"Past Imperfect\" demonstrates that [Peter Charles Hoffer] was the right guy for the job. An insider who helps monitor the honesty of fellow academics through the American Historical Association, Hoffer offers persuasive evidence that [Stephen Ambrose], [Doris Kearns Goodwin], [Joseph Ellis] and [Michael Bellesiles] are all guilty. Yet rather than present an aggressive prosecutorial version, Hoffer offers tough love as he explains how his colleagues fell from their pedestals. Many Ambrose devotees concluded that their beloved author, who defended himself vigorously until his death in 2002, was guilty of nothing more than occasional carelessness; Hoffer, an Ambrose fan before the allegations arose, thought some explanation might emerge that would clear the air. Instead, he concluded that \"Ambrose reduced the other scholars from whom he appropriated exact language virtually to the status of research assistants, incorporating into his own documents and passing off as his own their findings and their unique way of looking at those findings.\" \"Everyone who undertakes to write about or teach American history in a thorough manner has an almost intolerable burden,\" Hoffer says, \"to balance a critical approach and a rightful pride. The effort to carry that burden began with the creation of the American nation, continued through two centuries of historical scholarship, and provides the context for the achievements and failings of Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin. For in different ways they tried to shoulder that burden, and in different ways it proved too heavy for them.\"
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Bill Riley's head
What one does for love and money! The love being Francine Toutant. The money being one Bill Riley--notorious Dakota Territory outlaw. Thus, we find bounty hunter T. J. Ragland riding across the bleak Dakota Territory carrying the head of Bill Riley in a gunny sack, bound for Fort Leavenworth where a three-thousand-dollar bounty reward awaits him. Reaching the sorry little town of Bend City, tucked into a wide bend in the Missouri River, Ragland intends to catch a riverboat to Fort Leavenworth. Due to some poor decisions, Bill Riley's head is stolen. Marshal Bethany Bulger is a no-nonsense sort of woman who would like nothing better than for Ragland to leave town. Ragland finds this curious until he discovers that Bethany and some other folks are neck deep in insurance fraud. Throw in a drunken Indian, an undercover Pinkerton's detective, foreign agents, and murder, and Ragland quickly discovers a lot more is happening in Bend City than its sleepy appearance suggests.
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The Founding Father
[Joseph Ellis] quickly admitted his guilt, was suspended without pay for a year by Mount Holyoke and suffered immeasurable shame. Given his tarnished record, should he now be welcomed back into the ranks of credible and influential historians? Does his imagination perhaps run out of control in his research and writing? [Peter Charles Hoffer] addresses these questions in \"Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History.\" The Ellis case is one of four Hoffer treats in \"Past Imperfect.\" He makes no attempt to excuse the misrepresentations based on shoddy research made by Michael Bellesiles in \"Arming America.\" Reviewing it in the Post-Dispatch, I, like many reviewers, including the committee that awarded Bellesiles the Bancroft Prize, did not question his scholarship. I called it \"an erudite, convincing book.\" Now we know better. Despite the sound scholarship in this book, Hoffer probably cannot expect to be treated gently by the right-tilting pundits and politicians who attacked Bellesiles, [Doris Kearns Goodwin] and Ellis and, a decade ago, assailed the National History Standards. ([Stephen Ambrose] was faulted primarily by other historians.) Watch for them to dig for flaws in \"Past Imperfect\" and to go after him mercilessly if they can find them.
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Under the Literary Microscope
\"Science in fiction,\" \"geek novels,\" \"lab-lit\"—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space.
Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science.
Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses.
In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.
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Kiss me first : a novel
Leila, a sheltered young misfit, discovers an online chat forum where she feels accepted and falls under the spell of the website's charismatic founder, who entices her into assuming the stolen identity of a glamorous but desperate woman.
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'I wouldn't trust that map': Fraudulent Geographies in Late Victorian Lost World Novels
This article examines the connection between the late Victorian lost world novel and the fraudulent or flawed maps that frequently punctuate its narratives. Drawing on sociological risk theory, it argues that the model of adventure structuring these texts is one of liminality and 'experiential tension,' and that their fraudulent geographies are a spatial counterpart to this liminal model. They promote an adventure characterized by perpetual potential and possibility, one we might more accurately term 'meta-adventure.' This model was central to both the imperialist enterprise during the late nineteenth century and to the discourse of 'hypothetical masculinity' that helped bolster and uphold it. The problematic geographies of these texts illuminate the ways in which fiction, masculinity, and adventure were mutually productive processes during the fin de siècle, and the ways in which this interrelationship was facilitated, at least in part, by the 'unmapping' of adventurous space.
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