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  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    The book is divided into three main parts:National Delusions: This section explores cases of mass hysteria and irrational behavior on a large scale, including the witch trials, the Crusades, and other instances of societal mania.Peculiar Follies: Here, Mackay discusses various bizarre and irrational beliefs and practices that have captured the public's attention, such as alchemy, fortune-telling, ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    Enriched edition. Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

    by Charles Mackay, Selene Dorswell ...
    In "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," Charles Mackay meticulously examines the psychological forces that drive collective behavior, illuminating how society often succumbs to mass hysteria, delusions, and financial folly. Written in the mid-19th century, Mackay's book combines narrative history with a rich, engaging literary style that reflects the Romantic sensibilities ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3)

    Enriched edition. Mass Hysteria, Economic Bubbles, and Groupthink

    by Charles Mackay ...
    In 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', Charles Mackay explores various historical episodes of mass hysteria, financial manias, and social delusions. Written with a keen eye for detail and analysis, Mackay's work delves into the psychological and sociological factors that contribute to such collective follies. Each volume contains a wealth of anecdotes and examples, making ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

    by Charles Mackay ...
    This edition represents an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3)

    by Charles Mackay ...
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetizers (influence of imagination in ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

    by Charles MacKay ...
    Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles MacKay ...
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions." Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative endeavors. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of ... Read more

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  • Economic Bubbles in History and Fiction

    by Charles Mackay ...
    Excerpts from Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, covering the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania of 17th century Holland; plus the novels Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, which deals with the tulip mania, and The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, which deals with land speculation in 19th century America. ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their ... Read more

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  • Sublime Finance Super Pack

    by Nicolas Darvas, Walter Bagehot, Claude C. Hopkins, Walter Lippmann, G. M. Loeb, Irving Fisher, Edward R. Dewey, Edwin F. Dakin, Charles MacKay ...
    To make and invest money, one must understand how the financial systems work. These eight landmark books will give you that understanding and help you on your way to success and prosperity. These books have stood the test of time. Their authors have a deep understanding of the subject matter. Here are more than one thousand pages of priceless information at an extremely reasonable price. Included ... Read more

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