Money: Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Find, Save, Spend & Covet

Money: Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Find, Save, Spend & Covet
English | 336 Pages | Publisher: Chro.,.nicle Bo,,oks 2011 | ISBN: 0811870367 | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 23 MB

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.

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