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The Warrior of the Light
From Paulo Coelho
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In The Warrior of the Light, Paulo Coelho has crafted a code for daily life which contains elements of morality, pragmatism, and empathy drawn from multiple sources spanning different cultures and regions. He synthesizes sources as disparate as the Christian Bible and Lao Tzu’s Art of War among others to create a code...
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The Obstacle is the Way
From Ryan Holiday
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“The Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday is a well written book with plenty of interesting stories from real people most of us know. Ryan Holiday, however, goes past the usual information and also shows us which challenges those people had to face before they had their big breakthroughs. He uses these examples to...
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The Nazi Officer’s Wife
From Edith Hahn Beer
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This book begins with a preface that explains that the story is a true one. Edith Hahn Beer fled from the Gestapo by living under a false identity in Nazi Germany. In 1997, she sold her archive of wartime documents, including letters and pictures, which eventually made their way to the United States Holocaust Memorial...
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The Innovators
From Walter Isaacson
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Ada Lovelace, and many like her, believed humans and machines work best together. Considering Deep Blue and Watson, both machines were more efficient when partnered with humans. If this continues to be true, Licklider's concept remains unchanged.
Overall, this book emphasizes the importance of collaboration during the creative...
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The Doctors Diet
From Dr. Travis Stork
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How many times have you ever been on a diet? It’s usually a frustrating process that a lot of people have gone through, but they don’t like to talk about it. If you aren’t sure about what you need to do to get through a diet, you may be checking out all of the different things that you have as options.
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Orphan Train
From Christina Baker Cline
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In the 1850’s it was estimated that over 30,000 children were homeless, and roaming the busy streets of New York City. Charles Brace, saw a need for the children to have homes of their own. He founded the Children’s Aid Society. Brace theorized that he children would have a better chance...
Long Knives
From Charles Rosenberg
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There are a number of stories out there that get our attention and end up becoming pieces of art that help us to feel as if we are engrossed in the story. The story Long Knives by Charles Rosenberg does just that. This legal thriller is a story that keeps people following everything from beginning to end.
Journeys on the Silk Road
A Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book From Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters
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In Journeys on the Silk Road, Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters use historical records to create an entertaining narrative that brings the past to life. Rather than making a dry history book...
Hunting Eichmann
How A Band of Survivors and A Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
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There are few people that can claim responsibility for the terror that was inflicted on the Jews. One such man was Adolf Eichmann. As he was one of the men that was considered the Architect of the Holocaust, he gave orders to gather Jews into ghettos
Hand to Mouth
The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World
From Linda Tirado
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Linda Tirado begins her introduction with her answer to a question she saw on an internet forum: Why do poor people do things that seem so self destructive? The answer she gave is a snapshot, a brief insight into the life of someone who is, and always has, living in poverty.
Guernica
From Dave Boling
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Historical fiction is one of the most interesting genres of fiction that you can get into, especially if you are interested in history. Many authors who are working on historical fiction novels put a lot of time and research into the art, and they make sure that everything that they are doing is historically accurate...
Everything is Bullshit
The Greatest Scams on Earth Revealed
From Priceonomics
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Everything is Bullshit is a well-researched and written book that peels back the layers of lies and distortions about some of our most cherished and respected social and economic beliefs. The authors, three members of Priceonomics, have divided the book into four sections.
Dreamers and Deceivers
True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
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Dreamers and Deceivers is an astonishing book. Although these are factual accounts from our past, it does not read like a history book. Rather the author, Glenn Beck, has presented each story as a miniature novel based in fact.
Dreamers and Deceivers
True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
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Dreamers and Deceivers is an astonishing book. Although these are factual accounts from our past, it does not read like a history book. Rather the author, Glenn Beck, has presented each story as a miniature novel based in fact.
Double Cross
The Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
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From Chuck Giancana & Sam Giancana
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This beautifully written book isn’t merely a tale of a mobster’s life; it reveals the pain of a notorious person’s family. Also, Double Cross is a tale of the love and compassion a younger brother has for his older, successful, but ruthless sibling.
Deep Down Dark
The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free
From Hector Tobar
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Deep Down Dark is the inspiring and heartwarming tale of the thirty three Chilean miners trapped in the San José Mine. Told in the style of a novel rather than a list of factual events
The Death of Money:
The Coming Collapse of The International Monetary System
From James Rickards
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The Death of Money by James Rickards is a fascinating look at both the possibilities and scandals of the global financial market. Written in a light but professional tone, this book makes no attempts to coddle its reader.
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The Earth is Weeping
From Peter Cozzens
The Epic Story of the Indian Wars
for the American West
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Researchers do not know how many people lived in the Americas before the arrival of the European conquistadors. However, they continue their investigation in order to find out the exact number of the aboriginal people who inhabited the continents.
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The Magnolia Story
From Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines
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Fixer Upper is a popular reality television series on HGTV, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines and based in Waco, Texas. The pilot episode first aired in May of 2013. Season one began nearly one year later, in April of 2014, followed by the second season in January of 2015, the third season in December of 2015...
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Hidden Figures
From Margot Lee Shetterly
Dorothy Vaughan
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Dorothy Vaughan, an American mathematician and the first African-American woman to become a head of personnel at NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), was born on September 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. Dorothy Vaughan was named Dorothy Johnson at birth by her parents Leonard and Annie Johnson.
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Hidden Figures
From Margot Lee Shetterly
Mary Jackson
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Every life on Earth is significant by itself. All the people leave some kind of marking upon civilization with their presence. But some of us, leave clear footprints on the world. Some people are so extraordinary and important that they must be remembered and acknowledged in the future.
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Hidden Figures
From Margot Lee Shetterly
Katherine Johnson:
One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space Race
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Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is one of the most important pioneers from the American space movement. She is a physicist and a research mathematician who has calculated orbits and trajectories for historic space missions.
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Hero of the Empire
From Candace Millard
The Boer War, a Daring Escape,
and the Making of Winston Churchill
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Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on 30 November 1874. He was an heir of a noble family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His ancestor George Spencer, a member of the aristocratic Spencer family, was proud of his consanguinity with John Churchill...
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Grinding it Out
From Ray Kroc
The Making of McDonald’s
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Surprisingly, Ray Kroc’s business success may appear to be fate. At least, it was predicted in his early years by a phrenologist – a person, who specializes in predicting the future. Nobody exactly knows what had made Ray’s father take his little son to him one day...
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The General vs. the President
From H.W. Brands
MacArthur and Truman
At the Brink of Nuclear War
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Truman relieving General Douglas MacArthur caused a bit of an uproar amongst the American public. His motives were to limit the conflict in Korea, resulting in his decision to remove MacArthur.
General MacArthur was full of ego and flair...
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Filthy Rich
From James Patterson
A Powerful Billionaire, The Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy
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Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a middle-class Jewish household. Epstein's dad worked for New York City's parks. Epstein went to Lafayette High School.
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale clarifies how constructive musings and confidence can improve individuals' lives. Taken with regards to cultivating a solid confidence in God through Christianity, positive deduction turns into a portal for serenity through better control over the psyche and even the body.
Killing the Rising Sun conveys tales from the Pacific battleground of The second world war consisting of the questionable United States choice to establish and make use of atomic weapons. Sustained by self-confidence in their racial supremacy, the Japanese put in a fantastic effort to broaden their empire throughout East Asia.
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict is an effective 2006 literary publication by the Arbinger Institute. This guide is an informative tool which utilizes imaginary personalities to show its messages. There are also featured information methods for restraining political, individual, and also organizational problems.
Learn About Leah Remini And The Church Of Scientology In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
In “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” Leah Remini tells her readers about a list she made which includes the things in her life that she is not proud of. The items on this list include cheating, lying, and not being considerate of others.
Learn About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
Inside your cranium is the thing that allows you to read, your brain. Animals have other abilities like knifelike claws and powerful muscles. But our brain has let us create a system for verbal communication, science, electronics, and intimate public arrangement.
Alec Ross is no doubt a gifted writer. He works the delicate balance between being understood as clearly as possible, without diluting his facts easily. In the structure of the book, he arranges information in a way that is both relevant to the title and in a way the reader was able to understand. In the first four chapters he focuses on the industries where the most innovation is most likely...
Learn About The History Of World Power In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
Diamond says that twenty-five years ago he met a politician in what is now Papua New Guinea, Yali, who asked why white people had so many things, but black people did not. The book attempts to provide answers to the question: Why have Eurasian people been the dominant wealth and power...
Learn About The Sobibor Concentration Camp And The People Who Escaped In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
Escape from Sobibor builds the personality and heart of the story it contains by firstly focussing on the personality and story of Shlomo, a Jewish boy sent to the camp who survives as a Goldsmith for the Nazis.
Learn About The Life Of Richard Dawkins And Modern Science In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
Brief Candle in the Dark: My life in Science is a greatly interesting book. From one who doesn't understand the deeper biological systems and natural selection, genetics and Darwinian Theory fully, much of it was easy to read.
Hoffman’s look into the story of Tolkachev, the billion-dollar spy, is exciting and thrilling, while also being a tragic emotional roller coaster. Hoffman presents the events in such a way the raises the stakes of each operation to its peak.
Every meeting, whether between Tolkachev or another of the spies featured in the book is supplemented by the exact right amount of background information
The book Big Magic was created so that we as people will be better able to understand creativity. The author created this book because she wanted to find an answer to the question of what creativity really is. After searching for the answer, the author found that she believes creativity is a relationship that is formed between people and the mysterious forces that control inspiration.
The views that are presented in this book are the views of Ann Coulter, who is the author of “Adios, America.” The writers at summary station have made it their goal to stay impartial when it came to crafting this book. Their goal was to give the readers an idea of Coulter’s opinions and the reasons she has formed them. Immigration reform is a very controversial issue
In The Secret Life of Bees, the narrator’s voice is quite convincing as a 14-year-old girl. Sue Monk Kidd uses a straightforward style, adding small remnants of magical realism to incorporate the bees, as well as the strange string of events that brings Lily and Rosaleen to the Boatwright house. Using historical markers—like the Civil Rights Act
Journalist David Cay Johnston has written this book, The Making of Donald Trump, in journalistic prose sprinkled with pointed dry humor. Some of these latter elements include: Trump’s The Apprentice reality show, the President Obama birther movement, and Trump’s previous runs for presidency.
This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book
Contrary to popular opinion, if you have been diagnosis with Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, you need not resign yourself to a life of deteriorating health and complex regimens of testing and medications. Science and modern research show that a proper diet and exercise routine can absolutely reduce your blood sugar levels and keep them in the healthy range daily.
As a practicing physician, Jason Fung tends to heavily rely upon scientific studies as a means to explain his various viewpoints on obesity, as well as to debunk commonly held myths on obesity and assumptions that can become problematic. A great deal of the studies that he uses are from the past ten years, but a few date several decades back.
Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It is an investigative summary on the food fraud more of than not committed intentionally by the industry to disguise the real identity and origins of certain food products and make consumers pay higher prices.
This informative book discusses why eating a plant based diet isn’t just good for the environment, it is essential for good health. Dr. Michael Greger’s research shows how a plant based diet is the most effective way to deal with chronic conditions that we face. Even more importantly, integrating oneself into this sort of lifestyle can even prevent chronic conditions from even becoming an issue.
Most of us know that trees are living beings, but do many of us actually think of what that life entails? Forests are full of mysteries, even for those who have studied them their whole lives. German forester Peter Wohlleben paints a vivid picture about the fascinating world that lays just outside our doors.
Find Out About The Psychology Of Investing In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
This book announces early on that its purpose is to help an average person adopt and carry out an investment policy. Rather than focusing on analyzing securities, the book devotes itself to explaining investment principles and attitudes.
Over nine chapters Gawande makes a detailed and persuasive argument for the use of checklists, not only in surgery, but also in other fields where their use is not as widespread as in aviation and construction which have made checklists mandatory.
Become A Stronger Person Today!!!
After an interview about her two previous books a reporter told her he thought he might start working on his own problems about being exposed, genuine, and open with other people. He thought it would take a long time and be hard to do and asked what would make it worth the effort.
This book is chalk full interesting data about how people perceive themselves and each other. The information is boiled down so that it is easy to read and analyze yourself. Rudder has lots of data from different sites including three different online dating sites, social media sites as well as the popular search engine Google.com.
Learn How To Be An Expert On Public Speaking In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!
Aimee Mullins did more than overcome adversity, she triumphed everything society thought they "knew" about the limits posed on an amputee. Mullins did not have lower legs since she was an infant. While she was disabled physically, mentally she became stronger.