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The Story of Money
Author: Martin Jenkins
Illustrator: Satoshi Kitamura
Illustrator: Satoshi Kitamura
| Retail Price: | $27.95 |
| Betabooks Price | $22.36 |
ISBN: 9781406324587
Format: Hardback
Published: August 2014
Published By: Walker Books
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Published: August 2014
Published By: Walker Books
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In the Yap Islands in the South Pacific it can be a stone with a hole in the middle. It can be a string of shells, a bundle of cloth or a copper slab. Some people think it's wonderful; others that it's really, really bad. So what is it? Money, of course. The stuff that makes the world go round. That doesn't grow on trees. That can't buy you love, apparently. Once upon a time there wasn't any, so why would anyone have gone to the trouble of inventing it?Australian Curriculum: