| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Scandals and scoundrels/ Ron Robin. |
| Reminder of title: |
seven cases that shook the academy / |
| Author: |
Robin, Ron Theodore. |
| Published: |
Berkeley :University of California Press, : c2004., |
| Description: |
xii, 277 p. ;21 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction : scholarly scandals: why do they happen? -- Plagiarism and the demise of gatekeepers -- The noble lie : "arming America" and the right to bear arms -- "A self of many possibilities" : Joseph Ellis, the protean historian -- The ghost of Caliban : Derek Freeman and "the fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead" -- Violent people and gentle savages : the Yanomami controversy -- The willful suspension of disbelief : Rigoberta Mench漉 and the making of the Mayan holocaust -- Science fiction : Sokal's hoax and the "linguist left" -- What do the scandals mean? |
| Subject: |
Impostors and imposture. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119353An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417545313 (electronic bk.) |