The Spanx Story
The Spanx Story

Author: Charlie Wetzel

Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1400216176

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What can you learn from one of the most successful companies in the world? The Spanx Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled entrepreneur Sara Blakely to dominate the shapewear industry and become a billionaire. Sara Blakely had a problem. She had a beautiful pair of white designer pants hanging in her closet just calling out to her to wear them, even though they accented her least favorite feature: cellulite. After searching high and low for a solution and coming up empty, an idea was born: Spanx. The Spanx Story chronicles Sara’s journey from long nights researching patent and trademark law, to years of cold shoulders she received from the titans of the pantyhose industry, to the cold call that led to the shelves of Nieman Marcus. It was a long road of incredible hard work and determination that led Spanx to become the iconic brand it is today. Through Sara’s story, you will learn: How to develop an idea and turn it into a business. How to start a company with very little capital by thinking outside of the box and dedicating every spare moment to your goal. How to recognize when it’s better to hire a CEO than to be the CEO. How to stay the course and continue to believe in your idea, despite naysayers and going against an industry resistant to innovation. The Spanx Story educates and inspires entrepreneurs and innovators to find the problem for their solutions and persevere through the hard work that goes into building a billion-dollar company.

Crazy Like a Fox
Crazy Like a Fox

Author: Ben Chavis

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-09-07

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1101532491

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The inspiring true story of "one of the country's finest educators" (National Review) and the school he changed forever. Under the leadership of highly unorthodox principal Dr. Ben Chavis, Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School was hailed as an "education miracle" by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after it was transformed from a failing "nuisance" into one of the best public middle schools in the nation. This is the story of that transformation and of a man who dared to be different. With his rigorous, no-nonsense approach, Dr. Chavis debunks the myth that poor, minority, inner-city schools have little chance at academic excellence. Focusing on back-tobasics ideals, he has created a structured educational model that, combined with the enthusiasm of his students and teachers, delivers astounding results. In Crazy Like a Fox, Dr. Chavis recounts how he did it-in his own words and through the stories of the extraordinary young people he's helped.

The Real Deal
The Real Deal

Author: Lauren Blakely

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1250165946

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Get ready for your next favorite romantic comedy, THE REAL DEAL, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely! April Hamilton wants you to know she hasn’t been on GigsForHire since that time she sold her futon after college. She doesn’t even spend that much time online. And even if she did, she would not be looking up personal ads. But going home alone for her family's summer reunion is an invitation for every single relative to butt into her personal life. She simply can’t handle another blind date with the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker from her hometown. So when she finds the GigsforHire ad for a boyfriend-for-hire, she’s ready to pay to play. Heading Home and Need a Buffer? I’m the REAL DEAL. Theo Banks has been running from the past for years. He’s this close to finally settling all his debts, and one more job as a boyfriend-for-hire will do the trick. He’s no gigolo. Please. He’s something of an actor, and he knows how to slip into any role, including pretending to be April’s new beau -- the bad boy with the heart of gold. Even if it means sleeping in close quarters in that tiny little bed in her parents’ inn. Even if it means spinning tales of a romance that starts to feel all too true. What neither one of them counts on is that amid the egg toss, the arm wrestling, and a fierce game of Lawn Twister that has them tangled up together, they might be feeling the real deal. She only wanted to show her family once and for all that she had no need to settle down. He didn’t expect to have the time of his life at her parent’s home. They didn’t plan on loving every single second of the game. But can a masterful game of pretend result in true love?

We Built Reality
We Built Reality

Author: Jason Blakely

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-07

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0190087374

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"Popular culture is saturated with claims to a science of human life. Demographics are said to predict how you'll vote; chemicals in your brain who you'll date; game-like scenarios how you'll spend your money; and genes what you'll think. This book explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence. You'll discover how popular pseudoscience has radically changed the world we live in-in spheres as different as dating, economics, politics, and artificial intelligence. The abuse of popular scientific authority has had catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the side lining of non-scientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. But you also will learn a way out of the superstition and ideology of scientism. This book introduces readers to a movement called the "hermeneutic" or interpretive approach that promises to free ordinary people from the tyranny of pseudoscience. An interpretive approach to human life offers a way to become a better reader of both the many claims to science around you as well as the cultural spaces you inhabit and help create"--

A Guy Walks Into My Bar
A Guy Walks Into My Bar

Author: Lauren Blakely

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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A sexy, passionate, utterly addictive standalone MM romance from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely!Every bartender should follow one simple rule--don't go home with the customers. That's been easy for me to stick to, until the night a cocky, confident, and sinfully charming hockey star walks into my bar. This sexy athlete is too hard to resist, especially when he makes it clear how much he wants the "sarcastic, witty, hot AF" guy behind the bar--also known as me.Still, I'm not keen on breaking my own rules since I know where that can lead--no place good. But when that man makes his case with one bone-searing kiss on the streets of London, I throw resistance out the window.What could go wrong with a hot, dirty, no-strings-attached fling before he leaves town in five days? Trouble is, soon our nights together lead to days, to long conversations, to getting to know each other, and to something I never expected--falling ridiculously hard for a man who's getting on a plane to America when I live a world away. My life is here. His is there. And no amount of falling or feeling will change that one big problem. Warning: contains hot hotel s-e-x, loads of dirty talk, PDA all over London, and two sexy, witty, charming alpha heroes...

Birthday Suit
Birthday Suit

Author: Lauren Blakely

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781732575523

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Ten years ago Leo Hennessey broke a major Man Code rule: do not-- under any circumstances-- fall in love with your best friend's woman. He's managed to keep it secret, and built up his career as an executive at a chocolate company named Heavenly. But now Lulu Diamond is divorced, starting a new life, and just opened up her own chocolate shop. And she's walked back into Leo's life In a big way... at a trade show, they are paired up for a riddle-filled, race-against-the-clock scavenger hunt across New York City. Temptation never tasted so good.... -- adapted from back cover and perusal of book

Life After Life
Life After Life

Author: Blakely Falicia

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-24

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781732914544

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Some people often wonder if there is an afterlife, but Falicia Blakely has the added burden of serving Life After Life. You've read A Treacherous Hustle (by Sereniti Hall) and got the gruesome details of the crimes that led to Ms. Blakely receiving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Now Ms. Blakely is ready to give you an in-depth account of her journey behind bars. She was once a child that grew up entirely too fast, but now she is subject to grow up in a system that professes to rehabilitate but is conditioned to criminalize. As Ms. Blakely navigates the do's and don'ts of prison life, she attempts to hold on to her sanity with all her might. Quickly she must learn who to trust because judgment, lust, strife, and madness all vie to make her close acquaintance. Will she repeat her past mistakes and suffer from another set of bad choices? Or will she discover her self-worth and the love of God and excel in a place that is widely known as "a corrupt world within a world?"

Well Hung
Well Hung

Author: Lauren Blakely

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781533560643

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A construction business-owner and his assistant's night of sex in Vegas ends at a wedding chapel.

Scoring with Him
Scoring with Him

Author: Lauren Blakely

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13:

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Falling for the rookie wasn't part of the plan. As a pro athlete, I have one unbreakable rule when it comes to men -- Don't date another baseball player. Good thing I haven't been tempted once in four years in the majors. Until the day a rising star walks into my locker room. Outgoing, affable, and sexy-as-sin, Grant has confidence and talent for miles. He seems to get me too, maybe because we each have our fair share of secrets and scars -- ones we'll both fight to protect. But, I've got far too much trouble in my past to want to bring any into my present. All the more reason to resist the kind of dirty deeds his lips and eyes promise. Even after I plant a scorching, hot kiss on the rookie one night after a game. Even after he sends me the world's sexiest selfie. But when Grant reveals his biggest secret, I'm so damn ready to rip up the rulebook. Turns out he's a virgin and he wants me to help him get around all the bases. The only rule? Don't fall in love with him as we go. Scoring with Him is book one in the utterly addictive Men of Summer series. This romance between two professional athletes spans five epic years and continues in Winning With Him.