Upon closer inspection, I believe the reviews were rigged.
The feedbacks look awful suspicious. Note that no positive reviews have have an identity, it just says "a reader". Secondly, the reviews have almost nothing to do with the contents of the book itself. The reviews are most likely an "advertising" ploy. Third, is the unusually high, "so and so found the review helpful" ratings. If you see my other review, you can see it is a bit more objective than the other reviews. I should have given a lower rating. I can't believe I was tricked into buying this book!

I purchased this book mainly because of it's high Amazon feedback rating. However, I was a little dissapointed. Although Starchild covers some good background history of precious metals, I felt his analysis was a little shallow. First, Starchild's argument that precious metals are a deflation hedge is controversial. Government's fixation of gold prices during the deflationary 1930's supported gold prices. Second, Starchild makes strong statements such as that silver prices can't go lower because they are already so low. Well just because something appears cheap does not mean it can't get any cheaper. We learned that during the tech stock meltdown. Lastly, Starchild has absolutely nothing negative to say about the subject. Everything is positive. There is no section covering pitfalls of owning or purchasing precious metals. I believe the volatility in precious metals make ownership of precious metals riskier than most investments and an assessment of risk needs to be addressed. Overall I felt this book did not a give a critical analysis on precious metals.

A great book on natural areas of florida that includes state, local, and national parks. When most of us think "Florida", we think of Walt Disney, Orlando, and Miami. This book is a guide that describes the other side of Florida - the unspoiled natural places. A must have for wildlife and nature lovers.

It seems as if Shiller, an Ivy league professor, is more interested in displaying his literary talent than writing cleary for the average reader. For example, beginning the third paragraph on page 144 under the topic, "Overconfidence and Intuitive Judgement", Shiller writes, "Economists Nicholas Barberis, Andrei Schleifer, and Robert Vishny have developed the representativeness heuristic into a theory of investors' selective overconfidence and into a psychological theory of an expectational feedback loop." What?! Many more places in this book are written just as abstractly. I'll admit that I am not an A+ English student, but if Shiller wants to get his point across he'll need to write his book for the average reader. The "Bear Book", by John Rothchild is more convincing and much easier to comprehend than Shiller's book.