This easy-to-read guide is filled with examples which show how to understand important principles regarding financial security. In addition to explaining how to increase income, net worth, and investments, Briles shares tips on the best ways to plan for children's college, buy a home, and prepare for retirement.

Sick of being left behind in the complex world of investing? Discover the path to financial freedom and success! Are you tired of not understanding how investing works? Do you feel left out when your peers talk about stocks and investments? Are you ready to take control of your financial future? What you'll find in this book: 1. Learn the evolution of investing and key milestones that have shaped the industry. 2. Explore the importance of making rational, data-driven decisions in the world of investing. 3. Understand different types of investment risks and strategies to manage them. 4. Gain knowledge on fundamental and technical analysis for informed investment decisions. 5. Discover strategies for building and maintaining a well-diversified investment portfolio. 6. Avoid common investing mistakes with behavioral finance. 7. Understand the role of macroeconomics in your investments. 8. Explore different types of investment options like stocks, bonds, E.T.F.s, mutual funds, real estate, etc. If you want to take control of your financial future and achieve financial freedom, buy this book today!

A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money—and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers, and for anyone interested in the future of literature, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing, Never Can Say Goodbye, and MFA vs. NYC.

Tells how to answer children's questions about money, financial planning, education, and budgets, and discusses allowances.

The Big Book of Astrology is your personal astrology guide to 2013. It's for anyone who wants to get a head-start on the coming year. Plan, organize and take advantage of the wisdom of the stars. It's your complete guide to the year. This in-depth information includes a yearly summary and month-by-month forecasts for every sign plus month-by-month highlights of your best days and off days. It's your ultimate guide to love, career and financial success in 2013. The Big Book of Astrology contains all you need to know about your personal horoscope for the year. Be prepared for the forthcoming year and discover how to maximise your opportunities and potential to make the most of 2013. This guide contains: a personality profile for each sign in love, like and lust as well as a career and money overview for each sign. How about knowing the dark side of each sign? Those hidden traits we'd rather sweep under the rug? Perhaps laugh and learn about the other signs and their not so charming characteristics. When it comes to romance find out about each sign's love and financial compatibility. Take a sneak peek into the lives of our favourite famous people. Are they really true to their sign or is the more going on we don't know about? Find out what is in store for you in the year ahead and the ideal days to attract love, money and success!

Get your children hooked on math! More than 60 hands-on activities suggest opportunities in daily life to learn math concepts. Fun but practical activities such as riding in the car, searching through a junk drawer, or playing a game together engage children in critical thinking and maximize their math potential. Follows NCTM guidelines.

Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better ones. Why does paying for things often feel like it causes physical pain? Why does it cost you money to act as your own real estate agent? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something now just because we’ve overpaid for it before? In Dollars and Sense, world renowned economist Dan Ariely answers these intriguing questions and many more as he explains how our irrational behavior often interferes with our best intentions when it comes to managing our finances. Partnering with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler, Ariely takes us deep inside our minds to expose the hidden motivations that are secretly driving our choices about money. Exploring a wide range of everyday topics—from credit card debt and household budgeting to holiday sales—Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how our ideas about dollars and cents are often wrong and cost us more than we know. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with tangible advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits. Fascinating, engaging, funny, and essential, Dollars and Sense is a sound investment, providing us with the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter, and ultimately live better.