Imaginary Peaks

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Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594859817
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Book Synopsis Imaginary Peaks by : Katie Ives

Download or read book Imaginary Peaks written by Katie Ives and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.

Hoaxes and Other Stories

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ISBN 13 : 9780299334741
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Hoaxes and Other Stories by : Brian DiNuzzo

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Hoaxes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoaxes by : Curtis Daniel MacDougall

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Hoax: A History of Deception

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Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316503703
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoax: A History of Deception by : Ian Tattersall

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 487 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 Néaumont 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.

Hippo Eats Dwarf

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156030830
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Hippo Eats Dwarf by : Alex Boese

Download or read book Hippo Eats Dwarf written by Alex Boese and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of lip synching, breast implants, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Now "hoaxpert" Boese offers the essential field guide to today's "Misinformation Age."

Bunk

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979823
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis Bunk by : Kevin Young

Download or read book Bunk written by Kevin Young and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.

Hoax

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813141591
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoax by : Edward Steers (Jr.)

Download or read book Hoax written by Edward Steers (Jr.) and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates six of history's biggest frauds, looking at how the hoaxes were carried out and what continued belief in them reveals about society's understanding of history.

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

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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884484939
Total Pages : 473 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50) by : Gale Eaton

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 473 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+

A Treasury of Deception

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

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Book Synopsis A Treasury of Deception by : Michael Farquhar

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 Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226685349
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language by : Geoffrey K. Pullum

Download or read book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language written by Geoffrey K. Pullum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."

Hoax for Hire

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062803824
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoax for Hire by : Laura Martin

Download or read book Hoax for Hire written by Laura Martin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goonies meets the humor and heart of Gordon Korman in this new adventure full of nonstop action and spot-on humor from the critically acclaimed author of Float. The McNeil family has always been professional hoaxers—tricking bystanders into believing they’re seeing legendary creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Unlike the rest of his family, twelve-year-old Grayson hates hoaxing and wants nothing to do with the business—even when the McNeils land a huge job and must pull off four sea monster hoaxes in a week. But when things go disastrously wrong and Dad and Gramps go missing, Grayson and his brother, Curtis, are the only people who can finish the job and save their family.

I, Libertine

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480410101
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis I, Libertine by : Theodore Sturgeon

Download or read book I, Libertine written by Theodore Sturgeon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe novel that began as a radio hoax, Theodore Sturgeon’s I, Libertine is a hilarious erotic romp through the royal boudoirs of eighteenth-century London/divDIV Inspired by a notorious radio hoax in the mid-1950s, popular radio host and prankster Jean Shepherd exhorted his faithful listeners to approach their local booksellers the next morning and request copies of the historical novel I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing—a book that had never been written, by an author who had never been alive. The hoax was so successful that I, Libertine became the talk of the town, even earning the unique distinction of being banned by the Archdiocese of Boston, despite the fact that it didn’t yet exist. Now there was nothing left to do but write the thing . . . and fantasy and science fiction legend Theodore Sturgeon was called in to work his magic./divDIV /divDIVOriginally written pseudonymously, Sturgeon’s I, Libertine is a glorious tale of close shaves, daring escapes, and wildly licentious behavior. It covers the bawdy misdeeds of Captain Lance Courtenay as he carelessly romps through the royal court and the bedchambers of London’s finest ladies. Chock-full of wicked wit and Sturgeon’s trademark twists and turns, it is a hilarious, picaresque adventure that Ewing himself would certainly have been proud to call his own, if he had existed./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Theodore Sturgeon including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the author’s estate, among other sources./div

Hoax

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Publisher : Atria/One Signal Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1982142448
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoax by : Brian Stelter

Download or read book Hoax written by Brian Stelter and published by Atria/One Signal Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year “A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel.” —The New York Times “A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal humans.” —Rachel Maddow, MSNBC “Stelter’s critique goes beyond salacious tidbits about extramarital affairs (though there are plenty of those) to expose a collusion that threatens the pillars of our democracy.” —The Washington Post The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the New York Times bestselling author of Top of the Morning. While other leaders were marshaling resources to combat the greatest pandemic in modern history, President Donald Trump was watching TV. Trump watches over six hours of Fox News a day, a habit his staff refers to as “executive time.” In January 2020, when Fox News began to downplay COVID-19, the President was quick to agree. In March, as the deadly virus spiraled out of control, Sean Hannity mocked “coronavirus hysteria” as a “new hoax” from the left. Millions of Americans took Hannity and Trump's words as truth—until some of them started to get sick. In Hoax, CNN anchor and chief media correspondent Brian Stelter tells the twisted story of the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News. From the moment Trump glided down the golden escalator to announce his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election to his acquittal on two articles of impeachment in early 2020, Fox hosts spread his lies and smeared his enemies. Over the course of two years, Stelter spoke with over 250 current and former Fox insiders in an effort to understand the inner workings of Rupert Murdoch's multibillion-dollar media empire. Some of the confessions are alarming. “We don't really believe all this stuff,” a producer says. “We just tell other people to believe it.” At the center of the story lies Sean Hannity, a college dropout who, following the death of Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, reigns supreme at the network that pays him $30 million a year. Stelter describes the raging tensions inside Fox between the Trump loyalists and the few remaining journalists. He reveals why former chief news anchor Shep Smith resigned in disgust in 2019; why a former anchor said “if I stay here I’ll get cancer;” and how Trump has exploited the leadership vacuum at the top to effectively seize control of the network. Including never before reported details, Hoax exposes the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt, profit outrageously by promoting the President’s propaganda and radicalizing the American right. It is a book for anyone who reads the news and wonders: How did this happen?

The Giant and How He Humbugged America

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545537754
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Book Synopsis The Giant and How He Humbugged America by : Jim Murphy

Download or read book The Giant and How He Humbugged America written by Jim Murphy and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone!Everyone has their own idea of his true origin: Is he an ancient member of the local Onandaga Indian tribe? Is he a biblical giant like Goliath? Soon the interests of world-renowned scientists and people from around the globe are piqued as arguments flare over who he is, where he came from, and if he is real--or just a hoax. In a riveting account of how the Cardiff Giant mystery snowballed into one of America’s biggest money-making spectacles--and scams--Jim Murphy masterfully explores the power of 19th-century media and the unexpected ripple effect that a single corrupt mastermind can produce when given a stage.

The Museum of Hoaxes

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Publisher : Orion Media
ISBN 13 : 9780752864266
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis The Museum of Hoaxes by : Alex Boese

Download or read book The Museum of Hoaxes written by Alex Boese and published by Orion Media. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that gives us such delight in hoaxing the gullible?The April Fool perpetrated by Burger King who advertised they were to produce left-handed hamburgers for the 32 million left-handed Americans. They were inundated with eager buyers...The famous BBC TV 'Spaghetti Tree' hoax...The outrage caused by Taco Bell's announcement that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and henceforth it would be known as the 'Taco Liberty Bell' ... Taken from the website www.museumofhoaxes.com this is a hilarious collection of hoaxes which proves just how gullible human beings are.

The Rosslyn Hoax?

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Publisher : Lewis Masonic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780853182818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rosslyn Hoax? by : Robert L.D. Cooper

Download or read book The Rosslyn Hoax? written by Robert L.D. Cooper and published by Lewis Masonic Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written over the years about Rosslyn Chapel and its connection with Scottish Freemasonry, as well the St.Clair family, the Knights Templar and a variety of 'lost treasures'. The author looks in depth at the validity of the published material and the legends associated with the Rosslyn Chapel exposing major differences between Scottish Freemasons' view of their history and heritage and that described by those who are not Freemasons.

Encyclopedia of Hoaxes

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

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Hoaxes by : Gordon Stein

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.