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Republishing an old police guide to traditional scams.
The world's greatest crooks & conmen. Like it or not, the rascals and rogues of this world are generally more interesting characters than the good guys. Their names and escapades are better remembered that those of the heroes. In this volume you will find a remarkable array of men and women, including the politician who faked his own death, leaving behind him vast debts, the clerk who 'invested' 32 million of his bank's money and the train robber who became a legend in his own lifetime.---BACK COVER.
A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
"Esther Austin first appeared as a serial in the May, 1899 issues of The War Cry. It [details] travel to and in Western Australia in the mid 1890s. Perth, Geraldton, and the goldrush towns of Southern Cross, Coolgardie and Cue are described. The poor conditions of life on the fields and the difficulties of travel are graphically delineated. Title in the serial: Esther Austin or adventures on the goldfields." -- P. 1.
"A record of phenomena associated with the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, observed in Western Australia, together with a miscellany of unusual or otherwise unexplained happenings of interest" -- P. 1.