Summary: Students can profit from the insight of women who have succeeded in the financial industry. This program profiles Charlotte Faulkner, a stockbroker who works closely with investment clients; Karen McMeekin, a market supervisor for the Montreal Exchange; and Josee St. Hilaire, a micro-finance advisor who helps provide capital to tiny start-up companies in developing countries. Interviews with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A newly updated edition of the dictionary features more than 200,000 definitions, as well as revised charts and tables, proofreaders' marks, synonym lists, word histories, and context examples.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 WEBSummary: The investment/growth cycle relies on synergy between government and industry. Module one of this program features the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development, which assists in the progress of low-developed countries around the world. Using Singapore's economic success as a model, modules two and three highlight two prerequisites for economic growth: political credibility derived...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Kendall, Joshua C.
Summary: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WebsterSummary: "This volume has been updated with the addition of about 275 new entries. Front matter and alpha sections A and Z plus back matter section on Punctuation supplied"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 423 MERHealey, Aaron.
Summary: Discusses the world of investment and its risks and rewards, including the different types of investments, each type's risks and rewards, and how they can be used to reach long-term financial goals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 332.6 HEAWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEISummary: From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 423 NEWSummary: In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores the turbulent and often harrowing years from 1945 to 2003. Emerging from the Depression and the Second World War as the most powerful metropolis on Earth, New York soon confronted urban woes of unprecedented proportions, and fought for its very existence. In exploring the social, economic, and physical forces that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: For every high-level executive or municipal official, there are an untold number of office workers in key positions that help them keep the wheels of commerce and government turning. In this program, an office manager, an executive assistant, a fitness manager, an accounts payable administrator, an insurance adjuster, a loan officer, and a court reporter describe what their work is like....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: During the late '90s and onward many countries fell victim to the repercussions of "hot money"-funds that were shrewdly managed for short-term profit in spite of their tendency to increase market instability. Economic meltdowns in Africa and elsewhere were so severe they eventually sparked humanitarian groups to call for cancellation of the poorest countries' debt. In this program Hazel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Money, they say, makes the world go around. But who keeps all those daily transactions moving, and how do they do it? Let a group of finance pros do the explaining with this program on the Finance Career Cluster! As your students watch, they'll discover that wealth management specialists, accountants, bank managers, and stockbrokers are all linked by one common thread: the management of assets....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: To know how healthy your business is you must understand the relationships between its assets, its liabilities, and its income.. The time to develop a banking relationship is before you need a loan.. If managing your business is a headache, it may be that your receivables aren't being managed properly; if you're on top of the receivables and you still have a headache, check your inventory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The Koran strictly forbids charging, earning, or incurring interest-a tenet that has kept the Islamic world from fully participating in global financial systems. But, thanks to a range of innovations, the ban is now seen as a building block in many of Asia's emerging economies. Visiting bustling commerce centers in Malaysia and Bangladesh, this program reports on the growing significance of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Stocks and bonds, money market and mutual funds, IRAs and Roth IRAs, CDs and annuities, and good-old-fashioned passbook accounts-this program helps students make sense of the many ways to save and invest money. With input from financial experts about the risks and rewards of each, the video defines terms viewers may have heard but not understood, such as compound interest, capital gains and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Malaspina, Ann
Summary: A simple look at how New Year is celebrated in some places around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.2614 MALJakes, T. D.
Summary: The author and preacher shares his three-tiered, Bible-based formula for personal success, stressing the foundational value of each "pillar" in a person's life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 JAKKelliher, Lauren
Summary: A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces careers in the financial services industry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 332.023 KELSummary: This program studies European exploration and conquest, beginning in the late Middle Ages and leading up to the emergence of the major colonial powers. Byzantium's fall in 1453 sets the narrative stage for Henry the Navigator's massive initiative to find new trade routes into Asia. Henry's nautical school at Sagres is described in detail, along with the voyages of Columbus, Gil Eannes, Vasco da...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Uhl, Xina M.
Summary: Learning how to save and invest for the future may seem complicated, but this volume simplifies this topic into manageable, understandable bits. While working and earning a salary may be best-known means of increasing wealth, other types of investments are discussed as well. This approachable guide goes through banking basics like opening an account, compounding interest, making deposits, using...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: 332.6 Uhl 2020Slesnick, Twila.
Summary: "When you retire, your taxes, and potential deductions, change considerably. Step-by-step ... [this book] explains all these changes in plain English, and covers the tax considerations of doing volunteer work, increased medical expenses, buying a boat, RV or second home, making charitable donations, paying for a grandchild's education, living off your investments, selling or renting out a home,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2008