Strongly held beliefs, a wicked sense of humor, and take-no-prisoners opinions—the many fans of Star Jones, former co-host of ABC's The View, have come to expect all this and more. In this remarkable book, the former New York City prosecutor shows why she became one of the most quoted and respected media personalities on television. Here she touches fearlessly on subjects both conventional and controversial, such as the importance of family and friendship, the law, racism, abortion, television, politics, and her relationship with God. And she does it all with a unique and refreshing viewpoint that will make you think twice about everything you thought you knew. Here, too, is her powerful and intensely personal story, told with warmth, humor, and sometimes painful candor. This is an empowering memoir by a remarkable woman who not only walks the walk and talks the talk but challenges you to do the same.
Every woman go through their struggles, but it's about being able to get up, and still stand for something. Go through the journey with different woman who been through struggling trials, and found the strength to get past it. Relate to them with letter's to those who hurt them. Enjoy and participate by writing a letter of your own to the one you were hurt by. Write a love letter to yourself, and sketch out some goals in mind. Always remember stay Fierce because if you don't stand for something; You'll fall for anything!
Diary of a Sorority House Mom recount's Ann Caruso's first two years as house director for a female version of "Animal House," where the women of the house set and enforced their own rules. When the girls asked if they could recycle liquor bottles during their first meeting, she knew she was in trouble. Though the house director contract and manual mandated that Ms Caruso was responsible for the safety of the girls, she had no authority to carry out that task. There was no tab on the manual for "what happens if a drunk girl falls out of the third floor window, gets raped, or dies of alcohol poisoning." It was common to find kegs icing in the bathtub, bottles of alcohol used as room decorations, and when she asked the risk-management vice president if she wanted to know when a guy spent the night, her response was, "Why? Has someone complained." Diary of a Sorority House Mom will make you laugh out loud, and bring you to tears. It is sometimes hysterical, and at others disturbing or disguesting, but it was her life for two years. Her first sorority girls gave her eighteen of the happiest and six of the saddest months of her life. And for the most part, she wouldn't have changed a thing.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors’ approach places the region’s history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos covering more than a century’s worth of history, the volume presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving for the prize of equality and justice.
In a period of just seven weeks, you can take your leadership to a whole new level with the lessons in Your Leadership Diamond. Paul Mitchell, who has been inspiring leaders in all walks of life for more than thirty-five years, draws on his broad experience to help you: • boost your energy and confidence level as a leader; • build lasting mutual trust and respect with colleagues; • achieve awesome engagement scores; and • nurture enriching relationships with others. The biggest benefit you’ll receive by reading this leadership guide is you’ll become a better you—and be equipped to help others become better versions of themselves, too. "Paul’s emphasis on leading in all areas of your life is exactly the sort of leadership we should all be aspiring to. He recognizes that to become a better leader, you need to become a better person. The ideas in this book give you an enormous boost to take you from where you are now to where you need to be." —Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There "I have had the privilege to know Paul for the last decade. No one has the passion for the science of leadership like him. In this book, Paul shares much of his leadership wisdom. It is designed for busy people, an easy read, practical, filled with golden nuggets and a great reminder of the importance of constantly learning and improving in all aspects of our lives." —Daryl Sisson, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand at Thomson Reuters
The Neutralized Church offers an introduction to the answers to questions that many Christians are raising today. We have been manipulated into ignoring the obvious answers and dismissing the evidence of their truth, even though they have been readily available to all for generations. We reject and ignore those who defy political correctness and yet they speak the truth. The United States is in decline, and the US Dollar is now in jeopardy. Our educational system is falling further behind international competition, and our foreign policy has made us targets for hatred and unhappiness generated all over the planet. Morality has been abandoned, and powerful new government agencies have been created that threaten our freedom. Christians must learn what God expects of them before it's too late! The Neutralized Church calls on people with a foundational knowledge of the Bible-those who accept it as the Word of God. Only by understanding what Satan has done to the church can we truly begin to understand why all efforts to bring about change will fail. God works through those who willingly serve Him; therefore, the church is God's change agent. God will not change His strategy just because Christians permit Satan's unwanted influence over the church.
In this follow-up to President of the Whole Fifth Grade, Brianna navigates her toughest challenge yet: middle school! Brianna Justice is determined to raise enough money for the big class trip to Washington, D.C., but she's up against a lot: classmates who all pretend to be something they're not, a new nemesis determined to run her out of office, and the sinking feeling she's about to lose her two best friends for good. But just when she begins to lose hope, she comes to realize that sometimes surprises can turn out even better than the best-laid plans. Sherri Winston tells a story brimming with humor and heart as Brianna navigates the ins and outs of middle school, discovering that inspiration can come when you least expect it.
In this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L. Cloud engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Taking readers into the central dilemma of having to fight an institution while simultaneously using it as a bastion of basic self-defense, We Are the Union offers a sophisticated exploration of the structural opportunities and balance of forces at play in modern unions told through a highly relevant case study. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, Cloud renders a multi-layered account of the battles between company and the union and within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change and two other dissident groups. She gives voice to the company's claims of the hardships of competitiveness and the entrenched union leaders' calls for concessions in the name of job security, alongside the democratic union reformers' fight for a rank-and-file upsurge against both the company and the union leaders. We Are the Union is grounded in on-site research and interviews and focuses on the efforts by Unionists for Democratic Change to reform unions from within. Incorporating theory and methods from the fields of organizational communication as well as labor studies, Cloud methodically uncovers and analyzes the goals, strategies, and dilemmas of the dissidents who, while wanting to uphold the ideas and ideals of the union, took up the gauntlet to make it more responsive to workers and less conciliatory toward management, especially in times of economic stress or crisis. Cloud calls for a revival of militant unionism as a response to union leaders' embracing of management and training programs that put workers in the same camp as management, arguing that reform groups should look to the emergence of powerful industrial unions in the United States for guidance on revolutionizing existing institutions and building new ones that truly accommodate workers' needs. Drawing from communication studies, labor history, and oral history and including a chapter co-written with Boeing worker Keith Thomas, We Are the Union contextualizes what happened at Boeing as an exemplar of agency that speaks both to the past and the future.
Think Like Me gives my perspective on how to handle and conduct oneself throughout everyday life. From discussing what lies are and how to identify their respective categories, to encouraging readers to find inner confidence during times of insecure moments. It is meant to help others understand difficult emotions, and to look at situations through a fair pair of eyes. In my unique view of the world, I explain that we are inescapably tied to our emotions, and I dissect what it means to be human. Rejecting the notion that, "you're being too sensitive," and accepting that I don't believe anyone actually deserves anything, at all. This book has the ultimate goal of finding inner peace, and stabilizing our relationships that we have with ourselves, so that we can live our lives without regret, and be at peace with our innermost self.
Based on a 6-year study of 500 of the world’s biggest brands, Winning the Battle for Relevance seeks to answer the question: “What separates the enduring from the endangered?” As businesses, industries, and revenue models continue to be disrupted at an alarming rate, leaders would do well to learn from the mistakes of fallen brands such as Borders, Kodak, and Blockbuster—lest they fall into the same trap. Better still, Winning the Battle for Relevance highlights what every organization and institution can learn from enduringly successful brands in order to win the battle for relevance in the turbulent years ahead.
