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Author
Publisher
Lioncrest Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. STEEPED: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur is the story of how Brook built a socially conscious multimillion-dollar tea company with a fierce devotion to sustainability. Part business memoir, part India travelogue, STEEPED is brimming with provocative prose, transcendent images of travel throughout India, and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring and empowering, this journey behind the scenes of humanity's greatest creations reveals the surprising way we make something new. What do Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe, Coca Cola, and Chanel No. 5 have in common? They all depended on a nineteenth-century African boy who, with a single pinch, solved one of nature's great riddles and gave birth to the multimillion-dollar vanilla industry. Kevin Ashton opens his book with the fascinating...
3) Life by the cup: ingredients for a purpose-filled life of bottomless happiness and limitless success
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Language
English
Description
"The founder of Zhena's Gypsy Tea Company tells her extraordinary story of struggle, hope, and audacity, inspiring women to overcome setbacks--no matter how daunting--and pursue their dreams. As a twenty-four-year-old single mom, Zhena Muzyka had a young son in need of life-saving surgery and only six dollars in her wallet. But she also had three other powerful motivators: hope, a love of tea, and a dream to share beautiful, aromatic, organic teas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Bill Gates was born in 1955, no one owned a personal computer. Gates envisioned what a computerized society could be and he set out to lead the way, building the Microsoft empire with single-minded drive. Today, the man who made his fortune by putting the whole world in touch now hopes to improve lives around the planet.