fraud

Lovers Nicholas Brink and Clay Guillory escape to Venice for a fresh start, hoping to finance their liaison with the sale of counterfeit silver to an unsuspecting wealthy retiree. The plan seems foolproof, but its execution proves harder to carry out as both Nicholas and Clay grapple with the pasts they're running away from and the morals of their scheme.

Currency is a fact of human life, and this book explores its genesis, beginning with those early coins and precious objects and tracing their legacy to the banknotes and fraud-detecting devices of the twenty-first century.

"This volume analyzes the various types of hoaxes that appear online and in the news, providing readers with a comprehensive set of tools to discover whether a story, image, or quotation is true"--Amazon.

"This [text] examines the roots of modern clickbait in the sensationalism of yellow journalism, while guiding readers through the process of recognizing clickbait and reacting to it in savvy ways"--Amazon.

Trevor, Nick, and Robyn visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum and discover some very mysterious things going on around the new paleontology dig.

"The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases"--OCLC.

"This [text] examines the roots of modern clickbait in the sensationalism of yellow journalism, while guiding readers through the process of recognizing clickbait and reacting to it in savvy ways"--Amazon.

"This volume analyzes the various types of hoaxes that appear online and in the news, providing readers with a comprehensive set of tools to discover whether a story, image, or quotation is true"--Amazon.

A local politician and millionaire is donating the money for a new wing for the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, which will exhibit some of the earliest devices for astronomical observation; but Amal Farah, daughter of one of the Museum's scientists, discovers that the crates supposedly containing the telescopes are empty, and she and her friends set out to investigate.

Argues that deception is rampant in the unregulated food industry and asserts that many foods are counterfeit. Foods to avoid and tips to help recognize authentic foods are included.