Saving Lives

Provides an introduction to banks and banking, including what the workers do, why customers come into banks, and explains what happens to old money.

This audiobook provides a small business scenario using a lemonade stand. Topics discussed include capital, gross profit, net profit, marketing, supply and demand, monopoly, and competition.

This audiobook provides an introduction to money, including the use of trading, and the origins of coins and paper money.

This audiobook describes how people pay for the things they buy by writing a check, paying with a debit card, paying with a credit card, and paying with cash withdrawn from an ATM.

This audiobook provides an example of children getting their allowance, and how they decide to spend, save, and donate their earnings.

You have spent a few decades working, earning a salary, and saving into company and personal pensions along the way. Now, retirement is approaching. How will you turn your savings into a salary to pay for essentials and - and nonessentials - in retirement? How will you make sure that you don’t run out of money in retirement? What do the UK pension freedoms mean for you? In this one-of-a-kind audiobook, personal finance experts Richard Dyson and Richard Evans answer these questions.

Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometimes 10 to a room without basic sanitation or access to education. After he contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired Waheed to dedicate his life to healing others. But how does a boy with nothing hope to become a doctor?

This is a story about our daughter Melody, her love of animals, her experience with and death from leukemia, and how she saved a loving surprise for me. Excerpts from Melody's journals and personal correspondence are included.

This audiobook provides an introduction to taxes, and discusses some of the products and services that citizens may receive including schools, roads, and national defense.

People spend money on food, fashion, and fun. But how can you spend money wisely? How do you figure out what you want to buy and what you need to buy? Money is a key part of our world, and knowing how to use it is especially important. Listen to this audiobook to learn how to save, to spend, and to build your own budget. As part of the Searchlight Books™ collection, this series sheds light on an important economics topic: How do we use money? Real-life examples will help you find the answers!

A practical plan for the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, Elizabeth White shows how to get past any blame or shame, overcome denial, and find a path to a new normal. Elizabeth White has...

This is the book for you. Designed for ages 6-12, this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide builds financial literacy progressively through five structured modules, ensuring kids develop financial confidence without feeling overwhelmed.

Dans cet ouvrage, nous clarifierons le phénomène répandu, dont beaucoup souffrent - les dettes - ainsi que sa racine, ses dommages spirituels et matériels, de même que la manière de s'en sortir, les bonnes et claires attitudes pour une vie de subsistance et d'économie adéquate, et nous expliquerons les voies permettant de sortir des profondeurs des dettes pour celui qui s'y trouve deja.

In the face of climate change and other environmental threats, this testament to Earth's resilience “makes a convincing case the natural world still has a lot worth fighting for” (New York Times bestselling author Paul Greenberg). As climate change continues to intensify, the outlook for...

For the first time since World War II, the newly opened archives of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State reveal the crucial role Pius XII and the Holy See played in efforts to save Jews from capture and death during the war.

The acclaimed winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, by the author of The Country Life Chronically confused, terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic, Agnes Day lives with her two best friends in the London suburbs and works at an obscure trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on...

From saving for a new bike to investing their allowance online, kids get the "cents" they need with this. Kids will also learn: How coins and bills are made. What money can buy - from school supplies to fun and games. How credit cards work. Ways to watch money grow - from savings to stocks. Cool financial technology. And more!

"Wink and Grow Rich" is the fable of a nine year old boy being raised by his carpenter father who is both sick and tired... In fact, he is tired of being sick and sick of being tired. Every day for the last twenty years the carpenter has visited the Well of Wealth and spent a dollar there, because it is generally known by the townsfolk that if they give generously to the Well, it will give generously to them in return.

Recent college graduate Stella Reynolds has sworn off men in order to focus on passing her nurse residency, but when she gets caught up in a steamy love triangle between a gorgeous new physician and the playful paramedic next door, her ability to concentrate takes a backseat to love and lust.

The summer I was 12, mowing lawns with Grandpa’s old riding mower turned into big business. With advice from Arnold the stockbroker, I learned all about making money.