Books with author J.W. Garrett

The Official Red Book® A Guide Book of United States Coins is 73 years young and going strong. Since 1946 collectors around the country have loved the book s grade-by-grade coin values, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth? The 73rd edition of the Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West silver dollars and dazzling gold coins. You ll find 32,500+ prices and auction records for nearly 8,000 coins, tokens, medals, sets, and other collectibles. You ll also round out your education in classic and modern commemoratives, Proof and Mint coins, error coins, Civil War tokens, Confederate coins, Philippine coins struck under U.S. sovereignty, private gold, all the latest National Park quarters, Native American dollars, American Innovation dollars, bullion coins (silver, gold, platinum, and palladium), and more. Articles on investing, grading coins, and detecting counterfeits will make you a savvy collector; and entertaining essays on the history of American coinage, shipwrecks and hoards, and the modern rare-coin market give you an inside look at the hobby of kings. These are just some of the features of the informative, entertaining, invaluable Red Book the world s best-selling coin price guide (more than 24 million copies sold). 2020 edition 464 pages Convenient spiralbound edition opens up to lay flat on your desk Full color 7.7 x 6 x 1.25 $15.95

Remeon's Quest is a prequel in the Realms of Chaos series.A young man struggling to forge his own path… A priestess forced to conceive an heir… A forbidden love…Captured in a sweep of beings from Earth to aid planet Remeon’s dying society, Jack is plagued by deep ceded deception and mind control from those on the planet who seek to dictate the end of life choices of their citizens.Sides are chosen as ancient magical powers thought to be long dead align to intervene in the fate of the two young lovers forcing a chain of events in motion that cannot be undone.Truths will be destroyed. Myths will find life. Whose ultimate power will reign?

Remeon's Quest is a prequel in the Realms of Chaos series.A young man struggling to forge his own path… A priestess forced to conceive an heir… A forbidden love…Captured in a sweep of beings from Earth to aid planet Remeon’s dying society, Jack is plagued by deep ceded deception and mind control from those on the planet who seek to dictate the end of life choices of their citizens.Sides are chosen as ancient magical powers thought to be long dead align to intervene in the fate of the two young lovers forcing a chain of events in motion that cannot be undone.Truths will be destroyed. Myths will find life. Whose ultimate power will reign?

A boy seeking adventure… A world that's dying… A war that may have no winners…Thomas longs to escape the drudgery of farm life, dreaming of adventure and running away from his demanding parents.Planet Remeon is on the brink of destruction, fighting a crippling disease that threatens to wipe out their civilization.Thrust into their world, Thomas is caught in the middle of telepathic mind games between the Day Watchers and the Night Dwellers.Alliances will be broken. Thoughts will be controlled. Will anyone survive?

A boy seeking adventure… A world that's dying… A war that may have no winners…Thomas longs to escape the drudgery of farm life, dreaming of adventure and running away from his demanding parents.Planet Remeon is on the brink of destruction, fighting a crippling disease that threatens to wipe out their civilization.Thrust into their world, Thomas is caught in the middle of telepathic mind games between the Day Watchers and the Night Dwellers.Alliances will be broken. Thoughts will be controlled. Will anyone survive?

Remeon's Quest is a prequel in the Realms of Chaos series.A young man struggling to forge his own path… A priestess forced to conceive an heir… A forbidden love…Captured in a sweep of beings from Earth to aid planet Remeon’s dying society, Jack is plagued by deep ceded deception and mind control from those on the planet who seek to dictate the end of life choices of their citizens.Sides are chosen as ancient magical powers thought to be long dead align to intervene in the fate of the two young lovers forcing a chain of events in motion that cannot be undone.Truths will be destroyed. Myths will find life. Whose ultimate power will reign?

A boy seeking adventure… A world that's dying… A war that may have no winners…Thomas longs to escape the drudgery of farm life, dreaming of adventure and running away from his demanding parents.Planet Remeon is on the brink of destruction, fighting a crippling disease that threatens to wipe out their civilization.Thrust into their world, Thomas is caught in the middle of telepathic mind games between the Day Watchers and the Night Dwellers.Alliances will be broken. Thoughts will be controlled. Will anyone survive?

Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan's Bushel examines agriculture. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three and his true epoch novel and unforgettable masterpiece. With a great story, and tremendous literary passion, it chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel.It covers the period between 1820 and 1870 and its dramatic march of technology. The plot concerns an ongoing war between two industrialists, one the hero who is beaten in the first generation and the other who is malevolent but wins the first round in the competitive drive. The struggle continues through the second generation, which leads to a titanic battle over whether steel or iron will triumph and why.Wrought iron is what made New Damascus tick and the two men who made it happen were named Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron is beloved but not a great businessmen. He had dreamed of the steel age but failed to make it happen. Enoch is a good businessman but dour and widely loathed for his miserliness and his treatment of others. A feud over a banker's daughter leads to the initial dissolution of the partnership, and the son of the resulting union, John Breakspeare, returns to New Damascus to enter the iron business.This leads to a fascinating repeat of events that causes another dissolution, this one more bitter and shocking than the last. The feud continues over iron and then over steel until steel wins the victory after many fits and starts. In the course of the story, the reader discovers how it is that technology has such a dramatic effect on society, and how risk and entrepreneurship are at the very heart of it all.Whereas this genre of fiction usually deals with real war, Garrett employs every literary device to make commerce itself the setting for great acts of courage, heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy. And as with his other books, the central mover of events here is the price system. It is the signal for and cause of the most notable changes in the plot. The reader discovers economics in a way that might otherwise not be possible, and it is hard to imagine that anyone could come away with anything but love of the whole subject of enterprise.Garrett does not portray the market as some idealized utopia. We have here the full range of human emotion and motivation at work: arrogance, pride, malice, love, compassion, jealousy, rage, and everything else. What is striking is that all these emotions play themselves out in a setting that is ultimately peaceful. No one can fully control how prices change, and it is these changes that act to reward virtues and punish vices.We also have here a realistic portrayal of the truth about innovation. It is not enough to come up with a good idea. That idea must be embodied in real production that takes place in a cost-reducing way, and then marketed in the service of society. The unity of technology, accounting, and marketing must all come together to make possible such things as technological revolutions.There has never been, before or since, economic fiction that can compare with the high quality standards set by Garrett in these smashing novels. The Cinder Buggy could easily be considered the best of his work in this area. It is a wonderful novel for anyone who loves, or wants to more deeply understand, American history, economic theory, and the place of technology in the molding of society. To search for Mises Institute titles, enter a keyword and "LvMI" (short for Ludwig von Mises Institute); e.g., "Depression LvMI"