Author : Linda Rottenberg
Publisher : Portfolio
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591847990
Reveals how companies like GE and Burberry have broken the corporate mould, and introduces us to entrepreneurs like Leila Velez, who started a multi-million hair-care company from her kitchen sink in Rio.
Author : Lizzie Skurnick
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1580059201
These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods. No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word"and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds -- or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine, re-imagine, and change.
Author : Megs Senk
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1402294239
Sometimes you need someone to tell you it's OK, your breath smells great, or that you were spellbinding in your high school production of Grease. Sometimes you need a book of perforated cards to tell you that. Emergency Compliment is that book. Emergency Compliment will offer 60 unique and mildly bizarre compliments. Each page is perforated to easily detach and distribute to those in dire need of an emergency compliment. Sample compliments: You're not crazy. They are 100% into you. Today's outfit = thumbs up. Your hair looks great today. It also looked really good two days ago.
Author : Jonathan Clyde Moore
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780615438702
This is the original edition of the book, first published in January of 2012. A second edition of the book is available via the following link: http: //www.amazon.com/Art-Compliment-2nd-Guide-Relationship/dp/1469972956/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328023513&sr=1-6 The problem with most of the advice men get about relationships is that it is both stupid and wrong. It's stupid because it pretends we can stop being men. It's wrong because it insists we stop being men. You can be a man and be successful at a relationship. If you have, against all hope and fate, found a woman you want to keep in your life through legal and socially acceptable means, this book will give you advice and strategies that go a long way to let her know she is important without requiring you to sacrifice being a man. We're guys, we like being guys, and there is nothing wrong with that. It is, however, time to stop acting like a 12 year old boy because, and think about it, do you really want to be with a woman who is willing to or wants to be with a 12 year old boy? This doesn't mean we have to grow up, it means we have to man up. There is a difference and this book will help you with that difference through simple and straightforward strategies and plans. Men, it's time to step up and be a real man. It's time to learn the Art of the Compliment.
Author : Andrew Klavan
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1401686486
Do right, fear nothing. Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble. But one day, Sam sees these friends harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange new one. Jennifer is not just eccentric. To Sam, she seems downright crazy. She has terrifying hallucinations involving demons, the devil, and death. And here’s the really crazy part: Sam is beginning to suspect that these visions may actually be prophecies—prophecies of something terrible that’s going to happen very soon. Unless he can stop it. With no one to believe him, with no one to help him, Sam is all alone in a race against time. Finding the truth before disaster strikes is going to be both crazy and very, very dangerous. Thrilling young adult read Stand-alone novel Book length: approximately 75K words Includes discussion questions for book reports
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307371719
Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.
Author : Tom Tomorrow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 9781593764104
This latest anthology collects Tomorrow's work from 2008 to the present along with never-before seen-pieces. It covers the drama and spectacle of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama's first year in office, and the rise of the teabaggers, among other madcap topics.
Author : Tracy Wolff
Publisher : Entangled: Brazen
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622665023
Former rivals Quinn Bradford and Elise McKinney are not friends, at least not anymore. In the past all they cared about was psyching each other out before concerts...until everything changed. But when Quinn—now the keyboardist for Shaken Dirty, the hottest rock band on the scene—returns to his hometown and hears about the car accident that shattered Elise's career, he's determined to make things right. Elise makes it perfectly clear she wants nothing to do with an arrogant rock star, despite how bad she so clearly wants him. So Quinn hatches a plan that’ll keep the stubborn world class pianist under his care...and maybe in his bed. One week together in his house, no chance of escape. But amid pranks both childish and very adult, their secrets come rearing back to haunt them. And it might be more than either of them can forget. Each book in the Shaken Dirty series is STANDALONE: * Crash Into Me * Drive Me Crazy * Fade Into You
Author : Bonnie McFarlane
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0062319507
In the spirit of Mindy Kaling, Kelly Oxford, and Sarah Silverman, a compulsively readable and outrageously funny memoir of growing up as a fish out of water, finding your voice, and embracing your inner crazy-person, from popular actress, writer, and comedian Bonnie McFarlane. It took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to where she is today. Before she starred on Last Comic Standing and directed her own films, she was an inappropriately loud tomboy growing up on her parents’ farm in Cold Lake, Canada, wetting her pants during standardized tests and killing chickens. Desperate to find “her people”—like-minded souls who wouldn’t judge her because she was honest, ruthless, and okay, sometimes really rude—Bonnie turned to comedy. In her explosively funny and no-holds-barred memoir, Bonnie tells it like it is, and lays bare all of her smart (and her not-so-smart) decisions along her way to finding her friends and her comedic voice. From fistfights in elementary school to riding motorcycles to the World Famous Comic Strip, to Late Night with David Letterman, and through to her infamous “c” word bit on Last Comic Standing, You’re Better Than Me is her funny and outrageous trip through the good, bad, and ugly of her life in comedy. McFarlane doesn’t always keep her mouth shut when she should, but at least she makes people laugh. And that’s all that matters, right?
Author : Rachel Robinson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781497350045
Before there were bikers, or fighters, or even good old-fashioned jerks, there were Navy SEALs. They put the bad in badass because, well...it's their job. Navy SEAL Maverick Hart has everything. Women want him. Grown men idolize him. Little boys want to grow up and be like him. The job, the glory-it's all his. Not because it's handed to him...because he works hard for it. The second his sights lock on something, he owns it-or destroys it. Unfortunately he does both at the same time. Windsor Forbes only takes calculated risks in her profession and in her personal life. After being left at the altar by the only person she's ever loved, the very last thing she's looking for is a relationship-especially the insane brand an arrogant Navy SEAL is offering. Hesitant, yet trusting to a fault, she gives in. She knew she shouldn't take the chance, especially a second time, but love is irrational and their love is perfect, infallible. Or so she thought... The downfall to having everything is you have that much more to lose. A man like Maverick can't have it all without something slipping out of grasp. Crazy people perish for love. Good people live for it. Love doesn't die. No matter how many bullets you put in it. *Due to sexual content and graphic language this book is intended for readers 18+*
