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Urban Legends

Author : Ngaire E. Genge
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307560937
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends written by Ngaire E. Genge and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations. Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way. From the classic tale "The Mexican Pet" in which the "dog" turns out to be no Chihuahua to the more unappetizing story of condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, Urban Legends relates more 300 of the most enticing, macabre, and unforgettable tales. Expertly told, they are arranged in such chapters as "Crazy Little Thang Called Sex," "Oh, Scare Me," "Campus Capers," "Corporate Convolutions," and "So Much For Comfort Food." Fascinating, chilling, and occasionally repulsive, Urban Legends has all your favorites and hundreds more.

Urban Legends

Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1603762639
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales. With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Legends features fantastic yarns that are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel the world by word of mouth. We've all heard the one about the alligators that roam New York City's sewers, or how "Mikey" of Life Cereal fame died from eating Pop Rocks mixed with Coke. And what about the flustered parents who left their baby on the car roof, or the scuba diver who was found in the middle of a forest after a fire? These classic tall tales are featured here in all of their creepy glory along with hundreds of others, and they're guaranteed to amuse, enlighten, and intrigue, but be careful: they may stick in your mind forever.

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320886
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by : Jan Harold Brunvand

Download or read book Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Creepy Urban Legends

Author : Tim O'Shei
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429645725
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Creepy Urban Legends written by Tim O'Shei and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes scary urban legends, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker and The Babysitter on the Phone"--Provided by publisher.

Urban Legends

Author : Peter L'Official
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674238079
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends written by Peter L'Official and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393323580
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.

Be Afraid Be Very Afraid

Author : Harold Jan Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326130
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Be Afraid Be Very Afraid by : Harold Jan Brunvand

Download or read book Be Afraid Be Very Afraid written by Harold Jan Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.

The 500 Best Urban Legends Ever!

Author : Yorick Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596873421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The 500 Best Urban Legends Ever! written by Yorick Brown and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever heard an improbable story told about a friend of a friend? Did you ever listen awestruck to extraordinary tales of ordinary life? Don't believe everything you hear--you've just been exposed to an urban legend! From phantom hitchhikers to deadly clouds of floating flatulence, these are tall tales of extremely dubious origin. This book contains more than 500 brain-mangling, credibility-straining stories, arranged conveniently by theme contained in one fun volume. From sex to sports, from animals to accidents, these are bizarre, hilarious and memorable urban legends. In what other book could you read about The Dead Poodle, The Blueberry Cat, Early Morning Arousal, Toilet Holiday, The Boneless Idiot, and more!

Urban Legends from Space

Author : Bob King
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624148972
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends from Space written by Bob King and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun, Outrageous Space Stories, Debunked! In this Internet age where science fiction masquerades as fact, even the most rational person might find themselves wondering: Could NASA have faked the moon landings? Are we sure the government isn’t using chemtrails to experiment on people? And did NASA really spend millions on “space pens”? Urban Legends from Space cuts through the fog of myth to bring the truth behind these questions, and 48 other celestial legends, out into the open. In examining the shaky claims behind these many misconceptions and taking us step-by-step through the concrete evidence that contradicts them, expert Bob King debunks each myth and exposes the scientific truth at its core. Along the way, King offers us the tools we need to become more discerning observers of the world around us and more responsible sharers of information overall.

Creepy Urban Legends

Author : B. A. Hoena
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1543541925
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Creepy Urban Legends written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern ghost stories are created from truly creepy myths and rumors. Read this book to discover some urban legends that will make your skin crawl.

Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends

Author : Charles E. Lance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135269661
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends written by Charles E. Lance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are characterized by manuscript critiques such as: (a) "your self-report measures suffer from common method bias"; (b) "your item-to-subject ratios are too low"; (c) "you can’t generalize these findings to the real world"; or (d) "your effect sizes are too low". Historically, there is a kernel of truth to most of these legends, but in many cases that truth has been long forgotten, ignored or embellished beyond recognition. This book examines several such legends. Each chapter is organized to address: (a) what the legend is that "we (almost) all know to be true"; (b) what the "kernel of truth" is to each legend; (c) what the myths are that have developed around this kernel of truth; and (d) what the state of the practice should be. This book meets an important need for the accumulation and integration of these methodological and statistical practices.

Urban Legends of the New Testament

Author : David A. Croteau
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433680114
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends of the New Testament written by David A. Croteau and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Legends of the New Testament surveys forty of the most commonly misinterpreted passages in the New Testament. These “urban legends” often arise because interpreters neglect a passage’s context, misuse historical background information, or misunderstand the Greek language. For each New Testament text, professor David Croteau describes the popular, incorrect interpretation and then carefully interprets the passage within its literary and historical context. Careful attention is given to sound principles of biblical interpretation to guide readers through the process and reach a more accurate understanding of each text’s meaning. With examples from the Gospels, Acts, the Epistles, and Revelation, Urban Legends of the New Testament will not only help readers avoid missteps in these forty texts but also provide a model for engaging in correct interpretation of other New Testament passages.

Urban Legends

Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564144997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends written by Richard Roeper and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the truth about a variety of urban legends that have been circulated on the Internet, by the media, and around offices.

Urban Legends, Colonial Myths

Author : James Ogude
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends, Colonial Myths written by James Ogude and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Myths about Learning and Education

Author : Pedro De Bruyckere
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128017317
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Urban Myths about Learning and Education written by Pedro De Bruyckere and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence. Urban Myths about Learning and Education examines commonly held incorrect beliefs and then provides the truth of what research has shown. Each chapter examines a different myth, with sections on learning, the brain, technology, and educational policy. A final section discusses why these myths are so persistent. Written in an engaging style, the book separates fact from fiction regarding learning and education. Recognize any of these myths? - People have different styles of learning - Boys are naturally better at mathematics than girls - We only use 10% of our brains - The left half of the brain is analytical, the right half is creative - Men have a different kind of brain from women - We can learn while we are asleep - Babies become smarter if they listen to classical music These myths and more are systematically debunked, with useful correct information about the topic in question. - Debunks common myths about learning and education - Provides empirical research on the facts relating to the myths - Utilizes light-hearted, approachable language for easy reading

Writing the Uncanny

Author : Dan Coxon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911585817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Uncanny written by Dan Coxon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Uncanny sees some of the best contemporary authors explain what drew them to horror, ghost stories, folklore and beyond, and reveal how to craft unsettling fiction which resonates. An essential guide for both the casual reader and the aspiring writer of strange tales.

The Big Book of Urban Legends

Author : Robert Loren Fleming
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781563891656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Urban Legends written by Robert Loren Fleming and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 200 outrageous urban legend stories illustrated by the world's top comic artists.