This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustration[...]

This reference, designed for the specialist and dealer, offers the most complete data to be found anywhere for small-size currency, organized and listed by specific series, including accurate population figures for each. The book also contains detailed tutorial information to guide the collector. La[...]

Presents a history of the Internet stock market boom and inevitable crash, focusing on the role played by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, Wall Street analysts, journalists, and policy makers.[...]

Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. "I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system" (Robert L. Heilbroner). Index.
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To those who don t speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. In How to Speak Money, John Lanchester author of the New York Times best-selling book on the financial crisis, I.O.U. bridges the gap between the money people and the rest of us. With charact[...]

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, "Enough" inspires and enlightens in equal measure. Bogle offers his unparalleled insights on money, values, and what the true treasures are in life.[...]

This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how until 1929 the papacy was largely funded by 'Peter's Pence' collected from the faithful, and from the residue the Vatican made its first cap[...]

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of"one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a[...]

Layfield knows what it means to be down to your last 20 dollars but turned his fortunes around using his knowledge of the financial markets. This practical guide passes on the benefit of his experience giving easy-to-follow tips that will enable readers to start investing and get out of debt.[...]