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Hoax: A History of Deception

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Author : Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316503703
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Hoax: A History of Deception written by Ian Tattersall and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Névraumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.

A Treasury of Deception

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Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143035442
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Deception written by Michael Farquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We may say that honesty is the best policy, but history—to say nothing of business, politics, and the media—suggests otherwise. In this infinitely citable book, the author of two bestselling treasuries of scandal recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time. With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe? Who wrote Hitler’s diaries? Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel that Nostradamus passed off as prophecy? Organizing his material by theme (con artists, the press, military trickery, scientific fraud, imposters, great escapes, and more), Michael Farquhar takes in everything from the hoodwinking of Hitler to Vincent “the Chin” Gigante’s thirty-year crazy act. A Treasury of Deception is a zestful, gossipy exposé—and celebration—of mendacity. A Treasury of Deception also includes: Ten tricksters from scripture Ten great liars in literature Ten egregious examples of modern American doublespeak Ten classic deceptions from Greek mythology

The Federal Reserve Hoax

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Author : Wickliffe B. Vennard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258006006
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Federal Reserve Hoax written by Wickliffe B. Vennard and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History's Greatest Deceptions

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Author : Eric Chaline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752457710
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book History's Greatest Deceptions written by Eric Chaline and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no little skill and imaginative flair, History's Greatest Deceptions chronicles the 50 most remarkable tales of fraud and forgery.

Fakes!?

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Author : Marco Beretta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881354959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Fakes!? written by Marco Beretta and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50)

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Author : Gale Eaton
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884484939
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50) written by Gale Eaton and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence. The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions—making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an ordinary life for a glamorous one—but they all chose the lowest, fastest road to get there. Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused terrible massacres. A HISTORY OF AMBITION IN 50 HOAXES guides us through a rogue’s gallery of hustlers, liars, swindlers, imposters, scammers, pretenders, and cheats. In Gale Eaton’s wide-ranging synthesis, the history of deception is a colorful tour, with surprising insights behind every curtain. Fountas & Pinnell Level Z+

The Century of Deception

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Author : Ian Keable
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 1908906456
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Century of Deception written by Ian Keable and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Utter joy! A delicious romp through the heyday of balderdash and grand-scale deception, penned by one of the country's finest magical minds.' Derren Brown In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick, the performer didn't. Over the following decades, elaborate pranks would continue to bamboozle audiences across England. In The Century of Deception, magician and magic historian Ian Keable tells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxes and those who were duped by them. The English public were hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of rapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, they also inflamed concerns about 'English credulity'. 'Fake news' and 'going viral' may be modern terms, but as this entertaining, eye-opening book shows, these concepts have been with us for centuries. 'A fascinating, witty and beautifully-written book.' Matt Lucas 'Ian Keable's brilliant book has opened my eyes to an incredible world of hoaxers and deceivers that I didn't know even existed. A cracking read filled with extraordinary stories.' Andy Nyman 'A masterful and fascinating journey into a hitherto hidden world of history, mystery and hoaxes.' Richard Wiseman

Hoaxes and Hexes

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Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613988
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Hoaxes and Hexes written by Barbara Smith and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a "humorous or malicious deception," and hex as "a magic spell." These stories of hoaxes and hexes illustrate our curious desire to believe in the impossible and explain the inexplicable. Portrayed here are accomplished hoaxers and swindlers, including the flamboyant 19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon-Gordon; David Walsh, author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a homemade submarine. The persistent power of hexes is recorded in stories of cursed places--including a strange haunting in the Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse--and weird coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning actresses. Whether humorous or malicious, real or imagined, hoaxes or hexes have entertained and ensnared us throughout history.

Hoax Springs Eternal

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Author : Peter Hancock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107071682
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Hoax Springs Eternal written by Peter Hancock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and extrapolates from famous historical case studies to illustrate principles of cognitive deception and how to avoid being deceived.

Hoaxes and Deceptions

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Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Education
ISBN 13 : 9780809477159
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Hoaxes and Deceptions written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1991 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a variety of famous hoaxes and deceptions throughout history

The Great Zapruder Film Hoax

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Author : James H. Fetzer
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081269547X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Great Zapruder Film Hoax written by James H. Fetzer and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasively written, this thorough analysis of one of the great "documents" of the Kennedy assassination challenges the role of the Zapruder film--a twenty-seven-second home video capturing JFK's final moments of life--in debunking the Warren Commission Report by identifying "doctoring" in the film. Original.

Impostors

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Author : Christopher L. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659100X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Impostors written by Christopher L. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the “intercultural hoax.” In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy’s Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller’s contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to this understudied tradition, Impostors examines hoaxes in both countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of harm.

Whoppers

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Author : Christine Seifert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1936976986
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Whoppers written by Christine Seifert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whoppers presents the fascinating stories of over fifty people who lied for money, fame, honor, acceptance, and, sometimes, just for the heck of it."--Page 4 of cover.

History's Greatest Deceptions and Confidence Scams

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Author : Steven Lazaroff
Publisher : Rodger & Laz publishing S.E.N.C.
ISBN 13 : 1775292134
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book History's Greatest Deceptions and Confidence Scams written by Steven Lazaroff and published by Rodger & Laz publishing S.E.N.C.. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, there have always been fraudsters and tricksters ready and willing to part people and their money with smooth talking and tall tales, but the first formally recorded “confidence trick” was uniquely American in its origins and set the bar for both simplicity and sheer guts, both hallmarks of the most successful frauds ever perpetrated. From the ancient Egyptians to the modern era, join the authors as they take you on a romp throughout 4000 years of human history to reveal the tricks and schemes that were perfected by colorful characters throughout the ages. Using humor, and wit, the authors paint a tapestry of deception and subterfuge perpetrated by the brilliant minds of each era.

Deception: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

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Author : Emma Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848883544
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Deception: An Interdisciplinary Exploration written by Emma Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the concept of deception from a multidisciplinary perspective, reflecting how deception is considered across numerous fields ranging from literature and historical cases to psychological science.

Hoax Springs Eternal

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Author : Peter Hancock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316094480
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Hoax Springs Eternal written by Peter Hancock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike sleights of hand, which fool the senses, sleights of mind challenge cognition. This book defines and explains cognitive deception and explores six prominent potential historical instances of it: the Cross of King Arthur, Drake's Plate of Brass, the Kensington Runestone, the Vinland Map, the Piltdown Man, and the Shroud of Turin. In spite of evidence contradicting their alleged origins, their stories continue to persuade many of their authenticity. Peter Hancock uses these purported hoaxes as case studies to develop and demonstrate fundamental principles of cognitive psychology. By dissecting each ostensible artifact, he illustrates how hoaxes can deceive us and offers us defenses against them. This book further examines how and why we allow others to deceive us and how and why we even deceive ourselves at times. Accessible to beginner and expert alike, Hoax Springs Eternal provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to cognitive deception.

Encyclopedia of Hoaxes

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Author : Gordon Stein
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hoaxes written by Gordon Stein and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at scams, shams, and flim-flams that have been perpetrated in almost every field including art, business, entertainment, politics, and more.