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#1 The Brooklyn Tabernacle, a church I had pastored, was a shabby two-story building in the middle of a downtown block on Atlantic Avenue. The sanctuary could hold fewer than two hundred people, but we didn't have the money to improve it.
#2 I was not qualified to be a minister, but my wife, Carol, was a gifted organist and pianist, so I got through it by relying on...
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#1 On the northwest side of Hinckley, the Brennan Lumber Company was lit up by strange, reddish lights. The house shuddered as another windstorm hit it. In the town of Clara, Anderson, the girls were saying good night to one another.
#2 Emil Anderson, the pastor, was returning home from a church conference in Hinckley. He was humming Swedish hymns and thinking about...
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Get the Summary of Peter Russell's Letting Go of Nothing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Anyone who has dipped a toe into any of the world's spiritual traditions knows that letting go and letting be, are key. But how? In this fresh, frank, and powerful guide, Peter Russell allows readers to see that the things we get hung up on are generally not tangible problems in the present,...
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Get the Summary of Daniel H. Pink's When in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a...
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#1 The PlayBook will help you understand, archive, and implement what you trade best. The key to your optimal trading is to stick to what you trade best. As traders, we often jump from strategy to strategy that may not be our strength to our PL detriment. Do what you do best and stop trying to make tacos.
#2 The five checks for making trading decisions are the Big Picture,...
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Book Preview: #1 The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Unless American companies invest in the difficult task of creating new things, they will fail in the future.
#2 The future should be available to everyone, not just students in Silicon Valley.
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#1 I have selected and arranged a baker's dozen of talks on mythology that I gave between 1958 and 1971. The topics and titles I owe to the fertile mind of Dr. Johnson E. Fairchild, the chairman of The Forum, who kept that blithesome institution running for nearly 25 years.
#2 The medieval concept of the earth was that it was a flat, floating dish surrounded...
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Get the Summary of Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: 7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and quickly apply.
Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy advisor, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher, Hamilton Helmer develops from first principles...
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Get the Summary of Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Amy Leach, the celebrated author of the transcendent Things That Are, invites you into The Everybody Ensemble, an effervescent tonic of a book. These short, wildly inventive essays are filled with praise songs, poetry, ingenious critique, soul-lifting philosophy, music theory, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature....
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Get the Summary Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against...
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Book Preview: In “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20” (2009), Tina Seelig gives solid advice on how to reach success and find effective solutions for every obstacle, drawn from her experience as a Stanford professor, consultant, entrepreneur, and author. She presents ideas that are the complete opposite of traditional success lessons taught by education systems around the world....
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Get the Summary of Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup...
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Get the Summary of Jeanne G. Harris & Thomas H. Davenport's Competing on Analytics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Updated with fresh content, Competing on Analytics provides the road map for becoming an analytical competitor, showing readers how to create new strategies for their organizations based on sophisticated analytics. Introducing a five-stage model of analytical competition, Davenport and Harris...
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Get the Summary of Warren Berger's ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But "questionologist" Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right...
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Get the Summary of Damian Brindle's 57 ScientificallyProven Survival Foods to Stockpile in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "57 Scientifically Proven Survival Foods to Stockpile" by Damian Brindle is a comprehensive guide to creating a nutritionally balanced survival pantry. The book emphasizes the importance of macronutrients and advises on the selection of shelf-stable foods that provide essential vitamins, minerals,...
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Get the Summary of don Miguel Ruiz & don Jose Ruiz with Janet Mills's The Fifth Agreement in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In The Fifth Agreement, don Miguel Ruiz joins his son, don Jose Ruiz, to offer a fresh perspective on The Four Agreements, and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven. The Fifth Agreement takes us to a deeper level of awareness...
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#1 When I wake in the night, I call Vanessa because she isn't armed. Van! Van, hey! I hiss across the room until she wakes up. Then Vanessa hands me the candle, and we pee sleepily into the flickering yellow light.
#2 The loo can be unpredictable. It can either refuse to flush at all or just gurgle and splutter water. It can be scary, but you have to get used to it.
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Get the Summary of Nandita Shah's Reversing Diabetes in 21 Days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Based on her revolutionary diabetes reversal programme, Dr. Nandita Shah, renowned homeopath and founder-director of SHARAN, elaborately breaks down the real cause of diabetes using scientific evidence and intelligently outlines a routine that will not just prevent the disease but also...
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Get the Summary of Catherine Shanahan with Luke Shanahan's Deep Nutrition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free - now with a prescriptive plan for the Human Diet to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.
Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, MD, examined diets around the world known to help people...
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Get the Summary of W. Chan Kim's Blue Ocean Shift in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy...
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