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Book Harriet Brooks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1992-02-07
  • ISBN : 0773563180
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Harriet Brooks written by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-02-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After completing a master's degree at McGill University under Rutherford's tutelage, Brooks continued her post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College and Cambridge University, eventually returning to McGill to work again with Rutherford. In 1904 she left Canada to work at Barnard College in New York City, and then with Curie in Paris. Brooks had a significant career as a nuclear scientist, but her success was hampered by the fact that she was a woman. She eventually married and left research. Her premature death at age fifty-six was probably related to her work with radiation.

Book Canadian Government Paper Money

Download or read book Canadian Government Paper Money written by R. J. Graham and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada Close Up  Canadian Money

Download or read book Canada Close Up Canadian Money written by Elizabeth MacLeod and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything kids need to know about money. Money. We use it every day. But why do we need it? How do we make it? And where did it come from? In Canadian Money, simple concepts about the use of currency are explored -- from early days of bartering to today's Royal Canadian Mint coins and Bank of Canada notes. Included in this informative book are chapters on: how and when the world began using money the money used by First Nations people how money is printed and minted how bills are circulated, how long they last and how they are disposed of concepts surrounding spending money: credit cards, debit cards, etc. Canada Close Up titles are informative works of non-fiction geared toward seven- to nine-year-olds. Each book contains an introduction, table of contents, glossary, and full-colour photographs and illustrations throughout.

Book The Little Black Book of Scams

Download or read book The Little Black Book of Scams written by Industry Canada and published by Competition Bureau Canada. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

Book Money and Banking in Canada

Download or read book Money and Banking in Canada written by Edward Peter Neufeld and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1964 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Global Findex Database 2017

Download or read book The Global Findex Database 2017 written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Book Happy Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Dunn
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-05-14
  • ISBN : 1476740704
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Happy Money written by Elizabeth Dunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?

Book Fragile by Design

Download or read book Fragile by Design written by Charles W. Calomiris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.

Book La Montagne Secr  te  English

Download or read book La Montagne Secr te English written by Gabrielle Roy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ODYSSEY OF A VISIONARY YOUNG ARTIST IN QUEST OF ARTISTIC PERFECTION TAKES HIM ACROSS CANADA'S NORTHLAND, AND TO PARIS. EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAUTY OF UNSPOILED NATURE AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

Book Lying for Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Davies
  • Publisher : Scribner
  • Release : 2021-03-09
  • ISBN : 1982114932
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Lying for Money written by Dan Davies and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field. The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what’s theirs. In Lying for Money, veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies’ Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four categories (“long firm,” counterfeiting, control fraud, and market crimes) and operate on the same basic principles. The only elements that change are the victims, the scammers, and the terminology. Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit and explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy.

Book Currency Features for Visually Impaired People

Download or read book Currency Features for Visually Impaired People written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-02-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee on Currency Features for the Visually Impaired evaluated features that could be incorporated in the production of U.S. banknotes that would enable blind and visually disabled people to more easily determine the denomination of a banknote. This volume describes several features and the assessment methodology used to determine which features could be recommended for inclusion in the short term, which could be recommended for research and possible inclusion in future currency redesigns, and which features were impractical for use in U.S. banknotes. Also included is an outline of the various types of visual disabilities that impair an individual's ability to denominate banknotes. Recommended features and areas of research are described in detail. Banknote and other security document producers, and people interested in addressing needs and opportunities for visually disabled people in the United States will find this book useful.

Book The Theory of Free Banking

Download or read book The Theory of Free Banking written by George A. Selgin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Book Chemical Valley

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Huebert
  • Publisher : Biblioasis
  • Release : 2021-10-19
  • ISBN : 1771964480
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Chemical Valley written by David Huebert and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction • A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist • A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist • A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021 Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world. From refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley’s compassionate and carefully wrought stories cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley doesn’t shy away from urgent modern questions—the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the place of technoculture in this ecological spasm—but grounds these anxieties in the vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters’ lives. Swamp-wrought and heartfelt, these stories run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.

Book The Canadian Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1997-09-01
  • ISBN : 1554883172
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Canadian Style written by Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people – in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, spelling, the use of capital letters, punctuation and frequently misused or confused words. It deals with letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. It also gives techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text.

Book The 2001 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money  Modern Issues 1961 2001

Download or read book The 2001 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money Modern Issues 1961 2001 written by Colin R. Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ninth edition of one of the most comprehensive references for modern world paper money includes current market values for more than 10,600 notes in three grades of condition and over 7,200 photos and illustrations. 8-page color insert.

Book Canadian Money Activities Grades 1 3

Download or read book Canadian Money Activities Grades 1 3 written by Demetra Turnbull and published by Money Activities. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Support the mastery of money concepts! Practice pages will develop key skills such as recognizing Canadian coins and bills, making change, and learning money equivalences.

Book The Canadian Banking System

Download or read book The Canadian Banking System written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: