Counterfeiter

Author : Thomas Levenson
Publisher : HMH
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547416618

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Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson Pdf

A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal). When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind of genius—a preternaturally gifted counterfeiter named William Chaloner—has already taken up residence in the city, rising quickly in an unruly, competitive underworld. In the courts and streets of London, and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by ideas Newton himself set in motion, Chaloner crosses paths with the formidable new warden. An epic game of cat and mouse ensues in Newton and the Counterfeiter, revealing for the first time the “remarkable and true tale of the only criminal investigator who was far, far brainier than even Sherlock Holmes: Sir Isaac Newton during his tenure as Warden of the Royal Mint . . . A fascinating saga” (Walter Isaacson). “I absolutely loved Newton and the Counterfeiter. Deft, witty and exhaustively researched.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “A delicious read, featuring brilliant detective work and a captivating story . . . A virtuoso performance.” —Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind “Through a page-turning narrative, we witness Isaac Newton’s genius grappling with the darker sides of human nature, an all too human journey reflecting his deepest beliefs about the cosmic order.” —Brian Greene, author of The Fabric of the Cosmos “Levenson transforms inflation and metallurgy into a suspenseful detective story bolstered by an eloquent summary of Newtonian physics and stomach-turning descriptions of prison life in the Tower of London. . . . [The book] humanizes a legend, transforming him into a Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of his own private Moriarty.” —The Washington Post

Author : Stephen Mihm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674041011

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A Nation of Counterfeiters by Stephen Mihm Pdf

Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.

Author : André Gide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000180597

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The Counterfeiters by André Gide Pdf

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

Author : Jason Kersten
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592404464

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The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten Pdf

The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who made millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy: family.

Author : Moritz Nachtstern,Ragnar Arntzen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762776481

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Counterfeiter by Moritz Nachtstern,Ragnar Arntzen Pdf

This is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of counterfeit banknotes. A team of typographers and printers was pulled out of the rows of prisoners on their way to the gas chambers and transferred to the strictly isolated Block 19 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There they were presented with the enormous task of producing almost perfect counterfeits to the value of hundreds of millions of pounds sterling. These notes were to be dropped from bombers over London, with the aim of causing financial chaos. When the time came the Luftwaffe's resources were fully committed in other campaigns and theaters but some of the currency was successfully used to fund operations in Germany's secret war.

Author : Ben Tarnoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101574836

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A Counterfeiter's Paradise by Ben Tarnoff Pdf

"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming." -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.

Author : Kseniya Garaschuk,Andy Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030529468

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Grade Five Competition from the Leningrad Mathematical Olympiad by Kseniya Garaschuk,Andy Liu Pdf

This unique book presents mathematical competition problems primarily aimed at upper elementary school students, but are challenging for students at any age. These problems are drawn from the complete papers of the legendary Leningrad Mathematical Olympiads that were presented to the city’s Grade Five students. The period covered is between 1979 – the earliest year for which relevant records could be retrieved – and 1992, when the former Soviet Union was dissolved. The respective chapters reflect the famous four-step approach to problem solving developed by the great Hungarian mathematics educator Gyorgy Pólya. In Chapter One, the Grade Five Competition problems from the Leningrad Mathematical Olympiads from 1979 to 1992 are presented in chronological order. In Chapter Two, the 83 problems are loosely divided into 26 sets of three or four related problems, and an example is provided for each one. Chapter Three provides full solutions to all problems, while Chapter Four offers generalizations of the problems. This book can be used by any mathematically advanced student at the upper elementary school level. Teachers and organizers of outreach activities such as mathematical circles will also find this book useful. But the primary value of the book lies in the problems themselves, which were crafted by experts; therefore, anyone interested in problem solving will find this book a welcome addition to their library./div

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design,Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309185646

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A Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design,Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting Pdf

The rapid pace at which digital printing is advancing is posing a very serious challenge to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Printing (BEP). The BEP needs to stay ahead of the evolving counterfeiting threats to U.S. currency. To help meet that challenge, A Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes provides an assessment of technologies and methods to produce designs that enhance the security of U.S. Federal Reserve notes (FRNs). This book presents the results of a systematic investigation of the trends in digital imaging and printing and how they enable emerging counterfeiting threats. It also provides the identification and analysis of new features of FRNs that could provide effective countermeasures to these threats and an overview of a requirements-driven development process that could be adapted to develop an advanced-generation currency.

Author : Jason Kersten
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781101060162

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The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten Pdf

Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog. The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family. Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing. In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind. Watch a Video

Author : Bhaswar Mukherjee
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789392834165

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The Counterfeiter by Bhaswar Mukherjee Pdf

Telgi and the stamp scam? Didn’t that happen a quarter of a century ago? Why now? Because the complete story of the counterfeiter and scamster has never been told before. Because the story of the sheer innovation and audacity of an underdog needs to be told. Because the complex web of corruption involving lawmakers and law-keepers continues. Because the crime has all the overtones of a Bollywood potboiler, replete with chases, corrupt government officials and policemen, political chicanery, bar dancers and yes, a murder too! Because of the many unanswered questions that remain, so many years after the crime and the death of Abdul Karim Ladsaab Telgi in 2017. How was it possible for a man like Telgi to establish a pan-India ‘business’ in 74 cities and reach such dizzying heights of power and pelf, amassing a personal wealth of over Rs 17,000 crore while swindling the economy to the tune of Rs 25,000 crore? How did he manage to undermine the hallowed institutions of India? What was the size of the scam? How did CBI peg the figure at a mere fraction of the guesstimated amount? The Counterfeiter chronicles the audacious swindle by the flamboyant mastermind in a blow-by-blow account of its execution, investigation, charge sheets, legal developments, Telgi’s incarceration, trial, death – and finally exoneration. An unputdownable true-crime dossier!

Author : Ben Tarnoff
Publisher : Penguin Press HC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1594202877

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Moneymakers by Ben Tarnoff Pdf

Chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters whose schemes reflected the culture of early America, describing their backgrounds and how they exploited period politics, economics and law enforcement to promote their operations.

Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021161724

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Three Years with Counterfeiters, Smug[g]lers, and Boodle Carriers by George Pickering Burnham Pdf

Author : George Pickering Burnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN : MINN:31951002463451L

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American Counterfeits; how Detected, and how Avoided, Comprising Sketches of Noted Counterfeiters, and Their Allies by George Pickering Burnham Pdf

Author : Charles Black,Michael Horsnell
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312038054

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Counterfeiter by Charles Black,Michael Horsnell Pdf

The author recounts the methods he used to produce undetectable forgeries of currency and traveler's checks

Author : David Wolman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306822698

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The End of Money by David Wolman Pdf

For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money -- to say nothing of its value -- is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon disappear, author and Wired contributing editor David Wolman sets out to investigate the future of money...and how it will affect your wallet. Wolman begins his journey by deciding to shun cash for an entire year -- a surprisingly successful experiment (with a couple of notable exceptions). He then ventures forth to find people and technologies that illuminate the road ahead. In Honolulu, he drinks Mai Tais with Bernard von NotHaus, a convicted counterfeiter and alternative-currency evangelist whom government prosecutors have labeled a domestic terrorist. In Tokyo, he sneaks a peek at the latest anti-counterfeiting wizardry, while puzzling over the fact that banknote forgers depend on society's addiction to cash. In a downtrodden Oregon town, he mingles with obsessive coin collectors -- the people who are supposed to love cash the most, yet don't. And in rural Georgia, he examines why some people feel the end of cash is Armageddon's warm-up act. After stops at the Digital Money Forum in London and Iceland's central bank, Wolman flies to Delhi, where he sees first-hand how cash penalizes the poor more than anyone--and how mobile technologies promise to change that. Told with verve and wit, The End of Money explores an aspect of our daily lives so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it. You'll never look at a dollar bill the same again.