PERSONAL FINANCE, Tenth Edition, offers a practical, student-friendly introduction to personal financial management. Using a structured, step-by-step approach, this market-leading text helps students learn how to save and invest, manage student loans, file taxes, decrease credit card debt, and plan for the future. Throughout the text, real-life scenarios covering a wide range of financial challenges enable students to appreciate the relevance of key concepts, while useful advice from personal finance experts helps them apply those concepts in their own lives. Many math-based examples also clearly illustrate the critical importance of achieving long-term financial goals through investing. Building on the success of previous editions, the new Tenth Edition continues to engage students' interest and focus their attention on the critical concepts they need to succeed in class--and to manage their finances wisely for a lifetime.

Book by Garman, E. Thomas

Created for an introductory course, Consumer Economic Issues in America, 7e provides instructors with a straightforward text that highlights the fundamental consumer economic issues affecting all consumers. Author E. Thomas Garman educates and empowers students as they gain knowledge of their rights and responsibilities as consumers. The newly revised text places emphasis on understanding the American economic system, consumer concepts, evaluative criteria and environmental issues.