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#1 On January 7, 1889, an unlikely couple crossed the Hudson River from Manhattan to Paterson, New Jersey, to be married. Robert Ray Hamilton and Eva Brill were improbable candidates to become husband and wife. The birth of their first child out of wedlock provided the impetus for Ray to marry Eva.
#2 Ray and Eva's wedding was different from the typical couples Reverend...
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#1 The existence of an order of human activities that transcends the vision of an ordering mind is a miracle. It is the result of the rules of human conduct that evolved over time. These rules are taught and imitated rather than instinctive.
#2 Morals are learned traditions that contrast with impulsive and unreflective conduct and with rational concern with specific...
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Get the Summary of Portia MacIntosh's Stuck On You in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sadie doesn't have time for finding love. She's too busy as PA for famous artist Damian Banks. When she's not arranging exhibitions, she's organising his dry cleaning or dumping his never-ending stream of girlfriends.
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#1 I had to call the police to report a homicide. The body was at least 30 feet high, and I couldn't imagine how anyone could have arranged it. The corpse was weighed down by a large log, which must have gone deep into the ground because the man was 225 pounds.
#2 I had a feeling that the authorities were dealing with something strange, so I didn't report anything to...
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Get the Summary of Lawrence A. Cunningham's The Essays of Warren Buffett in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating Warren Buffett's philosophy in a historic collaboration between Mr. Buffett and Prof. Lawrence Cunningham. As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularity...
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Get the Summary of Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut in 20 minutes.
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Original book introduction: For 20 years The Ethical Slut-widely known as the "Poly Bible"-has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer sex practices.
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#1 We started a blog, which was called Freakonomics. com. It offered a blogging function. I had never heard of a blog, much less written one, but Levitt was unconvinced. Let's just give it a try, Dubner said.
#2 The blog was a way for the authors to express their opinions about the world, and it has been a happy home for that. The blog writing is more casual and personal than book...
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today's entrepreneurs. But many mistakenly think that their creation alone will generate mass consumership. It will not. Russel Brunson's “Traffic Secrets” (2020) explains how to self-manufacture several streams of customer traffic in today's increasingly digital world. To get consumers, you must understand...
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#1 I was the district nurse on Papavray, a remote Hebridean island about 20 miles long. The island was beautiful in its wild, rugged way. I climbed up to the croft house above and knocked on the door. Mary-Ann welcomed me warmly, and I took off my sodden coat, hat, and gloves.
#2 The island was a different kind of childhood for my two sons. They were five years apart,...
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#1 In 2010, two small SUV's and a four-door pickup truck headed down a dirt road in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. They had set out soon after midnight, traveling cross-country to reach Highway 1, which would lead them to Kandahar and north to Kabul.
#2 The video was being watched at Hurlburt Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle by a dedicated team of young...
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Book Preview: #1 The chump is the dullard whose inadequacies drove the cheater into another's arms. The chump is the co-conspirator who Must Have Known and had some tacit arrangement with the cheater. The chump is the failure who wasn't meeting the cheater's needs.
#2 You don't deserve to be cheated on. It's not your fault that your partner is unhappy. The choices your cheater makes...
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#1 The Cement Lady Bulldogs were a high school basketball team in southwest Oklahoma. They were battling their rival, the Fletcher Lady Wildcats, for the district championship and the right to play in the regional tournament. Doll Harris was a senior forward who made almost half of the field goals she attempted and nearly all of the free throws.
#2 When Doll heard someone...
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Book Preview: #1 White southern girls learned how to be slave owners through an instructional process that spanned their childhood and adolescence. They practiced techniques of slave discipline and management, made mistakes and learned from them, and eventually decided what kind of slave owners they wanted to become.
#2 Before the American Revolution, primogeniture was the practice...
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#1 Humans are not the only species that have complex social lives. Many other animals do as well, and it can be difficult to understand their motives. However, humans do not necessarily hide their motives like other animals do.
#2 Social grooming is the act of one primate grooming another. It's been proven to be more about politics than hygiene, as primates spend more...
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#1 Oxytocin is the hormone that is released during labor and birth, and it plays a large role in lactation as well. It is also responsible for the letdown reflex, which is the stimulation of the breast to release milk when stimulated by the baby.
#2 The hormone oxytocin is released when we are breastfeeding, and it helps to lower stress levels in both mother and baby....
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#1 I had just flown into Algiers from Morocco and was searching for the Public Relations Office when I met Pete Huss, the International News Service manager at Allied Headquarters. He knew that I was hot on the trail of the invasion.
#2 The invasion of Sicily was announced at 4 A. M. The small amount of information that was permissible was passed to the press, and a...
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#1 Frederick's father, John, was a dry-goods merchant who had come from old Connecticut stock. He was convention-bound, but he had a deep sensitivity to the beauty of nature that influenced his son.
#2 Frederick's father, John, had been raised with a superstitious faith in the value of preaching and didactic instruction. His father arranged for him to work as a clerk...
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Get the Summary of Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States' founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed...
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#1 It is important to break out of the boxes society constructs for you to discover your self. This requires practicing an audacious form of bravery, and often requires you to go against the grain of what is considered normal.
#2 I had been searching for a spiritual practice that spoke to who I was as a Black African woman, and in the Islamic faith, I found one that...
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#1 The environments people create around themselves are rich with information about their personalities, values, and lifestyles. From some laundry receipts, an unfinished letter in the wastebasket, and other assorted clues, Steinbeck was able to piece together a portrait of Lonesome Harry.
#2 I conducted a study in which I had environmental assessors visit the rooms...