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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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"When Freakonomics was first published, the authors started a blog--and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. Now they've gone through and picked the best of the best. Here, they ask a host of typically off-center questions: Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken?.--From publisher description....
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An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expert
To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond in his globetrotting book. From a prison in rural Louisiana, where inmates purchase drugs with prepaid cash cards, to the poorest major city on earth, where residents buy clean water in plastic...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 74 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Español
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Gloria is one of the 700,000 Spanish people who have left Spain since the economic crisis started. The film portraits the experience of intra-European exiles tackled by Spain’s highest-profile female director, Icíar Bollaín (Even the Rain, Take My Eyes). Gloria is a 32 year old native of Almería Spain. A teacher without a posting, and a shop assistant in an Edinburgh store for the past two years. Gloria has set up a collective with the motto...
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Raise Capital on Your Own Terms. How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul. You're an entrepreneur-you want to be your own boss, life a live you love, and do something great. But businesses need money, so you max out your credit cards, take out a second mortgage, and maybe even drive for Uber at night. You do everything yourself and on the cheap. Why? Because you think the only alternative is to make a devil's bargain with some venture capitalist...
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Robert Irvine knows a thing or two about business. For over 200 episodes of Food Network’s hit show Restaurant: Impossible, he’s helped failing entrepreneurs make the necessary changes to reverse course and transform their businesses from the brink of collapse to sustainable enterprises. And he doesn’t just talk a good game; Irvine is a successful entrepreneur himself with a family of companies to his credit, from frozen foods and liquor to...
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What if there were one book that could help you do nearly everything in life cheaper, better, and faster? Show you how to remove hairspray baked onto a curling iron. How to make white shoes look like new. How to make gourmet coffee without the gourmet price. How to keep your cat out of your houseplants. And hundreds of other things. Cheaper, Better, Faster is all the best advice you've ever heard, collected into one handy volume. Every tip is short,...
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Young Money4 Proven Actions to Design Your Wealth While You Still CanBeing young is the ultimate advantage when it comes to building wealth. It may not seem like it when you look at your student loan debt or when the rent comes due, but you have a huge amount of a priceless resource: time. You just need to know what to do with it. Rising-star financial advisor Dasarte Yarnway offers a simple four-step mastery approach anyone can follow to become a...
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A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers.
Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire-and did-for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch...
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¿Te gustaría ahorrar dinero?
¿Quiéres generar ingresos?
¿Quieres una guía monetaria fácil de seguir?
Mejorar sus finanzas o ahorrar para los días díficiles es a menudo un propósito de año nuevo, si es uno de los suyos o si no lo ha cumplido antes, ahora es el momento perfecto para hacerlo posible con este manual monetario en solo 30 días.
Todos los días por 30 días y con solo una hora al día puede empezar aprender cosas como:
Ahorrar...
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The Wealth of Nations is a powerhouse of knowledge that was first published in 1776. Adam Smith was an astute Scottish professor of moral philosophy, and he expounded the revolutionary doctrine of his time to economic liberalism.
The importance of the book was almost immediately recognized by his peers who admired his thought and progressive ideas.
The Wealth of Nations is comprised of five volumes/books in one. Perfect for class study or improving...
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Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence,...
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"Ibarra (INSEAD) upends traditional, introspective advice and says act first, and then change your way of thinking, [providing] the first practical guide on how to change when you also need to lead. Defying standard leadership development guidance, which encourages deep self-reflection into strengths and weaknesses, this book shows that the most effective way to change is through action, not analysis, and by learning from experience, not introspection....
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¿Les gustaría hacer que su dinero fructificara y no saben cómo hacerlo? ¿Les gustaría volverse buenos inversores pero no tienen los conocimientos adecuados? ¡Ya no tienen excusas! Esta guía está diseñada justo para aquellos que quisieran dar los primeros pasos en este campo sin arriesgarse a perder su capital. Invertir en el crédito al consumo en la Unión Europea con una ganancia del 20% es una oportunidad que nació hace poco años en...
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It can at times feel like everything is falling apart. And there is a reason for this. It really is. We can either see this as an end or a beginning. In this uplifting and essential guide to a bewildering future, Neil Gibb claims that we are witnessing the birth of a new world, in which passive consumers are being replaced by active participants. We are at one of those rare points in human history, he argues, when a whole way of thinking is on the...
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In The Impossible Turned Possible, Carolyn Chism Hardy provides a roadmap to plan one's journey to the life they deserve with a simple 5-step process.
The Impossible Turned Possible is a step-by-step guide acting as a virtual assistant to help every step of the way. The real-life experiences discussed within challenge and inspire readers to achieve their personal goals. The inspirational stories act as the 'kick in the pants' many need in order to...
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Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?
When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we?
In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that...
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We weigh every significant decision based on how it will affect our future. But when it comes to figuring that out, we mostly make the process up as we go along. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer a simple, systematic way to make much better guesses about it—and so make better decisions.
Neuwirth offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to using the powerful concept of Present Value—which...
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