Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia

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This lavishly illustrated tribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork features 182 crisp black-and-white photographs and 41 measured drawings. These imaginatively rendered ironworks appear in the railings and gates of churchyards, on the marble steps of town houses, in the balconies and lanterns of banks and other buildings, and elsewhere.

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An essential volume.......1998-11-19

Mr. Wallace's studies of Philadelphia's colonial architectural legacy are a must for any self-respecting architect, preservationist, or metalsmith. This reprint is yet another credit to Dover's publishing effort.

Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia: the Craftsmanship of the Early Days of the Republic

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Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia: the Craftsmanship of the Early Days of the Republic
Philip B. Wallace
Manufacturer: Bonanza Books
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Colonial ironwork in old Philadelphia;: The craftsmanship of the early days of the republic, by Philip B. Wallace;

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Colonial ironwork in old Philadelphia;: The craftsmanship of the early days of the republic, by Philip B. Wallace;
Philip B Wallace
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Artistic and cultural phenomena reveal that the desire to extend and 'perfect' the body is one of the most widespread human obsessions. Always dissatisfied with what nature has endowed us, we regard ourselves as 'deficient beings' (Sigmund Freud). Body extension can be achieved by artificially lengthening parts of the body - as exemplified in 1970s Performance art (Rebecca Horn) - or by transforming the entire silhouette - as done in 1980s fashions (Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Paul Gaultier). Body extensions are encountered in films and comics in the supernatural powers of super heroes (Spider Man, X-Men) and in the technically perfect Cyborgs. Even in everyday living the body is extended and enhanced - by means of hair-pieces, artificial fingernails, jewellery, the wearing of 'high heels', by bodybuilding or the enlargement of breast volume through silicone transplants. Even though interventions in nature of this kind have become socially acceptable, taboos remain such as erotic fantasizing bound up with fetishism related to parts of the body.

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What young boy doesn't wish for his very own giant robot? Every kid fantasizes about a mechanized friend that can tower over bullies and adults alike, take you to strange new places, and basically make you into the coolest kid on earth. Well, Jason's dreams are about to come true, or at least that's what he thinks when he finds a giant cybernetic hand sticking out of a crevasse near his desert home. What will his inventor grandfather and stubborn kid sister think of his ultimate toy? And what other trouble will the earthquakes that unearthed the giant machine man cause?

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A wonderful surprise
Affirmation for life 's journey

BirthQuake: A Journey To Wholeness
Tammie Byram Fowles
Manufacturer: SagePlace
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ASIN: 9666900521

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BirthQuake confronts those painful experiences that we each encounter in our lives, and explores how even our pain can become a pathway to possibility. Offering valuable insights and tools for creating life styles that foster health and well-being, it's one of those rare books that not only enlightens, inspires, and comforts; it befriends and embraces the reader. Here is a book for anyone who has struggled or stands anxiously at a crossroad.

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A wonderful surprise.......2000-07-11

I discovered this book on a friends bookshelf, having never heard of the author I had few expectations. I very quickly found myself caught up in Fowles stories, frequently finding traces of my own. This book ultimatley had a profound impact and has prompted me to think about the significance of the choices I've made and the vast possibilities that still await me. This book is filled with compassion, thought provoking commentary, useful and well researched information, wonderful quotes, and inspiration. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in personal and cultural growth and transformation who appreciate books that are clear and to the point. I particularly appreciated the author's observations on spirituality, nature, crisis, and meaning.

Affirmation for life 's journey.......2000-06-18

Incredible! Dr. Fowles has achieved the ultimate balance of compassion, empathy,guidance, direction, and support for the "quaking" adult. "Birthquake" A Journey to Wholeness is the necessary companion for anyone facing the inevitable"quakes" on life's journey. She offers practical insight in readable language that can be easily applied to one's own life experiences. I personally refer to it often, utilize the principals in my own practice, and recommend it highly to the clients I serve. "Birthquake" leaves the reader with a renewed and real sense of strength, courage,hope, and wholeness. This is truly THE SELF-HELP RESOURCE to usher in the new millenium.

Birthquakes;: A book of blessings, new-birth stones, and new-birth cries,

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Birthquakes;: A book of blessings, new-birth stones, and new-birth cries,
Norman C Habel
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Bloodshot #30 (Birthquake) July 1995
Kevin Vanhook
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"Enter: Proteus!"

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Bloodshot #31 (Birthquake) July 1995
Kevin Vanhook
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"Shut Down!"

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Bloodshot #32 (Birthquake) August 1995
Kevin Vanhook
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"Vampires in the Village"

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Bloodshot #33 (Birthquake) August 1995
Kevin Vanhook
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X-O Manowar #45 (Birthquake) July 1995
Ron Marz
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Birthquake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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Birthquake: The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Christopher J. Niggle
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2006-01-02

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1223 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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I got more out BirthQuake then years of therapy
Outstanding!

BirthQuake: Journey to Wholeness
Tammie Fowles , and Kevin Fowles
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The Birthquake: Journey to Wholeness series is one of those rare finds written by a psychotherapist that not only enlightens, inspires, and comforts - it befriends and embraces the listener. It's the culmination of the author's many years of research, clinical experience and perhaps most importantly, her own life lessons. The BirthQuake series is an invaluable tool for anyone who has ever struggled or stands anxiously at a crossroad.

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I got more out BirthQuake then years of therapy.......1999-03-31

Listening to BirthQuake changed my perspective about a great number of things, and is some remarkable and yet suttle way has shifted the very nature of my days. I tend to experience them differently now. The tapes were a gift from a friend and have clearly become a gift that just keeps on giving. I strongly recommend them.

Outstanding!.......1999-02-04

"Birthquake comforts you while you listen, from the soothing voice of Tammie Fowles to the stories collected from experiences in her own life as well as others. It visits a number of issues that we deal with in our lives and brings joy, sadness, spiritual growth and empowerment. I highly recommend the series, it's a great learning tool for people in or coming out of crisis, as well as those who are healing or have healed from "quakes" in their lives. Birthquake is a stepping stone each time you listen to it, embracing you as you walk down different paths of life's journey."

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Psychology rules the stock market, according to Hersh Shefrin. In Beyond Greed and Fear, Shefrin shows how bias, perception, and other aspects of psychology often rattle investors and move stocks. From the individual who keeps losers too long to overconfident money managers who mistakenly think they can predict financial trends, human nature foils investment returns. "Behavioral finance is everywhere that people make financial decisions. Psychology is hard to escape; it touches every corner of the financial landscape, and it's important. Financial practitioners need to understand the impact that psychology has on them and those around them. Practitioners ignore psychology at their peril," writes Shefrin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University. An academic volume geared toward financial professionals, the book details an emerging field known as behavioral finance, in which psychology is believed to be at least as important as market fundamentals, such as earnings and balance sheets. Shefrin describes how investors are motivated by fear, hope, overconfidence, and the need for short-term gratification. The book gives plenty of examples of investment mistakes, and analyzes them from a behavioral-finance perspective. While Beyond Greed and Fear targets professionals, individual investors will benefit from this look at an important mover of markets. --Dan Ring

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Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes. No matter how savvy or experienced, all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence, and emotion cloud their judgement and misguide their actions. Yet most financial decision-making models fail to factor in these fundamentals of human nature. In Beyond Greed and Fear, the most authoritative guide to what really influences the decision-making process, Hersh Shefrin uses the latest psychological research to help us understand the human behavior that guides stock selection, financial services, and corporate financial strategy. Shefrin argues that financial practitioners must acknowledge and understand behavioral finance--the application of psychology to financial behavior--in order to avoid many of the investment pitfalls caused by human error. Through colorful, often humorous real-world examples, Shefrin points out the common but costly mistakes that money managers, security analysts, financial planners, investment bankers, and corporate leaders make, so that readers gain valuable insights into their own financial decisions and those of their employees, asset managers, and advisors. According to Shefrin, the financial community ignores the psychology of investing at its own peril. Beyond Greed and Fear illuminates behavioral finance for today's investor. It will help practitioners to recognize--and avoid--bias and errors in their decisions, and to modify and improve their overall investment strategies.

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Look to market experts for success.......2005-12-21

So long as market investors are human beings rather than machines, market participants will be governed by emotion. The efficient market theory, as Warren Buffett states, works most of the time. But when unusual or exceptional news comes into play, a stock (and/or markets) nearly always overreacts.
The best book I have found on investing is "The Intelligent Investor". There is a clear picture of what works and does not work in investing, and why. There is a fair amount of analysis of the behavior of market participants.
Warren Buffett asserts that he doesn't have much use for what is taught in a typical college business class. As he points out, if professors understand stocks and markets so well, why are so few of them wealthy? People like Ben Graham, Buffett and Peter Lynch are not 'lucky'. They read a great deal, they have keen insight into what makes a stock go up and they are unafraid to buy when prices are low if prospects look good. I would prefer to emulate those who are truly successful rather than those who postulate about what may work.

Selective Presentation of the Evidence.......2005-06-26

I am a behavioral economist with a deep belief in the notion that human decision-makers deviate in important ways from the scientific principles laid down in modern rational choice theory. There is no doubt but that very many investors hold erroneous notions of the dynamics of price movements, and having a correct understanding will, on average lead to better returns on one's portfolio. Sheffrin presents the evidence for this position in an interesting and accessible manner.

Shefrin's main advice for investors is absolutely correct, and would improve the asset positions of many poor souls with idiotic notions of stock dynamics. His advice is that if you are not a gifted and dedicated stock expert, you should invest in a low-maintenance cost array of mutual funds, and above all, do not churn your stocks. It doesn't help to be smart, lucky, a stud with the girls, or blessed by God. Moreover, if you think you have one of the "gifted analysts" for a broker, you are to be counted as among the suckers who are never given an even break.

Shefrin has another thesis which he presents with great verve, but which is on very shakey grounds. This is that "gifted stock analysts" can on average, significantly out-perform the market. He believes this MUST be the case if a significant fraction of investors are behaving irrationality. However, there is another possibility, which is that stock brokers as a group gain from the excessive churning that irrational investors permit or ask them to do, but that it is impossible to "beat the market" except by pure luck or by personally studying firm fundamentals and future prospects.

Shefrin's data in favor of the "gifted analyst" is episodic and anecdotal, and there is plenty of data on the other side. For instance, in Malkiel's classic "Random Walk Down Wall Street", he relates the evidence that chimps throwing darts do as well as major brokerage houses. Sheffrin presents contrary evidence for a more recent period in which "gifted experts" outperform the random darts. New evidence, collected by Money magazine, shows that a group of experts did far worse than the darts in 2003. All of this evidence is spotty and anecdotal. The plural of anecdote is not data.

I am not convinced by this book that the efficient markets hypothesis, applied to final returns to investors (after payments to stock brokers and other transactions costs), is not correct. I think the author makes a mistake taking so strong a position when the evidence is so weak on this account. I am certainly not convinced that Malkiel's analysis is in any way overturned by new evidence.

However, if Shefrin convinces a few investors to act more sanely, he will have fulfilled an important social function.

Packed with Knowledge ! .......2005-02-23

If only you could bring yourself to ditch those losers from your portfolio, and hang onto your winners. If you can, you are unusual. Unprofitable habits afflict nearly all investors, beginners and pros alike, writes Hersh Shefrin in this intriguing study of the role of emotions in investing. Shefrin balances the jargon with plenty of real-world examples and wisely cautions you not to delude yourself into thinking that his tips will make you rich. Viewing investing through the prism of behavior finance, he analyzes emotionally-laden decisions made by private investors, money managers, bankers and other professionals handling stocks and various other forms of investments including options, foreign currency and futures. Shefrin offers juicy case histories, so his tour of behavioral finance is mostly enjoyable and useful. At times, though, the book bogs down in the author's attempts to legitimize behavior finance, a relatively new school of thought. For instance, he charges failed investors with committing "heuristic bias" or falling prey to "representativeness." That quibble aside, we recommend this intriguing tome to investment decision makers on any level. Whether you are running billions or managing a retirement account (which, as Shefrin notes, most people do badly), maybe this book will buffer you against emotional investing and pocketbook pain.

Comprehensive, Entertaining Overview of Fascinating Field .......2004-12-25

Wondering what Brealy & Myers or Sharpe left out? Don't expect your broker (or fund manager, excepting Richard Thaler) to fill you in. This book is a must read for any active (or passive) participant in the markets, or any other citizen who is affected by said markets. Meaning all of us.

Shefrin provides a masterful exposition of the application of cutting-edge cognitive psychology to the behavior of retail and institutional investors, analysts, mutual fund managers, CEO's and even heavily-advised university investment committees. The result is the theoretical demolition of the efficient markets hypothesis in even its weakest form, and the related CAPM(s), catching up to their long-noted empirical failings. As it turns out the market does have a memory, and that's not just an anomaly any more. Not every trade is zero-NPV: trust the market price at your own peril. Think dividends are irrelevant? Think again.

What we're left with is a fascinating account of how market participants actually behave: holding on to losers too long, trading too much and trading on "noise," and most alarmingly, undersaving for retirement. What is significant is that these phenomena are so prevalent that they can no longer be dismissed as irrational with the hope that "more sophisticated" money will magically correct the market. To the contrary, what Shefrin describes is proved to be the psychological norm; if you believe you're different, you're either very lucky or overconfident about your lack of overconfidence.

One quibble, in an area that I have looked at before, is in Shefrin's discussion of takeovers. First, I found a bit of confusion between the question of whether the takeover premium should be tested by reference to the post-announcement combined value of both firms, or just the buyer. Since the buyer's CEO is initially fiduciary for just his shareholders, I see only the latter as relevant.

More significantly, Shefrin does not provide any means to rigorously discriminate among his hubris hypothesis and other, more rationalistic theories, such as agency costs and private benefits. And his brief treatment omits many puzzling follow-up questions: if CEO psychology has the potential to systematically destroy shareholder wealth, what should we then conclude about the investors and analysts who allow them to get away with it? Just a governance problem, or is there yet another psychological story to be told?

But the desire to delve further into the subject is just indicative of Shefrin's compelling and readable narrative. For bottom line types, I'm afraid the answer to your question is no, he doesn't explain how to get rich. But you'll surely do alot better with a single yellowing copy of Graham & Dodd than all the reams of abstruse, dogmatic journal articles ever spewed by the Chicago School.

A very good book, but quite academic.......2003-04-29

I had mixed feeling about this book. Content wise, it's incredible. It's full of real life stories, data, analyses, propositions of many so called market anomalies. However, I really find some of the chapters too long, especially those after chapter 5. The author had copied his style of thesis writing and actually many of his own theses (he's a renowed professor after all) into a book which has a big audience group of investors or traders who want quick fix or certain level of entertainment and personal improvement. In these respects, the "Psychology of Finance by Lars Tvede" and the "Devil take the hindmost by Edward Chancellor" are "easier" but not definitely better alternatives.

Anway, this is one of the very few "serious" books about behavioural finance that is relatively practical. If you are abound of time, go for it. Otherwise, you may try the two books I mentioned above.

p.s. I like the following the most: In April 1997 Financial Times ran a contest suggested by economist Richard Thaler. Readers were told to choose a whole number between 0 and 100. The winning entry would be the one closest to two thirds of the average entry. The winning choice is 13. The real point of this game is that playing sensibly requires you to have a sense of the magnitude of the other players' errors. Hope you got it right.

Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing.(Brief Article)(Review) (book review): An article from: Government Finance Review

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Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing.(Brief Article)(Review) (book review): An article from: Government Finance Review
Nicholas Greifer
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Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

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Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing
Hersh Shefrin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This book condemns neglect of macroeconomic analysis in designing Full-Employment policies. The money value of total domestic production rather than the price level should be the objective of a combined fiscal-monetary policy emphasizing low interest rates rather than low tax rates. Full Employment without unacceptable inflation or poverty needs radical reforms, such as labor-capital partnerships, low real wage rates offset by a universal tax-free social benefit, abolition of national insurance contributions, and highly progressive taxation of income and wealth for budget surpluses to redeem national debt. Free international movements of capital funds impede independent national reforms.

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