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  • Money in One Lesson

    How it Works and Why

    by Gavin Jackson ...
    'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpMoney is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires. Few innovations have had such a huge impact on the development of humanity, but money is a shared fiction; a story we believe in so long as others ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Teaching through the Archives

    Text, Collaboration, and Activism

    by Katherine E. Tirabassi, James P. Beasley, Jennifer Enoch, Travis Maynard, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, Megan Keaton, Shirley K Rose, Robert Spindler, Glenn Newman, Jenna Morton-Aiken, Robert A. Schwegler, Erin Brock Carlson, Michelle McMullin, Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, Laura Kissel, Laura Proszak, Ellen Cushman, Michael-John DePalma, Janice W. Fernheimer, Sarah M. Dorpinghaus, Beth L. Goldstein, Douglas A. Boyd, Courtney Rivard, Jeanne Law Bohannon, Shiloh Gill Garcia, Michelle S. Hite, Tiffany Atwater, Holly A. Smith, Andrea Jackson Gavin, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Katherine H. Adams, Lisa Mastrangelo, Lisa Shaver, Associate Professor Jane Greer, BA, MA, PhD, Associate Professor Patricia A. Sullivan ...
    Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Book of Decamot

    by Stanley Jackson, Gavin Jackson ...
    This ingenious book tells the story of how a simple family game based on telling a story using ten unconnected words grew into a unique creative writing programme. Packed with illustrative stories and screenplays, it will entertain and inspire you in equal measure as you discover that Decamot can be used to cure writers block, promote collaborative writing, and enhance typical book club activities ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Money in One Lesson

    How it Works and Why

    by Gavin Jackson ...
    Narrated by James Macnaughton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does money actually work?Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines. Central banks have launched extraordinary policies, like quantitative easing or negative interest ... Read more

    $16.37 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance

    Hacking the Future of Money

    by Brett Scott ...
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  • Economics for Everyone

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    Edited by Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson ...
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  • The Ethics of Emerging Media

    Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

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