Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever! (Books 1-4)

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Outrageously sassy Junie B. Jones will make young kids crave their daily dose of reading. And with this handy four-volume boxed set, whether they start with Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying or Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth, readers will laugh out loud at Junie B.'s hilarious mishaps and breathtakingly horrible grammar. Although the books should come with a caveat--Kids, don't try this syntax at home!--alert parents and teachers can use her malapropisms as learning opportunities for their impressionable charges. The set contains the first four titles in Barbara Park's extensive series (energetically illustrated by Denise Brunkus), including Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business and Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. All are great for reading aloud. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever!

Ta-daa! It's me! It's Junie B. Jones! And guess what? This attractive box has my first four books in it! I can't wait for you to read them!

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Daughter loves; I tolerate.......2007-10-24

My 6 year old daughter just started reading chapter books this summer and has torn through the first 8 of this series. She absolutely loves them and even laughs out loud while reading. Her mother and I are thrilled that she loves reading, but we really don't like these books and are concerned that we are exposing her to a role model that is bad and writing that is worse.

If your child isn't already addicted to these Junie B Jones books, look for something better.

Fun books that kids love.......2007-10-16

My 7 yr old loves these books. I'm a great parent, and all the uptight parents need a chill pill. Kids don't want to read "See Dick and Jane pet spot", they want a story with some humor. These books are completely appropriate and innocent. We're not talking about material that needs censoring here people. Junie rules!

Bad English.......2007-10-10

I can't bring myself to read another one of these books to my daughter. What kind of example are we setting when we read books with horrible grammar to them? "I did a sigh." What's that all about? Very distracting. Use the book to teach grammar you say? No. I'd never get through the book. A great story for kids? Maybe. But still not good for children who are just beginning to read, write, and learn proper grammar. The benefits do not outweigh the horrors.

Junie B is a hit.......2007-08-28

My 5 year old just loves Junie B. and it has made her want to read because she love the things this girl gets herself into. I just wish proper English was used all of the time because the slang is confusing to our daughter.

Junie B. Jones.......2007-08-21

I tried to read these to my stepdaughter and couldn't get past the bad grammer. My grandmother AND father were both English teachers and it just made me cringe. I was totally against these books until....my 5 year old came home with one two weeks ago and has fallen in love with reading. She reads Junie B on the way to school and even when I'm blow drying her hair at night. She is READING and LOVING it. June B. my not be my thing but it certainly has her attention and she is reading. No, she hasn't become June B. but she has become a kindergartner that is reading at a 2nd grade level. That's hard to knock! I counteract June B. by picking out classics like Heidi and Swiss Family Robinson to read to her for my story time at night. I still can't stomach the language but I'm not standing in the way of my child's reading either.

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Political Economy and Capitalism : Some Essays in Economic Tradition
Maurice Dobb
Manufacturer: Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O8Z25G

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Political Economy and Capitalism: Some Essays in Economic Tradition.
Maurice Dobb
Manufacturer: Routledge 1940.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L5P9NW

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Political economy and capitalism;: Some essays in economic tradition,
Maurice Herbert Dobb
Manufacturer: G. Routledge & sons ltd
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Political Economy and Capitalism: Some Essays in Economic Tradition

Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
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A fun corgi's view of the Royal Family.......1997-11-07

Off The Leash - Memoirs of a Royal Corgi, Hodder & Stoughton, Available on Corgi book list
This arrived in the morning mail and I have been chuckling ever since.
A lot of dry english humor and understatement, as the cover states "a must for all Royal-watchers". Written from a Corgi's attitude and voice.
Includes the royal pedigrees, a few poems to Corgwn by two English Poet Laureates: "On the Death of Dookie, the Royal Corgi" - Sir John Betjeman, and "Corgi at play" - Mr.Hughes - who has a cycle of poems entitle 'Corgi' <> Re: Diana,
'She seemed genuinely fond of us. Imitation is, they say, the sincerest form of flattery, and we were touched to note how she started imitating our special 'pleading' look: head cocked to one side, eyes dewy with unspoken longing, a pathetic whine issuing between trembling lips. It is a highly successful way of eliciting sympathy and getting what you want.' A lot of passages take two or three readings to fully enjoy the corgi humor. Familarity with the Royal Family, politics and people in England helps with enjoying the book. Very much enjoying it - but may not be enjoyed by those unfamilar with the Royals etc.

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Off the Leash: Memoirs of a Royal Corgi
Matthew Sturgis
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVDBYC

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Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp shows that rock also renewed the identity of a generation of white southerners who came of age in the decade after segregation -- the heyday of disco, Jimmy Carter, and Saturday Night Live.

Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kemp experienced pain, confusion, and shame as a result of the South's residual civil rights battles. His elementary school was integrated in 1968, the year Kemp reached third grade; his aunts, uncles, and grandparents held outdated racist views that were typical of the time; his parents, however, believed blacks should be extended the same treatment as whites, but also counseled their children to respect their elder relatives. "I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land," Kemp writes. When rock music, specifically southern rock, entered his life, he began to see a new way to identify himself, beyond the legacy of racism and stereotypes of southern small-mindedness that had marked his early childhood. Well into adulthood Kemp struggled with the self-loathing familiar to many white southerners. But the seeds of forgiveness were planted in adolescence when he first heard Duane Allman and Ronnie Van Zant pour their feelings into their songs.

In the tradition of music historians such as Nick Tosches and Peter Guralnick, Kemp masterfully blends into his narrative the stories of southern rock bands --from heavy hitters such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and R.E.M. to influential but less-known groups such as Drive-By Truckers -- as well as the personal experiences of their fans. In dozens of interviews, he charts the course of southern rock & roll. Before civil rights, the popular music of the South was a small, often racially integrated world, but after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, black musicians struck out on their own. Their white counterparts were left to their own devices, and thus southern rock was born: a mix of popular southern styles that arose when predominantly white rockers combined rural folk, country, and rockabilly with the blues and jazz of African-American culture. This down-home, flannel-wearing, ass-kicking brand of rock took the nation by storm in the 1970s. The music gave southern kids who emulated these musicians a newfound voice. Kemp and his peers now had something they could be proud of: southern rock united them and gave them a new identity that went beyond outside perceptions of the South as one big racist backwater.

Kemp offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, searingly intimate, and utterly original journey through the South of the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s, viewed through the prism of rock & roll. With brilliant insight, he reveals the curative and unifying impact of rock on southerners who came of age under its influence in the chaotic years following desegregation. Dixie Lullaby fairly resonates with redemption.

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The South rises again........2006-10-21

"Civil rights freed the white southerner,particularly the young white southerner.It gave us grace,it gave us an opportunity to escape racism and politics of the Old South.We forget what a blessing Martin Luther King Jr. was to the south."..Phil Walden.
This book gives an excellent insight into the south,and particularly North Carolina and the changes that influenced the music of America since the 1960's.What we wre talking about is the blending of country,folk,hard rock and southern blues. Kemp takes us from the days before the Civil Rights Movement when blacks and whites simply could not and did not play in bands together. With the murder of Dr.King came, not only intregation in all sectors of life, but also in music.Rock and Roll came out of the south in the fifties and spread all over the world.In the 60's Kemp shows how Hard Rock in all its forms was also born in the south and likewise spread worldwide.
As you read through this book you are going to come across literally hundreds of musicians and bands and see how they are all intimately entwined.
Although I am now 70,and have never been able to relate completely to Hard Rock,I was amazed how many of the musicians mentioned were familiar and favourites of mine.Just to name a few David Allen Coe,Charlie Daniels,Cash,Jerry Lee Lewis,Springsteen,Cher,Chuck Berry,Little Richard,Bo Diddley,Ronnie Hawkins,Jimmy Carter,Bill Clinton,George Bush,B.B.King,Ray Charles,Allmans,Jefferson Airplane,Buck Owens,Dwight Yokum,John Lennon.Bono and U2,Elvis and on and on are all part of the journey Mark Kemp takes us on through 40 years of change and growth in America.
Among many other involvements Mark,greatest dream came to him when he became the music editor of Rolling Stone and vice president of music editorial MTV Networks.Who better to put this story together than someone who grew up with it ,knew virtually everyone involved and lived it for 40 years.
Though I am not a musician,my music preferences are more traditional Country,Bluegrass,Folk,Pop,Easy Listning,Rock&Roll; I found this a fascinating,informative,well written book that held my interest from beginning to end.I can only imagine what a teriffic book this would be to anyone who loves Hard Rock.

A Personal Fable of the Reconstruction.......2005-12-07

Like Mark, I grew up in the south in the 70s and agree with many of his observations regarding the music scene, racism, and with the heart and soul of a "southern man." I also found his personal story engaging, as he traveled back to meet old girlfriends and go on a road trip through the South with his Dad.

Where I think the book could have been stronger is the somewhat conflicted message Mark leaves regarding the South and its legacy. It's unclear that the author has fully come to terms with his past, and perhaps that is too tall an order for one book anyway. But Mark at times is all over the map, sometimes adopting the rock snob critic persona when in two pages he provides the CW on such unfairly maligned records as the Stone's Black and Blue, The Who By Numbers, The Allmans' Win Lose or Draw, or Gregg Allman's marriage and relationship with Cher. Other times he goes against the CW, turning in a strong and thoughtful defense of Tom Petty's Southern Accents. His testy 1992 interview with Chris Robinson is also a hoot!

So in all I found the book engaging and a great idea, though at times I thought the execution could have been a bit stronger. I look forward to more from this author as he continues to mine and refine his thoughts on this subject.

People can you hear it? A song is in the Air!.......2005-09-14

This book by music writer Mark Kemp is hard to categorize. It is part memoir, part cultural and social history and partly a history of popular music. The author manages to tie the various threads together into a cohesive whole and has written a fascinating book.

Kemp was born in South Carolina in 1960 and came to outside awareness just as the civil rights movement kicked into the highest gear and the old Jim Crow order of the South was breaking down. Kemp had the good fortune to be born to freethinking progressive parents who did not raise him in the atmosphere of invidious racism that characterized the life of so many other southerners of that time. The book really begins with the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. Prior to that event, white musicians backed many of the great black soul and rhythm and blues singers. After King was killed, many blacks felt they could no longer work with either white musicians or white owned music companies. As Kemp points out, the book is not about the fascinating story of black music in the south but of white music. In the year 2005, it is difficult for one who did not live through it, to appreciate what the reputation of the South was in 1969. Even its own young considered the South backwards and indeed, "redneck". As for music, white southern music meant either hillbilly boogie or country western. Southerners did not perform rock music in an indigenous style and those from the South who desired to make it in popular music left for either California or New York and dropped their Southern roots, usually in embarrassment.

This all changed when a man named Phil Walden, former manager for Otis Redding decided to start his own label, which became the fabled Capricorn Records. Rather than create a house band to back up studio owned singers, as with the Muscle Shoals studio, Walden decided to back a hot young guitarist from Florida named Duane Allman who had gained a reputation as a hot studio slide player and was looking to create his own band. Duane's band was originally supposed to be a power trio but ultimately consisted of six young men, one of them a black drummer, another his brother Gregg, a keyboardist and incredibly soulful blues singer. When Walden heard the debut of the "Allman Brothers Band" he knew he had found something special and backed the band out of his own pocket as they struggled to make it.

After describing the creation of the Allman Brothers Band, Kemp shifts back to his own story. In 1970, the ten years old author was dedicated to the blues sound of the Rolling Stones, having no idea that the Stone's sound was native to his own home region. When he hears the Allman Brothers Band in his sister's car, he, like thousands of other young Southerners, is instantly smitten. The Allmans' style was a unique blending of all native American sounds, with plenty of blues, soul, pure improvisational jazz and driving rock thrown into the mix. Not rednecks at all, the Allmans were more like southern hippies, singing "People Can you feel it? Love is everywhere!" Kemp claims that Gregg Allman sang with the sadness of the South. But Lynyrd Skynyrd rocked with righteous anger and extreme Southern pride. After the decline of the Allman's post-1973, came the rise of Southern "redneck rock" rockers, like Skynyrd and Molly Hatchett who made no apolgies for who they were or where they were from and who played a crunching brand of boogie rock, very different from that of the Allman Brothers Band. As the book continues, Kemp varies between a history of the music of the South and his own personal story in which he grows up, becomes a "head" in high school, rejects Southern music, moves north, develops a drug problem lands and loses his dream job at Rolling Stone and becomes ashamed of his Southern heritage. All the while he parallels this story with that of the musicians and the individuals he interviewed for this book including Charlie Daniels, Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule and so many others. The book really covers a large period of cultural history, more than thirty years, and a lot about Kemp's own life in a relatively few pages. And yet the book holds together surprisingly well. It really is a great read and anyone reading it will learn a little about what it was like to grow up a rock and roll fan in the new South of the 1970's. I highly recommend it.

Good Read........2005-08-29

Mark Kemp, editor of Creative Loafing-Charlotte, examines the interaction of southern culture and music as the South is transtioning out of Jim Crow. He uses his life as a lens through which to view these events.

A Peach of a Book!.......2005-03-06

Wow...I had withdrawal pangs after finishing this book! Kemp takes you on a sentimental tour of Southern rock music through scenery of the concurrent social and political events that affected the region and the nation. Just a small format change could have made it qualify as a music history textbook, yet somehow he has gracefully composed a harmony of history, memoir and good 'ole story tellin'. I learned things I never realized as a fan of many of the artists he discusses while I gained a deeper understanding of the events that rocked the country during my youth. The education was pure joy! His writing style is warm and inviting and keeps you fascinated with the stories as well as the chronology that could otherwise seem pedantic (I even read all the chapter notes!). Whether your youth lies in the 60's or 90's, you will find reading "Dixie Lullaby" a rich experience.

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South

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No rock music history holding should miss it.

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South
Mark Kemp
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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In Dixie Lullaby, a veteran music journalist ponders the transformative effects of rock and roll on the generation of white southerners who came of age in the 1970s-the heyday of disco, Jimmy Carter, and Saturday Night Live. Growing up in North Carolina, Mark Kemp burned with shame and anger at the attitudes of many white southerners-some in his own family-toward the recently won victories of the civil rights movement. "I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land," he writes.

Then the down-home, bluesy rock of the Deep South began taking the nation by storm, and Kemp had a new way of relating to the region that allowed him to see beyond its legacy of racism and stereotypes of backwardness. Although Kemp would always struggle with an ambivalence familiar to many white southerners, the seeds of redemption were planted in adolescence when he first heard Duane Allman and Ronnie Van Zant pour their feelings into their songs.

In the tradition of Nick Tosches, Peter Guralnick, and other music historians, Kemp maps his own southern odyssey onto the stories of such iconic bands as the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and R.E.M., as well as influential indies like the Drive-By Truckers. In dozens of interviews with quintessential southern rockers and some of their most diehard fans, Kemp charts the course of the music that both liberated him and united him with countless others who came of age under its spell. This is a thought-provoking, searingly intimate, and utterly original journey through the South and its music from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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No rock music history holding should miss it........2007-02-06

New in paperback is a book not to be limited to Dixie collections, but a 'must' for any who would understand the concurrent stories of music and race in the South. DIXIE LULLABY: A STORY OF MUSIC, RACE, AND NEW BEGINNINGS IN A NEW SOUTH traces the history and rise of Southern rock, comes from a veteran journalist who considers the effects of white southern rock on future generations, and provides a survey of regional and racial influences on this music. The author's own personal involvement with the music imparts the basics of growing up with rock and loving it - and supplements a survey of Southern rock history with a personal anecdotal style leisure browsers will find appealing and absorbing. No rock music history holding should miss it.

Diane C. Donovan
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DIXIE LULLABY: A story of music, race and beginnings in a new south.

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DIXIE LULLABY: A story of music, race and beginnings in a new south.
Mark Kemp
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OJCER4

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Craft and Consciousness Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images
Joseph, Robert Lilienfeld Bensman
Manufacturer: John Wiley And Sons
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ASIN: B000RV3OCS

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Craft and Consciousness: Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images (Communication and Social Order)
Robert Lilienfeld , and Joseph Bensman
Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
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Craft and Consciousness: Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images
Joseph; Lilienfeld, Robert Bensman
Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOZUMU

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Craft and Consciousness: Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images (Communication and Social Order)
Robert; Bensman, Joseph Lilienfeld
Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
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ASIN: B000OP4RHI

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The two titles complement each other in ways no other books do: Readers can use what they learn in Trading Spaces Color! and apply it to the ideas in Trading Spaces Make it Yours!

Trading Spaces Color! uses a series of before and after pictures to show how adding color in various ways can change the mood of an entire room

Trading Spaces Make it Yours! shows readers how to add personal touches to everyday items.

Boxed set format makes it the perfect holiday gift (Trading Spaces Behind the Scenes had its highest sales to date in a major retailer the week before Mother's Day—nine weeks after its launch!)

Discounted price compared to buying the books separately increases the likelihood of buying both.

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Okay . . . seen better.......2007-01-17

Trading Spaces fans for a while, back when it was popular I guess...so we bought the book. Not as great as we thought at first (most likely why we don't watch the show anymore either).

Information in it seemed very basic - not ground breaking, and next time we will check out options at a bookstore first. Personal choices here too. Some people like walls with colors, some like white only, some wood.

Some very good basics in the book, but doubt I would pay full price for the set again!

These are very good.......2004-04-08

OK, I admit it, I'm hooked on the shows! Honestly I think the entire series of Trading Spaces books are good. My favorite is still the first one just because it is fun and filled with great photos. I think the photographer of these books does an amazing job. This is a great purchase for anyone who likes decorating or loves the show!

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With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of the manic and tumultuous 1990s. In an enthralling narrative, he ties together all of the characters of the dot-com bubble and offers a unique portrait of the culture of the era. Just as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash was a defining text of the Great Depression, Lowenstein's Origins of the Crash is destined to be the book that will frame our understanding of the 1990s.

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Another Great Book!.......2007-09-10

Great read! I have been a financial advisor for over 15 years and love the markets and their history. Lowenstein has written two fabulous books about market changing events over the past decade, and "Origins" could be the best. For me, it was like reliving the boom (and bust) all over again; at times painful, very insightful, but not too techinical. Also, the section devoted to Enron was spectacular.

Prepare to be entertained but not educated.......2007-09-10

Mr. Lowenstein tells a compelling story about the fraud, avarice and delusion that infused the stock market's heady ride during the late 1990s, and its subsequent crash.

While the stories of Enron and WorldCom are quite gripping, Mr. Lowenstein doesn't really provide the type of analysis the book's title would imply. Mr. Lowenstein enumerates a few themes, such as executive pay and stock options, that undoubtedly played a part in executives' zeal to inflate their stock prices, but does not attempt to quantify the degree to which these themes influenced stock price movements or behaviors. He also focuses on a few stories, such as Enron, but fails to provide any technical analysis on price movements in the market as a whole. Stocks rise and fall off-stage, as in a Greek drama. In fact, there is not a single chart in the entire book.

The book also lacks detail on the mechanics of the accounting entities create by Andrew Fastow of Enron to offload liabilities. Surely the reader who cares enough about the topic to read this book must hunger for the R-rated version, rather than the G-rating given to Mr. Lowenstein's recounting. I was left craving more detail.

I would have loved to see a greater comparison between the 1929 stock market crash and our contemporary crash, but Mr. Lowenstein only devotes a few pages to such a comparison and uses faulty analysis. For example, he contends that there was less fraud in the 20s, and that it was "... mostly confined to a handful of brokers, bankers, and stock-pool operators". This understates the degree to which stock-pool operators manipulated stock prices to benefit a few insiders, and ignores some egregious characters, like Alfred Wiggins of Chase.

I really enjoyed Mr. Lowenstein's book, "When Genius Failed" and feel that he gave his readers more credit in that book. "Origins of the Crash" will leave the reader entertained but not educated. While it is a compelling read, it forces me back to the bookshelf to answer all the questions this book leaves unanswered.

A Valuable but Unhistorical Perspective.......2007-06-03

There's quite a lot to like in this book. Lowenstein has the details of the way the 'New Economy' of the '90s was hyped down pat, and how it all, inevitably, fell apart. But there's an important missing dimension. Lowenstein's book suffers from a lack of history.

As I read ORIGINS OF THE CRASH, I couldn't help but think of other books, describing astoundingly similar situtations. EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS by Charles MacKay, UNACOUNTABLE ACCOUNTING by Abraham Briloff, CONTRARIAN INVESTMENT STRATEGIES by David Dreman, ONCE IN GOLCONDA by John Brooks, THE WALL STREET WALTZ by Kenneth Fisher, THE ONLY OTHER INVESTMENT GUIDE YOU'LL EVER NEED by Andrew Tobias, and especially THE MONEY GAME and SUPERMONEY by George 'Adam Smith' Goodman.

The core of the great bubble was the fact that human beings don't naturally think in a logical manner, can't deal with large numbers well, are short term oriented, have a great capacity for believing nonsense, overoptimism, the use of case and other faults being unravelled by the emerging disciplines of behavioral economics and prospect theory, associated especially with Amos Kahneman and Daniel Tversky. Depite Lownstein's belief that this time was different, in fact, the elements of the bubble were exactly the same as the canal and railway manias, the small computer boom of the late 1970s, the 'era of wonderful nonsense' in the 1920s, the Great Electronics and IPO Mania of the 1960s, and the conditions just before the Crash of 1987.

So read this book, but remember the perspective is overly narrow. And especially remember that it will all happen again, in your lifetime. I've already seen it three times in mine.

Covers the topic but flawed.......2007-04-29

Lowenstein took a juicy and let's face it easy to write about topics greed and avarice, and tossed in a bunch of throw away simpleton comments that overall made me dislike him almost as much as the thieves he wrote about. Why authors can't stick to the topics at hand these days without interjecting blatantly over and over their political bias is beyond me. He also tries to adjust Adam Smith writings to support his own which comes off nonsensical to say the least. Quoting the noted liberal NYT economist, Paul "I hate Bush" Krugman says it all about Lowenstein bias. Overall, Lowenstein came off as a lightweight and this book is written for people with their minds made up already.

An important book.......2007-03-08

Roger Lowenstein is a terrific financial journalist. One of very few who really knows what he's talking about. Each of his 3 books - this one, When Genius Failed and his Warren Buffet biography are must reading for any investor. If you are going to be dealing with Wall Street you MUST be aware of what you are up against. Those guys are not your pals - they want your money!

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