Kenneth M. Morris

Virginia B. Morris

Traces the history of money and discusses stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing

Guide to Money & Investing

Guide to Saving for College

Streamlined, straightforward, and simple to read guides from Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press. The easiest way to get a grip on personal finance, investing, and retirement From the world's leading financial analysts and investor education specialists comes an invaluable foundation of knowledge for every kind of investment you want to make. These guides, a collaboration between Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press, use clear language and informative graphics to demystify financial topics. The books make it easy for you to navigate the financial markets and understand the basics of investing and personal finance. Filled with clear, jargon-free definitions of important financial terms, this handy reference gives you the language you need to navigate the world of investing and finance. It also includes common acronyms and extended definitions of more sophisticated investing concepts.

Dictionary of Financial Terms

Brian D. Ingram

Guide to Understanding Islamic Investing in Accordance with Islamic Shariah

Life Cycle of a Security

Stuart Z. Goldstein

Guide to Clearance and Settlement

Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were "unnatural." The strongest evidence of their view is that the novelists make the women's victims deserve their violent death. Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized the cultural biases that expected women to be passive and subservient. Fictional women, like their real-life counterparts, were doubly guilty: in defying the law, they also defied their gender role. Because they were "unwomanly," they were thought worse than male criminals -- more vicious and more incorrigible. At the same time, they often got special treatment from the police and the courts simply because they were women. These contradictory attitudes reveal the critical significance of gender in defining criminal behavior and in fixing punishments. Morris provides literary and historical background for the novelists' ideas about women killers and traces the evolving notion that abused or misused women were capable of using justifiable -- if unforgivable -- violence. She argues that the criminal women in Victorian literature epitomize the ambivalent position of women generally and the particular vulnerability of a deviant minority. Her book is a valuable resource for readers concerned with criminology, literature, and feminist studies.

Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

Double Jeopardy

An all-new personal finance guide from the authors/creators ofThe Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing First in a new series based on information from Standard & Poorâ€™sâ€”the leading financial information organizationâ€”Standard & Poorâ€™s Guide to Money & Investingdemystifies the world of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options, empowering you to make informed investment decisions, measure your performance, and evaluate the risks and rewards. Completely up-to-date to reflect significant changes in investing due to new technologies and the Internet, this concise, easy-to-read guide explains how to understand the markets, evaluate companies, and spot trends to invest for success. Also covered are forces driving the economy and the roles of institutions from the Federal Reserve to multinational banks to the stock exchanges.

Standard and Poor's Guide to Money and Investing

With its distinctive blend of engaging graphics and clear language, this guide tackles one of the most iportant topics in personal finance. It explains what you want- and need- to know about what credit is, how it works, and the ways you can use it to your financial advantage. And because people can get into credit trouble when they borrow more then they can comfortably repay, the guide describes the warning signs of too much debt and suggests ways to resolve the problems that can result.

Credit and Borrowing

Oppenheimer Funds

Discusses setting financial goals and making investment decisions

A Woman's Guide to Investing

The Brightest Ideas in Personal Finance For women running a household, working up a career ladder, or managing a business, this guide provides advice for making financial decisions such as managing money and planning for retirement, while dealing with the unexpected, such as divorce, widowhood, and debt.

Virginia B. Morris

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