The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-ManOn April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not entirely innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human

and his remarks on birds are particularly plentiful and poetic

Green's functions

ordered and numbered by degree of difficulty

in addition to an informative introduction and annotations

art connoisseur

historic architecture

to which purpose dotted construction lines are given for sections of the plates

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construction of spin-2 gauge theories

individual cards

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humorous science