Bold Women, Big Ideas

Bold Women, Big Ideas
Author: Kay Koplovitz
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781586481070

Shares personal stories of courage, failure, and success, and introduces a new generation of ambitious women who are breaking barriers and forging their own start-ups.

Bold

Bold
Author: Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476709580

Bold is a radical how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. A follow-up to the authors' Abundance (2012).

Idea Makers

Idea Makers
Author: Lowey Bundy Sichol
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 164160641X

Entrepreneurship can change your life—and even the world Idea Makers shares the incredible stories of 15 women who changed the world through their entrepreneurship. Author Lowey Bundy Sichol presents five industries that women are leading in recent years: food, fashion and clothing, health and beauty, science and technology, and education. Jenn Hyman brought couture fashion to everyday women with her idea to Rent the Runway. Morgan DeBaun supports Black journalists through Blavity. And Sandra Oh Lin is inspiring kids everywhere with KiwiCo activity boxes. Readers learn about how the women featured risked their early careers, gave up their salaries, and sometimes even went against the approval of their families to follow their passions and start their own businesses. Today, these women are modern leaders worth billions of dollars and employing tens of thousands of individuals. Young women today are embracing innovation and idea making, and the women profiled in Idea Makers will show them how that can change the world.

Bold Women in History

Bold Women in History
Author: Meghan Vestal
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1648764304

Incredible stories of bold women from American history—for kids ages 8 to 12 All throughout history, American women have stood up for what's right, even when they weren't allowed to vote, have careers, or go to school. But throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, many brave and smart women helped fight for equality. This biography collection for kids explores 15 of these women—including Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett—and how they used their skills and beliefs to create lasting change. Explore amazing women in history: Having a choice—Discover the stories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who helped start the women's suffrage movement. Using their voice—Learn about women like Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, whose actions helped enact voting rights for women of color. Never giving up—Find out how even today, women such as bell hooks and Stacey Abrams are fighting for women's equality at the polls, the workplace, and in education. Go beyond other history books and discover those who are often overlooked with Bold Women in History.

The Big Idea

The Big Idea
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1426208103

From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity--the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview. Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through the past, one big idea at a time. Meet the people who gave birth to these ideas--and those who fought against them. Meet the MIT electrical engineer currently developing a way to turn on the lights cordlessly, then move back through Nikola Tesla's visionary concept of the wireless transfer of energy, Thomas Edison's groundbreaking work in developing a nationwide electrical grid, Ben Franklin's experiments to capture electricity, all the way back to ancient Greece, where Thales of Miletus described static electricity as a property of naturally occurring amber. Ingeniously organized and eminently browsable, this richly visual volume is divided into six big sections--medicine, transportation, communication, biology, chemistry, and the environment. Words and images that work together to explain such fascinating and elusive subjects as cloud computing, sunshields to cool the Earth, and self-driving cars. What did it take to get to these futuristic realities? Then, turn the page and follow a reverse-chronological illustrated time line of science and technology. This remarkable illustrated history tells the story of every Big Idea in our history, seen through the lens of where science is taking us today - and tomorrow. With an irresistibly cutting-edge look and original illustrations created by award-winning Ashby Design, paired with the reliable authority and comprehensiveness that National Geographic's world history books always offer, this is a one-of-a-kind trip to the future and back through all time all in one.

The Middle Finger Project

The Middle Finger Project
Author: Ash Ambirge
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0525540334

Fresh, funny, and fearless, The Middle Finger Project is a point-by-point primer on how to get unstuck, slay imposter syndrome, trust in your own worth and ability, and become a strong, capable, wonderful, weird, brilliant, ballsy, unfuckwithable YOU. "Don't worry, this isn't a book about God, nor is it a book about Ryan Gosling (second in command). But it is a book about authority and becoming your own." --Ash Ambirge After a string of dead-end jobs and a death in the family, Ash Ambirge was down to her last $26 and sleeping in a Kmart parking lot when she faced the truth: No one was coming to her rescue. It was up to her to appoint herself. That night led to what eventually became a six-figure freelance career as a sought-after marketing and copywriting consultant, all while sipping coffee from her front porch in Costa Rica. She then launched The Middle Finger Project, a blog and online course hub, which has provided tens of thousands of young "women who disobey" with the tools and mindset to give everyone else's expectations the finger and get on your own path to happiness, wealth, independence, and adventure. In her first book, Ash draws on her unconventional personal story to offer a fun, bracing, and occasionally potty-mouthed manifesto for the transformative power of radical self-reliance. Employing the signature wit and wordsmithing she's used to build an avid following, she offers paradigm-shifting advice along the lines of: • The best feeling in the world is knowing who you are and what you're capable of doing. • Life circumstances are not life sentences. If a Scranton girl who grew up in a trailer park can make it, so can you. • What you believe about yourself will either murder your chances or save your life. So why not believe something good? • You don't need a high-ranking job title to be authorized to contribute. You just need to contribute. • Be your own authority. Authority only works as long as you trust that someone smarter than you is making the rules. • The way you become a force is by being the most radically real version of yourself that you can be. • You only have 12 fucks a day to give, so use them wisely.

Violence

Violence
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0312427182

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.

Grounded

Grounded
Author: Bob Rosen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118680871

A provocative, personal approach to leadership based on in-depth research with hundreds of executives around the world Confronted by disruptive change and economic turbulence, many of today's leaders find themselves ill-equipped to manage the hazards they now face. They must contend with chronic uncertainty, cynical employees, and personal burnout. Most are poorly served by the prevailing paradigm that obsessively focuses on what we do to produce short-term results while sabotaging who we are as healthy human beings. Few have seen alternatives, until now. Grounded proposes a new approach that's designed for actual humans who must grapple with these forces. This new paradigm speaks to our better selves. Based on the author's Healthy Leader model, it focuses on the six personal dimensions that fuel—and refuel—the world's top leaders: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, vocational, and spiritual health. The book argues that leaders at every level can be more self-aware, develop their untapped potential, and drive significantly better results—for themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Shows readers how to build a personal leadership model that works with their values, goals and capabilities Features fresh stories from leaders in a variety of organizations including the New York Fire Department, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Lego Group, and Medstar Health Gives leaders practical tools to face their toughest challenges with greater skill, confidence, and impact By developing themselves and mastering the six dimensions, readers can gain the stamina and strength to not only weather tough times but to achieve much, much more.

Big Ideas for Young Thinkers

Big Ideas for Young Thinkers
Author: Jamia Wilson
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 071125835X

An inclusive philosophy book for the next generation of young thinkers.

Big & Bold

Big & Bold
Author: Morit Summers
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1718200056

Big & Bold: Strength Training for the Plus-Size Woman explains how plus-size women can get started with strength training and reach progressive goals. It shows how to make exercises and workouts more effective for larger bodies, and it includes sample workouts to put the exercises together.