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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Financial literacy is gaining and or accessing the knowledge that is required to optimize all the financial decisions you will need to make during your lifetime. By consistently making the wealth maximizing decisions, it will allow you to achieve your highest quality of life in the fastest possible timeframe." That is what this book is all about: living your best life as soon as possible and providing you with the knowledge and means to sustain that...
2) Budgeting
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Budgeting For Dummies shows you how to create a plan that fits your lifestyle, manages everyday needs, and builds your savings. Author Athena Valentine, founder of the Money Smart Latina blog, offers step-by-step details for creating and following a budget without feeling like you're depriving yourself and your family of all the things that make life worth living. This book shows you how to figure out where your money comes from and where it goes...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denies, findings...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"These days, the world wide web has become the Wild West. We are faced with a seemingly endless source of information, all of it difficult to evaluate. Trusted sources can be full of ads, bad actors can slip under the radar, and seemingly questionable databases might hold a helpful treasure trove. Historian Sam Wineburg and media literacy guru Mike Caulfield are here to help with this informative, approachable guide to navigating the internet. With...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making. Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blogger, teacher, and computer scientist Allen B. Downey knows well that people have an innate ability both to understand statistics and to be fooled by them. As he makes clear in this accessible introduction to statistical thinking, the stakes are...
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