Masks: A Handbook of Masks, Facades, and Games People Play to Impress and Control Others

'Imagine that Gulliver-like you become shipwrecked on an island that practices an odd custom—and a very strange one it is.'

Rarely has it been so important to recognize the various deceitful masks people wear, then in our present age of sham cable-news networks, fraudulent facebook accounts, phony experts, anonymous text messages, deceptive infomercials, fake e-mails, and bogus blogs.

This book explains and analyzes the 32 major types of social masks and presents a hundred examples of facades and games people play that we have encountered in our everyday lives, seen on TV, observed in the animal world, or read about in our history books.

Learning about deceitful masks will help us recognize who are wearing them, what is deceptive about them, and why they are being worn to mislead us.