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Get the Summary of Steven E. Koonin's Unsettled in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book gives readers the tools to both understand the climate issue and be savvier consumers of science media in general. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines to the more nuanced science itself, showing us where it comes from and guiding us through...
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Get the Summary of Miranda Devine's “Laptop from Hell” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign.
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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#1 The Chinese have a paradox of their origins. They believe that they are eternal, and that their civilization has no beginning. They believe that they have always been living in the same stage of advancement as in the present day.
#2 Chinese history is filled with periods of civil war, interregnum, and chaos. But each period of disunity was viewed as an aberration,...
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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#1 This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories, and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot.
#2 I want to thank everyone who has ever hired me to do workshops or lectures, and those who...
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#1 The epic Mahābhārata presents each of the two arguments for doing your duty with much care and sympathy. However, the tragic desolation that the post-combat and post-carnage land seems to face towards the end of the book can even be seen as a vindication of Arjuna's profound doubts.
#2 The Gita's univocal message requires supplementation by the broader argumentative...
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#1 This book is about research in the social sciences. It is not a guide to specific research tasks such as the design of surveys, conduct of field work, or analysis of statistical data. Rather, it focuses on the essential logic underlying all social scientific research.
#2 The styles of quantitative and qualitative research are very different. Quantitative research...
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#1 I was invited to conduct an antibias workshop with a department of employees located in Appalachia that was roughly 98 percent male, 99 percent White, and 100 percent rural. I was worried that the attendees would not relate to me, given our differences in background. But they ended up becoming very comfortable with me and called me Doc.
#2 The next day, the...
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#1 While I can understand how science has undermined faith in some aspects of traditional religion, I see no reason why advances in science should have the same effect on the notion of inner or spiritual values. The need for inner values is more urgent in this age of science than ever before.
#2 I have always been interested in the scientific basis for the...
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#1 I have selected and arranged a baker's dozen of talks on mythology that I gave between 1958 and 1971. The topics and titles I owe to the fertile mind of Dr. Johnson E. Fairchild, the chairman of The Forum, who kept that blithesome institution running for nearly 25 years.
#2 The medieval concept of the earth was that it was a flat, floating dish surrounded by a boundless...
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#1 The decision to declare ISIS defeated was a watershed moment for another reason. It signaled the downfall of key officials who thought they could bring order to the administration's chaos. Within days, the president decided in a temper tantrum to move Secretary Mattis's departure date forward. This once again threw the Department of Defense into turmoil.
#2 The 2017...
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#1 Manuel and his wife were poor, and when they first looked for an apartment in Paris, they found only two dark rooms below the street level, giving onto a small stifling courtyard. Manuel was sad. He was an artist, and there was no light in which he could work. His wife did not care. She would go off each day to do her trapeze act for the circus.
#2 Manuel was well...
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#1 Bob Lamphere had always felt that the FBI didn't offer him what he wanted from the world. Its sensibility grated with all those rigid regulations, and the insistence on an even more intrusive personal conformity. He thought about leaving the FBI until the war ended.
#2 Bob was a preternaturally calm and unassuming presence, though he had his father's temper. He loved...
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#1 Nigel Wilkins was a banker who had never been a banker. He was too shy to shoot looks of granite, but behind it lay not only the stifled arrogance of the cleverest man, but also an unbearable awkwardness. He loved economics, the art of telling money's stories.
#2 Nigel was a free man because he had made plenty of money and had little to spend it on. He preferred...
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#1 Education pays in the labor market, and it is not an exception. High school graduates earn more than dropouts, college graduates earn more than high school graduates, and holders of advanced degrees do even better.
#2 The disconnect between the curriculum and the job market has a simple explanation: educators teach what they know, and most have little firsthand knowledge...
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#1 The paradox of sovereignty is that the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order. If the sovereign is the one who grants the power to proclaim a state of exception, then he stands outside the juridical order, but he belongs to it because it is up to him to decide if the constitution is to be suspended in its entirety.
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#1 Qutb was a writer and educator in Egypt who experienced a crisis of faith when he saw the West approaching Egypt's borders. He was Western in so many ways, and yet he still felt like an alien in his own country.
#2 Qutb had a difficult relationship with his mother, who was extremely conservative. He had a difficult time finding a wife who would match his mother's...
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#1 The period between 1890 and 1930 was a pivotal time for the future of the world. All notions of Biblical inerrancy and historical accuracy had been discarded by the intellectual elite. Radical new inventions created by scientists and engineers were revolutionizing both the physical and social world.
#2 The French philosopher Auguste Comte was the founder of Positivism,...
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Get the Summary of Mark R. Levin's The Democrat Party Hates America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Insightful and hard-hitting as ever, Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its...
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