Author : Aleta Norris
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781640855519
Women Who Spark will help women be on fire about their lives. Women want to stop feeling overwhelmed in the day-to-day whirlwind and start feeling hope about their futures. This book will help women wake up every day feeling happy, confident, and purpose-driven.
Author : Aleta Norris
Publisher : Aleta Norris LLC
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2020-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781647464530
In Women Who Spark After 50, Aleta Norris will inspire the spark within you through stories of midlife women who got busy living, and inspire you to go after your dreams.
Author : Yvonne Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0316420964
Celebrate historic and contemporary Wonder Women from around the world, from Ada Lovelace to Zaha Hadid! Highlighting notable and inspiring women from across the globe and throughout time, The A-Z of Wonder Women features biographies of trailblazers and groundbreakers, including Ada Lovelace, Oprah Winfrey, Ruth Ginsberg, and Wajeha al-Huwaider. This empowering alphabet-style book celebrates a wide range of skills and masteries in the arts, politics and activism, STEM, and more, providing accessible facts about these heroic women--and inspiring young readers to make the change they want to see in the world.
Author : Maria Leonard Olsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781538136645
Middle age blues have an antidote. How about trying 50 new things when you turn 50? Maria Leonard Olsen's 50 After 50: Fifty New Things I Tried After Turning 50 and What I Learned From Them is a blueprint for turning midlife into the most invigorating chapter yet.
Author : Mika Brzezinski
Publisher : Legacy Lit
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1602865892
STRONG, WISER, BETTER An Essential Guide for Reentering, Reinventing, or Rebooting Your Career at Any Age So many women hit their 40s or 50s and realize: it's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need a backup plan. Perhaps you paused, or downsized your career to raise children, and you're ready to rejoin the workforce. How do you reboot, relaunch, return to, or reinvent a career at age 40? Or 50? Or 60? And how can you create a career and life that will provide you with purpose and financial security for years to come? In Comeback Careers, New York Times bestselling author and co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski and her sister-in-law Ginny Brzezinski have teamed up toshow you that career reinvention is possibleat any age. You have the skills, experience,and maturity; it's time to own them. For thisbook, Mika and Ginny interviewed dozens ofcareer-changers working in a variety of fields,from finance to academics to the arts. Theyshare successful relaunchers' secrets to overcomingobstacles, both internal and external, andtheir step-by-step processes and candid advice.They also reveal key strategies from top jobcoaches, résumé-writers, and LinkedIn experts,tailored to the special challenges of mid-careerjobseekers. It's time to rewrite the narrative. You are stronger, wiser, and better at the midpoint, and Comeback Careers is a roadmap to your career reinvention and fulfillment.
Author : Jill Norgren
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2016-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1479835528
In Rebels at the Bar, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a small group of nineteenth century women who were among the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning in the late 1860s, these determined rebels pursued the radical ambition of entering the then all-male profession of law. They were motivated by a love of learning. They believed in fair play and equal opportunity. They desired recognition as professionals and the ability to earn a good living. Rebels at the Bar expands our understanding of both women's rights and the history of the legal profession in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the female renegades who trained in law and then, like men, fought considerable odds to create successful professional lives. In this engaging and beautifully written book, Norgren shares her subjects' faith in the art of the possible. In so doing, she ensures their place in history.
Author : Grace Bonney
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1579657265
New York Times Bestseller Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by Essence Named a Best Holiday Gift Book by Real Simple, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, and more Named a Best Gift for Coworkers by Heavy.com Named a Best Mother’s Day Gift by the Seattle Times “I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers Over 100 exceptional and influential women describe how they embraced their creative spirit, overcame adversity, and sparked a global movement of entrepreneurship. Media titans and ceramicists, hoteliers and tattoo artists, comedians and architects—taken together, these profiles paint a beautiful picture of what happens when we pursue our passions and dreams.
Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780862321109
So begins Firdaus' story, leading to her grimy Cairo prison cell, where she welcomes her death sentence as a relief from her pain and suffering. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect. Her passion for education is ignored by her family, and on leaving school she is forced to marry a much older man. Following her escapes from violent relationships, she finally meets Sharifa who tells her that 'A man does not know a woman's value ... the higher you price yourself the more he will realise what you are really worth' and leads her into a life of prostitution. Desperate and alone, she takes drastic action. -- Publisher description.
Author : Mika Brzezinski
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1602865957
The bestselling motivational guide that TheAtlantic.com calls "a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women ask for -- and actually get--the money, the job, the recognition they deserve? Prompted by her own experience as cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked a wide range of successful women to share the critical lessons they learned while moving up in their fields. Power players such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard's Victoria Budson, comedian Susie Essman, and many more shared their surprising personal stories. They spoke candidly about why women are paid less and the pitfalls women face -- and play into. Now expanded to address gender dynamics in the #MeToo era, Know Your Value blends compelling personal stories with the latest research on why many women don't negotiate their compensation, why negotiating aggressively usually backfires, and what can be done about it. For any woman who has ever wondered if her desire to be liked can be a liability (yes), if there is a way to reclaim her contribution after it's been co-opted in a meeting (yes), and if there are strategies men use to get ahead that women should too (yes!), Know Your Value provides vital advice to help women be their own best advocates.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453245030
“A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.
