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Get the Summary of Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Small Wonder" by Barbara Kingsolver is a collection of essays that delve into the author's reflections on humanity, nature, and the political landscape of the early 2000s. Kingsolver shares a miraculous story of a child saved by a bear, contrasting human violence with an act of cross-species compassion. She explores themes of...
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#1 Joseph Banks, official botanist to HM Bark Endeavour, first clapped eyes on the island of Tahiti, 17 degrees South, 149 degrees West. He had been told that this was the location of Paradise: a wonderful idea, although he did not quite believe it.
#2 When the British landed on King George the Third's Island, they were met by some hundreds of the inhabitants, who gave...
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#1 The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is going to feature a lot over the next twelve months. He is the most important figure in classical music, and his influence is felt in music today as it ever was.
#2 The two-minute piece called Polonaise Brillante is a study written by Frédéric Chopin for his piano students. It is a melodic and harmonic exploration of the possibilities of the...
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Get the Summary of Pattie Boyd's Wonderful Tonight in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Pattie Boyd's memoir "Wonderful Tonight" recounts her life from a tumultuous childhood to her marriages with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Born during World War II, Boyd's early years were marked by her parents' strained marriage and her stepfather's strict discipline. Her modeling career took off in the swinging London of...
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Get the Summary of Bruce McCandless III's Wonders All Around in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut...
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#1 Fireflies are a great example of how species can be affected by human activity. They don't glow in sync all night long anymore, and they are still out there, but they fly or rest on grass blades in visual silence.
#2 I will always search for fireflies, even though they are becoming harder to find. They blink on and off, a lime glow in the summer night air, as if to...
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Book Preview: #1 I was in London with the other airmen, doing PT, when we were told to run around the park. I was shocked at how quickly I was getting tired. It was not far now, the corporal said, but it felt like it.
#2 I was billeted in a block of flats in St. John's Wood. I was used to syringes, but the sight of them was too much for many of my friends. We ate in the London Zoo...
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Book Preview: #1 My roots are in Brittany, the tip of France. I grew up hearing my ancestors speak Breton, a Celtic language that is difficult to understand today. I always sensed that I was a daughter of a rugged, cragged land and the mysterious ocean.
#2 My mother, Anne Le Théo, was the only daughter in her family. She was bright and successful in her studies, and she grew up into...
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#1 Jeremy Bentham, an eccentric philosopher, was ahead of the curve on many things. He believed in gay rights and publicly dissected by his friends.
#2 You can separate specific shocks to save your heart. I had never considered this idea, but it made sense. I wondered what I would be like now, if I had met her as a child and she had shown me what I wanted to see.
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 I was a young reporter fresh out of journalism school, and my first assignment was to write a thirty-part series on destitute families living in Chicago. I quickly found myself immersed in Chicago's underbelly of deprivation and desperation.
#2 I visited the slums of Bombay, India, and was shocked by the sight of children playing in the open sewage ditches. I wondered...
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#1 We had a puppy, and I was not attracted to the idea of raising one. But we did, and it was wonderful.
#2 I wanted to know what it was like to have a puppy, and I got one. It was wonderful.
#3 Following a puppy's point of view can help you understand their behavior better. The life course of animals from beginning to end is woven into human lives, but we typically...
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you've ever wondered about human behavior, wonder no more. In The Laws of Human Nature, Greene takes a look at 18 laws that reveal who we are and why we do the things we do. Humans are complex beings, but Greene uses these laws to strip human nature down to its bare bones. Every law that...
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Get the Summary of Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults...
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#1 Many doctors do not want to believe that the mind can heal the body, as it goes against everything they have learned about how the body works. But when you witness things happening on your watch that science cannot explain, you start to wonder if there is something more mystical at play.
#2 There are many stories of people who have changed their diets, started exercise, and changed...
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#1 I had three siblings: Gizia, my big, sweet and wonderful sister. She was a beautiful girl with big blue eyes and a noble, serious and quiet character. I loved playing with her dolls. Sarenka was a wonderful baby, but I was jealous of her.
#2 My mother was very active in social circles. She was very proud of me, as I was excellent at math from a young age. I didn't...
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Book Preview: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology.
#2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes...
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#1 I had never thought about homeless people before, but I knew that was what the man in the train station was. I wondered how he had paid for his chicken. He seemed to be following the rules of grown-up life, but his priorities were ideas and knowledge.
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#1 If your parents aren't prepared to teach you about money, ask them to find someone who is. If they're unwilling or unable to help you, start learning on your own. Money is a skill you will use for the rest of your life. It'll save you a lot of heartache to not only understand it but to be able to apply it in real life situations. Money is something you can control,...
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#1 The Order of Interbeing is named after the Vietnamese word tiếp hiện, which means to receive. We receive goodness, beauty, insight, and a sense of morality from our ancestors. We receive the wonderful Dharma, the teachings that lead to insight and awakening.
#2 The third meaning of Tiếp is to be in touch with life. We are in touch with the present moment when...
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