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

Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It, Stephen Greenspan, Praeger, 2008

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

Best of Stuntology, by Sam Bartlett, Workman Publishing Company, 2008

Big Book of Hoaxes: True Tales of the Greatest Lies Ever Told!, by Carl Sifakis, DC Comics, 1996

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, by David Maurer, Anchor, 1999

Bonfire of the Brands, by Neil Boorman, Canongate Books Ltd., 2007

Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, by Jeff Cohen and Jim Hightower, Polipoint Press, 2006

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

The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

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

Other Books by Allan Kaprow

Expect Resistance: A Crimethink Field Manual, by CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective, CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective, 2007

Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders, By Paul Maliszewski, New Press 2009

Fakes, Frauds & Other Malarkey, by Kathryn Lindskoog and Patrick Wynne, Zondervan Publishing House, 1992

The Fame Formula, by Mark Borkowski, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2008

Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov, Doubleday, 1982

Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, by Graham Meikle, Routledge, 2002

Gaslighting: How To Drive Your Enemies Crazy by Vistor Santoro, Loompanics Unlimited, 1994

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis by Dr. Theo L. Dorpat, Publisher: Jason Aronson, 1996

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, by Lewis Hyde, Canongate Books Ltd, 2007

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

In the Shadow of No Towers, by Art Speigelman, Viking, 2004

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

Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, by Edward Steers, Jr., The University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition, 2009

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

Offbeat Kentuckians: Legends to Lunatics, by Keven McQueen, McClanahan Publishing House, 2001

On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries, by Richard Reynolds, Bloomsbury USA, 2008

OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, by Christine Harold, University of Minnesota Press, 2007

Penn & Teller’s How to Play in Traffic, by Penn Jillette & Teller, Berkley Trade, 1997

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 Raymond Delauney Emails, Rayomond Delauney, Prion Books Ltd, 2007

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, by Crimethinc, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective, 2005

The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2006

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, Metropolitan Books, 2007

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

Tricks with Your Head: Hilarious Magic Tricks and Stunts to Disgust and Delight, by Mac King and Mark Levy, Three Rivers Press, 2002

Trickster Makes This World: How the Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture, by Lewis Hyde, Canongate Books Ltd, 2008

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art, by Lewis Hyde, North Point Press, 1999

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

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

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

Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception, by Daniel Goleman, Simon & Schuster, 1996

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind, Harper, 2008

Who’s to Say What’s Obscene?: Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today, by Paul Krassner, Arianna Huffington (Foreword), City Lights Publishers, 2009

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