Download or read book Hoaxes Fibs and Fakes written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hoaxes Fibs and Fakes written by Lisa Thompson and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you heard a radio broadcast that Martians had landed on Earth, would you believe it? In 1938 many people did. Read about many famous hoaxes-plus some silly ones, too.
Download or read book Fooled You written by Elaine Pascoe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses nearly a dozen infamous hoaxes and how they came about and why people were fooled.
Download or read book Fakes and Hoaxes written by Sarah Eason and published by History Raiders. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fakes are objects or stories that seem real, but are not. Hoaxes are tricks that deceive people into believing things that are not true. From giants and lake monsters to lost princesses, follow along and gather evidence to find out why fakes and hoaxes capture the minds of so many.
Download or read book Fakes and Hoaxes written by Sarah Levete and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best fakes and hoaxes have just enough truth to lure people into the deception. This comprehensive book showcases some infamous hoaxes as well as supposed-hoaxes that people wont stop believingBigfoot, anyone? Theres so much to explore, from ancient lore of fairies and sea monsters to modern-day hoax baseball players and superhumans! Each high-interest subject is paired with imaginative images and colorful photographs. Mysterious Facts boxes list further points of proof. Readers will especially find a chapter on Internet hoaxes and digital forgeries applicable to their lives.
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+
Download or read book What Are Hoaxes and Lies written by Matt Doeden and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about hoaxes and lies that have been spread in both the past and present, and learn how they have deceived people. Readers will discover tips on how to identify a hoax and learn to think critically about the information they hear every day.
Download or read book Fakes Frauds Phonies written by James Cornell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bunk written by Kevin Young and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 0 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 Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture? The award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T. Barnum’s “humbug” culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump’s “fake news.” Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with 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 frauds invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from the 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. This brilliant and timely work 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 contagious cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
Download or read book Investigating Fakes and Hoaxes written by Alex Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of forensics, from its earliest beginnings with the discovery of finger printing analysis to the development of DNA testing. It features up to 10 case studies per title explaining how forensic techniques have helped to solve crimes and also includes gritty photography and real-life images.
Download or read book World s Greatest Hoaxes written by Paul B. Janeczko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover some of history's greatest hoaxes, frauds, and fakes--and the amazing people behind them"--Back cover.
Download or read book Investigating Fakes Hoaxes written by and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fake Giants and Other Great Hoaxes written by Timothy Bay and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes eight of history's "great hoaxes."
Download or read book The Big Book of Hoaxes written by Carl Sifakis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monsters written by Katy Pike and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information about all kinds of monsters, both real and imaginary.
Download or read book Biggest Highest Fastest written by Ian Rohr and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super squid - Locusts - Fleas - Giraffes - Cheetahs - Selected reading materials.
