Product Description: People are funny--and so are many animals when they're encouraged by their human keepers! Here's a tour of the weird and wacky side of life around the world, with surprises and laughs for older boys and girls. They'll read about people with unusual bodies, including the tallest and the shortest, as well as the man with the most tattoos, a woman with the longest fingernails, an 80-year-old body builder, and a studs-and-rings-decorated woman who calls herself The Human Pincushion...read more

Discusses the nature of stock indexes, suggests investment strategies and applications in banking, pension funds, mortgages, and corporate finance, and looks at the options market, delivery procedures, and computer modeling