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Summary of Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins Includes Analysis
Awaken the Giant Within by motivational speaker Tony Robbins 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...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Sylvia Tara's The Secret Life of Fat by Instaread
The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You is a thorough summary and synthesis of recent research surrounding the science of human fat. Author Sylvia Tara explores the many intricacies of fat including its composition, its functions as a bodily organ, and its seemingly indomitable ability to persist and grow...
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Summary of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Includes Analysis
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel about a shepherd named Santiago, an 18-year-old youth, who abandons his life in Spain to embark upon an epic treasure hunt across Africa. Making several unexpected stops along the way, he uncovers profound truths about himself, the world, and the kingdom of God, which are fundamentally connected. Ultimately, he finds the treasure, but along the way, he also...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Bernie Sanders's Our Revolution by Instaread
In Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders outlines his career and political ideals. The book includes an autobiographical sketch of his early life, a discussion of his 2016 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a summary of his views on important national issues. Sanders believes that the wealthy control government institutions...
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Summary, Analysis and Review of George Akerlof's and et al Phishing for Phools by Instaread
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In Phishing for Phools, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain the economics of fraud by incorporating fraudulent and unfair transactions into free-market economic models. Conventional economic models that presuppose a free market often assume that customers make decisions based on their long-term interests. They posit that the market moves...
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Summary of Feeling Good by David D. Burns Includes Analysis
Feeling Good by Dr. David D. Burns is a self-help guide to using cognitive therapy (CT) as an effective, scientifically proven tool for combating depression of all degrees, especially when used in combination with therapy and possibly medication. CT is based on the idea that people's perceptions about themselves, their relationships, their job, and their overall life will shape their feelings....
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger's Contagious by Instaread
Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a playbook for marketing in the internet age, when products and ideas live or die based on whether or not they can go viral. Author Jonah Berger describes six principles that, when applied together, can often predict whether an idea or product will spread.
Any product or idea can go viral. It doesn't take a big advertising budget or a celebrity...
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Summary of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Includes Analysis
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara tells the story of Jude St. Francis and the people in his life. Jude, left partially disabled by a terrifying injury as a teenager, is distraught about his past and hides most of that past and himself from others, even those closest to him. The relationships he forms, as a young and older adult sustain him longer than he ever expected to live, but in...
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Summary of The Field of Fight by Michael T. Flynn with Michael Ledeen Includes Analysis
Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies presents Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn's assessment of where the United States is failing in its fight against extremism and offers a strategic formula for how to proceed in the future. After decades of serving his country in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Flynn has developed...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of James D. Hornfischer's The Fleet at Flood Tide by Instaread
James D. Hornfischer's The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 is a history of the Pacific naval battles that led to American victory at the end of World War II. The book focuses primarily on battles under the aegis of Admiral Raymond Spruance including the invasion of Truk, the invasion of the Marianas Islands, and the Battle...
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Summary of Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo Includes Analysis
Everybody's Fool, a novel by Richard Russo, is set in the fictional town of North Bath in upstate New York. There, over the course of one weekend, a crew of local eccentrics juggle long-standing grudges, acute crises, and surreal weather events to the best of their limited abilities. Along the way, readers learn about their troubled pasts.
At Hilldale Cemetery, Douglas Raymer, chief of...
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Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Includes Analysis
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 University of Hawaii. Navigating personal...
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Summary of Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand Includes Analysis
Here's to Us, a novel by Elin Hilderbrand, follows the aftermath of the death of celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe, who succumbed to an unexpected heart attack at the age of 53. The present-day action takes place over a long weekend in June 2016, six weeks after his death. Deacon's best friend gathers the three women to whom Deacon had been married, as well as their children, for a long weekend...
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Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner have written one of the most popular books of the last decade. In their off-beat look at the numbers behind counter-intuitive behavior, they dissect everything from lowering crime rates, to how baby names affect success.