Art of the Prank Bookstore
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Below is a list of books and films about topics covered on The Art of the Prank. If you click on the name of the item you will be able to purchase it from Amazon.com or other booksellers such as RE/Search Publications.

The Activist Cookbook, by Andrew Boyd, United for a Fair Economy, 1997

The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum, by James W. Cook, Harvard University Press, 2001
At the Edge of Art, by Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito, Thames & Hudson, 2006

Big Book of Hoaxes: True Tales of the Greatest Lies Ever Told!, by Carl Sifakis, DC Comics, 1996
Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work, by Ted Brader, University of Chicago Press, 2006
The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler, Peter Smith Publisher, 1994

Comments on The Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord, Verso, New Ed edition, 1998
Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett, Penguin Books Ltd, 1993

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, by Benjamin R. Barber, W. W. Norton, 2007
The Demon Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Ballantine Books, 1997
The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson, Spectra, 2000

Don’t Believe It!: How Lies Become News, by Alexandra Kitty, The Disinformation Company, 2005

Essays on the Blurring of Life and Art, by Allan Kaprow, University of California Press, 2003

Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey, by Kathryn Lindskoog and Patrick Wynne, Zondervan Publishing House, 1992
The Fame Formula, by Mark Borkowski, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2008
Fiona: Mysteries & Curiosities Of Literary Fraud & Folly, by W. J. Elvin III, CreateSpace, 2008

Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov, Doubleday, 1982

Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, by Graham Meikle, Routledge, 2002
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell, The MIT Press, 1996

Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates, by Carla Sinclair, Gareth Branwyn, Mark Frauenfelder, Riverhead Trade, 1995

Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog, Paul Cronin (editor), Faber & Faber, 2003

Hey, Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People by Anne Elizabeth Moore, Soft Skull Press, 2004

Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. by Alex Boese, Harvest Books, 2006

Hoaxes, by Curtis MacDougall, Dover Publications; 2nd Edition, 1958

Hoaxes and Deception: Library of Curious and Unusual Facts, Time Life Books, 1991

Hoaxes, Humbugs and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonat, by Mark Sloane, Villard, 1990

How a satirical editor became a Yippe conspirator in ten easy years, by Paul Krassner, Putman, 1971

How To Draw a Bunny (2002), DVD, by John W. Walter, Palm Pictures, 2004

Impropaganda: The Art of the Publicity Stunt, by Mark Borkowski

Jamming the Media, by Gareth Branwyn, Chronicle Books, 1997

Jay’s Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Impostors, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments, by Ricky Jay, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001
The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, Wildside Press, 2005

Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits, by Jason Salzman, Perseus Books Group, 2003

Media Hoaxes, by Fred Fedler, 1989

Media Virus!, by Douglas Rushkoff, Ballantine Books, 1996

Media Wizards: A Behind the Scenes Look at Media Manipulations, by Catherine Gourley, 21st Century, 1999

The Messenger’s Motives: Ethical Probelms of the News Media, 2nd Edition, by John L. Hulteng, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985
Metamagical Themas, by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Basic Books, 1996

Mischief Marketing: How the Rich, Famous, & Successful Really Got Their Careers and Businesses Going, by Ray Simon, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, 2000

The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for Nothing, by Todd Robbins, Bloomsbury, 2008

Modern Primitives, by V. Vale, RE/Search Publications, 1989

The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright, Abacus, 2004

More Scams from the Great Beyond!: How to Make Even More Money Off the Creationism, Evolution, Environmentalism, Fringe Politics, Weird Science, the Occult, and Other Strange Beliefs, by Peter Huston, Paladin Press, 2002

Mount Analogue, by Rene Daumal, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2005

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, by Lawrence Weschler, Vintage, 1996

The Museum of Hoaxes, by Alex Boese, Orion, 2004

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, by Naomi Klein, Picador, 2002
OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, by Christine Harold, University of Minnesota Press, 2007

Pranks!, RE/Search Publications, 1987

Pranks! 2, RE/Search Publications, 2006

Publicity Stunt, by Candice Jacobson Fuhrman, Chronicle Books. 1989

Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within, by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow, Vulgar Press, 2004

The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2006
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (Author), Ken Knabb (Translator), AKPress; New edition, 2006
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, Goldmann, 2002

Spite, Malice and Revenge: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Even (3 Diabolical Volumes in 1), by M. Nelson Chunder and George Hayduke, Random House Value Publishing, 1988

Spook Country, by William Gibson, Putnam Adult (August 7, 2007), Putnam Adult, 2007

Stories of hoaxes in the name of science, by Irving Adler, Collier Books, 1962
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, by John Brockman, Touchstone, 1996
Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art, by Carlo McCormick (Author), Marc Schiller (Author), Sara Schiller (Author), Ethel Seno (Editor), 2010

True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, by Farhad Manjoo, Wiley, 2008

Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity , by Anne Elizabeth Moore, New Press, 2007

U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?, by Bruce Grierson, Bloomsbury, 2007

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer, Owl Books; 2nd Rev edition, 2002

The Wolf Files: Adventures in Weird News, by Buck Wolf, Globe Pequot, 2003
The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead, by Scott Kenemore, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007
More Coming!