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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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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amy Myers's The Thyroid Connection and NOT the original book.
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The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do. Myers took up her mission to help others understand thyroid conditions when she was in medical school and was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune condition that results in hyperthyroidism,...
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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 Olivia Fox Cabane's & et al The Net and the Butterfly and NOT the original book.
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The Net and the Butterfly (2017) by executive leadership experts Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack is a nonfiction book that demystifies the concept of breakthroughs, or specific times when a person is able to transcend previous limitations or thinking. These eureka moments are generally considered the product of luck. In...
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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 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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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 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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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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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail and NOT the original book.
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-and Themselves (2009) begins in March 2008 when Richard S. Fuld Jr., CEO of Lehman Brothers, received a phone call from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Bear Stearns, the smallest of the "Big Five" Wall Street investment banks, would be sold or...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Lama Surya Das's Awakening the Buddha Within and NOT the original book.
Lama Surya Das explains the eight steps to enlightenment outlined by Tibetan Buddhism.
Buddhism is a spiritual philosophy that was established more than 2,500 years ago.
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• Overview of the Book
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• Important People
• Author's Style and Perspective
• Intended Audience
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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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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger's Contagious by Instaread
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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...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath by Instaread
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Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is a book about perceived disadvantage. People with few resources or certain disadvantages may seem weak and unlikely to win. However, in many cases, the same factors that make underdogs seem weak gives them built-in advantages. Underdogs are much more likely to win than...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eric Berne's, M.D. Games People Play and NOT the original book.
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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis (1964) by Eric Berne explores dysfunctional social behavior, which he describes as games people play in their interactions with each other.
Games are comprised of a series of transactions beyond simple rituals, social pastimes, and friendly conversation....
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Summary, Analysis & Review of James D. Hornfischer's The Fleet at Flood Tide by Instaread
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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...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and NOT the original book.
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Twilight (2005) by Stephanie Meyer is a bestselling vampire novel, the first in a hit series that has been adapted to the screen.
When 17-year-old Bella Swan moves from Phoenix to the small town of Forks, Washington, to live with her dad, little does she know that she's about to have the most thrilling and terrifying experience of her life...
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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...