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| business networking events los angeles: Indecent Hours James Fujinami Moore, 2022 For award-winning poet James Fujinami Moore, the past is never past. In this brutal debut, sensual, political, and imagined worlds collide, tracing a history of diaspora and trauma that asks: what do we do in the aftermath of violence, and why do we long to inflict it? From Vegas boxing rings and the restless sands of Manzanar to the scrolling horrors of a Facebook feed, Moore's poems trace over intimate details with surprising humor, fierce eroticism, and a restless eye. |
| business networking events los angeles: Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook Bill Aulet, 2017-03-16 The essential companion to the book that revolutionized entrepreneurship Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook provides a practical manual for working the 24-step framework presented in Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Unlocking key lessons and breaking down the steps, this book helps you delve deeper into the framework to get your business up and running with a greater chance for success. You'll find the tools you need to sharpen your instinct, engage your creativity, work through hardship, and give the people what they want—even if they don't yet know that they want it. Real-world examples illustrate the framework in action, and case studies highlight critical points that can make or break you when your goal is on the line. Exercises and assessments help you nail down your strengths, while pointing out areas that could benefit from reinforcement—because when it comes to your business, good enough isn't good enough—better is always better. Disciplined Entrepreneurship transformed the way that professionals think about starting a company, and this book helps you dig into the proven framework to make your business dreams a reality. Delve deeper into the 24 steps to success Innovate, persevere, and create the product people want Internalize lessons learned from real-world entrepreneurs Test your understanding with exercises and case studies The book also includes new material on topics the author has found to be extremely useful in getting the most value out of the framework including Primary Market Research, Windows of Opportunity and Triggers. The book also introduces the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Canvas to track your progress on this journey. Starting a company is a serious undertaking, with plenty of risk and sacrifice to go around—so why not minimize the risk and make the outcome worth the sacrifice? Author Bill Aulet's 24-step framework is proven to build a successful business; the key is in how well you implement it. Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook helps you master the skills, tools, and mindset you need to get on your path to success. |
| business networking events los angeles: Black Girl In Love (with Herself) Trey Anthony, 2021-01-05 Speaker, writer, and producer Trey Anthony breaks it down, giving black women a relatable voice and personalized keeping it real to-do list on how to practice self-love and self-care. Therapy is not just for white women-no matter what your momma told you! After a lifetime of never truly relating to the personal development experts because of the color of her skin, Trey Anthony has written the book she needed to read as a black woman trying to navigate a world filled with unique challenges that often acts like she doesn't exist. On the outside Trey Anthony was the overachieving, reliable, and strong black woman she was raised to be, but on the inside the pressure of sacrificing her own needs to please others was building. When her grandmother and mother raised her strong, they also unknowingly taught her that self-love and expressing emotions were weak, creating an unhealthy dynamic that had Trey facing burnout and rock bottom. In Black Girl in Love (with Herself), Trey breaks down the lessons and tools that she used to heal her life, including how to: • Set clear and healthy boundaries-even with the people who raised you • Quit being the family ATM • Sort out who is a real friend, and who is just there for parties and gossip • Confront microaggressions at work without missing a beat • Forget who black women are supposed to be And fall in love with yourself! |
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| business networking events los angeles: Getting in the Game Deborah L. Brake, 2012-08-20 Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. The subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, it is credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers of girls and women now participating in competitive sports, yet few people fully understand the extent to which it has succeeded in challenging the gender norms that have circumscribed women's place in society more generally. In this legal analysis of Title IX, the author, a law professor assesses the statute's successes and failures. She provides an understanding and appreciation of what Title IX has accomplished, while taking a critical look at the places where it has fallen short. |
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| business networking events los angeles: Kingdom Finances Hector Ramos, 2022-02-24 Have you ever wondered what God requires His people to sacrifice to Him? In Kingdom Finances, you will discover the different perspectives on giving as presented in the Bible. If you received this book prayerfully, God will transform the way you think and feel about finances and experience a breakthrough in your life. Kingdom Finances offers an approach to help you understand God’s plans and His provision to fulfill those plans while you enjoy His life, and bring others into His salvation and blessing. In Kingdom Finances, you will find principles of giving so you can start giving to God in everything you do in obedience to His Word. This is a faith-building book to help you build on the Rock. God will challenge you to leave certain things behind to enable you to grab hold of His harvest and spiritual fruit. Radical faith requires radical sacrifice, and Kingdom Finances will help you follow that path. |
| business networking events los angeles: The Craft and Business of Songwriting John Braheny, 1995-04-15 Music is a universal language, and John Braheny speaks it eloquently as he helps prepare us for our big musical break--by teaching us the craft of songwriting and revealing secrets of the music business. Includes anecdotes, exercises, and examples from dozens of songwriters, such as Harry Chapin, Paul McCartney, and many others. |
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| business networking events los angeles: The Book of Liz Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, 2002 THE STORY: Sister Elizabeth Donderstock is Squeamish, has been her whole life. She makes cheese balls (traditional and smoky) that sustain the existence of her entire religious community, Clusterhaven. However, she feels unappreciated among her Squ |
| business networking events los angeles: Selling in Your Comfort Zone Robert N. Kohn, 2009 This book will help anyone overcome their discomfort with selling. It will help the reader achieve a fundamental shift in attitude and behavior. This guide proves that selling can be done effectively and comfortably, by motivating the reader to take action and identify strategies and tasks that they are comfortable doing. |
| business networking events los angeles: Latina Lives, Latina Narratives Miroslava Chávez-García, 2021-06-27 This book brings together the most influential and widely known writings of Vicki L. Ruiz, a leading voice in the fields of Chicana/o, Latina/o, women’s, and labor history. For nearly forty years, Ruiz has produced scholarship that has provided the foundation for a rich and nuanced understanding of the ways in which Chicanas and Latinas negotiate the structures impinging on their everyday lives. From challenging familial, patriarchal cultural norms, building interethnic social networks in the neighborhood and workplace, and organizing labor unions, to fighting gender and racial discrimination in the courts, at work, in the schools, and on the streets, Ruiz’s studies have examined the countless struggles, roadblocks, and victories Chicanas and Latinas have faced in the twentieth century and beyond. The articles in this book are organized chronologically to reflect the evolution of Ruiz’s intellectual contributions as well as her commitment to integrating feminist history, theory, and methodology, and show how she has generously offered insights, reflections, and humor in helping us define and shape who we are as mujeres, Chicanas, Latinas, scholars, teachers, and mentors. With its narrative flow and engaging prose, Ruiz’s scholarship connects with academic and public audiences and this collection fulfills a much-needed demand in the teaching of women’s, Chicana/o, Latina/o, and labor history. |
| business networking events los angeles: The Meindulce Project Lamarr McNairy, 2020-09-06 America is in the midst of a bloody civil war. Donald Trump has won re-election in what the majority of Americans are considering a scandal. Political, religious, gender, and racial animosities are inflamed. Full scaled rioting, that has claimed the lives of thousands, rages across the land. In New California, America's recently constituted 51st state, rookie reporter Frank Lee falls in love with Yvonne, the young leader of a militant leftist group. He discovers that she may have ties to the corrupt Francis Kintuket, warden of New California's Prachard Colony. Frank Lee has been tasked with interviewing Warden Kintuket, who has organized and will supervise a series of state sponsored capital punishment verdicts, all of them one after the other. But there is a twist that Frank encounters, and his survival and the fate of the nation depends on his navigating his way through the calamity of Warden Kintuket's warped mind. |
| business networking events los angeles: You Sound Like a White Girl Julissa Arce, 2022-03-22 AN INDIE BESTSELLER Most Anticipated by ELLE • Bustle • Bloomberg • Kirkus • HipLatina • SheReads • BookPage • The Millions • The Mujerista • Ms. Magazine • and more “Unflinching” —Ms. Magazine • “Phenomenal” —BookRiot • An essential read —Kirkus, starred review • Necessary —Library Journal • Powerful —Joaquin Castro • Illuminating —Reyna Grande • A love letter to our people —José Olivarez • I have been waiting for this book all my life —Paul Ortiz Bestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants. “You sound like a white girl.” These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. She’d spent so much time getting rid of her accent so no one could tell English was her second language that in that moment she felt those words—you sound like a white girl?—were a compliment. As a child, she didn’t yet understand that assimilating to “American” culture really meant imitating “white” America—that sounding like a white girl was a racist idea meant to tame her, change her, and make her small. She ran the race, completing each stage, but never quite fit in, until she stopped running altogether. In this dual polemic and manifesto, Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English—each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory—neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa offers a bold new promise: Belonging only comes through celebrating yourself, your history, your culture, and everything that makes you uniquely you. Only in turning away from the white gaze can we truly make America beautiful. An America where difference is celebrated, heritage is shared and embraced, and belonging is for everyone. Through unearthing veiled history and reclaiming her own identity, Julissa shows us how to do this. |
| business networking events los angeles: The Business of Belonging David Spinks, 2021-03-23 A tactical primer for any business embarking on the critical work of actively building community.—Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing This book perfectly marries the psychology of communities, with the hard-earned secrets of someone who's done the real work over many years. David Spinks is the master of this craft.—Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable The rise of the internet has brought with it an inexorable, almost shockingly persistent drive toward community. From the first social networks to the GameStop trading revolution, engaged communities have shown the ability to transform industries. Businesses need to harness that power. As business community expert David Spinks shows in The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage, the successful brands of tomorrow will be those that create authentic connection, giving customers a sense of real belonging and unlocking unprecedented scale as a result. In his career of over 10 years in the business of building community, Spinks has learned what a winning community strategy looks like. From the fundamental concepts—including how community drives measurable business value and what the appropriate metrics are—to high-level community design and practical engagement techniques, The Business of Belonging is an epic journey into the world of community building. This book is for decision makers who want to better understand the value and opportunity of community, and for community professionals who want to level up their strategy. Featuring a foreword by Startup Grind and Bevy cofounder Derek Andersen, it will give you a step-by-step model for strategically planning, creating, facilitating, and measuring communities that drive business growth. Attracting and retaining community members who are also loyal customers, brand evangelists, and leaders—that’s the goal for today’s connected businesses, and this book is the map to getting there. |
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| business networking events los angeles: I'm at a Networking Event--Now What??? Sandy Jones-Kaminski, 2009-10 Through this resource, readers will learn how to make quality connections, cultivate relationships, expand their circle of influence through networking events, and create good social capital. It includes information on networking tools and technology that will promote new contacts and connections. |
| business networking events los angeles: Elevate Beyond Jake Kelfer, 2016-04-12 At a time when career and job opportunities are becoming increasingly competitive, it is essential to do all you can to show your professional and personal uniqueness. In Elevate Beyond, Jake provides strategies, tips, stories and resources to show how you can stand out in work and life! As a recent graduate from the University of Southern California, Jake knows what it is like to search for internships and jobs and find ways to stand out from his peers. After going to resume seminars, networking events, mock interviews, and doing over 100 professional informational interviews, Jake has unlocked valuable knowledge that can save you time and money and help take you to the next stage of your professional journey. In discussions with the CEO of MVMT Watches, a current NFL player for the New England Patriots, professors from USC, and professionals from Apple and the finance world, Jake shares stories and suggestions on how to elevate yourself beyond the competition. Each interview focuses on a different skill set and showcases how you can succeed in all aspects of life. Jake combines these lessons with his own experiences to teach you how to discover a career you are passionate about, become a champion networker, and use resume, interview and social media strategies to stand out from your peers and colleagues. A framework for career and life advancement, Elevate Beyond combines real world experiences with actionable exercises that make it easy for the reader to apply. Jake's lessons and useful exercises prove that anyone can stand out from the crowd and achieve their goals. The only shortcut in life is to start now, and Elevate Beyond provides you with both the tools and knowledge to get you started on your path to success. As part of his personal journey and mission to give back, Jake will be donating a percentage of all proceeds to Children's Hospital Los Angeles in honor of his good friend David Stroud who passed away after a four year battle with cancer. |
| business networking events los angeles: Get Real about Love Renee Piane, 2014-09-22 It's Time to Get Real about Love Are you a busy, successful wonder-woman or super man who's ready to find the love of your life? If you are new to the dating game or reinventing your life, you are about to embark on a heart opening journey that will be sure to change your life forever. Get Real about Love is not only a powerful book that weaves in true love stories, rituals, secret keys and all the tools to prepare you for a sacred relationship, it's a wake-up call for millions of people who are just too busy to take time for love! This inside/out Love Design process is something that most of us never learned growing up. You will uncover and transform the beliefs that have been passed down through your love lineage and experiences from your past that might be the missing links that have blocked you from love...until now! Despite being known as a successful, wonder woman, and pioneer in the dating industry, Renee Piane didn't meet her amazing husband until she was in her 40s. It took a few shocking wake up calls to slow her down long enough to meet the love of her life. Renee is on a passionate quest to share her personal journey that opened her heart to true love and to inspire millions of singles of all ages achieve their ultimate love vision. The choice of a life partner is one of the most important choices you will ever make. Renee's wild journey in the dating trenches will help you to open your heart to trust in love again! It's time for you to Get Real about Love and Create your New Love Story! |
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| business networking events los angeles: Exit Right Mert Iseri, Mark Achler, 2022-02-15 Before you sell your company, even the odds. While a successful entrepreneur may exit a handful of companies in their lifetime, large buyers close deals all the time. Without decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, founders don't have the tools they need to get the best results for themselves, their teams, or the new parent company. Through dozens of interviews with M&A leaders at the biggest Silicon Valley acquirers-as well as attorneys, bankers, and founders who have been through the trenches-Exit Right delivers the hard-earned lessons that lead to successful exits. From negotiation to valuation to breaking down a term sheet, managing legal costs, and handling emotional turbulence-this unparalleled guide covers every critical aspect of a technology startup sale. Learn where deals get into trouble, how to create alignment between negotiating parties, and what terms you should care about most. Above all, learn how to win in both the short and the long term, maximizing your price while positioning your company for a legacy you can be proud of. |
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| business networking events los angeles: Lorna Simpson Joan Simon, 2013 This comprehensive catalogue of Lorna Simpson's critically acclaimed 30-year body of work highlights her photo-text pieces as well as film and video installations to reveal how the artist explores identity, memory, gender, history, fantasy, and reality. Lorna Simpson is a conceptual artist who uses her camera and words to construct new worlds and deconstruct the worlds we know. This monograph opens with her earliest documentary photographs shot between 1978 and 1980, many never before exhibited, and includes her most recent works: large-scale serigraphs on felt and a work-in-progress video installation, Chess, in which Simpson herself, in a rare appearance in her work, recreates images discovered in an anonymous archival photo album. The book also features the photo-text pieces of the mid-1980s that first brought Simpson critical attention; stills from moving picture installations such as Interior/Exterior, Call Waiting, The Institute, and Momentum; and drawings related to her film and video work. Throughout the volume, Simpson's questioning of memory and representation is evident, whether in her moving juxtaposition of text and image, in her pairings of staged self-images with their sources in found photographs, or in her haunting video projection Cloudscape and its echo in the felt work Cloud. |
| business networking events los angeles: The New Business Road Test John Mullins, 2013-10-11 ROAD TEST YOUR IDEA BEFORE YOU WRITE YOUR LEAN START-UP Thinking about starting a new business? Stop! Is there a genuine market for your idea? Do you really want to compete in that industry? Are you the right person to pursue it? No matter how talented you are or how much capital you have, if you’re pursuing a fundamentally flawed opportunity then you’re heading for failure. So before you launch your lean start-up, take your idea for a test drive and make sure it has a fighting chance of working. With an accompanying app, available on iTunes and Android, that will enable readers to easily capture their road test data - notes, interviews, photos or videos - while they are on the go. www.newbusinessroadtest.com |
| business networking events los angeles: Shahnameh Abolqasem Ferdowsi, 2016-03-08 The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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| business networking events los angeles: Payforward Networking Andrew Hennigan, 2015-09-24 Without an effective network it is much harder to get a job, find business, influence people and much more. Most people are aware of this, but are not so sure how to go about building, maintaining and using a network. Payforward Networking is for these people. Based on the networking workshops taught for many years by communication consultant Andrew Hennigan in business schools and companies, it presents a simple, methodical approach to networking that is both effective and easy to master. At the same time it is also built on ethical white hat methods that will not make you feel uncomfortable or manipulative. The book covers the basics of networking in real-life and online, the essentials of online reputation management, the impact of culture on networking, strategic networking and much more. |
| business networking events los angeles: Persevere with Power Samuel Rodriguez, 2021-10-05 God's Mantle of Anointing and Power Is Waiting for You! Inspired by the faithfulness and courage of the great biblical prophets Elijah and Elisha, bestselling author Samuel Rodriguez explores the power of persevering with hope amid the dark times in which we live. If painful circumstances or losses have left you weary and discouraged, then grab hold of God's promises and get ready to complete your assignment! Standing on the truth of God's Word, Pastor Sam helps you to · remain faithful to God and experience His power and provision · discover God's guidance for the time and season you are in · learn how the plow of perseverance always leads to a mantle of promotion · get your family back, your spiritual hunger back, your dream back No matter what you are experiencing, do not doubt for one second that God is at work in your life. Hell cannot stop the prophetic anointing that God has placed on you. Determine to persevere--and expect a harvest of outpouring from the limitless and living God! |
| business networking events los angeles: SIMPLEnetworking Chi Chi Okezie, 2019-08 SIMPLEnetworking is a travel size guide packed with 50 tips on how to network like a pro! Categorized in five chapters, these tips offer insight on professionalism, developing relationships, valuing people, establishing credibility and promoting your brand. It gives practical strategies for building profitable and productive networks. |
| business networking events los angeles: Scott Sedita's Guide to Making It in Hollywood Scott Sedita, 2014-01-31 Scott Sedita’s Guide To Making It In Hollywood lays out everything an actor needs to know to launch a career in the entertainment capital of the world! Tapping into his 25 years of experience in the business, renowned Acting Coach, Author and TV personality Scott Sedita breaks down the Three Steps to Success -- Talent, Confidence, Perseverance -- and shows how these elements work together to build a successful acting career. Further, Scott takes a unique approach in highlighting the many Obstacles actors face when pursuing their dream in Hollywood. Scott explains how actors must identify and avoid the Three Steps to Failure -- Distractions, Addictions, Wrong Actions. With his bold, humorous, no-holds-barred approach, Scott guides the reader with practical, easily accessible advice as well as numerous Success Stories of famous actors he’s worked with and how they made it to the top! |
| business networking events los angeles: What's Next? Joy Chudacoff, 2013-09-27 Is this all there is? You ought to be happier. After all, you've achieved your goals and built the life you dreamed of living. The problem is, what you wanted in your twenties and early thirties isn't what you want now. It's time to move on to something new. You think about going into business for yourself, but you have no idea where to begin ... and the people closest to you don't want anything to change! In What's Next?, Joy Chudacoff lays out a step-by-step approach to exploring the unfamiliar paths before you. You'll discover how to: reconnect with your passions and core valuesmake sure your own needs are met as you juggle all of your responsibilitiescoax great ideas out of their hiding placesmarket yourself and your business without breaking the bank...and much, much more A professional coach and mentor, Joy has done more than provide a one-size-fits-all set of instructions. She has made the process interactive, with hands-on exercises that allow you to tailor each step to your own personal circumstances. If you have ever dreamed of owning your own business, What's Next? will give you every tool you need for success. |
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| business networking events los angeles: Sales Jiu-Jitsu Elliott Bayev, Daniel Moskowitz, 2021-01-19 There are thousands of books on sales, and there are a growing number of books trying to tease out practical philosophies from Jiu-Jitsu. But what if a book did both? What if it combined proven and repeatable sales tools, systems, and processes with the actionable principles from Jiu-Jitsu to create a framework for success? That would be a book that serious sales leaders-those who want proven effectiveness, not platitudes or theory-could use to start generating results right away. Sales Jiu-Jitsu is that book. Elliott Bayev and Daniel Moskowitz share a complete sales system for elite leaders and entrepreneurs to take their already successful sales teams and turn them into sales black belts. This book provides practical and actionable steps you can use to get results with your teams on their next sales engagements. Whether you are new to sales or a world-class salesperson who is leading sales teams, this book will give you a competitive advantage in your industry. |
| business networking events los angeles: Promoting and Marketing Events Nigel Jackson, 2013-10-28 This accessible book introduces students to the theories, concepts and skills required to promote an event successfully. To promote an event effectively it is essential to understand marketing, but it is also important to recognise that it is not just consumers who are the audience: other publics who may not necessarily attend can have a fundamental effect on the success of an event as well. Uniquely therefore, this book covers two related themes: marketing and public relations in an events context. This will offer events planners a comprehensive guide on how to promote events to a range of audiences, and on how to use this to manage an event’s long-term reputation. The book focuses on core marketing and PR current theory specifically relevant to the events industry and introduces topics such as marketing strategy, the consumer, marketing PR and how to use the internet to promote events. It integrates a range of international case studies from small-scale events to mega-events to help show how theory can be applied in practice. It further includes inserts of interviews with practitioners in the field, to offer insight into the realities of event communication and to show how to overcome potential pitfalls. Learning outcomes, discussion questions and further reading suggestions are included to aid navigation throughout the book, spur critical thinking and further students’ knowledge. The book is essential reading for all students studying Events Management, and provides valuable reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in marketing and public relations in general. |
| business networking events los angeles: Forbidden City Vanessa Hua, 2023-04-18 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “masterful” (The Washington Post) novel. “A new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution . . . Think Succession, but add death and mayhem to the palace intrigue. . . . Ambitious and impressive.”—San Francisco Chronicle ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, PopSugar • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize On the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman’s opulent residence—a forbidden city unto itself—that she learns that the girls’ job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei beelines toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates herself from the other recruits to become the Chairman’s confidante—and paramour. While he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place and the Chairman’s imperious wife, who has secret plans of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world’s most powerful and least understood leaders during this extraordinarily turbulent period in modern Chinese history. Mei’s harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl. |
| business networking events los angeles: WorkParty Jaclyn Johnson, 2018-08-21 First, we leaned in. Now we stand up. In this “much-needed combo of real talk, confessions, and lessons learned along the way” (Chelsea Handler), Jaclyn Johnson—the founder and CEO behind Create & Cultivate, the fastest growing online platform for millennial businesswomen—offers a rallying cry for a new generation of women who are redefining the meaning of work on their own terms. Jaclyn suffered a massive blow in her early twenties. She was on an upward career climb and confidently moved across the country for a job—and then, was abruptly let go. Attempting to turn that closed door into an open window, she launched a company with a trusted business partner. Soon after, she discovered said business partner had made detrimental decisions to the company without her knowledge. Before she knew it, she was in the throes of a brutal business partner break up. She was only twenty-four. Determined to bounce back, Jaclyn overhauled the mess that was her life and by the time she was in her early thirties, she had sold a company and launched the much-buzzed about Create & Cultivate platform—and advised and invested in multiple million-dollar projects at the same time. So, how did she do it? In WorkParty, Jaclyn shows how she turned distrust into determination, frustration into fuel, and heartache into hard work—and how you can, too. With stories from leading female entrepreneurs including Christene Barberich (co-founder of Refinery29), Alli Webb, (creator of Drybar), Morgan Debaun (founder of Blavity), Jen Gotch of Ban.do, Rebecca Minkoff, and Kendra Scott, you will learn the tips and tricks from the best in the business while cultivating the passion and happiness you need to succeed. “This is the book you need to take your career to the next level—on your own terms” (Refinery29). |
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