The Auction Revolution

A practical guide book of "MUST-KNOW" information for anyone who plans on buying or selling residential or commercial real estate by auction. Written by the president & founder of one the fastest growing real estate auction marketing companies in the nation, this entertaining & authoritative book combines the historical, theoretical & legal background of real estate auctions with an insider's compendium of anecdotes, case histories, practical tips, information resources, terminology, checklists, & strategies for potential buyers & sellers of real estate by auction. The author helps laymen & professionals alike understand why there has been an explosion of real estate auction marketing transactions in recent years initiated by government agencies, financial institutions, builders & developers & why some real estate experts are predicting that by the year 2000 nearly one-third of ALL real-estate transactions in this country will be by auction. Timely & up-to-date. Quantity discounts available. Hard cover or paperback. For information, contact GRP Press, 16835 Algonquin Street, Ste. 277, Huntington Harbor, CA 92649-4346; Telephone/FAX (714) 840-6757.

In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil ... Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war have led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a four-minute speech. Some say they did mass hypnosis. Others say it was their voice and will. Fifty years later in South Asia, KUSHA, a twenty-three-year-old machine-geek with social awkwardness and amnesia, tries to get the Devil’s Book with secrets of voice. But her idol of voice and everyone's beloved war heroes, YUAN and RUEM, are also after it for power. In a society that worships the evolved High Grades with voice, how you speak and which words you talk with is important. As someone who finds all solutions in books, Kusha thinks the secrets in the three-foot-long ancient book will teach her to speak mesmerizingly. She believes it will help her evolve. So, she decides to attend the auction where the book will be sold. But there's a problem; powerful High Grades want the book too. They want to code fate, rewriting the material world. They are undead, immortal mesmerizers. And being a philosopher, Kusha admires their ethics while she must fight them—the fight that starts with the book. The fight creates a chain reaction leading her to an epic journey. About the Series: THE HIGH AUCTION: WISDOM REVOLUTION is a book of genre-bending Adult Sci-fi-Fantasy series "The Machinist, The Monk, And The Mesmerizer Chronicles." Here, you'll find Metaphysical magic built around philosophy and spirituality. You'll find ancient mysteries, archaeological adventures, and, most importantly, you will meet some characters. Its inspiration was from myths/truth (read the word you prefer) of all religions where humans evolved to Sufis, Rishis, Sannashis, Monks, and sometimes, Gods. Example: Shiva Purana in Hindu epics where Sati evolved to Goddess Parvati and splits into Kali to destroy the evil is a prominent example. You'll find diverse cultures, sexuality, and faith in this series. Enjoy. What the Critiques and Reviewers are saying about it: "GEM PROSE ... YOU WILL FINISH THIS BOOK ONCE YOU START ..." "EXCEPTIONALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING ..." "RELATABLE ... YOU KEEP NODDING AT EVERYTHING ..."

Going....going...gone...The way we regard our possessions has completely changed.Until around 1960 the paintings, china and furniture around us were cherished for their beauty, their usefulness or their emotional associations.But a new dimension has been added: each work of art, however sentimentally important, now has a price-tag attached to it. And, more often than not, the value will be related to what the object would fetch at one of Sotheby's salerooms.This is not surprising. For the revolution is symbolised by one man, the late Peter Wilson, and by Sotheby's, the auction house of which he was chairman for twenty eventful years.He took the world's art market by storm and in doing so, enlarged our ideas of what constituted 'tradeable beauty' and enabled us to attach precise financial values to the contents of even quite humble homes.For Peter Wilson was that rarest of phenomena - a man who not only transformed a business, but also changed the way we look at the world.He lured a receptive public on both sides of the Atlantic into the belief that art, and only art, could provide investors with a refuge from the economic problems of the 1960s and the 1970s.Sold interweaves the story of Peter Wilson with the history of Sotheby's and of the art market as a whole, exploring the changes in the reasons why we buy works of art at all.Blending a mixture of historical research with the memories of those who worked with him, Nicholas Faith explores the ramifications of Sotheby's progress: its historic battle with Christie's; its take-over of Parke-Bernet in New York; and the way its saleroom in Belgravia helped revolutionise our attitude to the products of the Victorian age.Only now can the full story of Peter Wilson, and the revolution he initiated, be told. Praise for Nicholas Faith 'Faith gives his readers penetrating, sometimes disturbing and frequently amusing insights into... the art world itself. Sold should fetch attention from everyone interested in the art marketplace.' - KirkusNicholas Faith is a well-known financial and economic journalist and author. A Londoner, educated at Harrow School and Oxford, he was for some years Investment Editor of The Economist, and subsequently Industrial Editor of The Sunday Times. He is the author of twenty-three books.

A bold forecast of how the coming auction culture revolution will radically transform what, how, and why we buy Visionary entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff breaks the news that the eBay auction phenomenon is about to explode in a big new way, revolutionizing how all consumers-not just eBay mavens-do their shopping, not only online but offline as well. The big payoff of this revolution is for consumers: They will be able to trade up more often to buy the brands they most want by embracing a new norm of temporary ownership: We will be able to buy more of the things we really want, because we'll also be regularly selling off the things we no longer want or need. We'll be transformed from an accumulation nation into an auction culture. Consider this intriguing fact: In the new auction culture, Manolo Blahnik shoes, a Louis Vuitton handbag, a HermA]s tie, or a Bugaboo baby stroller will actually be the better deals. As huge as eBay has become-it is now the tenth-largest retailer in America-it has only scratched the surface of the potential for online buying and selling. In 2004, only 5 percent of all those who had bought something on eBay had also sold something on the site. But that is about to change-dramatically. Nissanoff reveals that a massive growth of online auction facilitators is under way that will make buying and selling online so hassle-free, so reliable, and so lucrative that the masses of consumers who have stayed away will jump aboard. Most prominent among the facilitators are dropshops, where you can bring your goods for sale and they'll handle the whole auction and shipping process. Thousands of such locations have opened in the last two years; they will soon be as pervasive as Starbucks shops. And that's only the beginning. Daniel Nissanoff, who is at the center of the revolution as the co-founder of one of the leading-edge facilitator companies, introduces the full range of services cropping up-dropshops, authenticators, refurbishers and repackagers, personal reselling assistants, and closet cullers, as well as a wide variety of online shops that lease products, such as the hottest designer handbags and the latest-model golf clubs. He also reveals how all consumers can take advantage of these services for optimal shopping satisfaction and how entrepreneurs can get in on the booming business opportunities. Even as the auction culture offers consumers and entrepreneurs a wealth of new opportunities, it will also pose serious challenges for retailers and brand managers. Nissanoff analyzes the challenges they will face and presents an ingenous set of strategies companies can employ to turn the challenges of the auction culture to their advantage. Nissanoff writes, Temporary ownership means just saying no to second-best and letting yourself reach for the things that will thrill you over and over again-guilt-free. Readers, start your auctions.

Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find the elusive McGarvey, all the while fending off men in her own Operations Division who want her job or her death. In desperation, Leon kidnaps McGarvey's closest friend, Otto Rencke, to force McGarvey's hand. Mac's meeting with Leon launches the most bizarre mission of his entire career that takes him from Cuba to Mexico City, to Spain and finally to an ancient site in New Mexico that the Spanish conquistadors called the Jornada del muerto—the Journey of Death. On the run from Cuban intelligence agents and blood thirsty Mexican drug cartel soldiers who will stop at nothing for a piece of the fabulous treasure, McGarvey struggles to decipher the truth buried in Leon's deception. This latest installment in David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series takes the former CIA director on another deadly international adventure in Castro's Daughter. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Addresses how social interaction forms the foundation to sale of art and antiques worth many billions of pounds each year.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications. It is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided the creation of the new spectrum auction designs. Aimed at graduate students and professionals in economics, the book gives the most up-to-date treatments of both traditional theories of 'optimal auctions' and newer theories of multi-unit auctions and package auctions, and shows by example how these theories are used. The analysis explores the limitations of prominent older designs, such as the Vickrey auction design, and evaluates the practical responses to those limitations. It explores the tension between the traditional theory of auctions with a fixed set of bidders, in which the seller seeks to squeeze as much revenue as possible from the fixed set, and the theory of auctions with endogenous entry, in which bidder profits must be respected to encourage participation.

Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social and economic change attributable to the French Revolution. Some historians have also claimed that the Revolution was primarily an urban affair with little relevance to the rural masses. This book tests these ideas by examining the Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Restoration attempts to transform the tenure of communal land in one region of southern France; the department of the Gard. By analysing the results of the legislative attempts to privatize common land, this study highlights how the Revolution's agrarian policy profoundly affected French rural society and the economy. Not only did some members of the rural community, mainly small-holding peasants, increase their land holdings, but certain sectors of agriculture were also transformed; these findings shed light on the growth in viticulture in the south of France before the monocultural revolution of the 1850s. The privatization of common land, alongside the abolition of feudalism and the transformation of judicial institutions, were key aspects of the Revolution in the countryside. This detailed study demonstrates that the legislative process was not a top-down procedure, but an interaction between a state and its citizens. It is an important contribution to the new social history of the French Revolution and will appeal to economic and social historians, as well as historical geographers.