Author: Judy Coghill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554482764
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Profiles ten of the most ingenious modern hoaxes and hoaxers, including the Amityville haunting, Ferdinand Demara, and the 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
The 10 Greatest Hoaxes
Author: Judy Coghill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554482764
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Profiles ten of the most ingenious modern hoaxes and hoaxers, including the Amityville haunting, Ferdinand Demara, and the 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554482764
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Profiles ten of the most ingenious modern hoaxes and hoaxers, including the Amityville haunting, Ferdinand Demara, and the 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
The World's Greatest Hoaxes
Author: Richard Saunders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872166066
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872166066
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Greatest Hoax
Author: James M. Inhofe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936488490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inhofer presents his perspectives and opinions on the proposed "carbon tax" and energy regulations currently part of the global warming debate among members of the Congress and the U.S. government.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936488490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inhofer presents his perspectives and opinions on the proposed "carbon tax" and energy regulations currently part of the global warming debate among members of the Congress and the U.S. government.
Hoax
Author: Edward Steers (Jr.)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813141591
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813141591
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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)
Author: Gale Eaton
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884484939
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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+
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884484939
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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 10 Greatest Hoaxes
Author: Judy Coghill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780779173624
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The accompanying teacher's plan for "The 10 Greatest Hoaxes".
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780779173624
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The accompanying teacher's plan for "The 10 Greatest Hoaxes".
The Greatest Hoax on Earth
Author: Alan C Logan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736197417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Greatest Hoax unmasks the viral spread of a myth, creating a parable of our times. The deep analysis within is filled with suspense while also providing a meaningful wake-up call in the post-truth era.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736197417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Greatest Hoax unmasks the viral spread of a myth, creating a parable of our times. The deep analysis within is filled with suspense while also providing a meaningful wake-up call in the post-truth era.
On the Donation of Constantine
Author: Lorenzo Valla
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.
The Big Con
Author: Nate Hendley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look at infamous frauds across the centuries. Offering an engaging mix of history, sociology, and psychology, author Nate Hendley gives readers an appreciation of how prominent scams, cons, "confidence men," and hoaxes have impacted American society, past and present. Each entry details the scheme or hoax and the pertinent con artist/schemer involved, examining the sociological, cultural, political, and/or economic effect of the scams. Each topic is accompanied by a short bibliography of further reading selections. As the old saying goes, "There is a sucker born every minute"—and there has always been a keen-eyed swindler to take advantage of the situation. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History explores this sordid underbelly of American civilization and invites readers to revel in the felonious experience.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look at infamous frauds across the centuries. Offering an engaging mix of history, sociology, and psychology, author Nate Hendley gives readers an appreciation of how prominent scams, cons, "confidence men," and hoaxes have impacted American society, past and present. Each entry details the scheme or hoax and the pertinent con artist/schemer involved, examining the sociological, cultural, political, and/or economic effect of the scams. Each topic is accompanied by a short bibliography of further reading selections. As the old saying goes, "There is a sucker born every minute"—and there has always been a keen-eyed swindler to take advantage of the situation. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History explores this sordid underbelly of American civilization and invites readers to revel in the felonious experience.
The Greatest Hoax on Earth?
Author: Jonathan D. Sarfati
Publisher: Creation Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781921643064
Category : Bible and evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Richard Dawkins, the undisputed high priest of evolution/atheism, says his book The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution is the first time he has presented all the evidence for evolution/long ages. It is promoted as an unanswerable demolition of creation. Scientist, logician, chessmaster and author of the world's biggest-selling creationist book, CMI's Dr Jonathan Sarfati, relentlessly demolishes Dawkin's claims point-by-point, showing biblical creation makes more sense of the evidence. - Publisher.
Publisher: Creation Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781921643064
Category : Bible and evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Richard Dawkins, the undisputed high priest of evolution/atheism, says his book The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution is the first time he has presented all the evidence for evolution/long ages. It is promoted as an unanswerable demolition of creation. Scientist, logician, chessmaster and author of the world's biggest-selling creationist book, CMI's Dr Jonathan Sarfati, relentlessly demolishes Dawkin's claims point-by-point, showing biblical creation makes more sense of the evidence. - Publisher.