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Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN 13 : 9781418135201
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by P. T. Barnum and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Namaskar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of The World an Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages written by P. T. Barnum and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Humbugs of the World" by P. T. Barnum is a fascinating exploration of the various deceptions, quackeries, and fraudulent practices that have existed throughout history. Written by the legendary showman and businessman known for his own flair for spectacle, Barnum provides readers with a lively and critical account of humbugs—from the minor swindles to the more grandiose deceptions that have captivated and misled people across ages. The book serves as both a historical record and a cautionary tale, shining a light on the darker side of human nature. In "The Humbugs of the World," Barnum examines a wide range of deceptions, from false medical claims and magical trickery to elaborate frauds and societal hoaxes. His witty and engaging prose uncovers the psychology behind why people fall victim to these schemes and how some individuals have made entire careers out of deceiving others. Through historical examples and personal anecdotes, Barnum illustrates how these "humbugs" have had a lasting impact on society, often shaping popular culture and influencing the way people view truth and trust. "The Humbugs of the World" is a blend of history, social commentary, and Barnum's own unique brand of humor. The book is not just a catalog of frauds but a reflection on human gullibility, the allure of deception, and the complex relationship between truth and illusion. It provides readers with both entertainment and education, offering insights into the nature of human belief and the ways in which people are often willing to suspend disbelief in the face of charismatic figures or compelling narratives. Readers are drawn to "The Humbugs of the World" for its entertaining and enlightening exploration of human nature and deception. Barnum’s engaging storytelling, paired with his sharp observations, makes this book a timeless read for anyone interested in history, psychology, or the ways in which people are often misled. Owning a copy of "The Humbugs of the World" is a great addition for readers who appreciate a blend of wit, historical analysis, and insight into the human penchant for trickery and deceit, making it an essential read for those interested in the curious side of human history.
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by P. T. Barnum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Humbugs of the World is an essay by P.T. Barnum about the dogma of the humbug, otherwise known as the average liar. Contents: "CHAPTER I.—GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT.—HUMBUG UNIVERSAL.—IN RELIGION.—IN POLITICS.—IN BUSINESS.—IN SCIENCE.—IN MEDICINE.—HOW IT IS TO CEASE.—THE GREATEST HUMBUG OF ALL.11 CHAPTER II.—DEFINITION OF THE WORD HUMBUG.—WARREN OF LONDON.—GENIN THE HATTER.—GOSLING'S BLACKING.18 CHAPTER III.—MONSIEUR MANGIN, THE FRENCH HUMBUG.29 CHAPTER IV.—OLD GRIZZLY ADAMS.37 CHAPTER V.—THE GOLDEN PIGEONS.—GRIZZLY ADAMS.—GERMAN CHEMIST.—HAPPY FAMILY.—FRENCH NATURALIST."
Author : P. T. 1810-1891 Barnum
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781342227478
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World. an Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally in All Ages written by P. T. 1810-1891 Barnum and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440049828
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by P. T. Barnum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers, Generally, in All Ages Messrs. Cauldwell and Whitney of the Weekly Mercury caused me to furnish for that paper a series of articles in which I very natu rally took up the subject in question. This book is a revision and re-arrangement of a portion of those articles. If I should find that I have met a popular demand, I shall in due time put forth a second volume. There is not the least danger of a dearth of materials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781375472647
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (726 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by P. T. Barnum and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : P. T. (Phineas Taylor) 1810-189 Barnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781362797074
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)
Download or read book HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD written by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) 1810-189 Barnum and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294809364
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Humbugs of the World written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788826428819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (288 download)
Download or read book An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Leja
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520238077
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Looking Askance written by Michael Leja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Leja offers a new, specifically visual, model for understanding American art in the decades before and after 1900.
Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805888
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Natural History written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram’s botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale’s museum to P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry James as “halls of humbug.” Yet physical collections were only one of the myriad ways that these naturalists captured, catalogued, and commemorated America’s rich biodiversity. They also turned to writing and art, from John Edward Holbrook’s forays into the fascinating world of herpetology to John James Audubon’s masterful portraits of American birds. In this groundbreaking, now classic book, Christoph Irmscher argues that early American natural historians developed a distinctly poetic sensibility that allowed them to imagine themselves as part of, and not apart from, their environment. He also demonstrates what happens to such inclusiveness in the hands of Harvard scientist-turned Amazonian explorer Louis Agassiz, whose racist pseudoscience appalled his student William James. This expanded, full-color edition of The Poetics of Natural History features a preface and art from award-winning artist Rosamond Purcell and invites the reader to be fully immersed in an era when the boundaries between literature, art, and science became fluid.
Author : Alexander C. MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219326
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Long Space Age written by Alexander C. MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NASA insider highlights the current and historic roles of private enterprise in humanity s pursuit of spaceflight"
Author : Jordan Bear
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089261
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Disillusioned written by Jordan Bear and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography’s early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernment—of telling the real from the constructed—became an increasingly crucial element of one’s location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most striking—and puzzling—images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework.
Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 184150985X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Performing Dark Arts written by Michael Mangan and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance. The conjuror’s act of demonstrating the apparently impossible, the uncanny, the marvellous, or the grotesque challenges the spectator’s sense of reality. It brings him or her up against their own assumptions about how the world works; at its most extreme, it asks the spectator to re-evaluate his or her sense of the limits of the human. Performing Dark Arts is an exploration of the paradox of the conjuror, the actor who pretends to be a magician. It aims to illuminate the history of conjuring by examining it in the context of performance studies, and to throw light on aspects of performance studies by testing them against the art of conjuring. The book examines not only the performances of individual magicians from Dedi to David Blaine, but also the broader cultural contexts in which their performances were received, and the meanings which they have attracted.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863955846
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Reading Matters written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2023 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a special gift for a special colleague and friend. Defined as an “Unfestschrift,” it gives colleagues, students, and friends of Regina Bendix an opportunity to express their esteem for Regina’s inspiration, cooperation, leadership, and friendship in an adequate and lasting manner. The title of the present book, Reading Matters, is as close as possible to an English equivalent of the beautiful German double entendre Erlesenes (meaning both “something read/a reading” and “something exquisite”). Presenting “matters for reading,” the Unfestschrift unites short contributions about “readings” that “mattered” in some way or another for the contributors, readings that had an impact on their understanding of whatever they were at some time or presently are interested in. The term “readings” is understood widely. Since most of the invited contributors are academics, the term implies, in the first place, readings of an academic or scholarly nature. In a wider notion, however, “readings” also refer to any other piece of literature, the perception of a piece of art (a painting, a sculpture, a performance), listening to music, appreciating a “folkloric” performance or a fieldwork experience, or just anything else whose “reading” or individual perception has been meaningful for the contributors in different ways. Contrary to a strictly scholarly treatment of a given topic in which the author often disappears behind the subject, the presentations unveil and highlight the contributor’s personal involve¬ment, and thus a dimension of crucial importance for ethnographers such as the dedicatee.
Author : David C Anderson
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1909976350
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Three False Convictions, Many Lessons written by David C Anderson and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias, false confessions, the media and internet (amongst other causes) of unjust accusations. Putting lack of empathy at the fore in terms of police, prosecutors and others, it considers a wide range of other psychopathological aspects of miscarriages of justice. By looking at three high profile cases, those of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito (Italy), Stefan Kiszko (UK) and Darlie Routier (USA)—the authors show that motive forces are a mind-set in which psychopathy (what they term ‘constitutional negative empathy’) may be present and the need to reinforce existing supposition or lose face plays a large part.
