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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed
In How The Word Is Passed (2021), Clint Smith chronicles his journey to multiple monuments and sites, exploring the history of Black slavery in America through the stories and events each one of them represents. Clint reflects on the places he visited, and the stories he heard from multiple tour guides, highlighting the importance of keeping the history of Black people's...
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Summary of Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav's first book about spirituality, describes how humans in the late twentieth century began evolving into more intuitive, soulful beings. Truly evolved people attune their faculties so they can perceive phenomena beyond the material world-that is, beyond what they see, hear, smell, touch, and feel...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up
I Can't Make This Up (2017) is superstar comedian Kevin Hart's funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring memoir about survival, achievement, and the value of believing in yourself. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss, the memoir starts with Hart's childhood and chronicles all the obstacles he has faced. His father was a heroin addict who was in and out of jail,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Vivek Ramaswamy's Woke, Inc.
In today's culture, if you're not woke, you're considered a threat. How did America go from the land of free speech to the land where everyone should say the same things, or risk being shunned?
In Woke, Inc. (2021), Vivek Ramaswamy argues that politics has no role in business. He offers a fresh vision for American capitalism's future, and takes us behind the scenes of corporate boardrooms...
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Summary of Sean Carroll's The Big Picture is a scientific exploration of many essential questions of humanity, such as the meaning of life and the origin of the universe, considered from a poetic-naturalist perspective.
"Poetic naturalism" is a way of describing the world that relies on observations and the use of consistent language when describing it.
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Summary of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing a lead on her late mother, whose final days are shrouded in mystery, Lily travels to a nearby town where she finds a new home with a black family.
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Summary of Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel's What to Expect When You're Expecting a best selling, step-by-step guide to pregnancy, covering everything from before a woman starts trying to conceive to six weeks after the birth. Over the course of that time, a woman's body undergoes numerous changes, as does her personality and her relationships with her partner, doctors, and colleagues…
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Summary of Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, she unveils methods and approaches to maintain habits that can improve people's lives.
Rubin roots the book in personal experiences with her own family and friends while using relevant data and studies to streamline her ideas. She also references...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart
Emotions – we feel them every second of every day, yet we have such a limited vocabulary to express them. How do we go beyond happy and sad?
In Atlas of the Heart (2021), Brené Brown aims to equip us with all the language tools we need to map out the wide spectrum of feelings we experience. She doesn't tell us how we're supposed to feel, or how to deal with emotions when...
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1) Bitcoin is the newest technology to serve the purpose of money. It is an innovation that takes advantage of the digital age's technical possibilities to solve a dilemma that has long plagued humanity: how to transfer economic capital through time and space.
2) To comprehend Bitcoin, one must first understand money, and there is no better way to comprehend money than to research its purpose and history.
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Summary of Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls, follows a married couple, Matt and Beth Kelly, and their best friends, Jimmy and Ash Dillon, through five years of their lives. As young politicians, Matt's and Jimmy's careers are on different trajectories; Matt's career is flagging while Jimmy's star is on the rise.
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Summary of Tony Robbins's Awaken the Giant Within is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives.
Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone is happy and fulfilled.
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Summary of Glenn Beck's Liars exposes the past and present onslaught led by the Left against the tenets of free society in the United States. For generations, progressives have been attempting to curb individual liberty in order to construct what they claim will be a more prosperous and peaceful society.
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Summary of Robert Kegan's An Everyone Culture is an academic description of unconventional employee management systems implemented by three example businesses. Cinema chain ArcLight Cinemas, investment firm Bridgewater Associates, and corporate rewards company Next Jump each exemplify the deliberately developmental organization, or DDO.
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Summary of James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse is an oral history of Creative Artists Agency, one of the most powerful talent agencies to emerge in the entertainment industry over the past 40 years. Miller interviewed agents, actors, musicians, and executives who worked at or with CAA. He arranges excerpts from their interviews to provide a narrative of CAA's history from its beginning to 2016.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman's The Power of Experiments
Smart experimentation helps corporations advance professionally and financially, inform decisions, and influence health and education.
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman's The Power of Experiments (2020) walks readers through success stories illustrating why companies conduct experiments and how the results can be used effectively. Luca and Bazerman describe...
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Summary of Suki Kim's Without You, There Is No Us is a memoir by Suki Kim. In her book, Suki portrays what it was like for a Korean American to teach English to the sons of the North Korean elite during the last few months of the life of Kim Jong-il. Suki Kim was born in South Korea, but she moved with her family to the United States when she was thirteen years old. When her homeland was divided into North and South Korea, with members of her family...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Daniel Kahneman's Noise
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1) Bias and noise, also known as systematic deviation and random scatter, are two types of error.
2) Some judgments are skewed; they are consistently off the mark. Other judgments make a lot of noise and end up at different points around the target.