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#1 The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes is not just like everyone else with type 2 diabetes. Rather, these so-called diseases are dysfunctions of each individual's physiological functioning.
#2 The science of genomics has shattered the myth of disease, demonstrating that everyone with type 2 diabetes...
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Get the Summary of Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have...
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Get the Summary of Lysa TerKeurst's, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of God's goodness.
Lysa TerKeurst understands...
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Get the Summary of Doris Kearn Goodwin's Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral...
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Get the Summary of Steven Kotler's The Art of Impossible in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements?
We are capable of so much more than we know-that's the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building...
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#1 The first question child migrants are asked at the US intake is why did you come to the United States. The answer is never that simple, as their stories are always shattered beyond repair.
#2 Before leaving for our road trip, we felt a little out of place. We were applying for green cards, which is a strange feeling since you are not supposed to leave the country...
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Get the Summary of Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: BASED ON NATURAL laws, which govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success: Once...
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#1 The quiet of the night was shattered when the rain began to fall, and the wind picked up. The children were restless, and Harley was listening to the shower down the hall. He thought he heard a thunderclap, but he turned over, and went back to sleep.
#2 Around 8 a. m., the house woke up. Susie, the oldest girl, went to help with the children, but Mary wanted breakfast....
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Get the Summary of Eli Saslow's Voices from the Pandemic in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New...
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#1 Arrest is a shattering point in your life, a bolt of lightning that has hit you. It is an unassimilable spiritual earthquake that can cause people to slip into insanity.
#2 The traditional image of an arrest is the sharp nighttime ring or the rude knock at the door. The insolent entrance of the unsleeping State Security operatives. The frightened and cowed civilian...
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#1 The ideal of a free market society, which was used to be a cause of the left, was actually meant to be a description of a society of equals. But today, it is often used to describe a society of domination and subordination.
#2 The idea of social hierarchy is often contrasted with that of social equality. Egalitarianism is the ideal of social relations in which each...
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Get the Summary of Tiffany Jenkins's High Achiever in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: A raw and twisty page-turning memoir that reads like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany's life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she'd done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty,...
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#1 Drug use begins innocently enough. A child is handed a joint and takes a puff. He's given a beer and has a sip. Some don't like it and they stop. Many of them continue to use occasionally, and some use frequently.
#2 Jacqueline's son, Kevin, was arrested for dealing and possession of drugs when he was 13. His parents sent him to LA to be with his grandparents,...
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#1 The Western mind has lost paradise, which was the first home of humanity. We have been told that purpose and value are ours alone to create, without Satan and God.
#2 The rise of science and the technological explosion has driven us to our secular worldview. We still have a spiritual hunger, however, and we must find anew our place in the universe.
#3 The...
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#1 On March 6, Trump publicly stated that he would leave the decision about the Grand Princess to others, but added that he didn't need the infection numbers to double because of one ship. Newsom had no political capital to waste on outrage.
#2 Trump was not a president suited to bringing the country together in a crisis. He had no plan for crushing the coronavirus,...
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#1 The USS Maine was sent to Havana to show the Spanish that the United States was serious about their independence movement. However, on February 15, 1898, a tremendous explosion shattered windows across Havana, and a fireball boiled into the night sky. Only eighty-nine men made it off the ship.
#2 The explosion of the Maine raised tensions between America and Spain,...
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#1 I was in a nether land of a feverish dream, and I slowly began to realize that I was in a spare bedroom in Jay's house in Ayer, with the décor of a military surplus warehouse crossed with a speed shop. I remembered that the raccoon's name was Rocky.
#2 I had just processed out of the army, with my illusions shattered and a bad taste in my soul for the future. I was...
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Get the Summary of Jen Atkin's Blowing My Way to the Top in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hailed by the New York Times as "the most influential hair stylist in the world," Jen Atkin is a celebrated businesswoman, influencer, and stylist and friend to A-list celebrities like the Kardashian-Jenners and Chrissy Teigen. But Jen's success didn't arrive overnight. Her glamorous, jet-setting...
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#1 The world exists because of our minds. We cannot live in a reality that we are unaware of. We cannot focus on the world without focusing on something, and our minds focus on what interests them. Thus, the world exists because of our minds.
#2 The world is experienced according to the state of your mind. When your mind is joyful and compassionate, the world is joyful...
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#1 The negotiator had to establish trust with the suspect. He had to make him believe that everything was going to be okay, even though he knew that the FBI was prepared to take down the suspect at any moment.
#2 Charlie and his family went into the woods again on Saturday, April 2. Charlie built a simple lean-to. They made their way to a nearby country store, where...
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