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#1 I write books and articles about Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, the Kennedys, John Lennon, and young Muhammad Ali. I write colloquial stories that are how we talk to one another.
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Get the Summary of James Kerr's Legacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, personal leadership has never been more relevant and Legacy goes to the heart of how great leaders - and we are all leaders - 'reboot' and reframe their future.
It is a truly life-defining read that addresses the big questions - values, vision,...
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Get the Summary of James Lindsay's “Race Marxism” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Critical race theory is one of the hottest and most controversial topics in the world today, but what is it, really? Rightly understood, critical race theory is a reinvention of an older, terrible idea, Marxism, using race "as the central construct for understanding inequality" in place of economic...
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Original book introduction: Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down...
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To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he...
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#1 When we come to our end, if we are conscious, will we wonder what our journey was about. Will we perseverate over the mistakes, the roads not taken, the woundings. Or will we remain curious, tracing what was unfolding from within us all the while.
#2 The human ego is a thin wafer floating on an iridescent ocean. It can so easily be engulfed by the billows around it,...
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#1 I had developed a professional relationship with Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, after the publication of my first book, Flags of Our Fathers. In early February 2001, she suggested I contact a man named Bill Doran in Iowa. He had some interesting information.
#2 The transcript contained the full proceedings of a trial establishing the fates of eight American...
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#1 The Earth is old, and it is a curious fact that the lifespan of the Earth is easier to understand than our own. The properties of the star that warms it are easily determined by the astronomers. Our star is a main sequence star, and it has been warming up for the past few million years, threatening life on Earth.
#2 The Earth is getting older and more fragile, and...
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#1 The problem is that the United States has been on a path to a crisis of confidence in the dollar, as trade deficits have been accompanied by perpetual free trade and globalism. This must be solved to secure the future strength and stability of the United States.
#2 The CIA has many names for itself. It is often referred to as Langley, after its location in McLean,...
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Get the Summary of James Rebanks' Pastoral Song in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profiles his family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the...
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Get the Summary of James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Powerhouse" by James Andrew Miller offers an in-depth look at the entertainment industry through the lens of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). The book chronicles the agency's rise from a breakaway group of agents from William Morris to a dominant force in Hollywood. It details CAA's innovative strategies, such as focusing on television...
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Get the Summary of James Holland's Sicily 43 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Sicily 43" by James Holland offers a comprehensive account of the Allied invasion of Sicily, detailing the strategic planning, execution, and aftermath of Operation HUSKY. The narrative intertwines the experiences of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, highlighting the challenges of coalition warfare, the importance of air and naval power,...
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The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history, his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist Papers, and then helped to find...
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Get the Summary of James Clear's Atomic Habits 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It takes a strong sense of self for a person to admit they have toxic habits. These habits hold people back from becoming their best self and reaching their goals. The fact that you're here means you're way ahead of everyone else!
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#1Baldwin's life was devoted to exposing the American nation's moral failure and the power of love to revive it. He was not a conceited man, but he saw himself as a kind of savior.
#2 James's stepfather, the Reverend David Baldwin, was a perfect example of a subservient wage earner. He was a preacher who had been prevented from providing his family with what they needed...
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#1 The drums communicated information. They were not just instruments of signaling, like the bugle and the bell in European cultures. They could convey a small set of messages: attack, retreat, come to church.
#2 The drums were not just signaling tools, but also a means of communicating large amounts of information.
#3 The first crack in the hitherto solid assumption...
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#1 The Woolsthorpe farmhouse was the home of Newton's ancestors for just twenty years. It was a manor, and the fatherless boy was its lord with seigniorial authority over a handful of tenant farmers in nearby cottages.
#2 When Isaac was old enough, he began to walk to the village dame school, where he learned to read and study the Bible. He was small for his age, lonely,...
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#1 George's father, Jack, was the model of a self-made 1960s man's man. He had grown up with seven siblings in Cyprus, and in London he had started as a busboy and eventually became a waiter. He wanted to better his family's situation, so he and his wife Lesley emigrated to London.
#2 Jack, the owner of the restaurant, was a shining immigrant success story. He had far...
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#1 Incomes are getting lower every year. This will never stop, and relying on college, a job, promotions, security, and stability is a thing of the past. Meanwhile debt has gone straight up.
#2 The basic equation of all economics has been reversed. Supply is almost infinite, and demand has gone down. The rich are getting richer because of this.
#3 The rich get richer,...
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