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Artisan
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English
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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.
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Princeton University Press
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English
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Linda Babcock is the James M. Walton Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Sara Laschever is a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, and Vogue. Babcock and Laschever are the coauthors of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want....
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St. Martin's Press
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First edition.
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English
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"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses...
7) #Girlboss
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Portfolio/Penguin
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English
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"The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By age twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school--a job she'd taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward eight...
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HarperResource
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English
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Geared toward the unique challenges faced by self-employed businesswomen-and updated for the social media-driven, post-financial crisis world-The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business offers solutions and advice for handling a range of issues, including how to write a business plan, how to secure funding, and how to hire (and fire) employees. Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio share practical information drawn from their own extensive experience...
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Portfolio/Penquin
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English
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" When Tamara Mellon's father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: "Don't let the accountants run your business." Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years, the struggle between "financial" and "creative" would become one of the central themes as Mellon's business savvy, creative eye, and flair for design built Jimmy Choo into a premier name in the competitive fashion industry. Over time, Mellon grew Jimmy...
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Atria Books
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English
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From a novice translator to CEO of the champagne house Veuve Clicquot North America, Mireille Guiliano shares her insights and experiences on how to work well. Whether it's balancing career and personal life, the pros and cons of risk taking, qualities of leadership, mentoring, the undervalued art of communicating, passion, etiquette, or style, Guiliano gives us a refreshing guide filled with advice that every working woman will need in today's economic...
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HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
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English
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More than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half a billion dollars are spent annually on corporate diversity programs, yet only 5 percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women. Lean Out is an ambitious attempt to answer the question few dare to ask: What have we gotten wrong about women at work? Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Lean Out is inspired by the journey of Marissa...
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W Publishing Group
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English
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Boss Up! will help you put your business on the map and the ideas you've previously only dreamed about into the marketplace. It will help you overcome your fears and guilt to find a fulfillment that changes you and your families for the better. And it will help you break free of the hard and boring and allow you to have fun along the way.
In Boss Up! Lindsay helps you gain the confidence to know that having ambition doesn't make you a bad mother...
13) Mommy millionaire: how I turned my kitchen table idea into a million dollars and how you can, too!
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St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Real-world advice, secrets and lessons on how to make a million dollars from a mom who turned her kitchen table idea into a successful business while keeping her family and kids Job #1.
MOMMY MILLIONAIRE will give you the tools you need to create your fortune, including:
* How to develop and patent an idea while saving thousands
* How to make a cold call
* How to get on QVC
* How to work a trade show
* How to develop an "elevator pitch"
* How...
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Wiley
Language
English
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"Building a side hustle will not only help you increase and diversify your income, but it can accelerate achieving your financial goals . . . if you build it the RIGHT WAY. This book will target women, specifically women of color who are interested in leveraging a side hustle business to increase their income in order to build wealth. It will cover establishing a vision, developing the right mindset, and building the core foundational aspects of what...
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Nolo
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English
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"This book is a guide for women interested in starting a small business. It includes information on how to: draft a business plan; raise start-up money, including through crowdfunding; choose a legal structure; hire employees; manage finances and taxes; qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses; and market and brand a business online and off. Also included are interviews with successful women business owners,...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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"Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently." -- inside front jacket cover.
"A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for...
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TarcherPerigee
Language
English
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An empowering career guide featuring bold advice from fifty high-profile women on how to succeed in work, leadership and life. You don't have to be a #Girlboss or "lean in" to have a dream career and live a life you love. In Work It, CEO of Likeable Media and popular podcast host Carrie Kerpen shares her own career lessons as well as those from and an "advisory board" of fifty powerful women in a wide range of industries to help women everywhere make...
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Simon & Schuster
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
Description
"Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. While her public image is of an aloof woman floating above the political gamesmanship of Washington, behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump's inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential adviser. Throughout...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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Hi, I'm Joy, and I've had the amazing fortune of living a life full of daring, creativity, and heart. My story, my life, with all its twists and unexpected turns, can at times seem like a work of fiction -- even to me, the person who actually lived it! I'm so excited to share it with you -- it's better than a romance novel because it's real! And the best part is, through it all, I've learned so much about ideas, dreams, and family. These are hard-won...
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