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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: t 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 grand sweep...
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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 is...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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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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#1 The executioner is clad in all black, face covered by a balaclava. He stands behind the condemned, right hand gripping his shoulder, left fist clutching a long steel-bladed knife. Both men know that a video crew is recording every word and movement.
#2 The footage, taken on a hill outside what might be the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, will be downloaded and...
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Get the Summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five-hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras, or "turnings",...
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#1 I had a father who was strict, but also warm and loving. He instilled in me the difference between right and wrong at a young age, and had the courage to stand up for it. I didn't need any other moral compass.
#2 I was always independent, and I didn't care how long the journey took. I was elated when I saw the sea, and decided that if my parents didn't come...
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#1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.
#2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo,...
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#1 We can discuss anything if we can define it. We can define anything we can understand. We can give intelligible definitions of many things that cannot be comprehended in and of themselves.
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#1 The first step in any training is to identify the mission you will train for. Be sure it is something you can actually accomplish. Otherwise, you will get into trouble. Your chances of failure increase exponentially.
#2 Law enforcement must put the public first, since that is their job. They must train and equip themselves toward this objective.
#3 The sheepdog mentality...
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#1 The obvious answer to how cities can attract creative talent is to provide the sort of environment that these people want. Surveys show how creative-class citizens, especially millennials, favor communities with street life.
#2 The American landscape has changed since the seventies, when most teens could walk to school, to the store, and to the soccer field....
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#1 I was a tennis bum in the summer before I entered the seventh grade. I was so passionate about the sport that I would idly hold a tennis ball and just sniff it. I became good enough that I was second man on the varsity tennis team of my 3,000-student California high school as a freshman.
#2 The author went on to say that great writers are often obsessed with...
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#1 The story of Martin Shkreli is a prime example of how not to make money. He started his own hedge fund, betting that the stock prices of certain biotech companies would drop. But instead of using his knowledge to help people, he used it to help himself and his investors make money.
#2 Martin Shkreli is a good example of how people who don't follow the norms...
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Get the Summary of Kamala Harris' The Truths We Hold in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists...
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#1 Weyrich was a behind-the-scenes man who had helped build the conservative movement. But in 1990, he gave a speech at an Ethics and Public Policy Conference where he explained to the conservative foot soldiers that they had spent so much time repeating the myth that they originated from backlash to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, that they had come to believe it themselves.
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#1 In 1956, the Chinese-speaking students took over their middle schools in Singapore. The colonial authorities dissolved the students' union and arrested its leaders, saying the organization had been infiltrated by communists. In protest, thousands of teenagers flooded onto their school grounds.
#2 Lee Kuan Yew, the leader of Singapore, had a very different approach to dealing...
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#1 The small band of Western spies in Moscow had learned to trust their instincts. They sensed something strange in the air on Sunday, as hard-liners seized power in a coup. The country's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, had been detained in the Crimea.
#2 In Moscow, the head of the First Chief Directorate, Leonid Shebarshin, was not one of the plotters. He had warned...
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#1 The Georgia Guidestones is a monument in Elbert County, Georgia, composed of four sixteen-foot-tall stones that have been called the American Stonehenge. It was commissioned in 1979 by a man using the pseudonym R. C. Christian, and it was completed in 1980.
#2 The stones' first admonition is the most disconcerting to many, as the world population in mid-2014...
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#1 Capitalism is a system that takes more than it gives back. The ecological crisis is an inevitable consequence of this system. The standard story that capitalism emerged naturally from feudalism is not true.
#2 Feudalism was a system in which the land was controlled by the nobility, and the people who lived on it were forced to render tribute to them in the form...
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#1 I was a child of passion. I was born of sin: a mistake in human form, a bomb aimed perfectly to blow up both my parents' lives. My parents met at divinity school, which was a pretty funny way to start an affair.
#2 I grew up with my mother and father at the Catholic Worker, a socialist Catholic charity that housed the homeless and fed the hungry. They were a...
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