The Munster Mash– We’re visiting 1313 Mocking Bird Lane when Corey LeChat gives us a tour of one of the greatest collections of Munster merchandise ever assembled. Many of these items have never been featured in print before.\nApemen down under– William Wilson has written a wonderful piece about this Australian line of Planet of the Apes knock off figures called “The Action Apemen”\nThe Expandable ones\- David Lockwood explores the stretchable superheroes and villains made by Funstuff in the early 1980s.\nHe\x27s Glump! He\x27s Glump!\- We talk about the weird world of dime\-store action heroes created by Durham from Yung Kung Fu to Glump the Caveman, it’s a comprehensive guide.\nSuper Amicis– A fun pictorial guide to this cheeky line of figures based on the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes.\nThe Toy\-Ventures Guide to the Mego Mad Monsters– This issue we take an exhaustive look at this wonderful glow in the dark figure line by Mego with input and anecdotes by Mego’s own Marty Abrams.

PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Issue 4 Munsters Mego

William Wilson

Brian Heiler

David Lockwood

Corey LeChat

Vincent Cerbone

PlaidStallions Press

What it is: Toy-Ventures is an old skool print toy magazine featuring toys and action figures from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s in a comprehensive manner. Each issue of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature collector guides, rare photographs, interviews, and articles by some of the toy experts in the Collector Field. it's a quarterly celebration of our childhood friends! Issue 6 continues our deep dives into the toy industry with some amazing and fun articles: Ultra Mask - Corey LeChat Unmasking the 70s Ultraman College Halloween costume series. S.T.A.R Wars - David Lockwood The Knock-Offs that defeated The Empire, the Ideal Toys Star Team. It's hard to defeat the Knight of Darkness. S’up Riches - Jonathan Sternfield Exploring the short-lived toy company Dimensions for Children and their line of Richie Rich Toys. Mego Planet of the Apes Part 2 - Variations of the Apes! We continue our ongoing coverage of the Mego Planet of the Apes line with this look at the wave one figure variations. Lost Land of the Lost - Brian Heiler Aw man, we could have had Sleestaks! A showcase of the 1976 LJN toy line that never was. Mall of Justice Moment - Alan Kaplan Spider-Man and Alan in Child World with a pile of cool Remco toys.

PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Issue 6 Star Team

Steve Moore

Johnathan Sternfield

Mike Armes

Mike Jimenez

Humor & Entertainment

Review\n"Fooled by the Winners by David Lockwood is one of the most intriguing, enlightening, and disturbing books I have ever read." 
-- Readers' Favorite\n"Engaging, lucid and thought-provoking. Lockwood will prompt you to rethink how you invest, run a company, diet, deal with siblings and tackle social issues. By the end of the book, you'll see the world through a different lens." 
-- Joel Peterson, Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, author of Enterprise Leadership and The 10 Laws of Trust\n"A fascinating and entertaining look at one of the most important sources of error in human judgement. I loved it and learned a lot." 
-- Gary Smith, Professor of Economics, Pomona College, author of Standard Deviations, What the Luck, and The AI Delusion\n"Lockwood's clear and brisk style breaks down complex issues...readers eager for a better grasp on complex mathematical principles or who enjoy big ideas will find this an accessible explanation of survivor bias and how it can cloud our thinking." 
-- BookLife by Publishers Weekly\n"Fooled by the Winners is a digestible and compelling social science text that uses a bevy of examples to urge people to reexamine the stories they've been told by and about society's winners." 
-- Foreword Clarion Reviews\n"An eye-opening account of an irrational mistake with broad implications...Lockwood sets out to provide an accessible introduction to survivor bias, one shorn of academic jargon and instead reliant on "concrete real-world examples," and in this he roundly succeeds. Further, he makes a compelling case for the ubiquity of the error, one that has far-reaching consequences, causing both sloppy reasoning and the opportunistic exploitation of individuals and groups." 
-- Kirkus Reviews\nFooled by the Winners will change the way you think about the stock market, health care, global warming, diets, lotteries, restaurants, and your siblings. It will reshape your perspective of the past and give you a clearer view of the future. 
Fooled by the Winners is a book about survivor bias, the cognitive error of focusing on the winners, the successes, and the living. But in many instances, we can learn more from those who have lost, failed, or died. 
After reading this book, you will understand how survivor bias is often used to deceive us. You will learn how to stop paying for financial services that promise more than they deliver, for health care that doesn’t make us healthier, for diets that don’t make us slimmer, and for advice books that don’t offer good advice. You will also come away with a different view of our past, including our perilous evolutionary journey and how history has often been written by the winners. You will come to understand how we are fooled by the winners in warfare, such as in the deployment of nuclear weapons and the most famous example of survivor bias―the missing Allied bombers of WWII. 
Previous studies of survivor bias have been inaccessible to most, housed in formula-laden statistical journals. But you won’t find any math or technical jargon here. David Lockwood, a former member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, applies the concept of survivor bias to specific, real-world examples―minus the equations. 
Through compelling analysis and the real-life stories, this book demonstrates the deceptive influence of survivor bias in our daily lives and on our thinking.

Fooled by the Winners: How Survivor Bias Deceives Us

History

World

Greenleaf Book Group Press

Outplayed&nbsp;will change how you interact with others forever. Outplayed: How Game Theory Is Used Against Us will show you the ways in which people try to take advantage of you and how you can stop them. It will guide you on how to structure incentives to get others to work with and not against you. It will help you determine when to cooperate--and when to compete. Outplayed is a book about game theory. Game theory is fundamentally about strategy and thus has applications far beyond poker, chess, or checkers. Game theory is part of our everyday lives, and it plays an important role in economics, finance, political science, and biology. After reading this book, you will understand how game theory is used against you. You will learn that the optimal strategy for a game undertaken only once is completely different from that of a game played repeatedly. You will come to know that if you want others to work with you, an Old Testament "an eye-for-an-eye" strategy is better than a New Testament "Turn the other cheek." You will gain a different perspective on the differences between males and females and why the strategies of monogamy and polygamy are the primary weapons in the "battle of the sexes." You will come to know why game theory sometimes determines who wins elections, and you will learn to question the assumptions behind the most important game currently being played--the game known as mutual assured destruction, or MAD, a deadly version of the prisoner's dilemma. Previous books on game theory were inaccessible to most, due to the high level of mathematical fluency required to fully understand them. But there are no equations or proofs here. Lockwood, a former member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, applies game theory to a broad range of topics and real-world examples without the formulas. Through concise analysis and real-life stories, you will come to understand that the interests of individuals and groups are frequently not aligned, and you will understand how individuals use game theory against others. But once armed with a knowledge of game theory, there is no reason to be outplayed again.

Outplayed: How Game Theory Is Used Against Us

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Greenleaf Book Group

THE COMING OF AGE

Three Peaks Press

Calcutta under Fire: The Second World War Years

Literature & Fiction

Rupa Publications India

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