Business And Economics category: 269 books

Making money takes hard work and determination. Readers will learn some of the basic skills for earning and saving money through moneymaking projects, entrepreneurship, patents on their own creative ideas, and fund-raising. With an emphasis on mathematic concepts such as interest and percentage, readers...

Through vibrant, lively images in conjunction with clear, Spanish-translated text, young readers learn the principles to saving and spending money. Readers are introduced to and encouraged to find the difference between what they need and what they want, and how to make wise choices based on those concepts.

Saving and spending are building blocks of the economy. Readers will learn about various sources of income as well as concepts such as how saving a little at a time can eventually add up to a lot of money. This informational text explains ideas such as keeping track of expenses, financial goals, budgeting,...

Saving and spending are building blocks of the economy. Readers will learn about various sources of income as well as concepts such as how saving a little at a time can eventually add up to a lot of money. This informational text explains ideas such as keeping track of expenses, financial goals, budgeting,...

Discover the different ways that people spend, save, and budget their money. Readers are introduced to important personal financial aspects such as savings accounts, putting together a budget and budget analysis, credit and debit cards, and taxes. Through informational text, vivid photos, and helpful...

Jobs and Money uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The book provides the earliest of readers a background in the relationship between jobs and money. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.

Money and Value uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The book provides the earliest of readers a background in the value of money. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.

For a few years in the mid-1990s, a small music label called Death Row stood atop the hip-hop world. Death Row Records was instrumental in introducing a hard-core style of rap music known as "gangsta rap" to mainstream audiences. Albums like Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle, and...

Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation.  As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard.  Eventually, he learned the secret to mass-producing milk chocolate and the recipe that gave it a longer, more stable shelf...

Documentary Film guides students as they conceive and create their own documentary film for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal...

Money can be paper or metal, can come in dollars, euros, pesos, or one of many other forms of currency, and can be used to pay for goods and services. Explanations of topics such as how we determine value, what exactly capital is and how it relates to money, and more are examined through accessible...

The sooner you learn how to avoid identity theft, the better. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that as many as one in every eight adults and one in every four households has been victimized by identity thieves in the past five years. To make matters even worse, if you end up a victim of identity...

Young readers will learn about trading and buying goods and services in this Spanish-translated nonfiction e-book. Readers will also learn to understand the differences between wants and needs. Featuring primary source photography and helpful text features such as a glossary, table of contents, and index, this informational text will improve content-area literacy in social studies.

Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, the fabulous fortune that Americans had built in stocks plunged with a fervor never seen before. At first, the drop seemed like a mistake, a mere glitch in the system. But as the decline gathered steam, so did the destruction. Over twenty-five billion...