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Friday, the Thirteenth
Friday the Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson is the captivating mystery tale of how a poor stockbroker manages to send the Wall Street stocks into oblivion, causing stockbrokers to swear against trading on Friday the 13th. Excerpt: "Friday, the 13th; I thought as much. If Bob has started, there will be hell, but I will see what I can do." The sound of my voice, as I dropped the receiver, seemed to part the mists of five years and usher me into the world of Then as though it had never passed on. I had been sitting in my office, letting the tape slide through my fingers while its every yard spelled "panic" in a constantly rising voice, when they told me that Brownley on the floor of the Exchange wanted me at the 'phone, and "quick." Brownley was our junior partner and floor man. He talked with a rush. Stock Exchange floor men in panics never let their speech hobble."
Frenzied Finance
"Frenzied Finance" by Thomas William Lawson is a scathing exposé of Wall Street and the financial practices that led to the Panic of 1907. Published in 1905, the book caused a sensation with its sensational revelations about corruption, manipulation, and greed in the world of high finance. Thomas William Lawson, a former stockbroker turned reformer, pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the stock market and the machinations of powerful financiers. He exposes various fraudulent schemes, market manipulations, and insider trading tactics employed by wealthy bankers and speculators to manipulate stock prices and exploit the investing public. One of the central themes of the book is th...
The T.W. Lawson: The Fate of the World's Only Seven-Masted Schooner
Armed with curiosity and a desire to piece together the story of the world's only seven-masted schooner, Tom Hall spent several years researching on both sides of the Atlantic, diving on the Lawson wreck and interviewing the relatives of those involved in the rescue efforts. The result of his work is the most complete account of the T. W. Lawson's story, ranging from her building and launch to her fated wreck off the Scilly Isles.
Friday, the Thirteenth
In 'Friday, the Thirteenth,' Thomas William Lawson weaves a captivating tale that intertwines superstition, fate, and the darker aspects of human nature. Set against the backdrop of a bustling financial district, Lawson employs a rich narrative style that combines elements of social commentary with psychological exploration, revealing how belief in luck can lead to both fortune and folly. The novel's structure cleverly unfolds the eerie implications of the titular day, which Lawrence uses as a vehicle to explore the moral ambiguities of deception, ambition, and the fragility of societal norms, resonating with the burgeoning themes of modernism that characterized early 20th-century literature...
Frenzied Finance
American businessman THOMAS WILLIAM LAWSON (1857-1925) was notorious for his stock manipulations, but that was nothing to the infamy he achieved when he turned against his partners, Henry H. Rogers and William Rockefeller, in the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company. In this 1906 work-a forgotten classic of muckraking by an insider to the crimes uncovered-Lawson told all about the ruthless practices deployed to create this trust, making no bones abut his own involvement. Pulling no punches, Lawson discusses: [ "juggling with millions of the people's money" [ "bribing a legislature" [ "the magic world of finance" [ "how Wall Street's manipulations affect the country" [ and much more. As the globe reels from 21st-century financial crimes, this is a stunning reminder of lessons of old that went unheeded.
The Last Man
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the region. Tom Lawson shows how Britain practised cultural destruction and then came to terms with and evaded its genocidal imperial past. Although the introduction of European diseases undoubtedly contributed to the decline in the indigenous populatio...
Nature's Engraver
In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild--a journey to the beginning of a lasting obsession with the natural world.
Processing Aquatic Food Products
This is the first up-to-date, comprehensive overview of current techniques for processing aquatic food products. Employing a systems approach, it emphasizes principles of processing, transporting, and preserving fish, crustaceans, plants, and other food products produced from the aquatic environment.
Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind
Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind is a review and an explanation of Jung's thought set in an evolutionary context. Jung explored the human psyche throughout his long life. His writings, of astonishing scope and depth, elaborate on imagery that can be found in rituals, myths and fables worldwide as well as in the dreams, visions and fantasies of his patients and himself. Jung pursued common threads of meaning to the point of becoming deeply versed in the esoterica of Eastern mysticism, Gnosticism, and alchemy. Taken collectively, Jung's works develop a coherent theory about how the psyche is constructed, including an idea of how consciousness emerged as a part of it. The author demonstrates that Jung's concept of a collective unconscious structured by archetypes meshes well with accepted views of evolution and can be squared with the most rigorous science of today. So taken, Jung's work is of unrivaled explanatory power and opens new vistas for understanding who we are and how we function.
Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature
Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gendering of the garden during the period has gone largely unexamined. This new study focuses on the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status. The first part of the book focuses on how practical gardening books proposed methods for planting as they simultaneously represente...
