Ordinary-shares

If you are at all interested in making serious money without having to break your back for it, then this book is a must for you. It is a simple guide on selecting shares in undervalued, unnoticed and usually small companies, using mathematical principles and common sense. However like everything else, you have to actually apply the principles and be disciplined in your activity to make it pay for you. The great thing about the book is that you need no prior financial grounding to understand it. It also takes you through each step from selection to sale without any area of ambiguity. Alltogether a true classic.

Her novel was well written, Itshows that there is always time for evrything. Women also have the ability to do what their role models teach them, which can give them theability to do anything.

This book is an amazingly inspiriting book. The set-up was a good idea. Each woman's story is descried from her eyes and from her perspective. The stories of each of the woman are very different and each unique in their own way. The woman seem to each come from a different background and each to maintain what they wanted to maintain, and to everyone's eyes become successful. I love the fact that many of the women juggle a social life, work life, and have time to run a successful family because many of the women write about their kids and those kids seem to be successful from what is written. The novel is an easy read because there is only a couple pages describing each character but yet, it is interesting because every couple of pages you have a whole new picture and problem at hand. The most inspiring part to this novel was the fact that many of these women came from a disadvantaged background and their success was even more of a special victory. I definitely recommend this novel for people who like to read non-fiction novels because you get in depth with these woman's struggles and their secrets to how to do it. My only complaint is that after reading so many stories they tend to get a little boring because you know each one of them will make it and succeed. Also not very much is discussed concerning the woman's jobs. The novel doesn't go into very much detail describing what exactly they do, where as more time is spent on describing they life they lived before and what they did and the life after because of this " job". Other than those two complaints the novel was amazing.

In "See Jane Win", Dr. Sylvia Rimm and Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman studied and reported on 1,100 successful women. The women, who had indicated that they were happy with both their home and career lives, filled out survies about their lives. The results, which included such findings as biggest role models, birth orders, schools attended and activities participated in while young, served parents with information on possible ways to raise daughters. The short anecdotes about several survey participants served girls and young women with inspirational mini-biographies about women who had become what they themselves define as successful.

"How Jane Won", subtitled "55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women" includes more autobiographies by such women. The book is divided into six sections of careers: the Lawmakers and Adjudicators, the Shatterers of Glass Ceilings, the Healers and Discoverers, the Nurturers, the Artists and Musicians, and the Communicators. Women telling their life stories range from astranauts to homemakers, and include Christina Whitman (Governor of New Jersey), Nydia M. Velazquez (US Congresswoman), Sandra Day O'Connor, Cathleen Black (President of Hearst Magazines), Eileen COllins (NASA Astrnaut and Space Shuttle Commander), Alexa Canady, M.D. (Pediatric Nerosurgeon), Martha Aarons (Flutist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra), Jane Pauley (Anchor, NBC News and Dateline), Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch actress), and Jacqauleyn Mitchard (bestselling author).

Although one would fear this book would turn into a Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul, most of the stories do an amazing job of staying on the practical and real side instead of the corny and romantic one. Most of the stories are insprirational yet helpful. Many girls would be inspired by reading about the lives of these successful women, and many women who wish to advance in their own education or career would also find these stories interesting.

One important thing many women in the book point out is how hard it was for them in the beginning of their career, before women had won many of the rights and status we too often take for granted. Cathleen Black, President of Hearst Magazines, writes "When I talk to teenage girls, it's hard for them to imagine that these opportunities didn't always exist. I dont' know that it's real for them. They're skeptical when I tell them they couldn't have gotten a loan or gone to Harvard in my era." Likewise, Katherine Hudson, President and CEO of Brady Corportation, writes, "When I wrote my resume, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. None of the companies were interested in my doing financial work, despite my gruaduatin first in the class. The salary offers were for about half of what the guys in class were being offered. This was in 1968, before affirmative action."

A positive point about "How Jane Won" is that it advoids the materialism found in "See Jane Win". The biggest critique of that book is that women were defined as successful almost exclusively when they held jobs women were previously unable to or when they made a great amount of money. In "How Jane Won", however, the women who share their stories may or not be financially successful, but they are successful because they are happy. Women who hold "traditional" jobs like teachers, nurses, and homemakers are not excluded like they are in most of "See Jane Win", and this sends the important message that girls can and should do whatever makes them happiest, whether that is becoming a nuclear physicist or a street musician.

One critique that can be made of "How Jane Won", however, is its exclusion of "untraditional" family women: women who do not marry at all or who are lesbians. There is one lesbian whose story is included, as well as a few women who never had children, but besides for this the emphasis seems to be that women are only successful when they are not only happy with their work but when they also have a "typical, all-American" family system. It would be nice to see greater diversity in the See Jane Win series, if there are to be any more in the future.

Instead of being overloaded with cheesiness as one might expect, most of "How Jane Won" is full of practical advice and inspiration. Both girls and parents alike will find themselves liking and rereading certain stories they find most relevant to their lives, and this will positively influence many readers. ...