The Little Books Of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town, USA, on their journey into business. In books 1 - 4, Cat, Emma, Max, and Nick each start their own business and learn key entrepreneurial principles and financial literacy lessons along the way. Now that they have developed their skills, they are helping other kids in the town do the same!Book #5-Meet Tim, the boy who turns his daydreams into coins. With the help of his twin sister Tori and family and friend...

The Little Books of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town USA on their journey into business. Cat, Emma, Max & Nick each start their own business and learn key principles along the way. This series is perfect for anyone ages 5 to 105 who aspires to be an entrepreneur. Book #3 - Meet Max England, the boy who turns his love of pets into a business. With the help of family and friends, he learns business principles like project management, leading a team and event planning. Le...

The Little Books Of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town, USA, on their journey into business. Cat, Emma, Max, and Nick each start their own business and learn key principles along the way. This series is perfect for anyone ages 5 to 105 who aspires to be an entrepreneur.Book #4 - Meet Nick Frank, the boy who turns his handyman skills into cash. With the help of family and friends, he becomes an apprentice carpenter and learns basic business skills like finding cus...

Devotions of Our Lord is a heartfelt, 52-week devotional designed to inspire readers to grow closer to God and discover His purpose in their daily lives. Created by Kurtis M. Williams, Holly Michelle Williams, and Maralee Grace Williams, this devotional is a testament to faith, family, and the power of God's grace during life's most challenging times.Kurtis M. Williams, who found the Lord during a period of deep personal struggle, shares how his faith blossomed whi...

The Little Books of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town USA on their journey into business. Cat, Emma, Max & Nick each start their own business and learn key principles along the way. This series is perfect for anyone ages 5 to 105 who aspires to be an entrepreneur. Book #1 - Meet Cat Casey, the girl who turns her grandmother's brownie recipe into a business. With the help of family and friends, she learns business principles like "cost of goods sold", mass production and...

The Little Books of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town USA on their journey into business. Cat, Emma, Max & Nick each start their own business and learn key prnciples along the way. This series is perfect for anyone ages 5 to 105 who aspires to be an entrepreneur. Book #2 - Meet Emma Mason, the girl who turns assisting her grandmother with paperwork, into a profitable business. With the help of family and friends, this young entrepreneur learns basic business concepts li...

We live in the silicon age, and the quintessential item that defines our world is the computer. Silicon chips power the computer as well as many other products for work and leisure, such as calculators, radios, and televisions. In the forty years since the transistor was invented, the solid state revolution has affected the lives of almost everyone in the world. Based on silicon, solid state devices and integrated circuits have revolutionized electronics, data processing, communica tions, ...

Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is d...

Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the first ethnographic study to examine the e...

While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of “Mexican Chicago” as a transnational social and geographic space that...

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implicati...

In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness res...