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Get the Summary of Dr. Carl L. Hart's Drug Use for Grown-Ups in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy...
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#1 A tom man is what happens when a tomboy just never grows out of it. A tomboy is what people are usually charmed by, but nobody likes a tom man.
#2 I was a tom man throughout high school, and I didn't really start to transform into a woman until I was in college. I had a boyfriend, but I didn't participate in the seductive arts with him. When we moved in together after...
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Get the Summary of Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?
This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on...
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Book Preview: #1 The farm is currently operated by my mother and my family: wife, Teresa Wenger Salatin, son, Daniel and daughter, Rachel. We produce organic grass-fattened beef, home-grown broilers, firewood, eggs, rabbits, and vegetables.
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#1 The world is rich. The world is richer than it has ever been, and it continues to grow richer with each passing day. Extreme poverty is in rapid decline, and will be completely eradicated within our lifetime.
#2 The world has grown wealthier over the last century, and more and more of it has been able to move past the edge of subsistence. This is not just because...
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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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Get the Summary of Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang's Pour Your Heart Into It in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The success of Starbucks Coffee Company is one of the most amazing business stories in decades. What started as a single store on Seattle's waterfront has grown into the largest coffee chain on the planet. Just as remarkable as this incredible growth is the fact that Starbucks...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth, tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies to global enterprises.
Across all of these breakout companies, a set of common patterns has...
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Book Preview: #1 The three tech kings of China are Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. They are responsible for the country's turbocharged digital economy, which is set to grow five times to $16 trillion by 2035.
#2 The BAT have the best of both worlds: they are protected in their home markets, and they can expand overseas to take on more risk.
#3 The three tech leaders of China, Baidu,...
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#1 I was in the American military during the Gulf War, and I didn't know what was going on at the macro level. I was a micro-focused cog in a vast machine that delivered a remarkable triumph at the end, but I didn't realize what was going on at the macro level until thirty years later when I saw America at its nadir.
#2 The American military won a stunning victory against...
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Get the Summary of Gary Vaynerchuk's Crushing It! in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In his 2009 international best seller Crush It, Gary insisted that a vibrant personal brand was crucial to entrepreneurial success. In Crushing It! Gary explains why that's even more true today, offering his unique perspective on what has changed and what principles remain timeless. He also shares stories...
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#1 When we got married, we knew we wanted children someday, but we also knew that our family home would not be complete without a dog sprawled at our feet. We had grown up with dogs and loved them immensely.
#2 We had just bought a house in West Palm Beach, and we spent months refurbishing it. We brought home a large, four-legged roommate with sharp toenails, large teeth,...
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#1 The taste of Jägermeister is bitter and sweetly harsh, and yet it has grown exponentially. You did the shot because of the unpleasant taste, not in spite of it.
#2 The drink was commercially released in Germany in 1935, and it was marketed as an after-dinner digestif. But it soon became popular with college students, who spread the cult wildfire.
#3 The brand sold...
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Get the Summary of Trevor Strunk's Ph.D. Story Mode in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century. Their imagery is near ubiquitous-children, adults, and even professional athletes know what a Fortnite dance is without...
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#1 I have written this book for many reasons. I wanted to answer the questions of adolescents, and help parents and carers understand them better. I also wanted to help professionals understand the many people who are similar to me.
#2 There are many talented people in my family. Rachel is very sociable and popular, but she can also sing and draw. Sarah is a brilliant...
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#1 In Washington, D. C., Katharine Chinn-Harris thought of her son, Bill, a Marine officer and a grown man, and smiled. She knew he could look out for himself, but he was still her son.
#2 Field's husband, Billy, was a marine general who had been sent to plan the Pacific War. He had become an aviator in 1929, and though she had enjoyed Pensacola, his new fascination...
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Get the Summary of Dondré T. Whitfield's Male vs. Man in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Male vs. Man, Dondré Whitfield equips us to become men rather than simply "grown males." Men are healthy and productive servant-leaders who bring positive change to their communities. Males are self-serving and stuck in negative cycles that we hear and read about daily. They create...
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Get the Summary of Rachel Hollis's Didn't See That Coming in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 New York Times bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, attend her RISE conferences and follow her on social media know, she also wants to see you transform.
When it comes to the "hard seasons" of life-the death...
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#1 Henry and Mary were married in 1868, just after the Civil War. The land they were married on was owned by Elisha Cottingham, who had chosen the place for its angle of land. It was a resourceful man who could make his own indelible mark on it.
#2 The last Cottingham, Elisha, had arrived in Alabama in 1817. He and his brothers had staked out land, brought in wives,...
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