Authors:Barbara Flowers, Sheryl Szot Gallaher,
Publisher: National Council on Economic Education
Keywords: financial, life, fitness, grades, teacher, guide
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1561835447
ISBN-13: 9781561835447

Shaping Up Your Financial Future contains 17 action-oriented lessons where students make decisions about earning an income, saving and spending, using credit, and budgeting. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. All lessons are tied to standards for personal finance and economic literacy. A Student Workbook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent’s Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home. A companion web-site offers further information on the series and sample activities.

Authors:Barbara Flowers, John S. Morton, Mark C. Schug,
Publisher: National Council on Economic Education
Keywords: financial, life, fitness, grades, parent, guide
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1561835498
ISBN-13: 9781561835492

Chances are you have this book in hand because you believe your child’s ability to succeed in the real world requires becoming ’“financially fit’”. We developed the Financial Fitness for Life series of publications because we wholeheartedly agree! For more than 50 years, the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) has been calling attention to the need to educate our young people effectively in the practical skills of economics and personal finance, and showing the best ways to meet that need. The current ’financial fitness’ program - of which this p

Authors:Barbara J. Flowers, Penny Kugler, Bonnie T. Meszaros
Publisher: National Council on Economic Education/NCEE
Keywords: focus, economics, grades
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1561835358
ISBN-13: 9781561835355

This publication uses 14 hands-on activities to engage students in economics concepts through simulations, games, stories, and role playing activities. Each lesson includes a closure activity and assessment. This core curriculum utilizes communications and thinking skills to introduce fundamental economic concepts that give students a foundation in essential life skills such as teamwork, critical analysis, negotiation skills and more.Also available:Focus: Economics - Grades K-2 - ISBN 1561836214Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Student Workouts - ISBN 156183

Author: flowers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: court, state, relationships, church, supreme, second, godless, decisions
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0664228917
ISBN-13: 9780664228910

The religion clauses of the First Amendment, which seem simple and clear, have been and continue to be controversial in their application. Church-state issues have never been more complex, controversial, and divisive than they are today. Issues such as religious freedom, government aid to church-related schools, and religion in public schools capture the attention of both the political right and left. In this helpful and instructive book, now updated to include discussions of the Supreme Court’s decisions through the Fall 2004 term, Ronald B. Flowers explains clearly and concisely the i

Author: Paul W. Flowers
Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group
Keywords: advertising, underdog
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1933285222
ISBN-13: 9781933285221

Underdog Advertising is written for the small-to-midsize business that must compete against bigger companies for sales, market share and brand awareness. Based on proven creative and strategic advertising principles that have developed and refined over the last twenty-five years, the book helps smaller businesses create and execute advertising programs that are effective in the face of strong competition. Just as David toppled Goliath with a well-aimed rock, the methods and principles described in Underdog Advertising have consistently helped "budget underdogs" hit the mark and become the r

Author: Edward B. Flowers
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: power, industry, global, new, mergers, restructuring, utility
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-05-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1567201636
ISBN-13: 9781567201635

Consume thy rival may be the new law of corporate survival in the U.S. utilities industry. This book describes close to $70 billion of global utility mergers stemming from the anticipated deregulation of the U.S. gas and electrical utilities industries. Occurring from 1995 to 1997, these mergers are completely restructuring U.S. power utilities. Thirty-seven billion dollars of these mergers, a full 53 percent, occurred abroad. About two-thirds of the foreign mergers were U.S. takeovers, while the remaining one-third was mergers, defensive and otherwise, of U.K. firms with other U.K. firms. Thi

Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Keywords: penology, criminology, contributions, criminality, minorities
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 1990-02-28
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 027593604X
ISBN-13: 9780275936044

". . . Minorities and Criminality provides a cameo of valuable information about the relationship between minority status and criminality and the interaction of minorities with the criminal justice system. . . . A key strength of this book is that it provides a great deal of insight into the proclivities of different minority groups to engage in different types of criminal behavior. . . . This book would make an excellent source for persons newly becoming acquainted with the nature, scope, and dynamics of minority crime and victimization." Criminal Justice Review