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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, 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 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 Ryan Holiday's and Stephen Hanselman's The Daily Stoic by Instaread
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The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional. Often derided as discouraging emotion, Stoicism is a philosophy that encourages discipline, fortitude, and control of perceptions. The greatest possession of a Stoic is reasoned choice,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy's To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread Preview: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History is Lawrence Levy's personal account of how he and Steve Jobs turned a struggling animation company into a filmmaking powerhouse. Levy is the former Pixar chief financial officer. When Levy arrived at Pixar in 1995 at the behest of CEO Steve Jobs, the animation company was struggling....
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Schwartz's The Magic of Thinking Big and NOT the original book.
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In The Magic of Thinking Big (1959), professor and leadership expert Dr. David Schwartz argues that the "size" of people's thoughts determines their success in life. Big thinking is categorized as positive and progressive and small thinking as negative and regressive...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chip Heath's & et al Made to Stick and NOT the original book.
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In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), educators and brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath offer a guide for sharing ideas that stick with listeners. As a framework for their advice, they offer the acronym SUCCES, short for simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and stories....
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tony Robbins's & et al Unshakeable and NOT the original book.
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Unshakeable (2017) by Tony Robbins with Peter Mallouk is a concise guide to smart investing for both experienced and novice investors. Those without plenty of investing experience often lose out financially because they don't understand the complex rules of the financial market and make uninformed choices, some of which are driven by fear...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Gary Taubes's The Case Against Sugar by Instaread
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The Case Against Sugar argues that sugar is a toxic substance responsible for a wide array of health problems including diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Author Gary Taubes recounts the history of how sugar came to be cultivated and ultimately refined into the cheap, ubiquitous substance that is eaten globally today. He takes on the American sugar industry...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David McCullough's 1776 and NOT the original book.
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1776 by David McCullough traces the military conflicts between the American and the British armies during the first 18 months of the Revolutionary War. The author chooses three of the war's most pivotal moments-the Battle of Dorchester Heights, the Battle of Long Island, and the Battle of Trenton-to tell a tale that's as much about luck, coincidence,...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Van Der Merwe's Lucky Go Happy and NOT the original book.
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Author Paul van der Merwe follows an unlikely journalist on an adventure to define happiness in Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen! (2014). The journalist is not actually a person but rather a rat named Lucky who searches for a shared definition of happiness among the animals of the African Bushveld...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ray Kroc's Grinding It Out with Robert Anderson by Instaread
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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's is Ray Kroc's rags-to-riches story of how he built the fast-food behemoth McDonald's from the ground up. His book has been widely recognized as a business executive's bible for how to succeed. Kroc narrates his life story and demonstrates how the grit and determination he used as a paper cup salesman led him...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Elizabeth Blackburn's and Elissa Epel's The Telomere Effect by Instaread
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The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel describes advances in the field of gerontology and presents practical information on how to apply scientifically based guidance to daily life. An indicator of health and longevity is the condition of a person's telomeres, which are protective DNA that exists as cap-like structures...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eric Schmidt's How Google Works and NOT the original book.
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In How Google Works (2014), Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg share some of the new perspectives on management they gained during their tenure at Google. Google's work culture has achieved iconic status and has become the subject of both admiration and parody...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard P. Jacoby's & et al Sugar Crush and NOT the original book.
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Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health is Dr. Richard P. Jacoby's treatise against sugar. Sugar is the direct cause of many common health ailments including the obesity and diabetes epidemics in the United States. Sugar Crush outlines the damage that sugar inflicts on the body, describes how...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book.
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In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly leads to better outcomes in many cases...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Joel Fuhrman's MD The End of Dieting and NOT the original book.
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The End of Dieting by Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a nonfiction book that espouses a natural approach to nutrition, weight loss, and longevity. Dieting is ineffective for weight management...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Susan David's Emotional Agility by Instaread
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Emotional Agility by psychologist Susan David is a nonfiction self-help book designed to help people embrace difficult emotions that hold them back in life and work so that they can thrive even in the most challenging of situations. David outlines a four-part method for becoming emotionally agile. The four parts are facing emotions, creating distance from those emotions,...
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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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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...