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Book Synopsis Fakes, Frauds and Other Malarkey by : Kathryn Ann Lindskoog
Download or read book Fakes, Frauds and Other Malarkey written by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly everyone is deceived at one time or another. "Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey" is a good-natured yet passionate analysis of deception--from its innocent roots in imaginative play to the poison fruit of the cruelest scams. It offers hilarious and heartbreaking glimpses into the schemes of hoaxers in the fields of art, literature, science, medicine, exploration, education, finance and religion. This book offers special insights into the nature of spiritual fraud in history and in modern America. Even while Jesus told his followers to be as harmless as doves, he also reminded them to be as wise as serpents. Neither is easy.
Book Synopsis The Art of the Con by : Anthony M. Amore
Download or read book The Art of the Con written by Anthony M. Amore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold stories of some of history's most notorious art cons—and the secret history of fakes, frauds, and forgeries in the art world
Book Synopsis Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds by : Nancy Moses
Download or read book Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds written by Nancy Moses and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating read about fakes, forgeries, and frauds. What’s real? What’s fake? Why do we care? In this time of false news and fake science, these questions are more important than ever. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds goes beyond the headlines, tweets, and blogs to explore the true nature of authenticity and why it means so much today. This book delivers nine fascinating true stories that introduce the fakers, forgers, art authenticators, and others that populate this dark world. Examples include: Shakespeare—How an enterprising teenager in the 1790s faked Shakespeare and duped Literary London. Rembrandt—How art history, connoisseurship, and science are re-shaping our view of what Rembrandt painted and how the canvas changed over time. Relics—Was Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, a real Roman teenager who was martyred 1,800 years ago in the same place where her church stands today? Jackson Pollock—How do experts pick out the real Pollocks from the thousands of fakes? Nuremberg—How repeated reconstructions of medieval Nuremburg—including one by Adolf Hitler—show how historic preservation became a tool for propaganda. Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds also raises provocative questions about the meaning of reality. What happens when spiritual truth conflicts with historic fact? Can an object retain its essence when most of it was replaced? Why did some art patrons value an excellent copy more than the original? Why do we find fakes so eternally fascinating, and forgers such appealing con artists? Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds is a full-color book with 30 color photos. It shows that reality, exemplified by discrete physical objects, is actually mutable, unsettling, and plainly weird. Readers discover things that are less than meets the eye—and might even reconsider what’s real, what’s fake, and why they should care.
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Book Synopsis Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery by : Andreas Schroeder
Download or read book Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery written by Andreas Schroeder and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, Andreas Schroeder has been a regular on the very popular national CBC-Radio show "Basic Black" with Arthur Black. Each month, Schroeder recounts, with wry understatement, yet another outrageous scam or particularly notable rip-off, leaving his listeners speechless with disbelief, amusement, and even grudging admiration. Such was the popularity of his two previous story collections that he has done it again. Stories Include: "Another Day, Another Picasso: The decades-long career of aristocratic forger Elmyr de Hory, some of whose Picassos, Matisses, Van Goghs, and Braques still lurk in art museums and reference books, masquerading as the real thing. "Making Hay in Cathay: A damning expose of that thirteenth-century con artist, Marco Polo, which is sure to have readers questioning everything they learned in school. "Gangs That Couldn't Loot Straight: Three tales to prove that incompetence can be elevated to an art form. "Extortion by Remote Control: How a technologically inventive bomber (calling himself Dagobert Duck) managed to hold one of Germany's largest department stores hostage and baffle the police for almost two years. Each story is told in Schroeder's wicked, deadpan style, which covers a certain underlying glee at the shenanigans of truly ingenious characters - despite their questionable morals.
Download or read book Fakes and Frauds written by Robin Myers and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays throw light on some of the more shadowy areas of book trade history, revealing tricksters, villains - even murderers-who have practiced deception in the written and printed word, from the 12th century to very recent times. This work includes chapters on "The Forgery of Printed Documents" by Nicolas Barker, "Forged Handwriting" by Tom Davis, and "Paper Pirates" by Michael Harris. Aspects of all the great forgers - Wise, Prokosch, Hofmann, and others are covered.
Book Synopsis The Book of Lies by : M. Hirsh Goldberg
Download or read book The Book of Lies written by M. Hirsh Goldberg and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes history's greatest frauds in a compendium of anecdotes, quotes, facts and figures for an entertaining, informative look at a universal human failing
Book Synopsis Fakes and Forgeries by : John Townsend
Download or read book Fakes and Forgeries written by John Townsend and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the different ways con artists use fraud to get money, including stealing identities, copying paintings, and counterfeiting money, and how they are caught.
Download or read book The Book of Hoaxes written by S. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience [2 volumes] by : Michael Shermer
Download or read book The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience [2 volumes] written by Michael Shermer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science—from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural claims. Edited by Michael Shermer, editor and publisher of The Skeptic magazine, this truly unique work provides a comprehensive introduction to the most prominent pseudoscientific claims made in the name of "science." Covering the popular, the academic, and the bizarre, the encyclopedia includes everything from alien abductions to the Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, Feng Shui, and near-death experiences. Fifty-nine brief descriptive summaries and 23 investigations from The Skeptic magazine give skeptical analyses of subjects as far-ranging as acupuncture, chiropractic, and Atlantis. The encyclopedia also gives for-and-against debates on topics such as evolutionary psychology and case studies on topics like police psychics and the medical intuitive Carolyn Myss. Finally, the volumes include five classic works in the history of science and pseudoscience, including the speech William Jennings Bryan never delivered in the Scopes trial, and the first scientific and skeptical investigation of a paranormal/spiritual phenomenon by Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier.
Book Synopsis Fakes and Scoundrels by : Gary Hendershott
Download or read book Fakes and Scoundrels written by Gary Hendershott and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Must-Read for Every Collector, Dealer, and Museum Curator - These are the True Facts that no Auctions, Dealers or Crooks want you to Know. A Guide to Collecting by the Author that has lived through 50 years of Collecting successfully in many different areas and what he has learned, and wished that he knew at the beginning of his Collecting career vs. what he has Learned and Lived through for the past 50 years and knows Now! This is a never published before account correctly describing the dangerous pitfalls of Forgery and Scoundrels that exist in Every Type of Collectible from Art to Coins & Guns, Civil War Swords & Uniforms, Fake Appraisals, The Auction Game, Bank & Insurance Frauds, Theft and Repatriation by Governments. This will guide you through all levels of your collecting regardless of you areas of Interests
Book Synopsis Corporate Fraud Across the Globe by : Larry Li
Download or read book Corporate Fraud Across the Globe written by Larry Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on theoretical foundations and evidence-based case studies, this book identifies the fundamental motivations underpinning corporate fraud in both developing and developed countries. The book offers practical solutions in terms of monitoring and potentially preventing future corporate fraud activity. It is expected that uncovered corporate fraud negatively affects the public reputation, and financial performance of fraudulent firms. However, what is of more importance for fraudulent firms is how to regain the trust of customers, investors, and other stakeholders, as this impacts the long-term sustainability of businesses. Operational strategies, including reform, provide an effective channel for a fraudulent firm’s business sustainability yet this notion remains unexplored in the literature. This authored research book argues that the choice of appropriate operational strategies is critical as they serve as an effective channel for fraudulent firms to re-gain the trust from customers and markets, re-establish their reputation, and enhance the firm’s long-term value. The authors posit that there is no ‘one-size fits-all’ approach because the choice of effective operational strategies is needed to acknowledge the significance of context such as industry type, economic conditions, legal frameworks as well as the firm’s fraudulent characteristics.
Book Synopsis Fakes and Forgeries by : Suzanne Bell
Download or read book Fakes and Forgeries written by Suzanne Bell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on the forensic science used to detect fakes, counterfeits, and forgeries.
Book Synopsis Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald & Dante by : Kathryn Ann Lindskoog
Download or read book Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald & Dante written by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are dozens of surprising aspects of the life and writings of C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante. (George MacDonald loved the writings of Dante, and C. S. Lewis loved the writings of both Dante and MacDonald.) Contents range from the quick, surprising fun of "Who Is This Man?" to the practical, down-to-earth instruction of "C. S. Lewis's Free Advice to Hopeful Writers" and the adventurous scholarship of "Spring in Purgatory" and "Mining Dante".
Book Synopsis Victor Lustig by : Christopher Sandford
Download or read book Victor Lustig written by Christopher Sandford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us,' The Times wrote in 1919. 'He is prone to the most detestable tactics, and is a stranger to charity and public spirit. One may nonetheless note his acuity in separating others from their money.' Enter Victor Lustig (not his real name). An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, by the age of 16 he had learned how to hustle at billiards and lay odds at the local racecourse. By 19 he had acquired a livid facial scar in an altercation with a jealous husband. That blemish aside, he was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke six languages and went under nearly as many aliases in the course of a continent-hopping life that also saw him act as a double (or possibly triple) agent. Along the way, he found time to dupe an impressive variety of banks and hotels on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than three supposedly impregnable prisons; and to swindle Al Capone out of thousands of dollars, while living to tell the tale. Undoubtedly the greatest of his hoaxes was the sale, to a wealthy but gullible Parisian scrap-metal dealer, of the Eiffel Tower in 1925. In a narrative that thrills like a crime caper, best-selling biographer Christopher Sandford draws on newly released documents to tell the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis I Am in Fact a Hobbit by : Perry C. Bramlett
Download or read book I Am in Fact a Hobbit written by Perry C. Bramlett and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a brilliant writer who continues to leave his imaginative imprint on the mind and hearts of readers. He was once called the "creative equivalent of a people," and for more than sixty years his Middle-earth tales have captivated and delighted readers of all ages from all over the world. The Hobbit has long been recognized as a children's fantasy classic, and the heroic romance the Lord of the Rings has been called the most influential story of all time. These stories have sold over 150 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over forty languages, and they, along with works such as the Silmarillion and the History of Middle-Earth, have convinced scores of readers and critics that Tolkien is the master writer of fantasy. Whether you've been a fan for years or you've just recently been hooked by the blockbuster Lord of the Rings movies, "I Am in Fact a Hobbit" is an excellent starting point into the life and work of J. R. R. Tolkien. Book jacket.
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