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Summary of Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang's Accessory to War is a meditation on the history of space research and its interdependence on military research and warfare. The narrative contextualizes discoveries such as the compass and adaptive optics in order to evaluate the present global state of space diplomacy...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog!
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1) Treat your tasks as you would treat the action of eating a frog. Start with the biggest one and do it quickly. When you start by doing the hardest and ugliest task, the rest feels like no biggie.
2) You need to act immediately and eat the frog. Staring at it won't make eating it easier. Similarly, with any big and unpleasant task, you must put the pedal to...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Ron Chernow's Titan.
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1) The most extensive quest for John D. Rockefeller's ancestors leads to a ninth-century French family known as the Roquefeuilles, who supposedly lived in a castle.
2) The German lineage of the Rockefellers, on the other hand, can be traced back to the early 1600s in the Rhine valley.
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While others often respond to the cares and concerns of our day through anger, And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World attempts to offer a response steeped in the heartbeat of Love.
This book is an invitation to encounter the lived experience and philosophical musings of another as a human, not as a project or agenda to conquer. Without apology, it embraces humanity and all the emotions, back stories, and history that come along...
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What good is a church community if it lacks loving fellowship?
In Rules for Walking in Fellowship , John Owen supplies struggling congregations with biblical guidelines for making church life in the present a foretaste of heavenly fellowship to come. He discusses both the responsibilities congregations have toward pastors as well as the duties members have toward one another. Together, Owen presents twenty-four rules for fostering gospel fellowship,...
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Summary of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots describes the ways automation and rapid advances in technology are shaping the global economy, as well as the profound consequences these technological changes will have for future workers. The role of technology in production has evolved. No longer a mere means of increasing the productivity of human workers, technology has developed methods for replacing workers entirely...
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Summary of Mark R. Levin's Plunder and Deceit calls a threat to the United State's experiment with democracy. At the heart of the threat is an executive branch of government that is running amok. Its leaders are well meaning, but they are trying to transform the US into a utopia by throwing trillions of dollars at the country's social problems. The result is a national debt that has passed $18 trillion and continues growing. The soaring increase in...
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Summary of John P. Kotter's Leading Change, long-time Harvard business professor John P. Kotter outlines his influential process to establish and secure permanent changes that will make any organization more efficient, successful, and competitive.
Bringing change to an organization often entails high stakes. Success can revitalize a business and unlock new potential, but failure can doom a firm to years of stagnation…
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A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Isreal focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights
American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinian Sephardic roots, a former Yiddish...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laurence J. Kotlikoff's Money Magic
Most people make the mistake of treating their finances like someone else's problem. In Money Magic (2021), economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff teaches you how to handle your own finances and take back power over your life. He tells the secrets of benefiting from Social Security, retirement plans, and college loans to the maximum, while also tackling marriage, divorce, and even...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brandi Carlile's Broken Horses
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1) Brandi Carlile was born in a poor family. Her mother was a hostess and her father a breakfast prep cook. During her childhood, her family underwent multiple evictions, leading to recurrent moves around Washington State.
2) At age 4, Brandi contracted meningitis. Her illness put her into a coma, but she woke from it shortly after being admitted to the hospital....
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Summary of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds her in the...
11813) The Skeleton Key
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This reunion will tear a family apart...
Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Clues and puzzles in the pages of The Golden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried-gold and...
11814) Crave
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I convinced New York's cockiest, crankiest, hottest chef to take my virginity.
Three months later, I have to step back into his life... telling him I'm pregnant with his baby.
It was supposed to be a rebellious one-night-stand.
But that's what happens, doesn't it?
You get drunk, see your hot crush at the same bar, and you let him take you home. And sleep with him. Hard. Multiple times in one night.
Oh yeah, and I never said my secret crush was...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies
Generic drugs are popular because they are affordable and available, but are they really what they appear to be? In Bottle of Lies (2019), Katherine Eban exposes the fraudulent nature of the generic drug industry, focusing on the Indian pharmaceutical sector. Eban based her work on confidential correspondence and FDA documents, as well as accounts taken directly from whistleblowers....
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Summary of Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline explains how managers can shift any group's perspective away from defensiveness and toward collaboration. By practicing the five disciplines of a learning organization, a company can avoid many of the dysfunctions that tend to prevent growth…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brian Tracy's The Psychology of Selling.
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1) You, as a salesperson, are an integral factor in a society's growth or downfall. It is through your sales that a community thrives. A salesperson is an essential cog in the machine of prosperity.
2) The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that the top 20 percent of salespeople in a company make 80 percent of the money. This rule...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Rutger Bregman's Humankind.
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1) The idea that most people are, deep down, kind, is pretty radical. It may seem innocent, but it's an idea that's long been known to make rulers nervous, an idea denied by religions and ideologies, ignored by the news media, and erased from history books.
2) It is, however, an idea that has been proven over and over again. We see it every single time there's...
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Summary of Ben Carson & Candy Carson's A More Perfect Union is a book by Ben Carson, MD, and his wife, Candy Carson. This book explores the intricacies of the Constitution in both its historical context and its application by the present United States government. By breaking down all of the concepts covered in the Constitution, US citizens can be better educated on the freedoms ensured by this document so that they can be more vigilant about attempts...
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