creating a successful business from scratch -- naturally
Branch, Miko
When Miko Branch and her sister, Titi, were children Miss Jessie taught them independence while whipping up homemade hair care products at her kitchen table. Their father encouraged them to become self-reliant and not to use their looks to get ahead. Those lessons helped Miko and Titi create, from scratch, a successful multimillion-dollar international company that revolutionized the hair-care industry.
Explains the process by which good and services exchange hands, discussing how money it made, who receives it, how it is spent, and what happens to money once one uses it. Also reveals how prices of items are determined and how readers can save money.
Examines a variety of concepts related to the modern financial system from the stock market and interest rates to personal debt and the Federal Reserve. Includes diagrams.
the misinformation hidden in the little data you consume every day : why your gas tank isn't empty, you're not better than average, and Africa is bigger than you think
Johnson, John H
Explains how to understand the small pieces of data and information people consume everyday. Discusses the effects of misconstruing data in fields such as business, law, advertising, politics, engineering, and parenting.
A guide to preparing for the Advanced Placement economics macro and micro exams, featuring test-taking strategies, a review of topics, and two full-length practice tests with explained answers.
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail.
Presents an introduction to financial literacy and the factors that affect a country's economy, such as natural resources, population, geography, climate, wealth, and more. Includes index, glossary, and discussion questions.
