Animal Einsteins. produced & directed by Dan Slee ; BBC Studios, the Natural History Unit.

“…Con artists…”
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The Miller's Tale / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

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Weird earth : debunking strange ideas about our planet / Donald R. Prothero. by Prothero, Donald R.

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Just Hang Up : Senior Phone Scams—Dan Rather Reports / Big Media Holdings LLC.

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Swipe Left : Dating Apps Have Killed Romance : A Debate / Intelligence Squared US.

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Romance Fraud : Kent / Canamedia (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…Profile of a Con Man (4:50) -- Women Scammed (3:09) -- Fake Business Scam (2:25) -- Fraud: Police Involvement (2:11) -- Con Artist Tells the Truth (2:37) -- Con Artist: Caught and Sentenced (1:54) -- Romance Con Artist (2:07) -- Credits: Romance Fraud - Kent: Scammed (0:32)…”
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Criminal Conversations / Ivanhoe Communications.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction (0:31) -- Car Thieves (2:50) -- Burglars (2:36) -- Con Artists (3:00) -- Foreign Scams (3:08) -- Rapists (4:58) -- Kidnappers (4:23) -- Credits: Criminal Conversations (0:28)…”
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Deconstructing Pierre Bourdieu : Against Sociological Terrorism From the Left. by Verdes-Leroux, Jeannine

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; PIERRE BOURDIEU OR A CON-ARTIST'S SOCIOLOGY; Chapter I ART AND MANNER OR MANNER AND ART; Chapter II CONTRA INDICATIONS: "UNDERSTANDING", SAYS PIERRE BOURDIEU; Chapter III ODDS AND ENDS -- THE SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF TASTE ON DISTINCTION (1979); Chapter IV POWER AND DETAILS IN CONNECTION WITH "A PARLOR GAME", THE APPENDIX TO DISTINCTION (1979); Chapter V DOES BOURDIEU UNDERSTAND BOURDIEU? …”
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Going postal / Terry Pratchett ; adapted by Stephen Briggs. by Briggs, Stephen, 1951-

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Sam Whiskey / Levy-Gardner-Laven presents ; produced by Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven ; written by William Norton ; directed by Arnold Laven.

Hollow : a novel / Owen Egerton. by Egerton, Owen

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Autobiographical voices : race, gender, self-portraiture / Françoise Lionnet. by Lionnet, Françoise

Table of Contents: “…Creating a tradition -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of dust tracks on a road -- Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience -- Happiness deferred : Maryse Conď's Heremakhonon and the failure of enunciation -- Privileged difference and the possibility of emancipation : the words to say it and A l'autre bout de moi -- Anamnesis and utopia : self-portrait of the web maker in A l'autre bout de moi -- Conclusion.…”
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The music man / Warner Bros.

Crass struggle : glitz, greed, and gluttony in a wanna-have world / R.T. Naylor. by Naylor, R. T., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Preamble: Bacchanalian adventures with the ultra-rich -- The gold-diggers: precious metal, poisoned chalice -- Vulgari: flawed beauty in the gemstones business -- Icecapades: the diamond's darker facets -- Sketchy business: on art connoisseurs and con artists -- The chiselers: from tomb-raider to curator -- The numismaniacs: when big modern money chases little old coins -- The winophiliacs: uncorking the secrets of the wine trade -- Puff artists: behind the smokescreen of high-end cigars -- Afishionados: on fishy business in the fishing business -- Jailbirds: if parrots could really talk ... -- The hunter-gatherer society: from law of the jungle to maw of the market -- Goring the tusk trade: mammoth task, toothless law? …”
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The Patty Duke show. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Table of Contents: “…Author, author ; The continental ; Let 'em eat cake ; Going steady ; Are mothers people? ; The con artists -- disc 5. The perfect teenager ; Chip off the old block ; Wedding anniversary caper ; Slight case of disaster ; Pen pals ; The friendship bit -- disc 6. …”

After the fox / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; written by Neil Simon ; produced by John Bryan ; directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Reality check : how science deniers threaten our future / Donald R. Prothero ; foreword by Michael Shermer ; illustrations by Pat Linse. by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…: The Heated Debate over a Warming Planet -- Gimme That Old Time Religion : Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Denial of Humanity's Place in Nature -- Jenny's Body Count : Playing Russian Roulette with Our Children -- Victims of Modern Witch Doctors : AIDS Denialism -- If It Quacks like a Quack : Snake-Oil Con Artists in an Era of Medical Science -- What's Your Sign? …”
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Blondie Johnson / A First National and Vitaphone Pictures present ; directed by Ray Enright ; story & screen play by Earl Baldwin.

Buck and the preacher / Columbia Pictures presents an E & R Production Corp., Belafonte Enterprises, Inc. co-production ; producer, Joel Glickman ; screenplay, Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier.

Pretty things : a novel / Janelle Brown. by Brown, Janelle

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