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"Wondering what it's like to be the first female coach or general manager of any men's professional sports team? Ask…
Nancy Lieberman or Kim Ng. Want to know what Veronica Beard thinks you should wear to work, why Tyra Banks over-prepares for every meeting, how Haben Girma graduated Harvard Law School deaf and blind, or what Bobbi Brown wants you to do when you hear the word no at work? We did too. Thinking about careers in media, medicine, or metadata? Wish you could interview TheSkimm founders, NASA astronauts, Olympic athletes, or execs at companies like Billboard, Spotify, ESPN, NIKE, LEGO, TikTok, Google, and the NYSE? We felt the same way. You asked. So we asked." -- Provided by publisherA book, too, can be a star: the story of Madeleine L'Engle and the making of a wrinkle in time
Par Charlotte Jones Voiklis. 2022
"When Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she marveled at the stars. They guided her throughout her life, making her feel…
part of a big and exciting world, even when she felt alone. They made her want to ask big questions--Why are we here? What is my place in the universe?--and let her imagination take flight. Books, too, were like stars-asking questions and proposing answers. Books kept Madeleine company, and soon, she began to write and share her own. But would other people see the wonder she found in the world?" -- Provided by publisherLike a diamond in the sky: Jane Taylor's beloved poem of wonder and the stars
Par Elizabeth Brown. 2022
"This picture book biography shines a light on the little-known poet and author of the beloved lullaby, and tells the…
story behind the classic and universally recognized rhyme." -- Provided by publisherThe Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution
Par Lisa DiCaprio. 2005
Women workers and the revolutionary origins of the modern welfare state In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning…
workshops (ateliers de filature) for thousands of unemployed women in Paris. These ateliers disclose new aspects of the process which transformed Old Regime charity into revolutionary welfare initiatives characterized by secularization, centralization, and entitlements based on citizenship. This study is the first to examine women and the welfare state in its formative period at a time when modern concepts of human rights were elaborated. In The Origins of the Welfare State, Lisa DiCaprio reveals how the women working in the ateliers, municipal welfare officials, and the national government vied to define the meaning of revolutionary welfare throughout the Revolution. Presenting demands for improved wages and working conditions to a wide array of revolutionary officials, the women workers exercised their rights as "passive citizens" capaciously and shaped the meanings of work, welfare, and citizenship. Looking backward to the Old Regime and forward to the nineteenth century, this study explores the interventionist spirit that characterized liberalism in the eighteenth century and serves as a bridge to the history of entitlements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions
Par Adrien Sebro. 2024
The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly,…
nearly all the decade’s notable Black sitcoms were made by a single company, Tandem Productions. Founded by two white men, the successful team behind All in the Family, writer Norman Lear and director Bud Yorkin, Tandem gave unprecedented opportunities to Black actors, writers, and producers to break into the television industry. However, these Black auteurs also struggled to get the economic privileges and creative autonomy regularly granted to their white counterparts. Scratchin’ and Survivin’ discovers surprising parallels between the behind-the-scenes drama at Tandem and the plotlines that aired on their sitcoms, as both real and fictional African Americans devised various strategies for getting their fair share out of systems prone to exploiting their labor. The media scholar Adrien Sebro describes these tactics as a form of “hustle economics,” and he pays special attention to the ways that Black women—including actresses like LaWanda Page, Isabel Sanford, and Esther Rolle—had to hustle for recognition. Exploring Tandem’s complex legacy, including its hit racially mixed sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, he showcases the Black talent whose creative agency and labor resilience helped to transform the television industry.How to Pass Higher Modern Studies, Second Edition (How To Pass - Higher Level)
Par Frank Cooney, Steph O'Reilly, Kenneth Hannah, Mary McGinty. 2019
Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: May 2019Get your best grade with…
comprehensive course notes and advice from Scotland's top experts, fully updated for the latest changes to SQA Higher assessment. How to Pass Higher Modern Studies Second Edition contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your Higher exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from top experts on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success.- Revise confidently with up-to-date guidance tailored to the latest SQA assessment changes - Refresh your knowledge with comprehensive, tailored subject notes- Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision techniques- Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marksBeating the Workplace Bully: A Tactical Guide to Taking Charge
Par Lynne Curry. 2016
Whether you&’re the target of manipulation, intimidation, verbal abuse, or deliberate humiliation, Beating the Workplace Bully will show you how to fight…
back.Bullies aren&’t just limited to the playground. Now they roam around from the boardroom to the break room looking to manipulate, intimidate, and humiliate--and eventually ruin your career! This book is your ammunition for fighting back.Whether the bully is a boss or a coworker, this empowering guide will help you recognize what has been causing you to become a victim, then reveals how to:Avoid typical bully trapsRemain aware and in chargeMove past your fearCalm yourself in any confrontationKeep your dignity intacHandle sneak attacksCombat cyberbullyingComplete with exercises, assessments, and real-life examples, Beating the Workplace Bully will help you reclaim your power and defeat the office bully once and for all!The Power of Charm: How to Win Anyone Over in Any Situation
Par Brian Tracy, Ron Arden. 2006
Brian Tracy has devoted his life to helping others achieve things they never dreamed possible. Now, he gives readers the…
key they need to open any door and get whatever they want, every time.This book gives you proven ways to become more captivating and persuasive in any situation. As one of the world's premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy shows readers what charm can do, and how they can use simple methods to immediately become more charming and dramatically improve their social lives and business relationships.In The Power of Charm, you will learn how to:capture people's trust and attention within the first few seconds of meetingwin the support of others who can help them achieve their goalsmaster body language and advanced listening techniquessell more of their products or servicesdeliver powerful and engaging talks and presentationsimprove their negotiation skillsget paid more and promoted fasterThe Power of Charm helps readers develop greater confidence and self-esteem while learning how to naturally create rhythm and harmony with others. It's a unique and powerful guide filled with proven techniques for making dreams come true -- in business and in life!As a manager, you aren&’t truly successful unless your employees are as well. Helping them establish compelling, actionable performance goals…
is the first and most important step, and this handbook is there to lend a hand.A follow-up to the bestselling 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, HR executive Paul Falcone provides you with ready-to-use performance goals organized by the characteristics and core competencies used most often in the appraisal process. From attendance and attitude to teamwork and time management, managers will find the language they need to inspire exceptional results.In 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals, Falcone shows you how to: Build on individuals&’ strengths rather than compensating for their weaknesses.Help your employees feel engaged and self-motivated.Develop an &“accomplishment mentality&” that encourages your staff to constantly reinvent themselves based on the organization&’s needs.Encourage retention by developing realistic, customized goals that prepare them for their next career move.Determine appropriate follow-up intervals and measurable benchmarks to determine progress throughout the year.2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals also shares language tailored to many of the most common positions in sales and marketing, accounting and finance, HR, IT, legal, manufacturing, operations, and more.If your employees don&’t succeed, neither will you. This one-of-a-kind guide enables you to get more done through others and develop your own leadership abilities along the way.Every year, more businesses fail because of their old-school views toward cutting costs, and they usually begin with the supply…
chain. Discover how the right supply chain can actually help you thrive.Across a range of industries, once-leading companies are in trouble: Walmart, IBM, Pfizer, HP, and The Gap to name a few, while others are thriving. The difference is how the company&’s leaders view their supply chain: Is it just about cutting cost or do they see its hidden tools for outperforming the competition?Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cook--and the company sped up the development of new products, getting them into consumers' hands faster. The rest is history. While competitors were shutting stores, Zara&’s highly responsive supply chain made it the most valued company in the retail space and its founder, the richest man in Europe.In The Supply Chain Revolution, business leaders will learn to:Make alliances more successfulSimplify and debottleneck the supply chainBoost retail success by managing store investmentImprove customer satisfaction and increase revenueShowcasing real solutions learned from true success stories like these and many others, The Supply Chain Revolution provides you with the secrets to succeeding in a disruptive world.Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts (American Critical Archives Ser.)
Par Robert Dowling. 2014
An &“absorbing&” biography of the playwright and Nobel laureate that &“unflinchingly explores the darkness that dominated O&’Neill&’s life&” (Publishers Weekly).…
This extraordinary biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O&’Neill&’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, innovatively highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories as well as the culture and history of his time. Much is new in this extensively researched book: connections between O&’Neill&’s plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish American upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O&’Neill&’s desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Day&’s Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the first to discuss O&’Neill&’s lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt. Written with both a lively informality and a scholar&’s strict accuracy, Eugene O&’Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography worthy of America&’s foremost playwright. &“Fast-paced, highly readable . . . building to a devastating last act.&” —Irish TimesThe Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success
Par Harvey Deutschendorf. 2009
Emotional intelligence (EI) coach Harvey Deutschendorf combines his proven techniques with engaging principles of storytelling and fun exercises to show…
you how you can apply the principles of EI on the job to achieve greater success.Filled with real-life profiles of people who faced emotional intelligence dilemmas and easy-to-implement solutions, Other Kind of Smart offers tools that will bring results in as little as five minutes a day and teaches you how to:develop stress tolerance, cultivate empathy, increase flexibility with coworkers, boost assertiveness, and resolve problems successfully.The difference between those who become successful in life and those who struggle is their ability to exhibit and leverage strong people skills. Complete with an EI quiz that will help you measure their level of emotional intelligence and EI growth, Other Kind of Smart enables all professionals to improve their relationships and increase their effectiveness at work in a practical, accessible way.What Is the Story of Romeo and Juliet? (What Is the Story Of?)
Par Max Bisantz, Who Hq. 2023
Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most well-known characters of our time. Discover the origins of one of…
literature's most famous couples, Romeo and Juliet, and their creator, William Shakespeare, in this fun and informative addition to the What Is the Story Of? series.In 1597, Shakespeare debuted his newest play, a tragedy about a young Italian couple whose families were sworn enemies. Romeo and Juliet quickly became one of the most famous couples in literary history, and this play became one of Shakespeare's most performed shows. But did you know that much of Romeo and Juliet's story was adapted from tales by other writers? Learn all about how William Shakespeare's dynamic and romantic teenage duo sprouted from the Italian story of The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet in 1562 and grew into adaptions like West Side Story and even Gnomeo & Juliet in this nonfiction book for young readers.Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
Par Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris. 2023
From two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, &“an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises&” (Philip E.…
Tetlock, author of Superforecasting) From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody&’s Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and reasoning that serve us well most of the time but make us vulnerable—like our tendency to accept what we see, stick to our commitments, and overvalue precision and consistency. Each chapter illustrates their new take on the science of deception, describing scams you&’ve never heard of and shedding new light on some you have. Simons and Chabris provide memorable maxims and practical tools you can use to spot deception before it&’s too late. Informative, illuminating, and entertaining, Nobody&’s Fool will protect us from charlatans in all their forms—and delight us along the way.The Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour a Week
Par Dave Lakhani. 2006
Praise for The Power of an Hour "The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how…
to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly-for you, for your team, and for your children." -Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals "If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast." -David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing "Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!" -Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire "The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!" -Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer "The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure-you'll be surprised how much better you feel!" -David Garfinkel, author, Customers on DemandSlouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Par J. Bradford DeLong. 2022
An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world&’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of…
the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied &“A magisterial history.&”—Paul Krugman Named a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo. Economist Brad DeLong&’s Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.In this bestselling guide to social success, communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to…
make small talk in any situation. Help is on the way with The Fine Art of Small Talk, the classic guide that&’s now revised for the modern era. Small talk is more than just chitchat; it&’s a valuable tool to help you climb the corporate ladder, widen your business and social circles, and boost your self-confidence. With practical advice and simple conversation &“cheat sheets,&” this book offers easy-to-learn techniques that will allow you to feel comfortable in any type of social situation—from a video meeting to a first date to a cocktail party where you don&’t know a soul. Nationally recognized communication expert Debra Fine will show you how to: Learn to connect with others regardless of the occasion, event, or situation Come across as composed and self-assured when entertaining Avoid awkward silences and &“foot in mouth&” disease Convey warmth and enthusiasm so that other people feel good about being near you Make a positive, lasting impression from the minute you say hello. Once you master The Fine Art of Small Talk, you&’ll excel at making others feel included, valued, and comfortable. Let Debra Fine turn you into a small-talk expert—and watch the contacts, business deals, and social relationships multiply before your eyes!Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (Thorndike Nonfiction Ser.)
Par Melanie Rehak. 2006
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is &“a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing&” (The Seattle Times).…
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky &“titian-haired&” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women&’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers&’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy&’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children&’s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over her father&’s business empire as CEO. In this century-spanning, &“absorbing and delightful&” story, the author traces their roles—and Nancy&’s—in forging the modern American woman (The Wall Street Journal). &“It&’s truly fun to see behind the scenes of the girl sleuth&’s creation.&” —Publishers Weekly &“As much a social history of the times as a book about the popular series . . . Those who followed the many adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends will be fascinated with the behind-the-scenes stories of just who Carolyn Keene really was.&” —School Library Journal &“Sheds light on perhaps the most successful writing franchise of all time and also the cultural and historic changes through which it passed. Grab your flashlights, girls. The mystery of Carolyn Keene is about to begin.&” —Karen Joy FowlerHeads Up Money (DK Heads UP)
Par Dk. 2016
Does money make the world go round? Can wealth buy happiness? What would happen if a bank simply printed more…
money? Find out the answers to these questions and much more in Heads Up Money. Using real-life scenarios, you will learn abou a variety of topics including supply and demand, free trade, globalization, and financial crises. Packed with colorful graphics and easy-to-follow text, this indispensable book will help you understand money and the role it plays in our world.This comprehensive volume also explores international financial institutions, ethical trade, and how to run an efficient and successsful business. Whether you&’re analyzing the global marketplace, studying booming market trends and how to make use of them, calculating hidden costs, or deciding between investing, spending, or saving, Heads Up Money will help you navigate the tricky waters of economics and financial planning.Written by renowned author Marcus Weeks in consultation with Derek Braddon, Professor of Economics at UWE Briston Business School, this book is the perfect introduction to the world of money and finance for teenagers and young adults.Careers: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Future
Par Dk. 2022
From robotics engineering and computer games development to environmental law and eco-friendly construction, this job guide features hundreds of careers, including…
trending opportunities. Do you have a passion but can&’t work out how to make a career out of it? Do you want to change your career but don&’t know where to start? Are you worried about career development? Or are you overwhelmed by so much advice you are lost in a sea of information? You&’re not the only one – and Careers is here to steer you in the right direction. This indispensable guide is ideal for teenagers and newly qualified graduates. Career counsellors will also find this a trustworthy companion for helping students with their future career planning. So, whether you want to become a nurse or home decorator, a chef or cyber-security analyst (or you simply have no idea!), this book is your ultimate source. Concise and combining a user-friendly approach with a bold, graphic design, Careers is like having your very own career coach.