Hoaxers and Their Victims.
by Yapp, Nick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0860517810
- ISBN 13
- 9780860517818
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Robson Books, 1992. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, spine lettering jacket little faded (flaps little foxed), minor edgewear. 231 pp. Nick Yapp provides an entertaining examination of hoaxes and hoaxers, including the famous Cottingley Fairies, Piltdown Man and the Hitler diaries. Includes chapters on the psychology of both hoaxers and victims, and on the prevalence of hoaxing. And what is the blurred boundary line between faking and copying a painting?
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17641
- Title
- Hoaxers and Their Victims.
- Author
- Yapp, Nick
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0860517810
- ISBN 13
- 9780860517818
- Publisher
- Robson Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- criminology, deception, fraud, hoaxes
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIMINOLOGY;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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