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Cambridge University Press The Biological Universe
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Cambridge University Press Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Volume 1
Book SynopsisConfidence tricks and widespread delusions have gone in cycles throughout history, and the financial bubbles and illusions of haunted houses and popular manias are as relevant now as they were when Mackay published this book in 1852. A witty commentary with insights into human nature and the madness of crowds.Table of Contents1. The Mississippi scheme; 2. The South-sea bubble; 3. The tulipomania; 4. The alchymists; 5. Modern prophecies; 6. Fortune-telling; 7. The magnetisers; 8. Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Book of Odds From Lightning Strikes to Love
Book SynopsisFrom the popular Book of Odds website, this stylish and accessible reference book offers a fascinating peek at the probabilities that govern every aspect of human lifeDid you know that your odds of dying from drowning are higher than the odds of meeting your mate on a blind date?Trade ReviewThe Book of Odds is filled with good news (you have a relatively good chance of experiencing love at first sight), mixed news (you are less likely to be killed by a co-worker than by a sibling), and bad news (don't even ask). -- Barnes & Noble, Editor's Recommendation The Book of Odds...shows the surprising probabilities governing everyday life, including how your sex life stacks up. -- Salon.com An enticing read from cover to cover, the odds are great that you will enjoy this book. -- Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Lolita
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Lolita
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Harper Business The Key Man
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hunting Whitey
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HarperCollins Devils Coin
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Hachette Books The Missing Cryptoqueen
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Random House USA Inc Brain Trust
Book SynopsisBlind Them…with SCIENCE! How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car—or even helping you trick your spouse into doing the dishes? With this mighty little tome, you can have the next best thing--because Brain Trust is packed with bite-sized scientific wisdom on our everyday challenges, hand-delivered to you direct from the galaxy’s biggest brains. Based entirely on interviews with an incredible lineup of luminaries from the fields of neuroscience, economics, anthropology, music, mathematics, and more, Brain Trust is full of cutting-edge science that’ll help you see the real world better—and smarter. Discover: <
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Back Bay Books The Queen
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Penguin Putnam Inc King Con The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Ages
Book SynopsisThe spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most demanding and bravura performance of his life. In the fall of 1917, Laplante reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Under the pretenses of raising money for struggling Native American reservations, Laplante dressed in buckskins and a feathered headdress and traveled throughout the American West, narrowly escaping exposure and arrest each time he left town. When the heat became too much, he embarked upon a lucrative continent-hopping tour that attracted even more enormous crowds, his cons growing in propor
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Aliens God and the Bible A Theological
Book SynopsisBridge the Christian religion-science gap as The Reverend Doctor Joel Graves explores what the Bible says, what it means, and what it might meanespecially in the near future. This theological speculative study of the Bible takes the reader into the nature of the universe and how it works scientifically, the problem with evolution, the Neanderthal, Sasquatch, even the presence of space aliens and where they come from. The Bible describes a great starship1,380 miles to each sideon its way to Earth: learn about the size, composition, method of travel, possible purposes, and most importantly, when it will arrive. Discover the great war between ancient alien factionswho they are, where they came from, their future plans, and the role of humans caught in the middle. Examine the mysteries, facts, clues, and allusions found in the world, but especially in the Bible.
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McFarland & Co Inc Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology
Book Synopsis On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past…what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected. This reference work presents a flesh and blood view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely useful guide, with a substantial bibliography for further literary exploration." - Magonia Review of Books
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Roman Gaze Vision Power and the Body Arethusa
Book SynopsisSharrock.Trade ReviewFrom the perspectives of present interest and future research-areas this thought-provoking collection is extremely valuable. -- Christine Walde Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004 For classicists wanting a new perspective on gender studies... and for those interested in ancient and modern theories of vision, it will be a resource for years to come. -- Elizabeth H. Sutherland American Journal of Philology These nine essays collectively make the case for Rome as a missing link in the historical formulation of the gaze... A thought-provoking collection. -- Andrew Feldherr American Historical Review 2004Table of ContentsList of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Invisible RomeChapter 1. Split Vision: The Politics of the Gaze in Seneca's TroadersChapter 2. This Ship of Fools: Epic vision in Lucan's Vulteius EpisodeChapter 3. Some Unseen Monster: Rereading Lucretius on SexChapter 4. Reading Programs in Greco-Roman Art: Reflections on the Spada ReliefsChapter 5. Look Who's Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the Suburban Baths at PompeiiChapter 6. Political Movement: Walking and Ideology in Republican RomeChapter 7. Being in the Eyes: Shame and Sight in Ancient Rome Chapter 8. Mapping Penetrability in Late Republican and Early Imperial RomeChapter 9. Looking at Looking: Can You Resist a Reading?Bibliography Index
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The University Press of Kentucky Hoax
Book SynopsisRoosevelt had prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and that the details of Lincoln's assassination are recorded in missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's journal.The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery -- greed and the desire to believe.
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Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S. At The End Of Time Prophecy and Revelation A
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Ibis Press The Secret Temple
Book SynopsisThis is a unique history of Masonry written from the perspective of an educated outsider. The author is sympathetic to Masonic goals, a historian of secret societies and political conspiracies, and an exhaustive researcher. He looks back to the earliest roots of the Craft, and then traces its influence into modern times. From the Bible''s Temple of Solomon through the Knights Templars, to the Rosicrucians and Illuminati, we learn of Masonry''s roots and early history. Enlightenment philosophy and the revolutionary currents of eighteenth-century Europe opened an opportunity for the American experiment. Sacred geometry and architecture combined to create Washington, DC, and the rest, as they say, is history. This second revised and enlarged edition includes a new chapter on Freemasonry in South America-from the revolution of Simón Bolívar to the capture and execution of Che Guevara.
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Phanes Press,U.S. Magical and Mystical Sites Europe and the British
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TTP It Happened to Audrey A Terrifying Journey From
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Atlantis Rising LLC Paradigm Busters Beyond Science Lost History
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Atlantis Rising LLC Missing Connections Challenging the Consensus
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Atlantis Rising LLC Lost Powers Reclaiming Our Inner Connection
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Random House USA Inc Case Closed
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Johns Hopkins University Press Conspiracy
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Publications International, Ltd. The Book of Useless Information
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Publications International, Limited The Book of Random Oddities
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DK Visual Encyclopedia
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Arcadia Publishing Ghosts and Legends of Northern Ohio Haunted
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Arcadia Publishing Eerie Alabama Chilling Tales from the Heart of
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Arcadia Publishing Legends and Lore of Columbus Georgia
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Arcadia Publishing Historic Tales of Flagstaff
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History Press Historic Tales of WhoopUp Country On the Trail
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History Press Strange Tales from Virginias Mountains The Norton
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History Press Texas Oblivion
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History Press Hidden History of Hamilton County Indiana
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History Press The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax
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Rowman & Littlefield Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of
Book SynopsisThis is a tale of greed, opulence, chicanery, and the Gilded Age hope and belief that a pot of gold was just around the corner. At a time when women did not even have the vote, Cassie Chadwick managed to get millions of dollars in unsecured loans from American banks willing to lend on a rumor that she was the illegitimate child of Andrew Carnegie. It is an amazing con and shows the brilliance of the criminal mind that was Elizabeth Bigley and the desperation to have it all at a time when easy money and fabulous wealth seduced rational people into flights of fancy that would result in the ruin of a banking system, destruction of reputations and lives and the embarrassment that a woman who had changed her name no less than three times had taken the wealthiest rung of society for a ride. The con of Cassie Chadwick is a cautionary tale of easy money, avarice, and the belief there is something better over the next hill. Table of ContentsA Note to the ReaderPrologue Gilded Age Chapter 1: The Trial of the Century Chapter 2: The ChaseChapter 3: The ImmigrantsChapter 4: A Genteel Victorian Twist Chapter 5: The Cauldron of GreedChapter 6: The TombsChapter 7: Mrs. Bastado Chapter 8: The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance Chapter 9: Lady Liberty Chapter 10: The Good Doctor Chapter 11: Madame DeVereChapter 12: The Bank Failure Chapter 13: The Homestead Chapter 14: The Gold Standard Chapter 15: The Carnegie SubpoenaChapter 16: The Doctor and His Wife Chapter 17: The Queen of Cleveland Chapter 18: The Broken Man Chapter 19: Setting the HookChapter 20: The Trial of the Century Begins Chapter 21: The Bait Chapter 22: Survival of the Fittest Chapter 23: The Switch Chapter 24: The Work of a School Boy Chapter 25: The Good PastorChapter 26: Geronimo Chapter 27: Cashing In Chapter 28: A Jury of Farmers Chapter 29: Amazing Times Chapter 30: A Conspiracy to Defraud Chapter 31: The Newton Loan Chapter 32: Closing Arguments Chapter 33: The Verdict Chapter 34: The SentenceChapter 35: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick
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Little, Brown & Company The Program
Book SynopsisAs seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called "Hollywood Sex Cult" NXIVM chronicling the rise of enigmatic cult leader, Keith Raniere, from its "Patient Zero," his former girlfriend and test subject for his coercive control techniques. Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology. But where did Keith Raniere begin? Enter Toni Natalie, Keith''s Patient Zero, the first one indoctrinated into Raniere''s methodology and the first one to escape. THE PROGRAM begins with the origin story of NXIVM, follows its rise to international prominence, and takes the reader into the downfall of Raniere through Toni''s eyes. During this time she bore witness to the evolution of his methodology, including his use of sex, blackmail, and employment of psychological tools such as neuro-linguistic programming to control and punish those who would not heed his wishes. She uniquely details the fortunes lost and the lives left in disarray that she witnessed contemporaneously, including members of DOS, a group of women coerced into sexual acts under the guise of a "women''s empowerment" inner circle, whom Raniere exercised extreme control over directly and through his lieutenants. But far from being a victim''s story, in the spirit of Erin Brockovich, Toni''s is a nuanced narrative of a multi-dimensional woman saving herself, and then working tirelessly to help other women do the same for themselves. Today, Toni is happy, reunited with her son, and surrounded by friends and family--it is this perspective that makes her such a unique storyteller.
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Grand Central Publishing American Black Widow: The Shocking True Story of
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Bunk
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Martian Codex: More Reflections from Mars
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Cracking Tower: A Strategy for Transcending
Book SynopsisEnd-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers an arsenal of strategies to turn these fears into an opportunity for spiritual and personal growth. Beginning with a lively memoir of the author’s experiences in the ’60s, the book goes on to explore apocalyptic thinking through perennial philosophy, shamanism, gnostic mysticism, the body as a vessel of consciousness (and death as “an extended out-of-body experience”), and psychedelics. Shaping the discussion is the fascinating metaphor of the cracking tower, an apparatus for distilling gasoline, as a vehicle for distilling our awareness. Rather than speculating on what might occur in 2012, DeKorne proposes vigilance of a more introspective sort. “The important thing,” he says, “is to ignore the finger and strive to comprehend the moon,” to see what our apocalyptic tendencies reveal about ourselves.
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. 13 B'aktun: Mayan Visions of 2012 and Beyond
Book SynopsisAs 2012 looms with its promise of radical cultural and spiritual change, humankind is increasingly seeking strategies to survive and thrive. In 13 B’aktun, Gaspar Pedro González turns to the traditional Mayan belief system to navigate this uncertain future. The term 13 B’aktun refers to the thirteenth cycle of 144,000 days in the Mayan Long Count Calendar. Many scholars believe that this cycle is set to end on December 21, 2012. Framed as a fictional dialogue between a contemporary Mayan father and son, the book explores such questions as “Will life continue on Earth?” and “Will there be another creation at the end of this era?” The father imparts the knowledge of his ancestors and shares his direct mystical experiences that bring alive traditional beliefs about creation and the divine purpose of humanity, the Earth, and the universe. Through the father’s poetic words, the author helps us to critically reflect on our existence, the state of the modern world, and human destiny. In addition to ancient Mayan wisdom, 13 B’aktun incorporates the insights of modern philosophers, scientists, and religious texts concerning consciousness, human behavior, and predictions for the future. What unifies all of these sources is the message that despite our existing world dilemmas, there is still time to change our ways. The only book on 2012 by a Mayan author, 13 B’aktun draws on the storytelling experiences of the author’s childhood and his academic research as an adult. Countering the widespread hype and misinformation surrounding 2012, González blends past and present thought into a persuasive plan for moving into the new era.
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Red Wheel/Weiser Hidden History: Lost Civilizations Secret
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Red Wheel/Weiser Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five Year Journey
Book SynopsisFor centuries, people across the world have had a fascination with monsters and strange creatures. They marvel at the tales and legends of the Bigfoot; of the Abominable Snowman; of the infamous and diabolical Moth-Man. But do such creatures really exist? This title chronicles Nick Redfern's surreal journey in search of all-things monstrous.
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Hampton Roads Publishing Co Signs on the Earth: Deciphering the Message of
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