1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787207503321

Autore

Nickell Joe

Titolo

Detecting forgery : forensic investigation of documents / / Joe Nickell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2005

©1996

ISBN

9780813148427

0813148421

9780813191256

0813191254

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

363.2/563

Soggetti

Writing

Signatures (Writing)

Legal documents

Evidence, Expert

Forgery

Graphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Handwriting; 1. The Written Word; Evolution of Handwriting; Graphology versus Science; The Forensic Approach; 2. Examining Handwriting and Typewriting; Class versus Individual Characteristics; Examplars and Standards; Identification Factors; Handwriting Comparison; Disguised Writing and Printing; Illegibility and Decipherment; Typewriting and Other Mechanical Forms; 3. Forged Writing; The Forger's Techniques; Warning Signs of Forgery; Detecting Nonforgery Fakes; Part Two. Additional Aspects

4. A Multi-Evidential Approach Provenance; Internal Evidence; Writing Materials; Scientific Analyses; 5. Macroscopic and Microscopic Study; Macroscopy; Microscopy; Photography; 6. Spectral Techniques; Ultraviolet Light; Infrared Radiation; Laser Technology; Photographic Processes; 7. Chemical and Instrumental Tests; Chemical Tests;



Instrumental Analyses; Notes; Recommended Works; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Detecting Forgery reveals the complete arsenal of forensic techniques used to detect forged handwriting and alterations in documents and to identify the authorship of disputed writings. Joe Nickell looks at famous cases such as Clifford Irving's ""autobiography"" of Howard Hughes and the Mormon papers of document dealer Mark Hoffman, as well as cases involving works of art.  Detecting Forgery is a fascinating introduction to the growing field of forensic document examination and forgery detection.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956773103321

Autore

Evans Christine Elaine

Titolo

Between Truth and Time : A History of Soviet Central Television / / Christine Elaine Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-300-20896-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Eurasia Past and Present

Disciplina

302.2345094709045

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

Television viewers - Soviet Union

Television viewers - Attitudes

Television and politics - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

History

Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stagnation and Experimentation in the Russian Era of Television -- CHAPTER ONE. Not a Mirror but a Magnifying Glass: Soviet Television Enthusiasm -- CHAPTER TWO. Programmnaia Politika:



Audience Research and the Creation of the Channel 1 Schedule -- CHAPTER THREE. From Café to Contest: New Year's Variety Shows and the Soviet Festive System -- CHAPTER FOUR. Time and the Problem of Boredom -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Spiritual Coauthorship": Seventeen Moments of Spring and the Soviet TV Miniseries -- CHAPTER SIX. "KVN Is an Honest Game": Game Shows and the Problem of Authority -- CHAPTER SEVEN. A Dress Rehearsal for Life: Artloto and What? Where? When? -- EPILOGUE. The Origins of Central Television's Perestroika -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television's most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and the post-Soviet media system.