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Get the Summary of Steven E. Koonin's Unsettled in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book gives readers the tools to both understand the climate issue and be savvier consumers of science media in general. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines to the more nuanced science itself, showing us where it comes from and guiding us through...
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Get the Summary of Matt Ridley's “The Rational Optimist” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa...
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Get the Summary of Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie's The Book of Why in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion...
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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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Investors today need to understand the dynamics of how macro and micro economies operate and how they affect the property markets. Margaret explains this theory in her trademark easy-to-understand style. The book also includes information on: • The current property landscape • Matching property with investors' profiles • Timing the markets to invest when an area is about to take off • Finding strong cash flow and capital growth investments...
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#1 God is all there is, and all there is, is Him. The universe is but the One substance in motion, light. Everything in the universe is but a part of God, and nothing in the universe is infinite. Everything in the universe is comprehensible and measurable by man.
#2 All matter is evolving, and all matter is living. Life is the registration, in matter, of states of motion...
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Get the Summary of Douglas W. Tallamy's ‘Nature's Best Hope’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step...
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#1 Einstein's theory of gravity was not compatible with the existing universe picture. It was difficult to apply his theory to describe the universe as a whole, because it was static and eternal, and consisted of a single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by a vast, infinite, dark, and empty space.
#2 The discovery that the universe is expanding was a huge leap forward...
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#1 The tick effect is the way tree branches in the northern hemisphere grow closer to horizontal on the southern side and closer to vertical on the northern side, which creates a recognizable tick or check mark shape when the tree is viewed from one side. It is a recognition aid that helps you navigate your way around things you already know.
#2 The tick effect is the...
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Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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Book Preview: #1 The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the earth was a round sphere rather than a flat plate. He knew that eclipses of the moon were caused by the earth coming between the sun and the moon, and that the North Star appeared lower in the sky when viewed in the south than it did in more northerly regions.
#2 Aristotle believed the earth was the center...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...
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#1 It's a book-length essay about Reagan's novels, which Byrne describes as insightful, thoughtful, and a valuable contribution to the literature of the American Dream. According to Byrne, these books were the first to argue that government should never intrude on the lives of Americans. They were also among the first to feature an African American family in a positive...
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Get the Summary of Carlo Rovelli's “The Order of Time” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Get the Summary of Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance...
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#1 I wanted to meet the octopus. I wanted to touch an alternate reality. I wanted to explore a different kind of consciousness, if such a thing exists. Is it anything like being a human.
#2 The giant Pacific octopus is one of the fastest-growing animals on the planet. It can grow both longer and heavier than a man in three years. It is also one of the most dangerous animals in the...
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Get the Summary of Todd Harra & Kenneth McKenzie's Mortuary Confidential in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why...
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#1 The position of national bird remains vacant. No president or Congress has ever signed a proclamation or passed a law to fill it. The bald eagle has falsely basked in the position of national bird since Congress affixed the bald eagle on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782.
#2 The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of America, and many of the American veterans...
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#1 Charles Darwin kept a secret notebook that he used to record his wildest ideas. He believed that the forms of living creatures weren't eternally stable but had changed over time.
#2 Darwin had begun thinking about evolution and had begun writing down his ideas in a notebook. He had read Zoonomia, a medical treatise written by his grandfather, which contained some...
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