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Books by charles mackay

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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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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions

    by Charles Mackay ...
    This classic survey of crowd psychology offers an illuminating and entertaining look at three grand-scale swindles. Originally published in England in 1841, its remarkable tales of human folly reveal that the hysteria of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the junk-bonds frenzy of the 1980s were far from uniquely twentieth-century phenomena.The first of the financial scandals discussed, "The ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Vol. 1, 2, 3 (Illustrated and Bundled with Bear Markets in the States)

    by Charles MacKay ...
    The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles: 1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume One – Charles MacKay 2. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume Two - Charles MacKay 3. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume Three - Charles MacKay The book had a considerable ... Read more

    $1.19 USD

  • 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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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    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

    $2.99 USD

  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

    by Charles Mackay ...
    First published in 1841. All three volumes in a single file. This work covers such topics as the Crusades, the witch mania, haunted houses, alchemy, and fortune telling. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer." ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    The subjects of Mackay's debunking include 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 curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    First published in 1841, this history chronicles the popular foolishness of Mackay's day. It is divided into three broad categories, including 'National Delusions,' 'Peculiar Follies,' and 'Philosophical Delusions.' The author discusses and usually debunks a wide variety of subjects and events. These include economic bubbles like the tulip craze of Holland in 1637 or the Mississippi Company ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume 1, 2, and 3 (Illustrated and Bundled with Psychology of the Stock Market and Irving Fisher on Investment)

    by Charles MacKay, G. C. Selden, Irving Fisher ...
    The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume 1, 2, and 3 – Charles MacKayThe Psychology of the Stock Market – George Charles SeldenHow to Invest When Prices are Rising – Irving FisherIrving Fisher was one the greatest economists in the United States who did deep research about ... Read more

    $1.59 USD

  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    With Linked Table of Contents

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • 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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