Engage: Designed for the needs of the Entry 3/Level 1 learner in full colour, with a spread-based approach, and topics broken into clear, bite-sized chunks to retain learners' attention. Lively activities, mini case studies and clear checklists and summaries help learners engage with - and remember - content. Achieve: Extensive coverage with 11 Level 1 units and 2 Entry Level 3 units - enough for a Level 1 Diploma - so learners can be confident they have the content they need to achieve their qualification. Edexcel's own Assignment tips, written by BTEC experts, help learners to achieve their potential in assessments. Activities mapped to the assessment criteria in each unit, provide support and clear direction for learners, helping them to work towards the criteria. Progress: Prepares learners for employment with a focus on employability skills and learning through work contexts. Helps learners progress to BTEC Level 2 First by building their confidence with the style of BTEC qualifications.

Edexcel's resources are appropriate for GCSE Business students on both the modular GCSE course certificated in 2012 and 2013, and the linear GCSE course certificated from 2014.

The complete solution for applied learning from Edexcel. Edexcel's own student book for GCSE in Applied Business will help deliver the concepts and theory that students need in an engaging, accessible and - above all - strongly applied way. This full-colour book covers all the course content so students can focus on exactly what they need to know. Up-to-date case studies from a range of sectors and companies bring a work-related feel to lessons and support students in relating theory to practice. A dedicated assessment section for each unit provides tips on planning and starting revision, revision checklists and exam questions with model answers. These will help students to prepare for assessment with confidence and get the results they want.

Danielle's Exciting Book for Enterprising Young People Reveals the Secrets to Business Success * Lower your risks while getting better results by learning how to "Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan." * Establish credibility with potential customers, even lenders and investors, by creating a solid business plan they will respect. * Learn the language of business to look and sound like a Pro. This book reveals the secret meaning of all the business jargon and terms, and makes them easy for you to understand. * Have all the paperwork laid out for you on a platter: business forms, invoices, agreements... This books offers templates and makes them easy to use. * Learn insiders' secrets that will give your business a quick boost. Learn about business etiquette, the World Wide Web and many other topics that will give you an edge and put your business on a stellar course

This series aims to introduce and familiarise students with the basics of the world financial system. From economic basics and stocks, shares and other investments, to globalization and the economic cycle, these books will help demystify the topics that money can bring.

Money is a fascinating symbol, because it's the premier unit of exchange of goods and services. Even mundane decisions like choosing between driving or taking a bus to work, getting a credit card, or buying a new or used car are decisions about money. To stay in the game we are always looking for ways to expand our assets - which leads us to search for the best ways to save for college; raise money to start a business; or put something aside for retirement. Other ways of making our money work for us are learning about investing in securities; knowing how to buy a home without going broke; taking good care of ourselves to stay healthy, and being conscious of what we spend on our commutes. All these money matters are dissected in Easy Money. This book is a warehouse of financial information. We live in an information age. Those who take the time to acquire the right information will continue to gain ground, and are well in their way to phenomenal prosperity.

Money is a fascinating symbol, because it's the premier unit of exchange of goods and services. Even mundane decisions like choosing between driving or taking a bus to work, getting a credit card, or buying a new or used car are decisions about money. To stay in the game we are always looking for ways to expand our assets - which leads us to search for the best ways to save for college; raise money to start a business; or put something aside for retirement. Other ways of making our money work for us are learning about investing in securities; knowing how to buy a home without going broke; taking good care of ourselves to stay healthy, and being conscious of what we spend on our commutes. All these money matters are dissected in Easy Money. This book is a warehouse of financial information. We live in an information age. Those who take the time to acquire the right information will continue to gain ground, and are well in their way to phenomenal prosperity.

As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, over-fishing, clear-felled forests, loss of biodiversity, climate change, chemical pollution, and other environmental and health-related risks. This book is an analysis of a primary set of tools aimed at dealing with these risks: green labels and other eco-standards. The authors address political, regulatory, discursive, and organizational circumstances and raise the questions: how can ecological complexities be translated into a trustworthy and categorical label? Is there a mismatch between the production and consumption of green labels? Is it possible to achieve broad public participation in environmental issues through labelling? This is a timely book that provides a social and policy-oriented analysis of the challenges for green consumerism through green labelling.

Introduction: Green Consumerism, Green Labelling?
The Historical Context Key Trends
Green Labels and other Eco-Standards: A Definition
The Consumers Role: Trusting, Reflecting or Influencing?
Our Cases
Sceptical and Encouraging Arguments
Policy Contexts and Labelling
Three Framing Strategies: From a Complex Reality to a Categorical Label
Organizing the Labelling
Dealing with Mutual Mistrust
Green Labelling and Green Consumerism: Challenges and Horizons

A wholly new force is driving human behavior today, and it's turning the world as we know it upside down and inside out. Human behavior is now being driven by a new survival instinct -- a new primal desire -- that is invisibly but unstoppably reshaping the world, from the most intimate details of our private lives to the dynamics of the global marketplace. "The New Culture of Desire" reveals and chronicles this present and future brave new world -- the beginning of Human History Part II. According to futurist Melinda Davis, it is evolving right under our noses, and we need to adapt "now" to survive -- and to thrive.

Described variously as "a secret weapon of the Fortune 100" and a "hired-gun visionary," Davis divulges the startling conclusions and once confidential details of The Human Desire Project, a six-year, multidisciplinary study to investigate what makes human beings want what they want and do what they do. Originally initiated as a landmark study for big business (Davis's client ranks include distinguished companies such as AT&T, Merck, Diageo, Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal, Unilever, and Lucent Technologies), The Human Desire Project evolved into an even larger phenomenon with far-reaching implications for all of our lives. In "The New Culture of Desire," you learn to leverage for your own good fortune, today -- and into tomorrow -- the same insights and strategies that inform the future plans of some of the most powerful corporate movers and shakers around. Here are just some of the revelations of "The New Culture of Desire: "

- The unconscious formula that we all use to make choices now

- Why bliss beats sex, money, and power

- The new peak experience: the State ofO

- The single greatest unmet consumer need

- The battle for our interior lives

- The five strategies we enlist to satisfy the new primal desire -- and what they mean for your life and your business

Harvard-educated and street-smart, Davis examines the telltale signs of our rapidly morphing world with the nose of an MIT/MTV anthropologist and an arsenal of case histories. Quizzes and checklists appear throughout the book to help you diagnose your own desires. New marketing models provide new ways to speak more powerfully to the heart of your customers' true desires. This insider's analysis of the most powerful desire-driven trends of our time provides a strategic guide to the inside of the new millennial mind, to help you understand your own motivations and those of your colleagues, customers, and friends. Here are some of those cultural trends that you need to know about:

- Magical Thinking: Looking for the simple, supernatural solution

- The Third Sex: Having it all

- Yoda-ism: New candidates for a god

- Tribe Crashing: The ultimate insiderism

- Hot-Blooded Spiritualism: Drumming up the saving graces

- Raging Amazonianism: The rise of the butt-kicking babe

- Pleasure Healing: Self-indulgence that does you good

- P. Q.: The Performance Quotient: Upgrading the human processor

A pioneering work that looks into what people want and why, "The New Culture of Desire" blows traditional future-planning theory and practice sky-high, and replaces it with groundbreaking strategies that really work.

When Mickie Siebert arrived in New York in the mid-1950s, she had $500 in her wallet and drove a used Studebaker. Almost fifty years later she is known as the "First Woman of Finance," the only woman to head a publicly traded national brokerage firm.

Pithy, vastly entertaining, and full of behind-the-scenes anecdotes, "Changing the Rules" reveals how Siebert forged her phenomenal success in the chaotic and cutthroat world of Wall Street. Three four-letter words are behind Siebert's career success: One is work -- she learned everything there was to know about a company before recommending its stock. The second is luck -- as an analyst in training, she had the good fortune to follow a fledgling industry that nobody else wanted. (The "dog" industry was airlines.) The third word is risk -- she knew how to assess liability and make a decision.

Siebert recounts the resistance of the good gray Stock Exchange when she dared to infiltrate the boys' club, threatening to have a Port-O-San delivered to the NYSE luncheon club if they didn't add a women's bathroom. She reveals the backstage stories about saving Lockheed and selling Conrail (at the time, the largest stock offering in Wall Street history), as well as the changes on the Street that led to May Day, 1975, when she was first in line as a discount broker (and considered a pariah by industry standards).

She tells of her memorable encounters with such legendary figures as Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I flying ace who ran Eastern Airlines, and Robert Brimberg, the iconoclastic "Scarsdale Fats" whose investing acumen was the envy of the Street. Writing with equal candor about the politics of finance and the finance of politics, Siebert recalls her five years as Superintendent of Banking for New York State -- when she helped to prevent a national fiscal crisis during the Iran hostage situation -- and her experiences as a pro-choice Republican senatorial candidate. Siebert's reputation for rocking the boat is legendary, and "Changing the Rules" is both a fascinating biography of a true pioneer, and a valuable strategic and informational tool for anyone who deals with or dabbles in the money game.

Need Money? You need this book Want Money? You want this book Nobody has enough money to NOT buy this book You can't afford to not buy this book. You can't afford to not read this book. You can't afford to not start your own little business. The Time is Now, The Place is Here Decide right now that you won't struggle over money like your parents do. Decide right now that you will be your own boss. Decide right now that you will make the most of yourself. Decide right now that you have the talent to make some serious money-regardless of your situation. Decide right now that you are in control of your future. Decide right now to Up Your Aspirations This hands-on, practical, step-by-step guide will teach you how to start, market, and run thirty-seven businesses in a very simple, fun and inexpensive way-on the way to your first million This is an easy-to-read, must-read for anyone in junior high, high school or college who desires a high paying, rewarding business that makes pure profit. Don't be afraid of making big bucks. Tell everyone you know that you have decided to Up Your Aspirations by buying this book and starting your own business.

It's no surprise that a record number of Americans are declaring bankruptcy while consumer debt and foreclosures are at an all time high. Many adults simply don't have the basic financial knowledge to safely navigate today's environment of predatory lending, identity theft, and nonstop consumer marketing. What's more, they don't know how to leverage to their advantage the valuable financial tools they do have. "The High School Graduate's Guide to Financial Intelligence" teaches young adults important lessons in personal finance that they likely aren't learning at home or in school. Armed with this information, they will be better prepared to achieve their financial goals while avoiding common pitfalls.

Building Wealth for Teens addresses questions teens cared to ask on money, investments, wealth building and personal finance. Written by an experienced certified financial planner who works with youth.

"Kids Finance 101 "

"Kids Finance 101 " is an outstanding book, designed to assist parents towards becoming more effective financial mentors for their children.

"Save when you are young, so that you can enjoy riches when you're older." -Mark, Age 16

This Book Will Teach Parents & Children How To: 1. Become Financially Responsible 2. Establish a Kids Financial Portfolio with Allowance Money 3. Prepare a Simple Kids Budget 4. Invest Wisely 5. Save for College

Author, teacher and motivational speaker, Yvonne Brooks is the founder of the Brooks & Brooks Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides a series of leadership and financial education programs for children and their parents.

Never has the World Bank's relief work been more important than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of James Wolfensohn--the unstoppable power broker whose daring efforts to enlarge the planet's wealth in an age of globalization and terror were matched only by the force of his polarizing personality. Based on unprecedented access to its subject, this captivating tour through the messy reality of global development is that rare triumph--an emblematic story through which a gifted author has channeled the spirit of the age.This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank

"A completely charming discussion of allowances.communicates some of life's important skills in a way that is fun and practical." -"Kirkus Reviews" "Well worth the investment." -"School Library Journal" This lively book answers families' questions about allowances: How much to give? When to start? How to set it up? How to keep kids from blowing it? Written for kids, but vital for parents, the book's advice comes from the Allowance All-Star Squad, 166 kids who have tackled tons of allowance snags-with great results! Their parents chime in, too, as do financial and psychology experts.

Do you want the key to the best jobs with the best employers? It's time to play offense instead of defense. Competency-Based Resumes shows today's job candidates a new, more targeted way to write resumes to get them back on the same playing field with the best employers and improve their odds of winning the job they want.

The system an employer uses when filling jobs has changed significantly in the past few years, and it is still evolving. Rather than simply looking at an applicant's past jobs, companies are instead looking at candidate's experiences in certain key areas-including measurable work habits and the personal skills, known as competencies, used to achieve objectives at work.

Competency-Based Resumes offers you a new and effective way to create resumes that emphasizes the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have and employers need. Many sophisticated U.S. and international organizations are using competency-based systems to recruit, interview, select, and promote. Corporations such as American Express, Coca-Cola, Sears, and MetLife are all looking for specific competencies.

A unique set of complementary hands-on tools for learning about and applying a deeper and practical theory for diagnosis and design. This edition has been significantly updated and rewritten to make it easier to read.

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's finest development thinkers to present their perspectives and ideas. In recent years, a parallel, second conference has been held in Europe with the same goal of expanding the flow of ideas between thinkers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of international development. ABCDE Europe 2003 presents selected papers from the fourth annual ABCDE Europe meetings, held June 24-26, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. Hosted by the World Bank and the Chr. Michelsen Institute, more than 350 eminent scholars and practitioners from 50 countries met to deliberate on the theme 'Towards Pro-Poor Policies'. The papers from sessions on aid, institutions, and globalization provide both a general overview of links between poverty, inequality, and growth, and address specific topics such as the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative for debt reduction. All consider the role of policies and institutions in development and poverty reduction. IN THIS VOLUME: An overview by Bertil Tungodden, Ivar Kolstad, and Nicholas Stern; papers on aid by Nicholas Stern, David Roland-Holst and Finn Tarp, Stephan Klasen, Lisa Chauvet and Patrick Guillaumont, and Jean-Pierre Cling, Mireille Razafindrakoto, and Francois Roubaud; papers on institutions by Mariano Tommasi, Mushtaq Khan, David Dunham, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff, Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz; and papers on globalization by Jomo Sundaram, John Dunning, Antonio Spilimbergo, Juan Luis Londono, and Miguel Szekely, Andres Solimano, and Oded Stark."