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Common Stocks as Long Term Investments

by Edgar Lawrence Smith ...

Common Stocks as Long Term Investments (1924) by Edgar Lawrence Smith proved for the first time that stocks outperformed bonds in long-term stock market investments. Before Smith's work, the prevailing wisdom regarding investing stated that bonds were a safer investment. Conservative investors would allocate a large portion of their investments to bonds, relying on the annual rate of interest as a ... Read more

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Common Stocks as Long Term Investments (1924) by Edgar Lawrence Smith proved for the first time that stocks outperformed bonds in long-term stock market investments. Before Smith's work, the prevailing wisdom regarding investing stated that bonds were a safer investment. Conservative investors would allocate a large portion of their investments to bonds, relying on the annual rate of interest as a
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Studies in Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, R. K. Leavitt, Elmer Davis, Jane Nightwork, Earl F. Walbridge, H. W. Bell, James Keddie, Harvey Officer, P. M. Stone, Richard D. Altick, Frederic Dorr Steele, Henry James Forman, Edgar W. Smith, F. V. Morley ...

A collection of works on everyone's favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes.This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world's foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?," "On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street," "Dr. Watson's Secret," "The Care and Feeding of Sherlock ... Read more

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A collection of works on everyone's favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes.This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world's foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?," "On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street," "Dr. Watson's Secret," "The Care and Feeding of Sherlock
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The Year of the Cat: The Complete Collection

The Year of the Cat

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Andre Norton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Annie Reed, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cordwainer Smith, E. Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Daemon Crowe, Geoffrey A. Landis, Henry Slesar, Kent Patterson, Lisa Silverthorne, Liz Pierce, W. W. Jacobs, Saki, Ed Gorman, Mary A Turzillo, Anthea Sharp, Stefon Mears, Bonnie Elizabeth, Brigid Collins, Pamela Sargent, Kari Kilgore, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders, Jamie Ferguson, C.J. Erick, Emile Zola, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jamie McNabb, N. Margaret Campbell, Joan Aiken ...

Series series The Year of the Cat
Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super ... Read more

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Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super
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James Cutbush an American Chemist 1788-1823

by Edgar Fahs Smith ...

The biography traces Cutbush's life from his early education in Philadelphia, where he became interested in scientific experimentation, to his role as a chemist for the U.S. military. Cutbush’s notable contributions include his experiments in pyrotechnics, explosives, and various chemical compounds, particularly his work on chemical applications in warfare and industry. Smith highlights how ... Read more

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The biography traces Cutbush's life from his early education in Philadelphia, where he became interested in scientific experimentation, to his role as a chemist for the U.S. military. Cutbush’s notable contributions include his experiments in pyrotechnics, explosives, and various chemical compounds, particularly his work on chemical applications in warfare and industry. Smith highlights how
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New Queer Horror Film and Television

Edited by Darren Elliott-Smith, John Edgar Browning ...

Series series Horror Studies
This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed ‘New Queer Horror’. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or works like Jeepers Creepers (2001), Let the Right One In (2008), Hannibal (2013–15), or American Horror ... Read more

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This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed ‘New Queer Horror’. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or works like Jeepers Creepers (2001), Let the Right One In (2008), Hannibal (2013–15), or American Horror
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Common Stocks As Long Term Investments

by Edgar Lawrence Smith ...

Edgar Lawrence Smith, (1882-1971) was an economist, investment manager and author of the influential book "Common Stocks as Long Term Investments", which promoted the then-surprising idea that stocks excel bonds in long-term yield. . He worked in banking and other financial endeavors in the years after college, then signed on in 1922 as an adviser to the brokerage firm Low, Dixon & Company. While ... Read more

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Edgar Lawrence Smith, (1882-1971) was an economist, investment manager and author of the influential book "Common Stocks as Long Term Investments", which promoted the then-surprising idea that stocks excel bonds in long-term yield. . He worked in banking and other financial endeavors in the years after college, then signed on in 1922 as an adviser to the brokerage firm Low, Dixon & Company. While
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Black Cat Weekly #86

by K.L. Abrahamson, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Phyllis Ann Karr, Hal Charles, Zenith Brown, Bryce Walton, George O. Smith, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hal Meredith ...

Black Cat Weekly #86 features 3 original stories: a sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" by Phyllis Ann Karr, and mysteries by K.L. Abrahamson and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Plus series stories from Robert E. Howard (Solomon Kane) and Hal Meredith (Sexton Blake). Plus novels from Zenith Brown (writing as David Frome) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (a "Lost World" tale).. Plus tales by ... Read more

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Black Cat Weekly #86 features 3 original stories: a sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" by Phyllis Ann Karr, and mysteries by K.L. Abrahamson and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Plus series stories from Robert E. Howard (Solomon Kane) and Hal Meredith (Sexton Blake). Plus novels from Zenith Brown (writing as David Frome) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (a "Lost World" tale).. Plus tales by
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Priestley in America 1794-1804

by Edgar Fahs Smith ...

Smith delves into Priestley's activities and scientific contributions during this American period, exploring his experiments, writings, and influence on American intellectual life. Though Priestley faced a series of challenges, including limited resources and occasional skepticism from the public, he continued to conduct research in chemistry, notably on gases, and maintained correspondence with ... Read more

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Smith delves into Priestley's activities and scientific contributions during this American period, exploring his experiments, writings, and influence on American intellectual life. Though Priestley faced a series of challenges, including limited resources and occasional skepticism from the public, he continued to conduct research in chemistry, notably on gases, and maintained correspondence with
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Gnuj & Alt

by Edgar Smith ...

Alt writes this book as perhaps a therapeutic exercise: he wants to externalize his feelings in order to cope with them and maybe get to understand himself better in the process. He also writes as a means to finally let go of his love for Gnuj, a young woman twenty years younger, a married woman, a lonely woman. Gnuj & Alt is a story about love, but only indirectly. It is really a story about ... Read more

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Alt writes this book as perhaps a therapeutic exercise: he wants to externalize his feelings in order to cope with them and maybe get to understand himself better in the process. He also writes as a means to finally let go of his love for Gnuj, a young woman twenty years younger, a married woman, a lonely woman. Gnuj & Alt is a story about love, but only indirectly. It is really a story about
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Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Victor Roman, Pu Songling, Johann Ludwig Tieck, John William Polidori, Alexei Tolstoy, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Gilbert, Jan Neruda, A. B. Mitford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Phil Robinson, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Cholmondeley, Anne Crawford, Marsh Richard, Eric Stenbock, Mary E. Braddon, Fred M. White, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Hume Nisbet, F. G. Loring, Augustus Hare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Frank Norris, Louise J. Strong, Luigi Capuana, Théophile Gaultier, E. G. Swain, Claude Askew, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Horacio Quiroga, Ulric Daubeny, Uel Key, Dion Fortune, Everil Worrell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Cynthia Asquith ...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the ... Read more

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The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the
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Day of Judgement and Ten Other Stories

by Arthur Edgar E. Smith ...

This publication is a culmination of my attempt at writing which started in 1966 in emulating Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe whose story I had grown so greatly fascinated with through English lessons I was having from a friend of my late father. It was then that I started nurturing dreams of writing a similar life-like story in the first person narrative voice. I would almost every day religiously ... Read more

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This publication is a culmination of my attempt at writing which started in 1966 in emulating Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe whose story I had grown so greatly fascinated with through English lessons I was having from a friend of my late father. It was then that I started nurturing dreams of writing a similar life-like story in the first person narrative voice. I would almost every day religiously
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The First Tarzan of the Apes Collection

by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...

Narrated by Mark F. Smith, Ralph Snelson, James Christopher, Don W. Jenkins, Joshua Herring, Matthew Reece ...

Unabridged

81 hours 8 min

The First Tarzan of the Apes Collection includes nine full-length novels and 12 short stories featuring Tarzan.Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, ... Read more

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The First Tarzan of the Apes Collection includes nine full-length novels and 12 short stories featuring Tarzan.Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs,
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