Vision loss - adapting everyday activities
Everyday activities, such as housework and banking, become increasingly difficult as eyesight deteriorates. Many everyday activities can be adapted to suit a person with vision loss. A person who has been sighted all their life may find everyday ... [... more]
Better Health |
Lavanya Sankaran
Lavanya Sankaran's work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal. She attended Bryn Mawr College and has worked in investment banking in New York and consulting in India. She lives in Bangalore, where she is ... [... more]
Random House |
Safe information
The internet has become a vast global network connecting millions of people. Via the internet, you can find information about almost anything, and do things like shopping, banking, playing games, sharing photos, watching movies, and listening to ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Getting help
The internet has become a vast global network connecting millions of people. Via the internet, you can find information about almost anything, and do things like shopping, banking, playing games, sharing photos, watching movies, and listening to ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Which bank or lending society?
Working out the best way to do your banking is one of the easiest ways to increase the money you have to spend. Which account to use, how to get your money in and out, credit versus debit... all of this may seem boring, but if you take the time, ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska's senior senator, is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate. His duties include membership on four senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Intelligence; and Rules. Hagel and his brother ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
John Wood from HarperCollins Publishers
Read the full biography of John Wood After earning an MBA at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, John Wood worked for several years in banking before joining Microsoft in 1991. Through hard work and determination, he ascended rapidly, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Editors of Mental Floss
Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
John Authers
John Authers has been a Financial Times journalist since 1990, and conducted most of the research for this book in New York where he was the paper's banking correspondent from 1996 to 2001. Shortly after completing the manuscript, he moved to ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
John E. Oden
From elite boarding schools to executive boardrooms, white collar boxing has never been more popular. With its roots in the English aristocracy, the "Sweet Science" is gaining fans among the alpha males (and females) of industry, banking, ... [... more]
Random House |
Internet banking's hollow promise
UNTIL six months ago, no self-respecting financial consultant would travel without it: the bar chart showing that the marginal cost of Internet banking transactions was a tiny fraction of the cost of branch banking. It was the chart that launched ... [... more]
The Economist |
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