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Summary of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny warns Americans that democracy as a system of government is not indestructible. In fact, during the twentieth century, several European nations allowed democratic societies to fail by electing fascist or communist rulers and complying with authoritarian rule…
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1) In September 2001, Irish American actress Sharon Stone had a stroke and almost died. Despite a 1 percent chance of survival, Sharon beat the odds.
2) During her close brush with death, Sharon connected to what felt like an eternal source of love, seeing a beautiful white light and hearing the voices of loved ones who had already passed.
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Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat brings together more than two dozen narratives of patients with many different neurological impairments. The narratives illuminate medical details of the diseases while illustrating how those diseases play out in a patient's thoughts and actions, bringing a more human aspect to the ailments…
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Summary of J.R. Ward's The Bourbon Kings sets up a rip-roaring family saga that twists and turns through money, murder, a myriad of affairs, and more. So much more, in fact, that two sequels are planned to sort it out.
Lizzie King, chief horticulturalist, works at a frenzied pace to get Easterly, the Bradford Family Estate, ready for the annual Derby Brunch before Saturday's big race at Steeplehill Downs in Charlemont, Kentucky. The Bradford family...
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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from James Rickards's The New Great Depression.
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1) SARS-CoV-2 is a deadly virus more commonly known as coronavirus. The resulting disease from the virus is called Covid-19. Some infections produce no symptoms at all, while others cause lung inflammation, which leads to difficulty breathing and a myriad of other potential symptoms and complications.
2) The pandemic began in Wuhan, China. Like...
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Summary of Larry Olmsted's Real Food/Fake Food is an investigative overview of the food industry's often intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the origin and identity of the products that they eat. Author Larry Olmsted highlights the most outrageous examples of food frauds perpetrated upon the American people and offers recommendations for ways that consumers can reclaim their grocery bags and fill their dinner plates with foods they can...
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Summary of Mary Roach's Grunt examines technological and medical research in the military. Each chapter focuses on a different topic-for example, diarrhea among soldiers-and then presents historical background, interviews with scientists and affected military personnel, and possible solutions to the problem.
Military research in both news accounts and films is usually presented as a matter of technology and combat equipment, such as faster airplanes,...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...
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Summary of Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman traces Wonder Woman's origins to the women's movements of the early twentieth century and connects the character's early portrayals to the life, work, and feminist beliefs of creator William Moulton Marston.
Marston was born in 1893…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rachel Held Evans's Wholehearted Faith
Wholehearted Faith (2021) is a posthumous collection of essays by Rachel Held Evans, whose writings about being a progressive Christian have impacted and inspired multitudes of people throughout the world.
She explores what it means to have wholehearted faith in a society when everything drives you to doubt your religion, yourself, and everyone else by telling different...
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Sociopaths comprise an alarming four percent of the population; that is, one in every 25 people is a sociopath. But this mental disorder is not well understood and many people fail to recognize it in others, which makes sociopaths difficult to identify and potentially very dangerous. It is urgent that people understand what a sociopath is and learn to recognize their revealing traits in order to protect themselves against these individuals who otherwise...
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Summary of Amy Poehler's Yes Please is a humorous memoir that combines anecdotal essays, memories of the past, poetry, photos, and bits of poignant advice from her life. It begins with her childhood growing up in the Boston area and explores her career in improvisational comedy, writing, and acting in Chicago, New York, and Hollywood.
When, as a child, Amy Poehler portrayed Dorothy in the fourth grade production of The Wizard of Oz, she learned that,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from David M. Greene's Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat
In Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat (2019), David M. Greene meticulously explains how applying the BRRRR method in real estate investing can lead to exceptional riches, unlike traditional real estate investing, which is slow, inefficient, and not as profitable. Greene details each part of the five-step process, and shares his own experience in accumulating...
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Summary of Steven C. Hayes & Spencer Smith's Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life is a self-help book that encourages people to detach from the causes of suffering, embrace their psychological pain, identify their values, and take action toward those values. The process is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based therapy that focuses on techniques of mindfulness, acceptance, and values-centric living...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards
Unknown Market Wizards (2020) is a continuation of the Market Wizards series that trader Jack D. Schwager started in 1989. This time, instead of talking to famed traders, Schwager set out to see if he could find traders who are little known even though they have a long record of success. To his amazement, he found not one but eleven with great track records. In Unknown...
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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human body to the stock market, can be fragile, robust, or antifragile…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jonny Bowden & Stephen Sinatra's The Great Cholesterol Myth
Cholesterol is the main reason behind heart disease… or so you've been taught. In The Great Cholesterol Myth (2020), nutritionist Jonny Bowden and cardiologist Stephen Sinatra cut through the thicket of myths surrounding cholesterol, lipoproteins, and the lipid hypothesis. Their fact-based analysis will open your eyes by presenting a clearer picture...
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Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing "War on Drugs" and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system…