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Money
Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Save, Spend, and Covet
- Chronicle Books
- by Sandra Choron & Harry Choron
This entertaining and information-packed miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world. Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia about forgotten financial catastrophes and famous bank robbers, the history of bankruptcy and ancient money gods, wacky cash-related slang and get-rich-quick schemes for the ages. Witty and comprehensive, Money explores the one subject that really makes the world go round.
ISBN 9780811870368 | E | PB+
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| Publisher | Chronicle Books |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9780811870368 |
| Author(s) | Sandra Choron & Harry Choron |
| Publication date | February 2011 |
| Edition | Paperback with flaps |
| Dimensions | 203 x 177 mm |
| Illustrations | throughout bw.ill. |
| Pages | 336 |
| Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
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Ever made a fast buck? How about traded cowrie shells for a bride or paid for gum with a $10,000 bill? This entertaining and information-packed miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world. Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia about forgotten financial catastrophes and famous bank robbers, the history of bankruptcy and ancient money gods, wacky cash-related slang and get-rich-quick schemes for the ages. Witty and comprehensive, Money explores the one subject that really makes the world go round.