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This story is about Mike who loves hanging out in his father's weird little museum on Fear Street. It is full of cool stuff-a guillotine, a mummy, a bunch of spooky wax figuress

When I got this book I didn't think it would be much. When I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I always wanted to find out what was next to happen. This book has a cool plot to it. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery stories.

If you do not believe that a suit of armor is haunted, read the evidence in this book. You will get the goosbumps by reading this book. The main character in this novel is Mike a twelve year old boy. Mike also has a younger sister her name is Carly. Mike's father owns a wax museum with only one employee, Mr.Spellman. The museum gets a suit of armor which belonged to an evil knight.

As a pastor's wife, I had little trouble relating to London and Kathie. As I read, some characters made me want to wring their necks. Some, I wanted to hug. I loved this book right up until the end.

I came across this book by accident and this is one of those times I am grateful for those kind of accidents. I believe everyone who attends church and expects a lot from the minister or pastor should read this book. Even though it is written for back in the 1920's, everything that happened at the First Baptist Church in Linden, MO, still happens today.

I have always thought of a humanist being a bad thing but it is only when it is by itself. Quoting the book, page 175; "Religion is humanity and Jesus is love, and that's all there is to it. But people don't want that truth. It's too simple. They want the privilege to hate without losing the luxury of love." Page 176; "You see, London, it's man, not God, who tries men. Too often we shout that God is Jehovah and forget that His best name if Providence. We never learn that serenity comes only with surrender and that man is not a free agent. He can enjoy only the rights he is willing to give others." I found these comments to be profound.

After reading this book, I was still awed at all that the Wingo's had to deal with in the pastorate, but more than anything, realizing this "stuff" is still happening today...the date is the only difference. Reading the Bible and applying its word should make us different and hopefully better and so should reading this book.

Mr. Street's descriptive style of our inner spiritual struggles, fears , and pride was powerful. It was a hard book for me to put down. It was like a spiritual documentary from a time long ago, but seemingly so close to home!

While many stock market books have lots to say about parallels in financial history, this one is very different. The Great Bull Market is not really about the stock market at all. It's about the factors that led to the market mania of the late 1920s. Changes in social patterns, dramatic changes in the economy and living standards and a liberalisation of financial laws all led to the belief that life had really changed for everyone for the better.

Of course, there are wider things to consider than the rather simplistic and sometimes left-wing views put forward here. Even so, The Great Bull Market does take you away from the now perfunctory trawl through margin statistics and takes you into the heads of those who were actually parting with cash. For that it's a great read.

The market could only go up. Margin requirements were minimal. Investment in equities, seemingly ANY equities was a risk-less, rock solid path to fortune. Why buy one of the new electronic phonographs, or a refrigerator, on "time" (credit) when for the same amount of money, one could buy equities on margin, gain immense leverage, and be "guaranteed" to make the money back many times over, and be able to buy many more luxuries.

According to Mr. Sobel, this was, in a nutshell, the mentality of the average investor. Investment houses and financial institutions fueled the fire by making margin cheap and easy. Ultimately, stock prices were held up by nothing. Tremors of instability began to ripple through the market as the impending crash approached, often dismissed as buying opportunities. Ultimately, reality set in, and the unthinkable happened.

Are things different today? Yes and No. More safeguards would seem to be in place, however valuations of today make those of the 20's look miniscule. While a direct comparison is difficult to make between the period covered in the book, and the market of 2000, there are lessons to be learned. "The Great Bull Market" provides a fascinating account of the crash and the events that led up to it. A must read for anyone feeling a little jittery about the climate on Wall Street today!

When I was first assigned this book as an undergraduate in 1990, I was entranced by how any market could get so out of control as it did in the 1920's. Now, after re-reading it in February 2000 as a professional in the industry, I am frightened by the similarities that exist in this "new paradigm". This is a fast paced, well organized, and concise overview of how the fed, margin accounts, and a number of other powerful forces contributed, either passively or actively, to the crash of '29. I have shared this book with many of my colleagues in the investment industry, and we are all equally haunted by how history is indeed repeating itself.

My 2 year old enjoys watching "Little Bill" on Nick so SHE actually picked this book out herself! The illustrations are just as they are on the show and the story is really cute! I recommend this one for anyone whose children like the series!

I love this book I bought it for my son who loves the T.V. show.
The are alot of stickers.I will buy all the LittleBill books.

I love this book. The stickers are cool.

License to Steal is an excellent book. I found it very easy to read. The book offers a persoanl account of a wall street broker that works in various large and small houses. The author takes you through an account of the "innner-workings" of the Manhattan stock boker's world. The author seems compelled to give the audience an account of the lawless nature of some of the biggest brokers.

This book is good at explaining investments in a way I can understand. Best suited for new investors who need basic help.

This is an easy-to-understand book about investing. I don't think experienced investors would learn a lot, but people such as myself who are relatively new to the game will find it very valuable.

If you are a fan of Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim you will enjoy this book.

i have read the book in find it to be correct, i also meet the author of the book when i was in elementary school. i also come from the place that the book was written about. also one of the characters in the book i know personal. so i must say that book is a very good book.

I read this book years ago. My son was employed at a library and
he would bring books home. at the time he was 18 years of age.
the book reminded me of the area we had resided in at one time. I had my children read the book, and believe it or not, his book
helped keep them into falling into the pitfalls of the wicked
streets, as a matter of fact I have read almost all of the books
written by black authors, chester himes, ralph ellison, to name
a few, at one time i had all the books, but i have passed them
on to my grandchildren they are collector of items, because they
treasure those books.

Let me first say that I like this book better than most of the other investing psychology books out there that I have examined. But I have two problems with the book. First, there is an investor psychology test at the back of the book which is also available on a website. My question is, especially after reading the test questions, how scientific is this test? I doubt that it really tells the taker anything but many will be suduced by it anyhow. Most of this material I have seen is either rubbish or Mickey Mouse. Second, any investor that needs this material does not need this material. In other words any investor that does not already understand this material independent of the book a priori is certainly not in need of studying this book and then attempting to beat the market with his/her new found knowledge. My own experience is that the psychological equipment needed to truly outwit the market is necessarily the result of long hard experience, not reading books. The completely clueless may find solace here but until the material is internalized it is probably of not much use. The book provides no help on internalization.

Reviewer: A reader from Winchester, MA

About half way through this book, I made the same mental connection that I made about 20 years ago when I read Tim Gallwey's classic, "The Inner Game of Tennis."
That is, this is a very fresh and relevant way to look at a complex game phenomenon with a very quiet and objective mind.

While this may not be a book for the technically sophisticated investor, it is highly recommended for a wide range of investors that are looking to create and sustain a personal psychological advantage on the market.

In many ways, this is a book that enables the reader to look at the market in a Zenlike way. Rather than dealing with winning investment strategies, it deals with an often overlooked and more important aspect of investing: creating and managing winning emotional strategies.

Without sounding overly Eastern in philosophy, Dr. Geist deals with strategies to help the average investor focus more of their energies on understanding their personal emotional reactions to the market. His thesis is that you can achieve greater happiness and success by integrating an emotional understanding of yourself into your investing strategies.

Like Gallwey, Dr. Geist provides the reader with a much needed perspective and tools for helping to manage the most difficult opponent we all face, our own emotional inner game.

This is a book both every investor and financial advisor should read. Rather than proposing a scheme for eliminating emotions from your investment decision-making, which is the mantra of most books, Geist cogently argues that emotions are always present in risky decisions. His solution is not to ignore them, but instead to understand them and see how they idiosycratically afftect our investment choices.

Investor Threapy is one of the only books I've read that makes clear how profound the ramifications actually are of integrating emotions into investment decision-making. The book clearly spells out in an easily readable way how emotions influence not only when we buy and sell, but what sectors of the market we choose to play in, how we gauge our own risk level, how we repond to herd mentality, how we deal with loss, and how we so often mismatch our personality to an investing style.

Geist offers a fascinating view of how to understand management, and why it is so important to invest along side a group of trusted others-what he calls Interpersonal Investing. Any reader of this book will come away with information and ideas not published anywhere else on how to use our emotions to enhance our perfomance and results.

The outstanding aspect of this book is that it gives a detailed history of the conception, implementation, and fight to save the Lincoln Highway. Upon completion, one has a thorough knowledge of the people and politics of the highway. But there is more. It gives a summary of the different sections of the Lincoln as it exists in the late 1980s. While not a complete travel guide, it makes for an excellent companion for anyone thinking of retracing the old highway. After reading this book, I wanted to resign my job and drive this road. The author has taken no short cuts here.

Long before Route 66, there was the Lincoln Highway -- a transcontinental road connecting Times Square to San Francisco, marked and promoted by private interests.

The Lincoln Highway and its brethren (the Dixie Highway, Victory Highway, National Old Trails Road, and dozens more) were replaced by the U.S. Route system almost 75 years ago, but many stretches of the old Lincoln are still part of major auto routes. The most scenic and historic stretches include US 30 through Pennsylvania and western Nebraska and US 50 across central Nevada (the "Loneliest Road").

Drake Hokanson brings the Lincoln Highway era back to life with a combination of modern observations, quotes from pioneer motorists, and well-chosen illustrations. Anyone who's ever driven, or thought about driving, Route 66 should look also at the Lincoln: it's longer, more historic, more scenic, and less tied to the world of the Interstates. Drake Hokanson's book is the perfect introduction to the world of the Lincoln Highway.

American children grow up learning about the first transcontinental railroad and the Pony Express, and rightly so given their role in binding the adolescent United States together. Few, however, learn about the nation's first transcontinental highway, the Lincoln, or Pacific, Highway. This was the road that launched automotive travel as adventure, in a nation that would link its lifestyle to the automobile. The irony is that while we all learn about the Pony Express and Transcontinental Railroad, neither is much more than legend to us today. But automotive travel, especially as adventure, is very much part of the American way of life. Yet few of us know much about the highway that made early 20th century Americans see the adventure in motor vehicle travel. This book, with its outstanding collection of historical and contemporary photos and well-researched and readable text, recounts the great, though forgotten, place the Lincoln Highway had in America at the time. From Times Square to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, the Lincoln Highway carried the most adventuresome motorists across some of the most settled, and most wild, landscapes in the country. In places, like central Utah's Great Basin, it wasn't much more than a two-track trail. Even today, one can drive a long, remote and spectacular unpaved segment of it across Utah, the same route followed by the Pony Express and Overland Stage. When I drove the route, which includes the ruins of Pony Express and stagecoach stations, this book helped me relive one of the most exciting and memorable, yet least remembered, chapters in American motoring history. No, I didn't write it. I just loved it. If you're a fool for driving and for personally reliving Western history, this is the guide to take you there

Ah, my love-hate relationship with Macyoung continues... Mostly, I don't like the tough-guy attitude that goes with these books, but the techniques, while unorthodox, can work if you practice them, and the underlying principles are almost always sound. This is probably Macyoung's most technique-oriented book, and covers mostly targets, devided into general areas (head, neck, limbs). I like the fact that Macyoung addresses the often avoided question of what part of the fist to strike with, and offers several options without really playing favorites. I still don't really think his "hanging punch" is all that great, but it did open my eyes enough to tweek it a little bit to fit me. I'm also not too sure some of the body targets would be available in a stand-up fight. The chapter on "blows" (only hand techniques) only addresses the mechanics of the arm, and not stuff like "tuck in your chin" or "get your hips into it". It's almost a start-up book for fighting, but is kind of limited in it's scope, technically speaking. The only chapter on defense is all about shedding, which is an OK idea, but in order to roll with the punch, you have to get hit first, which isn't exactly my idea of fun. I think of this book as being the unwritten chapter of "Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons", and it's a great companion piece to that book. If you are a "hard" stylist looking to expand your horizons, or a guy trying to get a clue about how to put a hurtin' to someone, it's an alright book on it's own, just not in my personal top ten list.

First let me say this is a worthwhile purchase. Why? It offers a "blow by blow" guide to punching in a non-grappling street fight. Now it is a bit wordy, but if you know how to read in-between the lines you are getting some useful street fighting information. There are some hardcore punching techniques *Hanging punch, read this and practice. There is more to a street fight than connecting your fists against somebody's head. It involves know where to hit and type of punch to use at a given time.

This book is great,I'm an experice wrestler in collegit,Greco Roman and freestyle. i have also done some sambo and judo.this book really gave me a cutting edge. it help me beat people on the streets who wanted to "test" my skill,outside of mats and rules.y goal is to be in the FC some day and this book will help any one from a 6 yearold to a eldely

Who is this Robert Kerr-Doiren? His little character kept me chuckling, HE kept me puzzling, and I just kept turning the pages to see what comes next. Not for those conditioned to the 1990s standard hero, who takes on the world and somehow saves the whole world, but the best read I've had in a long long time.

Piskie is a marvellous read. The plots are intricate, and THEY WORK. There are no late entrants in the 'villian sweepstakes', no abritary gimmicks, yet you'll be hard pressed to find the solution prior to the final chapter in any of three stories. The writing is fast-paced, the dialogue sharp as tacks. Piskie himself is smashing. Not your 'Nineties Man' for sure. On the one hand, witty and urbane. On the other, cynical and mildly deceitful. No wonder his partner keeps arguing with him, yet lets him back into her bed. I would! And these two are backed up by very colourful bit characters. Take Carla, the whore in the final stages of AIDs. She'll haunt your dreams: she does mine. What WOULD I do in her shoes? Or Piskie's for that matter? And who could fail to like old Gorby Collins? If you've spent 5 minutes in London, you've seen on any streetcorner. For humour -- try Piskie's fight with an axe-wielding hulk in a stripclub; or his repeated assaults on a drainpipe one rainy night! This stuff is bril! Honest!

I'd never read anything by Robert Kerr-Doiren until this book, but I can tell you he's spot on. I was raised in the East End, moved to a flat in the West End when I married and now live in Chelsea. His short bio says he's now an ex-pat, but Kerr-Doiren has to be a true Londoner. The short well-phrased descriptions, rather than actual street designations add a surreal flavour - and London is a surreal city. I've eaten in those cafes, dozens of them, even visited those clubs down the years. And the characters!? Wonderful. I've emerged from the tube and bought papers from Gorby Collins!!! Caroline Chambers made the society pages just the other day! If you want the REAL London, with plots you can't dismiss and pages you can't stop turning, this is the book! My god, I've even caught myself chuckling aloud on the train at this stuff!