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Cartesian Economics, The Bearing of Physical Science upon State Stewardship is a compilation of two lectures given by Frederick Soddy to the student unions of Birbeck College and the London School of Economics. The lectures were the first of four works written between 1921 and 1934 that applied the concepts of hard science to the economy. Though Soddy's ideas were largely rejected at the time, much of his theories are rooted in real-world examples and mirrored in other aspects of life-like the laws of thermodynamics. Soddy's main arguments are against the concepts of debt and wealth. He likens the economy to a machine, which must draw energy from outside itself and which cannot forever recycle that energy to create more energy. Similarly, economists posited that debt could produce more wealth, and thus fuel an economy. Soddy argued instead that debt destroyed wealth, eating it up until there was more debt in a society than wealth, making it unsustainable. These lectures are poignant, and highly applicable to the economic situation at the beginning of the 21st century. They will interest burgeoning and seasoned economists yearning for a new perspective.

The circulation of a mere rumor that the Morgan interests are accumulating Steel or that the Standard Oil crowd is getting out of St. Paul is sure at any time to create a market following. Most of the tips that are hawked about the Street are based on the supposition that somebody-or-other of consequence is buying or selling certain stocks. I do not know of a single case where anyone has been able to make money consistently by following information of this character, even when the information comes to him first hand. -from "e;A Speculative Decision"e; In 1917, an insider at a Wall Street brokerage firm took a close look at his company's most active traders and analyzed their trades to glean the secrets of their success... and what he found is still applicable today. Writing pseudonymously, he here offers a wide range of sage advice about: . buying on the way down . determining trends . how a bull market starts . the correct use of stop orders . when and what to sell short . and more.

The Holy Bible: Complete and How to Understand It, publishedby author Roswell Hitchcock in 1869, breaks down the verses ofthe Bible (more than 30,000) based on their meaning into 27 Books,242 Chapters, and 2,369 Sections. Topics include Scripture, JesusChrist, Miracles, the Hebrews, Civil and Social Law, Fallen Man, andEschatology. It also contains Hitchcock's "Bible Name Dictionary,"which describes more than 2,500 Bible and related names and theirdefinitions. Verses are cataloged with like verses, and, though large, thebook is extremely navigable. The Cosimo version is unabridged, includingthe original illustrations by Nast and Carpenter and Cruden's CompleteConcordance to the Holy Scriptures; all in all, a unique collection. The HolyBible: Complete and How to Understand It is a perfect tool for the seriousBible scholar and those who want to break the Bible down into its mostessential parts.ROSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCOCK (1817-1887) was an Americantheologian and writer who graduated from Amherst in 1836 and studiedat Andover theological seminary. Hitchcock was a professor at BowdoinCollege in Maine and Union Theological Seminary in New York City andwas also the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Exeter, NewHampshire, from 1945-1952. He was elected president of the AmericanPalestine Exploration Society in 1871 (after his many travels to Palestineand the Middle East) and of Union Theological Seminary in 1880. He isthe author of several books, including The New and Complete Analysisof the Holy Bible, Life of Edward Robinson, and Carmina Sanctorum,among others.

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.

It seems, at first glance, like an obvious step to take to improve industrial productivity: one should simply watch workers at work in order to learn how they actually do their jobs. But American engineer FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR (1856-1915) broke new ground with this 1919 essay, in which he applied the rigors of scientific observation to such labor as shoveling and bricklayer in order to streamline their work... and bring a sense of logic and practicality to the management of that work. This highly influential book, must-reading for anyone seeking to understand modern management practices, puts lie to such misconceptions that making industrial processes more efficient increases unemployment and that shorter workdays decrease productivity. And it laid the foundations for the discipline of management to be studied, taught, and applied with methodical precision.