Armchair Tycoon: How to Make Money on the Stock Market Without Knowing a Thing About Business

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Books That Educate Without Unnecessary Technical Jargons........2000-11-06

Hi Readers,

I have enjoyed myself tremendously, reading 'Armchair Tycoon' and 'Poolside Tycoon', by Malcolm Stacey. As a successful and active investor for over ten years, and had read many investment books before, I have finally found two books, which are confidence boosting, truthful, informative, easy and fun to read - ones that I could not put down.

They now sit on my desk as reference books. They would make perfect Christmas presents too, for people I care about, and would like them to invest wisely for a better future. All the tools one needs are in these books.

Now, may I thank you all, for letting me have my say!

Best regards, Readers and Amazon.com.

Jo.Bradley.

AN ARROGANT AND OVERAMBITIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE STOCK MARKET!.......1999-01-26

from experience i am familiar with the subject of the book well, and it seems to me that the author attempts to overthrow logic in this work. A waste of money and time...

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Setting the Record Straight?

The Tragedy of Hal Chase

Was He Really That Good?

This Boy Was So Crooked He Had TO Screw On His Socks

The Point Gets Lost

Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook
Martin Kohout
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786410671

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Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chases life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.

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Setting the Record Straight?.......2002-02-10

Martin Kohout has given us the definitive biography of one of the most controversial athletes ever to play a major sport. Hal Chase was one of the premier ballplayers of his day, maybe the best first basemen ever, but he possessed, as one teammate said, "a corkscrew brain." He was never convicted of any crimes and was never banned from the game, but Kohout lays out the facts of Chase's career in detail, and the reader can make the call. What emerges is a true cautionary tale of squandered talent and a long-overdue addition to baseball lore and history.

The Tragedy of Hal Chase.......2001-11-24

Martin Kohout has penned a fascinating account not only of Hal Chase's eventful career, but of early 20th century baseball as well. One need not be well-versed in baseball lore in order to derive great pleasure from this work.

The book rests on a mountain of research. One of its many strengths is the insightful description of how the easy morality of the times spilled over into what I had previously believed to be the pristine world of baseball. The connections which existed among certain owners, managers, and underworld figures during Chase's major league career shatters the myth that the 1919 Black Sox scandal was an abberation. Especially interesting is the linkage that Mr. Kohout finds between the poisonous aftermath of WWI and that scandal.

The book is well written and carries the reader briskly along with a season by season account of Chase's exploits, both on and off the field. Unlike Pete Rose, whom this reviewer always found detestable, Hal Chase comes off as a sympathetic, likeable fellow, popular with the fans of every team for which he played. Yet, as Mr. Kohout tell us, he threw it all away -- his career, his family and friends, and his health. One is left wishing that Chase had possessed the character of a Gehrig.

Was He Really That Good?.......2001-11-20

Sportswriter Fred Lieb wrote that Hal Chase had "a corkscrew brain." Author Martin Kohout provides us with a very detailed account of the life of Hal Chase, "baseball's biggest crook." Whatever you want to know about Mr. Chase can be found in this book and some readers may feel they are being told more than they care to know. Chase is often given credit as being the greatest defensive first-baseman. His strength appears to have been on fielding sacrifice bunts and forcing the lead runner either at second or third base. This account provides the reader with a number of errors, purposely or not, Chase committed during games. In addition, he often was out of the lineup for one ailment or another. Hal bounced around a number of major league teams after wearing out his welcome with the one he was currently on. Each time he pledged to turn over a new leaf. Crooked ball playing took place during the turn of the century, and such times were ripe for a player with Chase's lack of morals. His personal life was a mess as well as his reputation on the field of play. I enjoy reading about players from the turn of the 20th century and was happy to be able to read about teams such as the New York Highlanders, the original Yankees, and players such as Hal Chase, even though he was a shady character. This book is definitely worth your time if you are interested in baseball history. If you are a casual fan, find something that is lighter reading.

This Boy Was So Crooked He Had TO Screw On His Socks.......2001-10-21

Ever since I was a little boy I`ve heard of Hal Chase from my Dad and Uncle and always wondered. what they were saying in undertones after they told me what a completly peerless fielder he was and so fast and quick that he made everyone else look slow. After studying the 1919 scandal I learned a little more of his deviousness but in being able to talk to Ty Cobb and also Swede Risberg in the 1950`s I learned how great he could be if he wanted to. This book is a great work and I can`t believe the research and digging that had to go into it. What a great complete history of Prince Hal. There are more pictures than I`ve ever seen of him and incidents in his career that I had`nt heard of.Chase was such a complex character that he was very hard for some people to dislike; others loathed him and indeed he was baseball`s biggest crook.The description of his slide to oblivion was well done especially his life in Arizona and his final demise in California. As a matter of fact he died in the town where Ilive. I never got to see him play as I had only been home from overseas less than a year when he died but others have told me how he would go out to the high school diamond and help some kid trying to play first base. He was old at the time but my friend said you should have seen the moves he showed the youngster. They electrified the adults watching. The book brings this out. All in all to me a great book and I enjoyed it immensely.

The Point Gets Lost.......2001-10-05

While quite impressive in its volume of detail, which is fully footnoted and sourced as any academic tome, and obviously a project that the author slaved over for years, he seems incapable or unwilling to take this mass of information and do anything with it. Chase is one of the more controversial figures in the history of the game and worthy of a full length biographical treatment, but this reads like a private genealogy; since the author comes to none but the most tentative conclusions, the day-to-day probing of Chase's activities is, in the end, numbing and tiresome, a pointless excercise in minutiae as the author sits squarely on the fence in regard to each and every of the many indiscretions that marred his career. A book should amass information and through the authors' powers of insight and persuasion, arrive at some kind of conclusion or point of view. This does not, and I wish it did. While this will be useful as a source book for those who want to know what Chase did during a given season or particular time, the larger questions around Chase and gambling are not advanced beyond what is already known. A book of this scope should have answered those questions.

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The portrayal of clergy, saints, missionaries, monks, and other spiritual leaders dates back to the very beginnings of motion pictures and television. Over the years, filmmakers have portrayed religious figures as heroes and villains, sinners and saints, and nearly everything in between. Through their works, filmmakers have influenced how society viewed these religious figures and, by extension, religion itself. This work details over 900 films and television series made from the 1890s through 2003 in which a religious figure plays a prominent or recurring role, or in which a character poses as a religious figure. For each motion picture, full filmographic data are providedincluding title, studio, running time, year of release, director, producer, writer, and castalong with a synopsis focusing on the role of the religious figure. Television series are covered in a separate section. For each show, the entry includes the title under which the show was commonly known; the original broadcast network; the years the show ran, running time, and cast; and a brief discussion of the religious characters role in the overall series. Extensively indexed.

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Great information and lots of details.......2005-07-18

Impressive research. It makes you think about all the diverse ways that religious figures have been portrayed in film and what influence that may have had on our perception of their roles in history. Book was well-indexed and helpful to me in some research I am doing for a project.

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Mark Singer's lively and extremely popular "U.S. Journal" column in The New Yorker featured under-the-radar stories that were unusual but emblematic tales of American life. A first-time collection of these pieces, Somewhere in America offers an illuminating glimpse of the cultural kaleidoscope of our country. From worm farmers in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to angry nudists in Wilmington, Vermont, Singer proves that "sometimes you don't even need a passport to experience a new nation" (U.S. News and World Report).

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Not a travelogue but a collection of essays .......2007-02-24

A travelogue is a book that describes the journey to a place. This is not such a book. The chapters vary from one chapter to another, be it a small town in Indiana to another town in Texas or North Carolina or New Jersey. Singer focuses on certain people and the places the people find themselves in, taking on contemporary topics like religion, unsolved murders, guns or dog fighters. Well-written and witty, this is still a good read.

Have you ever been to.....?.......2004-12-06

Let me be the first to write a Customer Review on this book.At first glance, I thought it was going to be your typical Road Book by someone taking a long trip across or around America.I soon found that was not what this book was. The author is a staff writer for The New Yorker and I gather this book is a compilation of stories he has written for the magazine.A reader of the magazine will probably be familiar with Singer,but he was new to me.He is a great writer first, and an excellent observer of the human condition and experience.In many ways he reminds me of Jean Shepard,who used to have a nightly show on WOR New York in the early 1970's,made many appearances on the college circuit,and later did a great TV series "Jean Shepard's America".Unfortunately "Shep" ,"passed into life's next adventure" a few years ago.see pg.167.
Rather than travelling the roads and relating his experiencs,he takes us for a visit to 19 places to witness some very interesting and first hand experiences of American life.In all cases we become the fly on the wallpaper and get a real insight into some unusual goings on. Thest are not once ever events .The reader could follow Singer's footsteps if he should be inclined to do.
Here are several of the places he takes us:

Cockfighting in Oklahoma

Snowmobiling in Montana

Civil War Buffs in Louisians

Closing of a famous Family Diner in Lee, Massachusetts

A confrontation over The Pledge of Allegiance in Madison ,WI.

The execution of Timothy McVeigh in Terre Haute,In.

The Great Obituary Writer's Convention

Race Riots in Cincinnati,Oh.

The Great Worm Growing Scandal in Weleetka,Okla.

These are a great bunch of short stories for anyone who enjoys reading about life off the beaten track.
Although this book was published in 2004,I am surprised that there haven't been more reviews written to date.

Somewhere in America: Under the Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others

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Somewhere in America: Under the Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others
Mark Singer
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7BUKY

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INTRODUCTION

Just a decade ago, a guide to videogaming would have been inconceivable. Back then, gaming was a relatively small and exclusive club whose members were overwhelmingly male and mainly adolescent. Now, however, videogaming has emerged from the teenage bedroom to join the TV and VCR in millions of living rooms, and its audience is expanding at such a rate that the games industry is often able to present itself as a bigger economic sector than the movies. But, as you'll know if you've ever set foot in a games store, buying a game isn't at all like buying a movie, where chances are you know which actors or directors you like - you'd need to be thoroughly immersed in gaming history and culture to be able to choose a game by its designer, who generally doesn't even get a credit on the box. What's more, with a flurry of hyped games released on a monthly basis, if you're a typical gamer who buys a handful of new titles each year, it's hit and miss as to whether you'll get value for money. While for those who are new to gaming, it can be a daunting task even to choose a console, especially since much of the specialist media restricts itself to covering a single platform, while denigrating the others.

In fact, all the games platforms - from established machines such as PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and the PC (and Mac) to newcomers Xbox and GameCube, and increasingly marginalized ones such as the Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 - are worthwhile in their own right, and they all have quality games to play on them. This is where the Rough Guide to Videogaming comes in: an informed, independent handbook, it picks out the best releases across all formats and genres, and identifies the platforms that suit your gaming tastes and budget. With the industry in constant flux, this book isn't influenced by shortlived hype, concentrating instead on the tried and tested platforms. Each platform gets its own section starting on p.1, including a summary of its past and future. Technical jargon has been kept to a minimum, though we've provided a handy glossary (p.512) for useful and/or unavoidable terms.

As for the games themselves, which make up the bulk of this guide, we're not forced - as many magazines are - to concentrate on the latest releases, good or otherwise, but take a broader outlook to bring you those that have justified their initial hype. These are organized according to genre rather than platform, so that you can easily identify other titles you might enjoy, and each is accompanied by hints, tips and addresses of useful websites. There are no bad reviews in these pages; every game we've included is a personal recommendation, though that's not to say you'll always agree with our opinions. If a game's not here, we either didn't rate it (for reasons of mediocrity or worse, to being too similar to other titles), or the full game wasn't released in time for this edition. Unfinished versions, as used by many magazines for preview purposes, often mask more than they reveal about a title's true quality: all the games we've tested are the products you'll find in the shops.

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Videogaming Illustrated Premiere Collector's Edition [Coleco, Tron, Star Wars, Defender, Stargate, U.F.O., Laser Blast, Superman, Odyssey2] (August 1982)
Randy Palmer
Manufacturer: Ion International Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NLBPB4

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Forensics humor piece?

Great piece of Classic Videogaming nostalgia

It was very interesting, fun to read, and gave good tips.

Defending the galaxy: The complete guide to videogaming
Michael Rubin
Manufacturer: Triad
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006E9HF4

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Defending the Galaxy was first published in 1982. It was unique, combining facts about the most popular arcade games with the gaming lifestyle. Now it's back, for all you Donkey Kong (movie) fans to find out how it all began.

Galaxy lists Donkey Kong high score, theme music, its place on the evolution tree, and more. It also shows how to improve your life: "Without video games what would you do with your time? Could you defend your planet from destruction? Could you save a princess from a mighty ape? Could you get your frog to cross a busy highway? With no such challenge, your life would have no meaning.

Now, 25 years later, it's even more fun to read.

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Forensics humor piece?.......2006-04-22

I found this title hidden away in a forgotten part of my high school's library a couple years ago, at - coincidentally - the same time I was searching for a humorous book to cut for a forensics piece (speech and debate - not CSI). Flipping through the book, I instantly connected with the dry sarcasm and sometimes dark humor - like when a female gamer describes her first time playing PacMan as though the video physically raped her. Dark, yes. But funny.

The book is divided into various chapters and subchapters, with random lists and comments on the gaming world. Some sections are: "GUI - Gaming under the influence," with the subsection "Levels of Gamer Inebriation" ; "The Phallusy of the Joy Stick" ; and "Top Four Places NEVER to Videogame."

The target group for this book at this point are those who frequented arcades in the early to mid '80's and want to relive the glory days, but as an 18-year-old who still busts out his Game Gear to play Burnout, I was able not only to enjoy much of the humor, but even relish it.

However, after performing my cut version of this piece for Humurous Interpretation in forensics (it was a 10 minute presentation), many people came up to me to not only congratulate me on finding this remarkable book, but also to ask me where they could get a copy. For gamers today who like to play classics, or for those who felt they missed out on the golden age of gaming, this is an almost invaluable read.

EDIT: ON ANOTHER SITE, MICHAEL RUBING (THE AUTHOR) MENTIONED THAT ONLY 15,000 COPIES WERE EVER SOLD, SO THIS IS A PRETTY RARE TITLE. IF YOU FIND ONE AND ARE MODERATELY INTERESTED, BUY IT!

Great piece of Classic Videogaming nostalgia.......2000-01-12

I remember when I first read this book back in 1984. My mother worked at the Tirad publishing company so I got an advance copy of the book, :) Michael gives tips for how to survive (and thus get higher scores) in a variety of popular games at the time. He also has tips on how to dress, arcade etiquitte, general-purpose playing tips, arcades to check out (sadly, most defunct now), etc. The illustrations and photos are humorous, and the book never get self-centered.

If you get a chance to pick this up used somewhere, do so! It's a great piece of 80's memorabillia, especially for the vidiots out there, :)

It was very interesting, fun to read, and gave good tips........1999-09-04

I enjoyed the setup of the book. It was very funny and had a lot of pictures and illustrating. As well as ways not to get hurt at arcades and a history of video games. The tips that the book gave were how to survive, not to win at a game, because in classics, you can't win, but you can survive.

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Bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) is back with an amazing new collection of Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks, including how to create the same exact effects you see every day in magazines, on TV, at the movies, and on the Web. It's more of those eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects that made Scott's previous version an award-winning worldwide smash hit!

But this isn't just an update to his previous book--these are 100% ALL NEW EFFECTS from cover-to-cover to reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects and design. These are nothing but today's real world techniques--the same ones you see used by leading Photoshop photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and its all here in the only book of its kind.

You'll learn the most closely guarded inside secrets for creating the latest cutting-edge effects, including techniques that have never been revealed before anywhere! And the book is written so clearly, and is so easy to follow, that you'll be able to create every one of these amazing effects yourself. You'll learn:

Tricks professional photographers use to show off their work
The most popular effects used by the big Hollywood studios
The latest cutting-edge photographic special effects
How to fake all kinds of studio shots (you'll be amazed how its done!)
The type effects that are most in demand by clients
How to get stunning 3D effects without using a 3D program
How to turn simple snapshots into museum quality gallery prints
The most asked for new Web effects
Plus loads of advanced effects that look hard, but are easy, once you know the secrets

But Down and Dirty tricks is more than just a just an effects book--it's a tips book too, because on every page Scott includes a cool tip, a quick trick, or a timesaving shortcut, making this an invaluable productivity tool too! Plus the whole book is packed with design techniques, creative ideas and stunning layouts that will help you unleash your own creativity. It's all here-- "Just the funk and not the junk" and if you're into Photoshop, you're absolutely gonna love it!

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Useful tips and tricks.......2007-05-13

This is not an in depth instruction manual for Photoshop CS. This does give the inexperienced user of Photoshop quick and easy tips for creating a variety of useful projects. Many of these projects will expose the new user to some of the powerful tools of Photoshop. If you want to learn all of the features of Photoshop then buy a more technical book or take a Photoshop course. So to get a start into the world of Photoshop this may be the book for you.

Incredible........2007-05-12

This book is great for Photoshop CS beginners. It's packed with many tricks and techniques. You'll be saying, "So that's how they do that!" quite often. I have been able to take several techniques and use them and create variations for my own advertising.

Example photos are available on Kelby's website for download. Unfortunately, they have a BRAND X stamp on them and their quality seems lower, but useful none-the-less.

Great book for all Photoshop enthusiasts.......2007-04-01

I buy all of the "Tricks" books for Photoshop. They all have great 'secrets' for achieving some really cool effects in a very short time. This book was no exception. Once you get one of the "Down and Dirty" books, you'll want them all. No Photoshop artist should be without them. If you want to hang with the pros out there, you need to know every one of these tips in this book. I recommend the "Down and Dirty" series for everyone who owns Photoshop.

Great book when paired with...........2007-02-19

The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)

Both books are by Scott Kelby. He does a great job of telling you exactly what you need to do with the photos.

Great book for everybody.......2007-01-15

Think the author of this book is very known guy and he makes really cool stuff. And writes much books.

Don't know if he thinks about all this "tips and tricks" himself, but for sure he have fantasy and imagination. Think it's very important for every designer. Think book "Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks" will help many people to find inspiration in what they wanna do, doing.. or if they don't know from where to begin.

In book you can find a lot of cool and good tricks. Some of them of cause just using some filters, other made with fantasy, third taken from some magazines, but book in common is really great.

Now it's almost published his new book "Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks" It it will be as good as this one, i definitely wanna have it.

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