Amazon.com updates its list of the bestselling books every hour. Here is a snapshot of what is hot right now, this Monday morning, February 1, in the “Women and Business” section of the “Business and Investing” category.
1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Dangerously ill when he finished his climbing the world’s second tallest mountain, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town’s first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls.
2. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
by Suze Orman. How women can achieve financial security.
3.  Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel. The author identifies ingrained habits women learn as girls that may be holding them back, such as couching statements in a question, smiling inappropriately, tilting the head while speaking, and others. Only by overcoming these self-defeating behaviors will the ‘nice girl’ learn to leverage her power in the workplace-and claim the corner office she so richly deserves.
4. Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age (Finish Rich Book Series)
by David Bach. Bach takes theThe Finish Rich Workbook: Creating a Personalized Plan for a Richer Future (Get out of debt, Put your dreams in action and achieve Financial Freedom
wisdom and tailors it specifically to all of us who forgot to save, procrastinated, or got sidetracked by life’s unexpected challenges.
5. Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham. Using stories and examples from real women, the book describes paradox of modern life for women and offers a guide for how how to live your strongest life.
6. Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility
by Mireille Guiliano. As a senior executive and spokesperson for Veuve Clicquot, the author took the Champagne to the top of the luxury market, using her distinctive French woman’s philosophy and style. Drawing on her experiences at the front lines, she gives women the practical advice they need to make the most of work without skimping on all the other good things in life.
7.Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Each year, millions of women leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones-easing a ‘care deficit’ in rich countries, while creating one back home.
8. How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life
by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston. The authors establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the model of Centered Leadership.
9. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying
by Suze Orman. The author of You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It : Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make When You Retire
goes beyond the nuts and bolts of managing money to explore the psychological, even spiritual, power money has in our lives. Before we can get control of our finances, we must get control of our attitudes about money, feelings that were shaped by our earliest experiences with it.
10. Live a Little!: Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health
by Susan M. Love and Alice Domar. Breaking down the prevailing health “musts” in six areas—sleep, stress, preventive care, exercise, nutrition, and personal relationships—these doctors, with a little help from the other experts of BeWell, cut to the heart of these topics and give us realistic guidelines for living a healthy enough life, one that also includes laughter, relaxation, and a commonsense attitude about being pretty healthy.
