Money

I have used this book with learning disabled children and they really get it! The book breaks down each task sequentially and uses real money and time images.The book also teaches the language of money and time. This is what you need1

My 7 year old son decided he wanted to do this workbook without any interference from me. He refused to even let me check his work.

I had my doubts, but he completed the book and gave it to me to look over, and he actually DID understand each exercise!

It is all laid out in perfect little steps that aren't too hard. The very basic information is given to the child, so he or she never gets confused.

I love this book and plan to teach all 6 of my children about time and money using nothing else.

This is one of the best workbooks I have ever come across -- and I'm a homeschooler, and I've looked at plenty.

I highly recommend this one!

Bright pictures, fun practice pages, but best of all the workbook moves slowly enough and has so many practice pages your child has a chance to master each new skill before moving on to the next. Many other workbooks move too quickly and don't have enough practice exercises for your child to truly master each skill presented.

A rare find in workbooks. Excellent resource for home-schoolers or children who need additional practice at home. Book is divided into easy to use color coded sections for each skill, time to hour, time to half hour, counting by pennies, counting by nickels, etc.

Slavery, the horrific system of enslaving "hue-manity", is brought to light in a vivid historical depiction in a new book entitled "Confederate Currency- The Color of Money".
The uniqueness of this 180 page artistic masterpiece is that it reflects the tragic saga of the African-Americans and their plight through this hellish injustice by artist John W. Jones, himself an African-American.
The book, which is published by New Directions Publishing, Inc. showcases the works of Mr. Jones' which was originally an exhibition of his works shown at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African-American History & Culture in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 2001.
Edited by Dr. Gretchen Barbatsis, with a foreword by Avery's curator Curtis Franks, and stellar contributions by Dr. Wilmot A. Fraser, Donald West, Jack McCray, and Richard Doty, this book takes on prolific importance by effectively demonstrating the consolidated strengths of the African-Americans' perseverance, dignities and enduring tenacities during this turbulent whirlwind of "hue-man bondage and frightful existence.
Mr. Jones' bold approach and artistic representations recreating the scenes of Black people pictured on the various types of paper. Confederate currency is a historically visual walk back in time for any and everyone to see what it must have been like to be a slave in the South. The scenes are explosive to the mind's eye.
These images of slavery in Confederate and Southern states currency as painted and depicted by Mr. Jones' brings to life a part of American history many people today may not know anything about factually, or may secretly tend to deny existed for whatever reason(s).
Noted historian Dr. Fraser in his contribution to the book, "Studying and Painting "Blood Money" In the New Millennium" cites, and very correctly, the skills and sensitive visions of Mr. Jones' artistic powers of observation, draftsmanship and colorful expression, and how they became crucial in extracting from the dehumanized engravings the essential humanity of their subject matter. After reading, few could argue with Dr. Fraser's astute observations.
The subject of slavery, no matter how "touchy" it may be viewed, is a terrible and ugly blot on the soul of America's historical legacy, and that's something n one can deny. But it's still history all the same, complete with the bitterness, both White and Black. It can't and won't be denied.
I find particularly interesting and timely the contribution "Slavery - A Global Perspective" by Professor Donald West. He chronologically details the history of slavery, which gives the reader of this book a background of slavery's rise and demise in the Western Hemisphere and the Americas.
When watching the various depictions of Mr. Jones in "The Color of Money", one can see that he's telling a definitive and all engrossing story at the same time. Slavery was hell, and it wasn't some glorious camp picnic jubilee for the enslaved African. It was torturously brutal and demeaning to the imprisoned colored brothers and sisters of hue-manity's spirits and souls.
The unquestioned skill of Mr. Jones as an illustrator and painter resonates throughout the poignant scenes brought to educational light and reflectional life. American Confederate and Southern history is exposed in this here-to-fore neglected medium called money. Black History apparently is everywhere - even in and on the currency of the Confederacy and South.
Like a twisted love theme gone very bad, "Confederate Currency - The Color of Money" says more about America than what many of its inhabitants care to admit. Maybe that's why the exhibit
"Confederate Currency: The Color of Money, Depictions of Slavery In Confederate and Southern States" is a smashing success as it travels the country on display in a various art museums and venues.
The artwork is strikingly crisp and draws the viewer into the spirit of the laborers cemented in the back-breaking rituals of Southern plantation life and work. Mr. Jones started these paintings more than four years ago after having enlarged a Confederate bank note for a customer at blueprint shop where he once worked.
That's where it started. After much research and inspiration, Mr. Jones realized the important history behind the vignettes of Blacks on Confederate and Southern money. Mr. Jones' awesome dedication and vision in producing these mid-19th century visual artistic statements say more to the enlightened masses searching for truth about the miseries of man's "inhue-manities" to man. This book tells what Mr. Jones reveals about the South.
Mr. Jones, in a telephone conversation with me last week from his studio in Columbia, South Carolina, told me that he felt that "The Subject of Blacks and slavery was very intriguing, and I thought that it was something that needed to be illuminated, especially about how they (Southerners) felt about us."
Another informational highlight of "The Color of Money" is numismatist Richard Doty's splendid and detailed breakdown of the historical origin of the overview of currency in America and not just the South. He insightfully gives the reader a full panoramic history of money and its relationship to people of color.
Journalist Jack McCray, in his contribution "A Look Through The Window of America's Soul", espouses in his view that the artist seeks to express the universal in the particular, elevate the mundane and ordinary to elegance, and seek the sublime in the ridiculous, which the art of painting is eminently suitable to demonstrate.
If that were the accepted norm for the average viewer of Mr. Jones' current artistic achievements, then "The Color of Money" as a book, in conjunction with the exhibition, has reached a pinnacle of unquestioned symbolic excellence because its essence speaks of informing and teaching the general public about the authentic truths of slavery in America.
This point was further clarified by Mr. Jones is our interview when he said, "I wanted to shed some light on that very difficult and irrefutable fact, and what the institution of slavery and cotton meant to the states. I painted the scenes in the book to show people, especially young people what slavery was about."
I highly recommend that you get a copy of Mr. Jones' book. It should be a "visual" must read. You and your family will receive an education about Americana you'll need to know and learn more about. If one is ignorant of his or her past, he or she will be ignorant of his or her future. "Knowledge is power."

I first heard of John W. Jones while listening to the radio in my car. While tuned to NPR on my lunch hour, I heard Mr. Jones speak about his life, his paintings, and his various jobs in the graphic arts field. This peaked my interest since I have a fine arts background and work in the same field. But what he said next was most fascinating to me. He told the listening audience that while enlarging currency to reproduce for a customer at a blueprint shop where he worked, he discovered images of slaves depicted on confederate money. As he told his story, I felt as if I was making the discovery as well.

How surprising to find out that slaves were documented pictorially at all, meant for circulation, in a historical context. So, how exactly were these enslaved individuals portrayed? Did this mean they were thought of as a commodity, equal to the trade of currency, to be bought and sold? Were they being more than objectified - were they actually meant to be shown as part of the money system of the South? Or were they being honored and glorified for their hard work, much like the American presidents we see currently? I doubted it. I had to find out more. I found myself on my own quest, just as Mr. Jones had been when starting his collection of confederate currency. I thought maybe he had a website I could review. So I promptly went online after my lunch break. It was there that I could see his paintings, and compare them to the currency also shown. What an excellent discovery on his behalf.

This really opened the door to further questions and I began discussing this topic with my peers. Not only was I curious about the historical aspect of these images, but on a higher level, I am interested in the notion that Mr. Jones chose to immortalize these monochromatic scenes from currency onto a colorfully painted canvas. Since I am a painter, I was able to appreciate his palate, technique, technical ability, form, and lighting. It is of further interest that the painting medium was used as a form of expression, of beauty, and allows those who frequent art institutions the opportunity to not only view a work of art, but also discover layers of meaning represented by the reproduction. These paintings are cerebral in nature, because I do not feel the back-breaking and brutal emotional trauma associated with being enslaved. Instead, I feel a sense of maudlin, tap-dancing showmanship, as if these men and women depicted are part of a theatrical, technicolor presentation. Because of the way they are portrayed, as if slavery is a superficial pleasure to serve, these images invite me to look beyond the cleverly painted picture. In a Post-Modern art context, these paintings are not strictly narrative, but seem to engage the viewer on many levels and most certainly provoke you to confront them. They seem fanciful and vividly illustrative. The men and women are smiling and heartily heaving bales of cotton onto their strong shoulders. However, the "pretty picture" you see on the surface reveals something much more complex and thought-provoking underneath. And at that moment, when one begins the realization that there is something beyond the image and associates it with the piece of currency shown beside the painting, one feels a sense of shocking discovery. And, upon further internal dialogue, this discovery and quest for meaning guides the viewer to a subtle yet powerful conclusion. One immediately derives an emotional jolt of injustice and inhumanity, and the appalling realization that it was acceptable to portray enslaved human beings as part of the Confederate economy.

I feel that this topic is a perfect venue for an art history course, and/or should be part of any history curriculum concerning slavery, the south, and African-American heritage. The catalog that accompanies this body of work shows how prolific Mr. Jones is, as page after page of paintings and currency details are shown. If you do not live in an area to where this show will travel, I highly recommend this catalog. I wish to thank Mr. Jones for educating me about a most important topic, through the medium of painting. His brilliant presentation shows us that historical data and the stories therein may appear in print not by word alone, but some of the most excellent discoveries are found by merely opening one's eyes.

Mary Karapontso-Dwyer
Artist

When I realized that slave masters had engraved black faces on their currency, I immediately thought about the couplet that slaves used to recite, presumably when the masters weren't around: "Ought's a ought, figger's a figger / All for the white man, none for the nigger." All of which suggests, of course, that contrary to the benevolent, great-big-family arrangement that southerners (mis)represented, the vast majority of the slaves were well aware of their exploitation. Though denied formal literacy, slaves proved to be quite adept at reading-and exposing-the cryptic signs that narrated the contradictions of plantation life. In a word, the poem inscribes the entire history of American slavery.
And yet, as W.E.B. DuBois pointed out, a mere twenty-five per cent of the population owned roughly seventy-five per cent of the slaves. How, then, as Malcom X once asked, could so few white people control so many black people? How, in other words, could the planters induce the majority of white people to support their system when that meant, quite literally, competing with somebody who worked for free? On a superficial level, at least, such a proposal defies all logic: There were only so many overseer jobs available, and everybody couldn't buy slaves and raise the funds to buy their own land or become a small merchant. Many therefore lived in abject poverty-in material conditions that were worse, in fact, than some of the slaves. So why couldn't they see that they were getting played? The ideology of race, pure and simple. The planters used it as a wedge to separate, and thereby antagonize, the two segments of the working class, so that they could more easily horde the whole bag of money. And what better way to promote white supremacy than to put the black face, as John Jones puts it, right on the money?
Like all forms of capitalist ideology (and I'm not referring here to an established political philosophy, but rather a series of assumptions and/or (mis)representations that people refuse to question), the black-face bank notes justify exploitation, saying, in effect, that it's natural for Africans to be slaves, since we all know they're not really humans... Besides, we treat our nigras (that's the official name given in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1798) good: See how happy they are! Such myopia, as black philosopher Charles Mills has pointed out, is indicative of the kind of misinterpretation that's endemic to white supremacy.
But if Confederate bank notes inscribe the entire history of slavery in the U.S., then John Jones' visual narratives not only expose its contradictions; they illustrate the very process in which racist ideology was constructed. Like a skilled blues virtuoso, Jones riffs on the black-face images, repeating them in bold colors strategically selected to suggest moods and/or tones. Which is to say, there's an antiphonal relationship between the bank notes and Jones' artwork. Oftentimes, as in "Slave Picking Corn," Jones lends vitality to the slaves by displacing the black caricature with realistic images of blackness: These are faces we actually see in our communities-fathers, uncles, cousins, brothers. At the same time, the ever-present smile that we see highlights the absurdity of the narrative that the bank notes try to tell. "Slave in Fancy Clothes" and "Slave Couple" both (mis)represent slave-life as luxurious; and again, Jones' brilliant artwork points up the stark contradiction in terms (slave/luxury).
Sometimes Jones' riffing is sweet and subtle. Take for instance "Slave Carrying Cotton," which appears on the cover of the catalog. On the bank note, the slave seems to be blissfully unaware of economic exploitation. But in Jones' revision, the worker's gaze is no longer directed away from the viewer: She's looking dead at us, and she is not happy. Her rough-and-tumble tough mood (which reminds me of Sojourner Truth) and the blue clothes that she wears suggest the philosophical response that would produce such blues women as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith who didn't take no mess (Bessie actually chased the Klan away from her tent). On other occasions, though, Jones' experimental revisions can be stunning. In "Slave Profits," Jones revises a bank note wherein Moneta, the Roman goddess of prosperity, has been engraved. While slaves work peacefully in the background, the goddess sits, smiling amidst bags of golden coins. But when Jones represents the goddess in "Slave Profits," he paints her as a woman of color, which not only symbolizes the sexual and economic exploitation that Al Fraser and Gretchin Barbatsis have discussed, but also America's steadfast insistence on narrowly conceptualizing the nation's culture in Eurocentric terms. In other words, Jones calls attention to the creolized nature of American culture by virtue of the many contributions made by African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.
Jones' work, then, challenges us to re-examine the past. Just as blues musicians often confronted and exposed the contradictions of the mistreaters in black communities, so Jones uses a blues aesthetic to recast the slavers' ideology in a communal (slave) song narrated visually. As such, Jones emerges as a secular priest, testifying to the hard-core realities of this heretofore invisible black past: Can I get a witness?

Well, I bought this book at 9pm one night and was finished by 3am the next morning. It is that good! I love the infusion of New Orleans culture; I love the upbeat, fast-paced story-line; I love the writer's hip and modern style. The legal thriller follows a young, hip, attorney, Nina Jones, who entangles herself in the hunt for a murderer, and the writer's fresh approach to a timelessly enticing tale makes it stand out among any other thriller I have read. If you like Mary Higgins Clark, if you like John Grisham, you'll be blown away by the captivating technique of this new writer. Guaranteed thrill!! Check it out.

Hot, Steamy, Fast-pace and an excellent read. What can I say. I know this is a first time author but the stuff was good.
The main character is a lawyer who starts off bad, and tries to do right but circumstances get in the way so she ends up back in the game. I can't wait until the author's next book come in.

This was an oustanding novel. A great mix of hip hop fiction and mystery.
Lawyer Nina Jones knows how to play the street game, but it turns against her. Her boyfriend is killed, the Mayor is on the shady side. When Nina finds Evidence she shouldn't have,she finds herself running for her life.

Create Money Now is a great book on investing! It was very easy to read and understand. The author uses new material and a different approach to investing.It's a can't miss! If you follow his lead you can't help but make money!

This book makes understanding investing simple! A format unlike any other book of its kind, the Author explains investing using characters and actually entertains the reader while teaching at the same time. I read it in one shot and will continue to use it as a reference when the need arises! This book will continue to pay for itself over and over again...A MUST BUY!!!!!!

This book is different than other investment books. It used a story line that I could follow easily. I learned things that I have not found elsewhere. The book paid for itself allready!!!

This book gives both practical information on a very popular and much needed self help program, Debtors Anonymous. The contributors tell their stories of hope and inspiration of what led them to get into debt and how they got out of debt. It also gives many suggesions for folks who are 'underearners.' People who underachieve and don't earn enough to live on or don't earn up to their potential. HIghly recommended.

A truly remarkable book full of hope and inspiration for anyone who is in debt and wants to get out. The stories of how others have done it offer so much encouragement while providing practical ideas to make the day to day decisions easier. It's full of examples of how reversing the debting dilemma changes other areas of one's life. A must read if you feel hopeless and helpless about your financial situation.

This program and this book changes peoples lives! It gives the reader inspiring stories of hope from people recovering from debt problems, bankruptcies, compulsive spending, and living in deprivation. The moving accounts of people turning their financial lives around in the context of this 12-step program truly shows how we can recover from compulsive debting. I have read this book numerous times and each time I am given another gift of hope. If you can't get to a Debtors Anonymous meeting, this is the best resource for you. Excellent!!

This book is exceptional! It summarizes everything that is happening in our business, what's coming next, who's doing what and what the resources are. I consider myself fairly in touch with what is going on in the profession, and I am learning something new on every page. It's applicable to running the business and to being a better financial planner. I hope Bob will rewrite it every few years to take into account changes as they occur. (And no, I'm not getting any kickbacks from Bob )

As we have come to expect from Veres' shorter writing formats, his first tome on financial planning is full of insight. I heard insight once defined as: the ability to see beyond the obvious, which is a perfect description of what Veres' shares with us in his new book.

Anyone who is serious about being successful as a planner, would do themselves a favor by reading this book.

I'm the author of The Cutting Edge, so I thought it might be helpful to let you know what the book does--and doesn't--have in it.

I'm a writer/publisher in the financial services world, and I write exclusively for financial services professionals. If you're a consumer, this is probably not the book for you. If you're in the profession, as a financial planner, insurance or investment professional, or as a representative of a mutual fund or other organization and want a quick, comprehensive read about what's going on with the professionals you work with, then you'll almost certainly find this book useful.

The Cutting Edge is a very compehensive review of the changes that the financial services profession is going through, what new services are being offered and how, new trends in managing a practice, shifts in the accepted wisdom about portfolio building and investments, and a section on how to get yourself out of the box and unlock your personal potential in a very demanding and competitive business.

Who am I? I run an interactive information service called Inside Information, which has about 2,000 participants. Every week, I discuss what we think we know about an important topic, and invite feedback. 95% of the participants WON'T respond, but those 5% who do (it's different every week) will have thought deeply about the subject, and will respond with thoughts, ideas and suggestions that I, frankly, would never have thought of. I capture this information, send it back to the membership, and suddenly we all know a LOT more than we did before. In a week!

I think this is the way all journalism will be practiced someday, as information is delivered through the interactive medium of the Web, rather than the one-way media of TV or print.

This book is an organized collection of the best thoughts and ideas and wisdom that has come through our Inside Information discussions over the past two years. It's the best guide you'll find to where the whole world of financial services is going, and I can say that with all due modesty, because all the credit (literally) goes to 2,000 great thinkers and successful professionals.

Thanks for browsing.

DaddyBank: How to Teach Your Child to Handle Money & Avoid Its Pitfalls by Gregory K. Brough (father of three and experienced financial consultant) is an impressively "parental friendly" and highly recommended guide written especially to help fathers and mothers to educate their children about fiscal responsibility. In a world where credit card companies encourage excessive spending and hefty interest payments, where inflation goes ever up, and the stock market is as trustworthy as quicksand, young people need now more than ever to learn smart money tactics ranging from the simple process of spending less than one earns, to comprehending how compound interest and financial investment returns work.

DaddyBank was easy to read, outlining simple steps to take in sharing the world of finances with children. As an expectant mother, I found this book helpful in preparing me to teach my children the fundamentals of understanding budgeting and intelligently spending and investing money. Not only that, but it taught me ways to change my own budgeting as well. I wish my parents had this book when I was growing up!

I really enjoyed this book since it presented great ideas to teaching children about managing finances in a very simple and easy to follow way. Not only does the book provide ways to teach children, but it also taught me the importance of getting my financial condition in order. So as I implement the ideas of DaddyBank with my family, I'm also working to get out of debt and exercising the self discipline needed to ensure a better financial future for all of us.

When I read 'Depression Proof Your Future' I realized it was a good primer for the general public to learn about financial and economic cycles and problems. Since this is an area I've not studied at all, it was an interesting overview of the story of economic downturns and problems. I am far more familiar with investing principles and financial management and Professor Horatio has some excellent strategies for getting out of debt, paring expenses, learning to be self-sufficient, and acquiring wealth. He's packed a lot of information into this slim volume, and the wise reader would do well to read this book several times in order to learn all the details offered. It's never too late to take control of your own financial affairs.

An interesting and insightful book. For anyone interested in their financial future, this is a must read. Gives quite a history of money and the depresssion and how to avoid financial problems in the future.

Depression Proof Your Future is a survival manual for the common man and a must-read for all in these troubled times. It should be given wide publicity because it is a clear exposition of steps we can take personally in order to safeguard ourselves in the event of devastating downturns in our economy. This book provides survival guidelines by carefully and lucidly drawing on both ancient and recent history of former economic collapses as well as drawing on economic theory to reach clear and compelling recommendations for the common man. It is written so well that it should become part of the general education of all people who need to demystify the pronouncements of the high priests of politics and economics. The book removes the mystery of economic cycles, currency, devaluation, inflation, and deflation through an effective use of examples that clearly depict the history of money, the actions of politicians and their capitalist allies responsible for the inevitable cycles of boom and bust, and ways in which the common man can survive the hard times ahead. Other themes explored include how our economy works, how to cope with runaway inflation, and the energy crunch.

I strongly urge reading of this powerful survival manual for the common man.

Turning No into Yes : Six Steps to Solving Your Financial Problems (So You Can Stop Worrying)
by Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine

This book demonstrates to the reader how you can look beyond your cash flow problem to the underlying issues, and then gives sound advice and principles in how to deal with those underlying issues.

In every case the path from no to yes is similar:
1. Determine your problem. Is the loan delayed because the banker doesn't like you, or because your income statement doesn't show enough in the asset column?

2. Make sure your dealing with one problem at a time. Don't try to rework your marketing at the same time that you trim your staff.

3. Focus on facts, Make sure that your own fears and worries aren't blinding you to the way things really are.

4. Become an expert. Immerse yourself in your problem; assemble all of the information you need to understand your needs and wants, as well as those of your opposite number.

5. Create an environment of trust; and, if you need to, Turn NO Into YES.

Now that you know the secrets to the authors principle, you should invest in this book and read hundreds of scenarios , ahowing how this technique can be applied in your life, and eventually become a piece of your self-worth fabric.

This book is like having a motivator, coach, and strategist at your home all of the time.

Highly recommend this book, and suggest you put it in your financial literacy library today!

I bought this book because I was familiar with the authors (I had read their books Die Broke and Live Rich which helped me very much). In the first part of the book, They explain the six step-approach to solve financial problems.I was really looking for a book like this one. We face many kinds of money problems every day. In the past I bought books about logical decision making and none is more useful and well thought than this one. Parts 2,3,4,and 5 give examples on how to use the method. I recommend to read these parts; they can be consulted in the future if are not needed at this time. Also by reading them, the whole concept is better understood and practically the six steps are memorized. Please do not think that you need to behave robot-like and use the entire six steps every time you face a problem. In my opinion,this book teaches that We need to approach every financial problem as much rationally as We can.And The more We try to do it the better We are going to become at it.

The book gives you straight answers on how to face challenges, financial and otherwise, that come your way in life: on the job and at home. I liked the examples the authors used; they were vivid and real. Bottom line is solve the problems you face and take responsibility for your actions.

Recommend this book in conjunction with another book on self direction and leadership I use called: "The Leader's Guide: 15 Essential Skills."

This new book by the Dolans will teach you everything you need to know about money from what to do about health insurance if you are laid off to hidden terms on your credit cards and how to buy the right kind of insurance.

No frills. No 1000 pages of frivolous information. No hawking certain insurance products and services. Just plain, good old fashioned advice that really works.

As my father's health is beginning to decline, my wife and I recently found ourselves facing the difficult task of talking with my parents about their estate and finances. No other book helped us think about the questions we needed to ask and the way we needed to ask them like "Don't Mess with my Money." Not only did we discover that they needed a new insurance plan, but we also learned about ways to make smarter decisions about our OWN investments. I couldn't believe how many resources were packed into this one book, and would recommend it to readers of any age, no matter what their incomes are.

This is a great overall guide to get your financial house in order. The car chapter is worth the price of the book alone--it helped me save big last weekend when I was renegoiating my lease agreement.

As a new dad, the chapters on handling family finance and insurance will prove invaluable. We often forget to revaluate our financial needs when we get caught up in a new arrival.

A great buy, a great addition to my libarary.

Thanks Ken and Daria, Im going to try to catch your radio show to see what other sound advice you have to share.