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Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female president, equal pay on the horizon, true diversity in the workplace to come thereafter? Or at least the end of "fat shaming" and "locker room talk"? Well, we aren't quite there yet. But does that mean that progress for women in business has come to a screeching halt? It's true that the old rules didn't get us as far as we hoped. But we can go the distance, and we can close the gaps that still exist. We just need a new way.

Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds.

This book will show you exactly how to begin a freight brokerage firm from the comfort of your own home! You will gain a deep satisfaction knowing you built a successful business from scratch, on your own terms. All you need is a laptop, time, dedication, and industry knowledge. This book gives you all the tools you need to succeed.

These Shadow Work meditations by author and life coach Nancy Levin are designed to uncover hidden aspects of yourself for profound self-awareness and healing.

While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house, only to find it occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man", speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect... thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. At first, the old man appears harmless and ignorant towards his guest.

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy - an audible.com audio exclusive!

Selling your house can be daunting, but understanding how the real estate market works can save you thousands. * First-time sellers and buyers often lack knowledge about the real estate world that agents profit from. For those who choose to hire a professional real estate agent, this guide includes essential tips to ensure you benefit from their expertise. * Discover the best strategies for identifying and collaborating with real estate agents. * Learn how to sell your property independently as a For Sale By Owner (FSBO). Check out the new online options available. This book provides an ...

Jay Levy's Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization provides the reader with a wonderfully crafted, detailed step-by-step manual with real-world scenarios on how Pretreatment and the Stages of Engagement play out in the actual work. The vignettes are rich with descriptions that clearly come from a deep repertoire of experience working in the field that gives the reader confidence they are being guided by someone who has been in their shoes. The thoughtful questions and space to reflect add a helpful workbook touch to the feel of the text, ...

Durante sus doce años como una de las más admiradas CEO del mundo, Indra Nooyi redefinió lo que significa ser un líder excepcional. La primera mujer de color e inmigrante en dirigir una de las 50 compañías más importantes listadas por Fortune y una de las estrategas más destacadas de nuestro tiempo transformó PepsiCo con una visión única, una vigorosa búsqueda por la excelencia y un gran sentido del propósito. En sus memorias nos cuenta con gracia, valor y buen humor su legendaria carrera y los sacrificios realizados.

Lightworkers Gotta Work is a practical manual for helping you to find, follow, and fulfill your life purpose of creating positive change in the world. It’s a call to action for spiritual teachers, healers, intuitives, artists, and spiritual entrepreneurs, who’ve heard the call to help heal the world, but are held back by fear, limiting beliefs, and a lack of clarity as to how to go about it.

There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world”. Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does. You’ll learn what to say when coworkers push their work on you - then take credit for it; you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all”; you’re being micromanaged - or not being managed at all; and much more....

Once more the "unconventional" Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A "must" hear for every business person.

A powerful story about the African philosophy of teamwork and collaboration that has the power to reshape our workplaces, our relationships with our coworkers, and our personal lives, written by the bestselling coauthor of Fish! and the bestselling author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees.

This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.

Sister Helen Prejean’s work as an activist nun, campaigning to educate Americans about the inhumanity of the death penalty, is known to millions worldwide. Less widely known is the evolution of her spiritual journey from praying for God to solve the world’s problems to engaging full-tilt in working to transform societal injustices. Sister Helen grew up in a well-off Baton Rouge family that still employed black servants.

Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's ode "La Grange," many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex, lying somewhere between heartbreaking and absurd. For more than a century, dirt farmers and big-cigar politicians alike rubbed shoulders at the Chicken Ranch, operated openly under the sheriff's watchful eye. Madam Edna Milton and her girls ran a tight, discreet ship. That is, until a secret conspiracy enlisted an opportunistic reporter to bring it all crashing down on primetime television.

One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer’s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins.

As an educator and avid learner, I set out to understand the complex issue of homelessness in America. After watching hundreds of interviews with people living on the streets, I wrote this book to share their stories and perspectives. Across twenty heartfelt chapters, you will meet individuals like Bruce, a lawyer-turned-beggar in D.C.; Penny, a young woman selling her body for drug money in Detroit; and James, an entrepreneur in Columbus still holding onto hope. Each person describes in their own words how they wound up homeless, whether through job loss, addiction, childhood trauma, lack ...

Starting an online internet business does not always mean investing money. Plenty of opportunities exist to start an online business with virtually no investment. This book reviews some small investment businesses so as to select the best kind of service to start. This book will help all the entrepreneurs, students, house wives, retired, unemployed and part timers, looking for a source of income through internet. All the resources mentioned in the book are tested personally and giving excellent returns on regular basis.

International finance coach Ann Wilson is known as the Wealth Chef because of her ability to help people cook up monetary success. In this audiobook, Ann has laid out a step-by-step guide to creating financial freedom, providing five recipes for wealth that helped her go from having nothing to becoming a multimillionaire.