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How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
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Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis
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In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she's lived and the knowledge she's learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development that stretches from 1997 to 2008, the bulk of the narrative follows Jahren from her first appointment as a professor in Atlanta to her current job at the
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Don Tapscott's Blockchain Revolution and NOT the original book.
Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott describe the potential for blockchain systems to change the way that governments, banks, corporations, and private citizens manage everything from money to personal health data.
Blockchain systems are based on writings attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, which is the pseudonym of an anonymous technologist.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Brian Tracy's The Art of Closing the Sale by Instaread
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The Art of Closing the Sale delivers advice and guidelines that author Brian Tracy has accumulated throughout his sales career. Tracy became a more productive salesman when he developed the technique of forcing prospects to choose on the spot whether to buy the product.
Internal motivation and positivity are important characteristics that a salesperson...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Seth Godin's Purple Cow and NOT the original book.
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Seth Godin's Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (2003) is a short book about marketing remarkable products. Godin argues that marketing has changed drastically since the early days of television and that most companies have been slow to adapt...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's & et al The Dictator's Handbook and NOT the original book.
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (2011) is an examination of what motivates leaders in democracies and dictatorships. Authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith argue that those in power try to stay in power by catering to the members of their winning coalition, whether that...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sheryl Sandberg's & et al Option B and NOT the original book.
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Option B (2017), coauthored by Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and organizational psychology expert Adam Grant, explores how to cope and ultimately thrive in the aftermath of tragic events and extreme adversity. In June 2015, Dave Goldberg, Sandberg's husband of 11 years, suddenly died from a cardiac arrhythmia...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife and NOT the original book.
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007) by Diane Ackerman is the strange but true tale of a couple who took advantage of their unique situation living in a bombed-out zoo to hide some 300 Jews from the Nazis who terrorized Warsaw during World War II. As active members of the resistance, Jan and Antonina Zabinski used the abandoned zoo grounds...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly's Settle for More by Instaread
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In her memoir Settle for More, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly looks back on her life and describes her winding road to fame and the many obstacles she encountered along the way. From her vantage as one of the most-watched newscasters in the country, the 45-year-old journalist blends autobiographical reflection with harrowing accounts of the harassment she experienced...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God by Instaread
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Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story is an account of the organization and findings of a 2015 expedition into the jungle of eastern Honduras. Preston accompanied the expedition and wrote about its discoveries. The expedition was inspired by legends of a lost civilization known as the White City. This city is probably mythical,...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and NOT the original book.
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The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins outlines theories and research in the field of evolutionary biology to explain the importance of the gene as the most significant unit of analysis in natural selection.
The common understanding of natural selection is that altruistic behavior has evolutionary advantages because on average, it benefits...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Hayes's A Colony in a Nation and NOT the original book.
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A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes's treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960s. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...
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• Overview of the Book
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Chip and Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Story with Mark Dagostino by Instaread
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The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna "Jo" Gaines, with Mark Dagostino, is the true tale of how the husband-and-wife team, stars of the HGTV show Fixer Upper, built a life together in Waco, Texas. Starting with their first date, which was about 15 years before the book's publication in 2016, the couple traces the development of their...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Steve Harvey's Jump by Instaread
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Jump by Steve Harvey, a well-known television personality, is an inspirational self-help book designed to motivate people to get out of their habitual ruts and take substantial risks to achieve their dreams. Too many people believe that leaving an unsatisfying job or relationship is too great a chance to take. They think that they can't start over or that they'll go broke and...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Brad Stone's The Everything Store by Instaread
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon recounts the rise of Amazon since it was founded in 1994. Simultaneously, the book is a partial biography of the company's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, whose personality, values, and life experiences have had enormous influence shaping the company as it exists today. He is a much-feared but much-respected leader...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds by Instaread
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses the evolution of intelligence in cephalopods in order to better understand the development of consciousness and cognition. Cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish have the most complex nervous systems in the invertebrate world. Examining the similarities and...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and NOT the original book.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) is a serious examination of four approaches to food production in the United States: industrial, industrial organic, sustainable, and foraging. Author Michael Pollan tries to resolve what he calls the omnivore's dilemma, or the problem of deciding what and how to eat from among...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and NOT the original book.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017) by Neil deGrasse Tyson is a collection of essays covering a variety of topics in astrophysics.
Physicists theorize that the universe originated with a Big Bang 14 billion years ago, when all matter that exists in the universe began as an extremely dense point and rapidly spread...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paco Underhill's Why We Buy and NOT the original book.
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In Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (1999), Paco Underhill details the factors that influence consumer choices and preferences and explains how retailers tailor the environment to induce people to spend. Underhill's team closely studied every detail of shoppers' interactions with the retail environment to find out what inhibits or encourages spending...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards's Captivate and NOT the original book.
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People (2017) by Vanessa Van Edwards is a collection of tips and tricks, or hacks, aimed at creating more meaningful and productive social interactions. Interpersonal skills are acquired, not innate...
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• Overview of the Book
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