An overview of 20 different fortune-telling methods.

Many different fortune-telling methods have evolved down through the centuries, and virtually all of them are explored in this fact-filled, color-illustrated, how-to book. Readers will find a wealth of practical hints and tips on how to use all techniques described by the author. They’ll discover the many ways to tell fortunes and come up with intriguing results. Fortune telling’s origins and diverse histories are also reviewed, along with information on interpreting dreams, dowsing, throwing dice, tea-leaf reading, and understanding popular superstitions. Separate sections focus on: Western Astrology, Chinese Astrology, Tarot Reading, Palm Reading, Ouija Boards, Numerology, Crystal Balls, and more. Here is a perfect introduction for beginners, and a source of inspiration for seasoned lovers of fortune telling. Hundreds of color diagrams and illustrations.

This step-by-step guide to reading fortunes reveals trade secrets from a psychic's private files, offering instruction for predicting future events. Learn from an expert astrologer how to prepare a room for conducting readings, how to use handwriting analysis to zero in on a person's character, and how numerology may aid in performing annual predicitons. Palm and Tarot reading are explained in depth. The Fortune-Telling Handbook also features exercises to help the reader develop proficiency in each of these classic divination arts, along with space to record the results.

A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.

Hardened skeptics and true believers alike will delight in this one-volume presentation of two timeless references of the occult. Zadkiel's dream book offers a dictionary-style guide to interpreting your nighttime visions: To dream of standing in a carpeted room "denotes advancement to a state of riches," but watch out for mice, which indicate "many intermeddling enemies and slanderers"! Sibly's handbook on fortune telling promises "never-failing means for ladies to obtain good husbands, and husbands good wives" and reveals the secrets of astrology, physiognomy, palmistry, and other arts of divination.Londoner RICHARD JAMES MORRISON (1795-1874), aka Zadkiel, was among the first pop astrologers. His annual yearbook, first called The Herald of Astrology and later Zadkiel's Almanac, began publication in 1830 and was the first work in the field to appear in editions of tens of thousands of copies.English physician, alchemist, and astrologer Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1800) also wrote A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences and The Complete Illustration of the Celestial Art of Astrology.

Unlock the sects to creating a wonderful career as a professional psychic reader! Author Valentina Burton leads you step by step through everything you will need to know, and illustrates each chapter with hilarious true stories. This book is an incredible resource of tips and tricks, plus clear, straightforward advice from a famous professional psychic reader. If you have ever considered divination as a career, or if you are a psychic reader who has found success elusive, this book is for you!

Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo Rebonato makes in Plight of the Fortune Tellers--and coming from someone who is both an experienced market professional and an academic, this heresy is worth listening to. Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning, and he shows us how to do it using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. This is the only way to effectively manage financial risk in a manner congruent with how human beings actually react to chance. Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about probability in financial-risk management. Risk managers have become obsessed with measuring risk and believe that these quantitative results by themselves can guide sound financial choices--but they can't. In this book, Rebonato offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution, one that seeks to remind us that managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty. Plight of the Fortune Tellers is not only a book for the decision makers of Wall Street, it's a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. The stakes have never been higher--can you risk it?