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Whiz Mob

Author : David W. Maurer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742533514
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Whiz Mob written by David W. Maurer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con, in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer spent many years interviewing pickpockets and learning about their way of life. The result is a fascinating look at the work, lives, morals, and dangers of this element of the criminal subculture. Whiz Mob is essential reading for sociologists, linguists, and everyone interested in the mystery and intrigue of the criminal underworld.

Hopscotch and Queenie-i-o

Author : Damian Corless
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848895976
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Hopscotch and Queenie-i-o written by Damian Corless and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1970s flipped the switch to colour, Irish children ere raised in a world of black, white and an awful lot of grey. But kids, being kids, found endless ways to have fun. Do you remember Dáithí Lacha, Radio Caroline and holidays in Butlin's Mosney? Then this is the book for you! Damian Corless takes us on a tongue-in-cheek trip down memory lane to the age of Let's Draw With Bláithín, instant mashed potato and 'Yellow Submarine'. Set against a backdrop of the space race and the miniskirt, this is a delightful celebration of the days we thought would never end (and some we're glad are gone forever).

Some Expressions from Herman Melville

Author : C. Merton Babcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Some Expressions from Herman Melville written by C. Merton Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publication

Author : American Dialect Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication written by American Dialect Society and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publication of the American Dialect Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Publication of the American Dialect Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big Con

Author : David Maurer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030775572X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Big Con written by David Maurer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers, who let him in on not simply their language but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty, were “taken off” – i.e. cheated—of thousands upon thousands of dollars. The Big Con is a treasure trove of American lingo (the write, the rag, the payoff, ropers, shills, the cold poke, the convincer, to put on the send) and indelible characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie, Larry the Lug). It served as the source for the Oscar-winning film The Sting.

The Flim-flam Man & the Apprentice Grifter

Author : Guy Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Flim-flam Man & the Apprentice Grifter written by Guy Owen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the comic adventures of an aging confidence man and his young AWOL sidekick; Mordecai Jones and the guitar playing Curley Treadaway.

The Con Man and His Lingo

Author : David W. Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Con Man and His Lingo written by David W. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two Way Toll

Author : Zachary Klein
Publisher : Polis Books
ISBN 13 : 1940610249
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Two Way Toll written by Zachary Klein and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Jacob is one of the most original and compelling characters in crime fiction, and he returns In Two Way Toll, Zachary Klein's follow up to Still Among the Living, a New York Times Notable book. Before Matt Jacob became a private detective, he was a social worker in The End--home to Boston's hopeless and helpless. When a ragged figure from his past shows up, Matt winds up back in the Combat Zone--but this time, his chances of getting out again are much slimmer. Now Matt faces demons from his past as well as a psychopath bent on killing him when he investigates two ominously similar deaths occurring twenty years apart. Matt disturbs more than one ghost as he spirals down a path of drugs, sex, and violence into the mysteries of his own past.

The American Confidence Man

Author : David W. Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Confidence Man written by David W. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Strudlhof Steps

Author : Heimito von Doderer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375273
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Strudlhof Steps written by Heimito von Doderer and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early-twentieth-century Vienna, as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters. The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the early twentieth century, a vast novel crowded with characters ranging from an elegant, alcoholic Prussian aristocrat to an innocent ingenue to “respectable” shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers, bohemians, grifters, and honest working-class folk. The greatest character in the book, however, is Vienna, which Heimito von Doderer renders as distinctly as James Joyce does Dublin or Alfred Döblin does Berlin. Interweaving two time periods, 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, the novel takes the monumental eponymous outdoor double staircase as a governing metaphor for its characters’ intersecting and diverging fates. The Strudlhof Steps is an experimental tour de force with the suspense and surprise of a soap opera. Here Doderer illuminates the darkness of passing years with the dazzling extravagance that is uniquely his.

English Literature

Author : Ezekiel Leon
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
ISBN 13 : 1839472979
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book English Literature written by Ezekiel Leon and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book methodicallly graphs the direction of the English novel from its rise as the chief scholarly class in the mid twentieth century to its mid twenty first century status of unpredictable greatness in new media conditions. Precise parts address 'The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre', 'The Novel in the Economy', 'Genres', 'Gender' (performativity, masculinities, woman's rights, eccentric), and 'The Burden of Representation' (class and ethnicity). Broadened contextualized close readings of more than twenty key writings from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the methodical approach and energize future research by giving reviews of gathering and hypothetical points of view. Expanding specialization inside the teach of English and American Studies has moved the concentration of insightful dialog toward hypothetical reflection and social settings. These improvements have profited the train in more courses than one, yet they have likewise brought about a specific disregard of close perusing. Therefore, understudies and scientists inspired by such material are compelled to swing to grant from the 1970s, quite a bit of which depends on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook means to fill this hole by giving new readings of writings that figure unmistakably in the writing classroom and in academic level headed discussion aE ' from James' The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road.

The Chair: Volume II

Author : Robert McKenzie
Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
ISBN 13 : 1947867938
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Chair: Volume II written by Robert McKenzie and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand epic saga by Robert McKenzie, The Chairspans centuries, touching the lives of 22 related mothers and daughters, their stories witnessed by a simple pine chair. Resolute, strong, loving, and fiercely protective, these women must strive to pass their values to new generations in a world of racism and sexism, politics, scandal, fashion—even the rise and dominance of baseball. They live in privilege and poverty, with faith and despair, relishing every moment of love even as they suffer abiding grief. Volume I: Lightning, Thunder, & Glory spans the 1600s through WWI, while Volume II: Faith, Hope, & Lovefollows these women’s descendants into modern times and beyond. An authentic and uniquely American novel, The Chairconjures the very hallmarks of history, yet navigates the simple intimacy of everyday lives to reveal who and why we are. Everybody sits, so find your own seat and discover The Chair.

Grifters' Hopscotch

Author : Michael P. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952711152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Grifters' Hopscotch written by Michael P. King and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started with a simple blackmail scheme.The Travelers, con artists who specialize in stealing from criminals, find themselves short on cash and plan on making a quick $100,000 blackmailing a prosecuting attorney with a taste for call girls. Convincing a call girl to partner with them was easy, but they hadn't counted on the dogged persistence of a rule-bending FBI agent and the maliciousness of the criminals whose help they need to make their escape.Broke and on the run, they must outmaneuver the FBI while they set up an even riskier robbery to recoup their losses. And in the meantime, a criminal gang they'd scammed previously is back on their trail, seeking revenge.Grifters' Hopscotch is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you guessing. If you like criminal intrigue, ingenious suspense, and unpredictable plot twists, you'll love the tenth novel in the Travelers series.

The Video Librarian

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Video Librarian written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Argot of Confidence Men

Author : David W. Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Argot of Confidence Men written by David W. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

TLA Film and Video Guide

Author : David Bleiler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312243308
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book TLA Film and Video Guide written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Detailed indexes by star, director, genre, country of origin, and theme *Lavishly illustrated with over 450 photos *Comprehensive selection of international cinema from over 50 countries *Over 9,000 films reviewed *Up-to-date information on video availability and pricing *Appendices with award listings, TLA Bests, and recommended films