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"Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health. Ramsey debunks the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance, rent-to-own, debt consolidation) and attacks the illusions and downright deceptions of the American dream, which encourages nothing but overspending and massive amounts of debt. "Don't...
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Melville House
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English
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"Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods-that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors-which lives on in full force to this day. So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom....
4) Maxed out
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Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Take a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive, it paints a picture of a national nightmare, which is all too real for most--Container.
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource
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English
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"Debt is neither good nor bad. It can become a big deal, however, if it gets out of control. It can mess up your credit, make landlords avoid renting to you--and it takes a long time to get debt off your record. In this tutorial, you'll learn about loans and strategies to manage debt. Building your knowledge of debt is not only in your best interest, it will eliminate headaches down the road." --
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"The Dorrit family, William and his three children live in the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. The youngest Amy, Little Dorrit was born in the prison. All three children are allowed to work outside and return at night to be with their father. Little Dorrit does sewing for Mrs. Clemens and when her son, Arthur returns from India, he helps get Dorrit freed from prison. When the family suddenly comes into money, all of them except Little Dorrit become...
7) Docile
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A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
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492 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"There is no consent under capitalism. Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy...
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Little thieves volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back--by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess...
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Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
2023.
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220 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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La Marie Kondo de las finanzas personales comparte un método que alinea tu salud emocional con la de tus finanzas, deja de lado las carencias y comienza a impulsar tus sueños.
Por siglos, a las mujeres nos han dicho que somos muy buenas para gastar el dinero en banalidades y caprichos hasta endeudarnos, pero somos poco hábiles para las finanzas: que los presupuestos son aburridos y que no vamos a entenderlos. Kumiko Love se enfrentó a estas creencias...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
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xii, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology--hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking...
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Covenant
Pub. Date
2015
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183 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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1812. Southern belle Meg Burton is her parents last hope of avoiding financial ruin, and a distant cousin's kind gesture seems an ideal solution: He will sponsor Meg for a London Season. The pursuit of a wealthy husband was not exactly how the bookish young woman had envisioned first trip abroad after all, what does a girl from Charleston, South Carolina, know about being a lady? Amidst the stunning gowns and extravagant balls of the ton, Meg feels...
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
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2 videodiscs (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.
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