Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.? In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Hippo Eats Dwarf is the essential field guide to today's Misinformation Age. Whether you're deciphering political doublespeak or trying to decide whether to forward that virus warning, hoaxpert Alex Boese provides the guidelines you need. For instance, Reality Rule 6.1: Just because you read it on the Internet doesn't make it true. With case files, reality checks, definitions, and plenty of doctored photos, Hippo Eats Dwarf is an entertaining guide to life, death, eBay, and everything in between.

Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.

Boese, Alex

Reference

Mariner Books

Presents an entertaining collection of hundreds of documented historical hoaxes, pranks, deceptions, and stunts that have fooled the public from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Edgar Allan Poe's literary deception to P. T. Barnum, the master hoaxer, discussing the origin of April Fool's Day, providing a Gullibility Test, and more. Reprint.

The Museum of Hoaxes

Plume

Presents an entertaining collection of hundreds of documented historical hoaxes, pranks, deceptions, and stunts that have fooled the public from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Edgar Allan Poe's literary deception to P. T. Barnum, the master hoaxer, discussing the origin of April Fool's Day, providing a Gullibility Test, and more. 50,000 first printing.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Dutton Adult

Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (Harvest Original)

Harvest Books

When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen on 3 August 1962, little did he know that he was about to be given the largest ever single dose of LSD . . .Elephants on Acid is a wonderfully entertaining, authoritative collection of history's most bizarre experiments, from the 19th-century creation of zombie kittens to a University of Wisconsin study that answers, definitively, the question of whether women who play hard to get really are more desirable. As well as learning what happened to Tusko, you will discover the 1959 mathematical equation for the point at which chatter at a drinks party becomes loud; whether listening to Mozart makes children super-students; and the secret of how to sleep on planes . . .* If left to their own devices, would babies instinctively pick a well-balanced diet?* If you were unfortunate enough to fall down a disused mine shaft, would your dog run to fetch help?* Which really tastes better in a blind tasting -- Coke, or Pepsi?

Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Boxtree

How gullible are human beings? What is it that gives us such delight in hoaxing the gullible? Take for example the April Fool  perpetrated by Burger King who advertised they were to produce left-handed hamburgers (they revealed they had rotated the relish by 180 degrees, since you ask) for the 32 million left-handed Americans. They were inundated with eager buyers. And what about the famous BBC TV 'Spaghetti Tree' hoax. Or the occasion in 1996 when, to deafening outrage of newspapers and politicians, Taco Bell announced they had purchased the Liberty Bell and henceforth it would be known as the 'Taco Liberty Bell'. Then let's not pass over the 'miraculous bullet' which an American Civil War doctor insisted passed though the testicles of a soldier then on into the abdomen of a woman behind the lines who subsequently gave birth. And how about the furry trout, the antlered rabbit, and corn cobs the size of fully grown oak trees...These and many more hoaxes are recounted in this 640 page, leather bound, limited edition volume.

The Museum of Hoaxes : The World's Greatest Hoaxes

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt

"Perfect summertime reading―preferably with a friend nearby who can be constantly interrupted with unsettling facts." ―Daily Mail (UK )
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an electric-shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked. 
Welcome to some of the weirdest and most wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Filled with stories of science gone strange, Electrified Sheep is packed with eccentric characters, irrational obsessions, and extreme experiments. Watch as scientists attempt to nuke the moon, wince at the doctor who performs a self-appendectomy, and catch the faint whiff of singed wool from an electrified sheep.

Electrified Sheep: Glass-eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Thomas Dunne Books

The Pig Who Survived an Atomic Bomb
The Psychologist Who Hid Beneath Beds
The Founding Father Who Delivered Mouth-to-Mouth . . . to a Chicken
Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Alex Boese's Electrified Sheep is packed with eccentric characters, irrational obsessions, and extreme experiments. Watch as scientists attempt to nuke the moon, wince at the doctor who performs a self-appendectomy, and catch the faint whiff of singed wool from an electrified sheep.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Hippo Eats Dwarf

Science & Math

Pan.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history.What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom?In Psychedelic Apes, bestselling author Alex Boese will delve into the curious scientific subculture of weird theories. Thoroughly bizarre and contrary to the established norm, these ideas are often vehemently rejected by the intellectual community.From the creation of the universe to the evolution of humans, the birth of civilization right through to our more recent past, Psychedelic Apes explores some of the craziest ideas from science and history and shows that, sometimes, even the weirdest theories may be proved true . . .

Psychedelic Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History

Earth Sciences

Macmillan, UK

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Books by Boese, Alex

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Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.

The Museum of Hoaxes

The Museum of Hoaxes

Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (Harvest Original)

Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments

The Museum of Hoaxes : The World's Greatest Hoaxes

Electrified Sheep: Glass-eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Electrified Sheep: Glass-eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Hippo Eats Dwarf

Psychedelic Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History