The authors of these books were clerics and philosophers, or charlatans out to get rich quick.
The supply-side cult has shrunk to the point that it contains only cranks, charlatans, and Republicans.
In Raba's experience, there continues to be widespread abuses committed by faith-healing "charlatans" offering quick fixes at extortionate prices.
Burgess, the frontman of The Charlatans, will be performing in the Cabaret Club.
Of course there are risks: charlatans might offer to sell bogus treatments for all kinds of genetic conditions, for example.
The Charlatans played mostly electrified folk music, a trend just getting underway, most notably with the Byrds in Los Angeles.
But is the Chinese system falling apart at the seams as charlatans like Gordon Chang and James Chanos would have us believe?
When the Red Dog's first summer was over, the Charlatans returned to San Francisco, as did Alton Kelley, Luria Castell, and Ellen Harmon.
They were spotted by The Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes and his business partner Ian Light who signed them up to their record label.
The problem with the so called free market is there are too, too many liars, thieves and charlatans out there to let them run free.
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And charlatans see no reason to give up a good gig.
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So, we can thank the charlatans of the social era for convincing companies that do retail business that they must persist in this insane, invasive behavior.
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At a time when countless ordinary Britons have been badly squeezed by economic austerity, the charlatans and outright crooks of the City have continued to award themselves outrageous pay packages.
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We may divide them into thieves, fools and charlatans.
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"You get a broad range from hoaxes, charlatans and self-centered megalomaniacs to extraordinary altruism and everything in the middle, " says George Demetri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.
Fringe events might include philosophy lectures, poetry readings and sundry charlatans and cranks offering to predict the future, but the real added attraction of the games wasn't the cultural Olympiad but the sexual one.
Drawing on the meditative traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, combined with deep-breathing and martial-arts exercises, it may seem somewhat cranky to non-adherents, and no doubt it has attracted its share of charlatans and crooks.
Supposedly named after a novel by Sarah Gainham, the band were at the forefront of the "Madchester" indie scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which also spawned the likes of Happy Mondays and The Charlatans.
But skeptics remain doubtful about similar claims, calling some charlatans and others well-intentioned people who are merely delusional, according to Joe Nickell, a senior research fellow for the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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Over the next few decades, according to Dr Principe's analysis of their letters and publications, chymists in England, France and elsewhere deliberately distanced themselves from the alchemists, casting themselves as intellectuals, the alchemists as charlatans, and the two activities as distinct.
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The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.
Loughlin recruited a chef, Jenna Worden, a mistress of ceremonies, Seattle folksinger Lynne Hughes, a dishwasher, former political radical Luria Castell, and a gigantic bouncer, a Washoe Indian named Mike Jones, and then found the band that would provide the entertainment, a well-dressed quintet from San Francisco who called themselves the Charlatans.
Inspired by what they'd just been through, in October they formed a company called the Family Dog, and on October 15, they rented Longshoreman's Hall and put on a dance with music by the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, and a band that lived a couple of doors away from the Charlatans, the Grateful Dead.
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