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Summary of Jon Meacham's Destiny and Power is a biography of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, who served from 1988 to 1992. The author argues that as president and as a politician, Bush used prudence and compromise to an extent that would seem out of place in today's era of highly partisan US politics.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Bezos's Invent and Wander
By staying patient and keeping his eye on the distant horizon, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has focused on his company's long-term goals and kept going despite many failures and losses. Invent and Wander (2020) is a compilation of his writings, speeches, and annual shareholder letters. Together, they give readers an insight into his life and background, and the long path he's taken...
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Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point applies the logic of biological contagion to a wide range of social phenomena, such as crime waves, that function similarly to epidemics. The moment when a small-scale pattern gains exponential momentum and transforms into a widespread phenomenon is known in sociology as its Tipping Point…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from John Jaquish & Henry Alkire's Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
Fitness experts have long argued for the benefits of exercises that require weightlifting and cardio. However, real-life results have consistently negated their arguments.
In Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time (2020), John Jaquish and Henry Alkire argue against mainstream fitness and reveal its pitfalls. In fact, fitness science has overlooked several...
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Summary of Robert Cialdini's Pre-suasion is a research-driven examination of the ways that framing a persuasive argument can influence its effectiveness. Extensive research finds that certain ways of setting up a persuasion can be more effective than a well-planned persuasive argument on its own.
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Summary of Frans de Waal's Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? provides an overview of the history of animal cognition research and the most recent discoveries about animal intelligence. As researchers continue to improve methods for testing animals' cognitive abilities, they are discovering that animals process, respond to, and act on stimuli in ways previously assumed to be exclusively human…
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Summary of Bruce Lipton's The Biology of Belief by cell biologist Bruce Lipton explores the power of the mind to influence health and well being. The Biology of Belief provides scientific proof that debunks the notion of fixed genetic inheritance, or that genes create reality...
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Summary of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls is a World War II-era novel based on real people and events. The novel tells the intertwined stories of three women: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite and philanthropist; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women; and Herta Oberheuser, a Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly.
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1) Gentle and Lowly introduces you to Christ, who he really is, and how he feels about you. It answers necessary and legitimate questions through biblical text.
2) Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, and John Bunyan have given us insight on what the Bible beholds, and these Puritans are what drove Gentle and Lowly to fruition.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money
In The Lords of Easy Money (2022), journalist Christopher Leonard analyzes the decisions and policies of one of the most mysterious American institutions: the Federal Reserve. Leonard explains how the Fed managed the US economic system before, during, and after the financial crash of 2008, and highlights its powers to control interest rates and push banks and investors...
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Summary of Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable is Kevin Kelly's in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that will ultimately impact all of humanity.
Inevitability, in this context, is defined as a pattern that is unquestionably trending forward due to the ways in which technological developments favor certain functions and behaviors.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Will Bulsiewicz's Fiber Fueled
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome (2020) is a self-help health book about restoring balance to our gut microbiome, which is essentially a diverse community of microorganisms that coexist inside our body and serve a very important purpose – to keep us healthy. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explains that...
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Summary of Walter Isaacson's Einstein is a meticulous and engaging account of the life of Albert Einstein, best known for discovering the principle of relativity. The narrative uncovers Einstein's nuanced personality and describes the ways in which his passions governed his personal, political, and scientific life…
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Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich's Beyond Biden
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following...
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Summary of Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt's The Rainbow Comes and Goes is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder if he and his mother knew one another as well as they could. After the untimely death of his father...
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Summary of Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution is a call to action to make sleep a priority and reclaim the night for the basic human need of rest. Millions of people use nighttime hours for activities other than sleep. They choose to prioritize work or succumb to an addiction to technology rather than invest those precious hours in sleep. In the United States and increasingly around the world, work culture regards sleep as an inefficient waste...
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Love is not the same for all people, neither is passion, sex, or intimacy. Sometimes what one person finds thrilling, another can only hope to understand. These are the lessons learned from the experiences of Anastasia Steele after meeting Christian Grey in the now famous Fifty Shades of Grey series. In this book, the motivations, thoughts, and introspections of the man who introduced Ana to the world of bondage and discipline, Christian Grey, are...
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice that insisted on charging patients a minimal fee. He also occasionally administered psychological tests at settlement houses. Myril, on the other hand, rose to the top on Madison Avenue as an advertising executive. Their marriage ended by the...
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