Author: Robert D. Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780794822897
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is money? We use it every day without giving it a thought. But money isn't limited to coins and paper. It includes a wide range of so-called primitive or traditional currency, surrogates for cash, and even things that are quite invisible. Join award-winning author Robert Leonard as he trots the globe exploring the development of money from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. You'll find a treasure trove inside this colorful, entertaining and authoritative book: gold, silver, and blocks of salt ... elephant tails, Yap stones, and chocolate bars ... iron nails, whale teeth, human skulls, and hundreds of other pieces of odd and curious money. Each has a fascinating story. Each holds a lesson for anyone who earns, spends, or collects money today. Book jacket.
Curious Currency
Author: Robert D. Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780794822897
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is money? We use it every day without giving it a thought. But money isn't limited to coins and paper. It includes a wide range of so-called primitive or traditional currency, surrogates for cash, and even things that are quite invisible. Join award-winning author Robert Leonard as he trots the globe exploring the development of money from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. You'll find a treasure trove inside this colorful, entertaining and authoritative book: gold, silver, and blocks of salt ... elephant tails, Yap stones, and chocolate bars ... iron nails, whale teeth, human skulls, and hundreds of other pieces of odd and curious money. Each has a fascinating story. Each holds a lesson for anyone who earns, spends, or collects money today. Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780794822897
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is money? We use it every day without giving it a thought. But money isn't limited to coins and paper. It includes a wide range of so-called primitive or traditional currency, surrogates for cash, and even things that are quite invisible. Join award-winning author Robert Leonard as he trots the globe exploring the development of money from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. You'll find a treasure trove inside this colorful, entertaining and authoritative book: gold, silver, and blocks of salt ... elephant tails, Yap stones, and chocolate bars ... iron nails, whale teeth, human skulls, and hundreds of other pieces of odd and curious money. Each has a fascinating story. Each holds a lesson for anyone who earns, spends, or collects money today. Book jacket.
The Footnote
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674307605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674307605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
Money in Classical Antiquity
Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453372
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453372
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston ...
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Bulletin [1908-23]
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange
Author: William Stanley Jevons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Choice, Useful, and Curious Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description