The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

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Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary... Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas à Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on the historical imagination of his readers--demands that are inevitably slighted by writers who emphasize only one set of interests or one facet of a complex temperament."

In The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin Anderson takes a fresh look at the intellectual roots of one of the most engaging and multifaceted of America's founders. Anderson begins by tracing the evolution of young Franklin's theology of works between the letters of Silence Dogood (1722) and his impassioned defense of the heterodox Irish clergyman Samuel Hemphill in 1735. He places the twenty-five-year production of Poor Richard's Almanac in the context of early eighteenth-century moral and educational psychology. He examines the broad intellectual continuities uniting Franklin's 1726 journal of his return voyage to Philadelphia with successive editions of his Experiments and Observations on Electricity, first published in 1751. And he offers a careful examination of Franklin's seminal, and controversial, 1751 essay "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind."

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin brings us a much fuller understanding of Franklin's intellectual and literary roots and his later influence among common readers.

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating Study.......2000-05-07

Douglas Anderson has managed to produce a rich and extremely stimulating intellectual biography of Benjamin Franklin. He traces Franklin's ideas as reflected in his various writings throughout his life, with special focus on his literary and philosophical influences. For instance, he shows that Franklin, even in his teenage years, managed to produce a work of rather impressive learning and erudition, viz. Silence Dogood. This work quotes extensively from the popular English Republican work "Cato's Letters," and reflects explicitly the philosophical ideas of the great moral philosophy Lord Shaftesbury. Anderson ably demonstrates how his ideas changed and evolved with time and experience, as Franklin moved from being a poor apprentice to a publisher, scientist, politician, and revolutionary diplomat. He analyzes the full range of his thought on a myriad of subjects, including politics, religion, and science. In the end, this work is a major accomplishment that offers the interested reader a vast amount of enjoyment and education.

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A wake-up call to the Developed World!

A riveting read written by an inspirational man..

A fantastic and extraordinary look at the life of street kid

A touching and courageous story

The Courage of Children: My Life with the World's Poorest Kids
Peter Dalglish
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0006385672

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A wake-up call to the Developed World!.......2001-04-11

Peter Dalglish is a visionary...there are no two ways about it. He has seen and experienced more in his lifetime than many of us ever will, and his story is one which every young person should read.

He has touched the lives of children from war-torn North Africa to the corrupt shanty towns of Bangkok--and in each he has made a fundamental difference in those children's lives. His contribution to social development is as far-reaching as any of the great figures in international affairs that may spring to mind, except he has achieved it on a small-scale, personal level.

I believe Mr. Dalglish has touched on a point that we should all take to heart: that those of us who have been fortunate enough to have the resources we do, have an OBLIGATION to give more to the lives of these impoverished children.

I commend Mr. Dalglish and think his book a fantastic reflection of a distinguished career of service.

A riveting read written by an inspirational man.........1999-01-31

I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did; I was interested to read it after hearing Peter Dalgleish speak. He is a charismatic, brilliant speaker and this book is equally riveting. A lawyer by training, Dalgleish was heading for the big salary, the luxury life. The book charts how he turned himself around and ended up using his characteristic drive and energy to help some of the world's poorest children. It will make you question the values of western society and it will make you realise that with energy and a determination, many things are indeed possible.

A fantastic and extraordinary look at the life of street kid.......1998-08-24

This book is touching and encouraging on all levels. It teaches the true meaning of many things, touching on the soul and heart. Definetly a must read.

A touching and courageous story.......1998-08-24

Peter Dalgish's book is one of the fantastic I have ever read. It is an emotional and touching story, no matter how sad or heart wrenching. But it also lets us believe in freedom and truth. Read this books!

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Entertaining, if not informative

Good Book for the bigginers of day trading

Liteweight Fluff from a liteweight mind

Entertaining, informative, scrumptious

Very disapointing

Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader
Gary Wolf , and Joey Anuff
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Could it be? Is it possible that day trading--the hottest thing to hit the market since analysts started forecasting stock movements by the heft of Alan Greenspan's briefcase--is simply a bait-and-switch that promises unlimited riches but delivers only aggravation? Joey Anuff, cofounder of the Suck.com humor Web site, certainly thinks so. With a literary assist from Wired magazine's Gary Wolf, he takes us into the belly of the beast in Dumb Money. And his rollercoaster first-person account of the day trading life graphically shows that while this highly romanticized world may be consistently exciting and occasionally quite profitable, it sure ain't pretty.

Set to the tempo of a trading day that begins each dawn in Anuff's San Francisco apartment, the book chronicles an existence fueled by CNBC and Starbucks and has little room for anything else. Envious of the vast riches that everyone else seems to be accumulating, Anuff jumps into the abyss full-bore to the detriment of his personal life, his regular job, and even his sanity. Through witty writing and self-effacing irony, he shows why he stayed glued to his keyboard each day until the closing bell, repeatedly risking tens of thousands on stocks he couldn't even recall a few weeks later. Along the way, he introduces us to several top players in the game, and explains how everything from discount brokerages to Web message boards affect the action. A true cautionary tale, it's recommended for anyone who has ever read about a trader's million-dollar day and seriously wondered, "Why not me?" --Howard Rothman

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As you read this, five million Americans are day-trading. Not since gold was discovered in California have more people dropped out of their old lives and come running for the promise of a big score. For a time, Joey Anuff was among them. He has emerged-enriched, enlightened, and exhausted-to share his story.

In a marriage of Anuff's own experiences with the brilliant investigative work of his Wired and Suck colleague Gary Wolf, Dumb Money explores and explains the world of day-trading as has never been done before. No strategy is too crackpot to try, no news break too dubious to play off, no so-called guru too shady, no online chat room too pathetic. Using the rhythms of a day trader's typical day as its frame, Dumb Money is a dispatch from the front lines of the stock-market revolution, a brutally Darwinian battleground on which some become wildly rich and more become part of the body count. It is essential reading for online investors, off-line investors, voyeurs, concerned citizens, and adrenaline freaks alike.

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As you read this, millions of people across the land are day trading, moving quickly in and out of stock positions through on-line accounts, sometimes buying and selling in a matter of minutes, often making over a hundred trades in a day, feverishly sniffing the winds for opportunities for a fast buck. For every day trader that goes bankrupt, two take his place. Not since the California gold rush have so many Americans dropped their day jobs and come running. Our man Joey Anuff, the guiding spirit behind Suck. corn, "the Spy magazine (when it used to be good) of the Digital Age, " is among them. Anuff increased his portfolio 200% last year, along the way tinkering with every day-trading investment strategy out there, drawing on every imaginable data source, trolling every single likely investing on-line chat room, and checking out just about every so-called guru in this wild and exploding universe. Now he fesses up, with the help of the only man capable of pulling him away from his trading to write this book, his friend and fellow Wired and Suck veteran (and RH author) Gary Wolf. Using the rhythms of the day trader's day as a base line, Anuff and Wolf offer up a fast-moving, explicit, 1st-person expose of day-trading realities, including the ruinous pitfalls that await the unwary. A fascinating narrative joy ride through the most significant new investing phenomenon of our time and an invaluable resource for any individual investor. The book will include a glossary of day-trading jargon.

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining, if not informative.......2002-05-27

I found this book to be a quick and entertaining read. If you're looking for a book on how a trader makes his picks, this is not the book. However, it does give a clear view of the stress of the day trader; the ups and the downs, which for the most part seems to be a life of worry. For those daytraders out there, not many tips but you'll know what he's talking about and experience a good laugh along the way.

Good Book for the bigginers of day trading.......2002-01-12

The book contains interesting information about the stock market development. It is interesting, easy and sometimes funny to read it. I like the sections about trading as I am a new trader and I want to know how other people trade and their success.

This book does not contain any practical information, advise but it connects and talks about people whom I have heard about before.

After the reading of the book I understood that the author was not a good trained day trader. He also had success in a few trades and after he lost his money he was looking for the way to make them. I think this book was his descision to make some money and start day trading again.

Liteweight Fluff from a liteweight mind.......2001-10-04

This book's sole purpose was to be the first on the block about the life of a day trader and it really shows. There are about 10 pages of useful stuff and the rest is banal filler, exposing the slacker mentality of the author. Example: at one point the highlite of his day was a trip to Starbucks.
If you are looking for tips on day trading forget it. The author gives generic info and covers outdated methods (SOES spread trading) He made all his money on virtually one trade of one stock and spends the rest of the book trying to duplicate it.
Wired's 15 minutes of fame are long up and so are this clown's. Time for this one-hit wonder (or blunder) to get a real job.

If you want to read this book, get it used or better yet check it out from the library. It is thin and can be read in one sitting

Entertaining, informative, scrumptious.......2001-03-02

This is a quick read, as breezy as the sports page and as agreeable as a six-figure income before you're thirty. But beware. Underneath the adrenaline rush lie material angst and emotional depression. After reading this you may take a certain delight in writing yet another line of boring code or in picking up that phone and punching in the numbers as you puff yourself up for a cheery hello. You might even walk outside and admire the scenery, realizing that perhaps day trading is its own peculiar hell, the kind of thing the gods do to you when they grant your dearest wish.

On the other hand this book might psyche you up to take the plunge or recharge you enough to catch the open tomorrow morning. If so--if you hear the siren call of the market or feel that passion for action--then this is a good book to read for what you can learn about how some day traders buy and sell. (They will be part of your competition.) There's a lot of insight here into what works and what doesn't work, or I should caution, what worked and what didn't work. It's clear that what day traders like Anuff do is follow the trend while working very hard to find a way to (glory be!) ANTICIPATE the trend. The incidental information on the significance of spreads, of just who you are playing against (add brokers and market makers to day traders) and how this passion may take over your life is perhaps the best of the book. Noteworthy is Anuff's description of the three-monitor layout and the software he used and the sites he visited while ensconced in his Frisco apartment glued to CNBC, whistling their theme song.

Essentially "dumb money" is nonprofessional money. What Anuff learned in his experience as a day trader is that the market makers and the brokers and other professionals still have a big advantage. Although the playing field has leveled considerably in recent years, you still have the spread against you and your information is stale and second hand. Anuff says nothing about insider trading, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that it happens all the time. Note, if you will, prior to an earnings announcement, which direction the stock in question takes. Nine times out of ten the direction will anticipate the tenor of the announcement. If it sells off, you can be nearly certain that the news is not so good. If it inches up, you can bet that a rosy report will follow. How can this be? Could it be that insider knowledge leaked out ahead of time to selected individuals who traded accordingly, and that such action was in turn noted by market makers, brokers and others close to the scene who took advantage? Yes, it's against the law, but so is speeding on the freeway. Also not mentioned is the action ahead of a broker downgrade or upgrade. By the time you hear about it, the stock has already popped or taken a haircut. As poker players say, you're chasing.

Anyway, Anuff, founder of Suck.com and Gary Wolf take us on a blitz tour of the day trader's world. They throw in a little painless history, share experiences, drop some Wall Street and Internet biz whiz names, spin some anecdotes, wax nostalgic and generally just lay wide open the human psyche of greed and fear so palpably that once or twice I had the urge to tell Anuff to go take a shower. They do this so well and with so much color and verve delivered in an apt tone of irreverence, that I promise you'll take delight.

Some of the fun comes from chat room adventures at Silicon.com, Yahoo, etc., as the ragers tout, diss, pump and dump, and otherwise scream their lungs out trying to mislead a gullible public. You'll learn why day traders always close out their positions before the bell (rather than climb walls). You'll learn what you can do about the gap in the morning, which is close to nothing. (You can try bleary-eyed to rescue your position in the before-market session, but most likely it's too late.) You'll learn why after a breaking news story the market sometimes goes one way, hesitates and then goes the other. Anuff and Wolf explain on page 152 that some quick-fingered traders, anxious to beat the pack, initially misread the news. You'll learn why technical analysis, with its "resistence" and "support" levels, works, despite the fact that any fundamentalist can prove it's a voodoo science. The authors explain it on pages 147-149 as a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that people believe. They don't explain why fundamental analysis seldom works, even though it's real science, but I will. One, a fundamental analysis of a company's true value vis-a-vis the marketplace is usually too complex to get right; and two, a significant percentage of buyers and sellers trade on emotion, ensuring that psychological factors predominate in the short run. Yes, Virginia, in the long run fundamentals will out. But you know what John Maynard Keynes said about the long run.

Here's my favorite bit of colorful writing from page 154. The authors are talking about a stock flying up in the after hours: "All the previous day's losses had been erased, and tomorrow the shorts--if there were any left--would be squeezed until their little piggy eyes popped out of their heads."

Best joke: In a greedy moment Anuff has decided to hold a position overnight. "There are seventeen and a half hours between one day's close and the next day's open, and that is a long, long time to be on your knees, hands clenched tightly, looking up at your twenty-four-foot ceiling, praying that if there is a God, he isn't just."

Very disapointing.......2001-01-31

The very best part of the book is the excerpt available in the book information section. The balance of the book is quite annoying, explaining over and over his bad experience with his broker firm (E-trade). No insight, no clue, boring until the end. I have read this book in less than 3 hours. I shipped the book back for a full refund.

Women, Get Answers About Your Money: Because There Are No Dumb Questions About Personal Finance

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The best advice I've had!

Women, Get Answers About Your Money: Because There Are No Dumb Questions About Personal Finance
Carolyn Castleberry
Manufacturer: Multnomah
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ASIN: 1590527992
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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Success Is Just Around Every Question Mark

Finally, the friendly comprehensive reference tool every woman is looking for has arrived. Find answers to all of your personal finance questions, from the simple (What’s a good credit score?) to the complex (What are my options in retirement planning?). This book’s question and answer format means you don’t have to waste time reading every word cover to cover. Biblical references offer proven wisdom from God, and Carolyn Castleberry’s practical guidance is easy to implement. Success is simply turning obstacles into opportunities. And that begins with obtaining information that, thanks to this book, is clear, easy to find, and non-intimidating.

âA goldmine of valuable information! A no-nonsense approach to the fundamentals of sound financial planning.â

Doreen Roadman

Financial advisor, JJSA Advisors, Ltd., Virginia Beach , Virginia

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Carolyn Castleberry, quickly becoming one of America ’s most trusted names in Christian broadcasting, provides you the answers you seek in every area of personal finance.

With her warm, conversational style, Carolyn’s âthere are no dumb questionsâ approach makes difficult concepts come alive â¦ and more importantly make sense (so that you can make the most of your dollars). Honest, straightforward, and easy for anyone to apply, these âanswersâ stem from a biblically and financially sound foundationâproviding the perfect conditions for success.

Whether you are looking for freedom to make new career choices, seeking financial security and peace of mind, or you’re on the lookout for the next solid investment, Women, Get Answers About Your Money harnesses timely, unique information to empower your life.

Inside, find comprehensive answers on topics including:

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Tom Antion

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âFirmly grounded in faith, this excellent financial guide shows how to build your house on stone. Carolyn has written a comprehensive yet easy-to-read book. I wish I had this years ago.â

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âIt was the summer of 1995, just months after our first daughter was born. I sat in a well-known financial expert’s office because my husband and I desperately needed financial guidance. At the time, I worked as a reporter for an NBC affiliated station and asking questions was part of my job. It’s funny that it didn’t bother me to ask them on TV, but sitting in this expert’s office, I suddenly froze. He claimed this âinvesting’ stuff was really complicated and he’d take care of our savings. Over the next few months, we watched thousands of dollars disappear in a series of trades and commissions (making him richer) and margin calls (making us poorer). So much for the âexpert!’ After that, I realized that there are no dumb questions about money. Being humble enough to admit that you don’t know everything is the beginning of wealth.â âCarolyn Castleberry

Customer Reviews:

The best advice I've had!.......2007-01-02

This is a must read for all women, any age, any marital status. I've been trying to learn more about money for awhile and I finally found a resource that explains it in plain language. I will be using this book in the years to come to answer all my questions about money.

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Good fun, remember those fantastic dot.com years!

Dumb Money
Joey Anuff , and Gary Wolf
Manufacturer: Methuen
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Binding: Paperback

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Good fun, remember those fantastic dot.com years!.......2003-05-11

Nice work from Joey Anuff, who simultaneously reminds me of the good times when I thought I was going to retire young and happy and of the idiocy of even beginning to think that way.

It is a good read for anyone who first started trading or buying shares around 1998. At that time I tried to learn a lot about the market etc, etc because I was told that was how to secure my future. But the reality was a little farther from the truth.

Joey's trip along the Day Trader journey, and the weirdoes he finds along the way may remind you of the same thing.

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Refreshingly practical and immensely entertaining, national financial commentator Andrew Leckey gives his advice on money matters through the sage and prophetic wisdom of Mark Twain (a financial genius in his own time).

An avid buyer and seller of stocks, Mark Twain loved to poke fun at the financial markets and the irresistible urge of speculation. He was fascinated by scoundrels seeking to snatch the money of others, with two prime examples of this being the King and the Duke in the great American novel Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain was born in poverty. Through eclectic business endeavors and smart investing, he amassed great wealth by age 50. He went bankrupt at 60, and became wealthy again at 70. He prospected for silver, sold his own books by subscription and took out patents on numerous inventions. His occupations included riverboat pilot, printer, and travel writer.

Using the words of Mark Twain, Andrew Leckey, an accomplished financial journalist known to millions for anchoring CNBC, imparts the lessons today's investor can learn from Twain. Leckey has combed Twain's novels, stories, speeches, and letters for telling sayings about making, saving, guarding, and growing money. The book will be humorous and fun to read as it offers down-to-earth advice-as Leckey puts it-it will be as if Warren Buffett met the Beardstown Ladies.

Among the slices of timeless investment wisdom, Twain-style:
• Divide and conquer your portfolio.
• The law of averages eventually makes you right.
• He who hesitates can save a lot.
• Every period in history had fool's gold.

Customer Reviews:

Very Disappointed.......2001-10-31

The blurbs for this book are very misleading. It is a text for beginning investors. Each chapter starts with a quote from Twain, but it has little else to do with him. The entire references to Twain probably don't exceed 5 pages of text. If you are interested in Mark Twain - forget it. Not much here. If you are interested in basic investing principles - likewise forget it - I have seen much better.

More Twain, Less Leckey.......2001-09-19

I was hoping this book would be more Twain and less Leckey. I was disappointed. Each chapter starts with one quote from Twain, and Leckey provides some background context. That's about 10% of the book. The other 90% is Investing 101 stuff.

A lighthearted investment primer.......2001-08-06

The author intertwines Mark Twains' insight, humor, and timeless wisdom with the current investment landscape. This is a good, yet basic primer for someone wanting to understand investment opportunities and pitfalls available today. It provides perspective on speculative opportunities, scams, and solid investments, choices that have been available to the novice and savvy investor alike since Twains' time.

The book contains 49 easily digestible chapters including: "The Law of Averages Eventually Makes You Right", "He Who Hesitates Can Save a Lot More" "Mutual Fund Expenses Can Hoodwink You" "Every Period in History Had It's Fools Gold", all applicable to today's investor.

There are many similar books on the market offering the same or similar advice. If you enjoy Mark Twain, and prefer your investment reading to be sprinkled with his perspective, buy this one, otherwise keep looking, you'll find another equally good book that provides the basics.

First rate!.......2001-01-24

This book does a great job of capturing Mark Twain's humor and bringing it into a modern day investment context. Investing is serious business, but we can still laugh at our mistakes while we learn from them because chances are we're not the first to make them.

If you loved reading Mark Twain growing up, you'll love both his wisdow and wit on investing.

Mark Twain, Investments and Humor.......2001-01-23

Financial columnist and television commentator Andrew Leckey has produced a facinating book of humorous and useful investment advice drawing on the writings of Mark Twain. If Twain with his erratic investments and bittersweet results seems an unlikely investment adviser, guess again. He made (and lost) several fortunes and managed along the way to accumulate some wisdom that is pertinent today. Andrew Leckey gracefully takes Twain's amusing observations and connnects them to today's market where people still make (and lose) fortunes.

--Everette E. Dennis Larkin Distinguished Professor Fordham Graduate School of Business Lincoln Center, New York City

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