Search Results: Returned 5 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 5
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[2022]., Adolescent, Tilbury House Publishers Call No: 177 .309 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. As with his book World Without Fish, Kurlansky has written A History of Big Lies for young readers, the future stewards of our world. It is not only a history but a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically"--
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[2022]., General, Tilbury House Publishers Call No: 070.4 KUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this new book for young readers [Mark Kurlansky looks at] the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history"-- Provided by publisher.
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2017., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 355.07 ROA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the military strategy of deception and examines how it has been used in war over the past 150 years.
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[2018], Primary, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 398 .45 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This is the true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of "real" fairies. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.
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2019., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 940.5 JAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units---fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated. From the Normandy invasion to the crossing of the Rhine River, the men of the Ghost Army---several of whom went on to become famous artists and designers after the war---played an improbable role in the Allied victory.
