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After founding PartPic in 2013, Jewel Burks Solomon became the first ever Black female to scale and sell her business to a Fortune 5 company when it was bought by Amazon in 2016. Along the way she overcame obstacles and faced down bigotry, carried through by the strength of her vision and her resilience. Out of these bruising yet triumphant experiences comes Further Together: a celebration of team-work and collaboration, a paean to the power of purpose in the face of adversity, and a manifesto for under-respresented entreprenuers everywhere.

Long before the world began seeking STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - education for girls, American Maria Mitchell proved that women were capable of achieving worldwide acclaim for brilliant reasoning and discoveries. Born to a Quaker family in 1818 Nantucket, Mitchell had opportunities unavailable to other girls of the time. The Quakers believed boys and girls should be educated, so Maria attended public schools. She also had the benefit of her father's tutelage. At an early age, she loved to perform the complex navigational computations requested by sailors.

Narain Gehani tells the fascinating story of the transition Bell Labs is undergoing as it adapts to new business conditions. Bell Labs researchers, who once were free to focus on innovation, research excellence, and prizes, now have to worry about business relevance. The culture of lifetime employment is gone and the pendulum has swung from basic to applied research.