I Fooled You
Title | I Fooled You PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763637890 |
A treasury of ten stories featuring characters that fool others includes contributions by such authors as David A. Adler, Eve B. Feldman, and Michelle Knudsen.
Everybody's Fool
Title | Everybody's Fool PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Russo |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101946962 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
Fooled You!
Title | Fooled You! PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy E. Krulik |
Publisher | Scholastic Paperbacks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780545117760 |
It's April Fool's Day in Miss Popper's firstgrade class, and six-year-old Justine decides to play some pranks on her teacher and classmates. Once Justine starts playing jokes, though, she can't stop. The pranking just keeps getting worse and worse. When Justine's friends get tired of the constant pranks, they decide to play a joke of their own. But will Justine be able to handle a taste of her own medicine?
Fooled Ya!
Title | Fooled Ya! PDF eBook |
Author | Jordan D. Brown |
Publisher | MoonDance Press |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 163322158X |
Don't be fooled by what your brain thinks you see! Fooled Ya! is a kid's guide to the mind bending world of illusions, perception, and why we can be tricked. Don't be fooled again, learn the tricks! Discover the variety of ways our brains can trick us, from the visual trickery of optical illusions, to magicians' masterful use of misdirection, to strategies used by con artists. You can't always trust your brain, learn why with Fooled Ya! and you'll be less likely to be swindled, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. Brian Z. Brain is your illustrated guide, he will explain the inner workings of your mind and what makes it tick. This mind bending guide to what you see and only think you see covers just about anything you could dream up. Sections include "Can You Trust Your Brain," "Fool the Five Senses," "How Magicians Mess with Your Mind," and "Learn to Be Less Gullible." Woven throughout are tons of articles that show off interesting stories and facts on subject ranging rang history, psychology, and even neuroscience! Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2018!
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Title | The Doctor Who Fooled the World PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Deer |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2020-09-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1421438011 |
Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
Doctor Who: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead
Title | Doctor Who: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cole |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473532450 |
We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known... Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death. The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start. Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.
Proofiness
Title | Proofiness PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Seife |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-09-23 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1101443502 |
The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives. According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington, D.C., even though roughly sixty thousand were there. Numbers have peculiar powers-they can disarm skeptics, befuddle journalists, and hoodwink the public into believing almost anything. "Proofiness," as Charles Seife explains in this eye-opening book, is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends, and he reminds readers that bad mathematics has a dark side. It is used to bring down beloved government officials and to appoint undeserving ones (both Democratic and Republican), to convict the innocent and acquit the guilty, to ruin our economy, and to fix the outcomes of future elections. This penetrating look at the intersection of math and society will appeal to readers of Freakonomics and the books of Malcolm Gladwell.