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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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#1 The Chinese have a paradox of their origins. They believe that they are eternal, and that their civilization has no beginning. They believe that they have always been living in the same stage of advancement as in the present day.
#2 Chinese history is filled with periods of civil war, interregnum, and chaos. But each period of disunity was viewed as an aberration,...
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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Get the Summary of Miranda Devine's “Laptop from Hell” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign.
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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#1 The tale of Angela and her sisters is a prime example of the impact of childhood on family life. Angela was born after her parents had been married for two years. Her sister Gwen was two years old when the marriage ended, and Angela saw little of her father after that. When she was five years old, her mother married a colleague at work, and by the time Angela was...
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#1 The tools of history analysis are partly inherited and partly of their own making: models of economic growth, quantitative analysis of market movements, accounts of demographic expansion and contraction, the study of climate and its long-term changes, and so on.
#2 The history of thought, the history of science, the history of philosophy, and the history of literature...
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#1 The question of how China will behave as the dominant Asian power is central to the likely course of Asian and world history. China's leaders are serious about replacing the United States as the number 1 power in Asia, and they have a strategy for doing so.
#2 China's leaders believe that becoming the dominant Asian power will allow them to share the century with...
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#1 The word torture is used so often and so inappropriately that it is necessary to define what it means before entering into any serious discussion of its uses. Torture is defined as the infliction of intense pain to punish, coerce, or provide sadistic pleasure.
#2 The use of torture, and the reasoning behind it, is always the same. The earliest use of torture...
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#1 In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers supported a highly developed society that included scholars and physicians.
#2 In the late 11th and 12th centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers...
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#1 I believe that the best way to avoid dangerous forms of tribalism is to remain resolutely individualistic. I thought that the age of nationalism would eventually give way to an era of cosmopolitanism, in which we cared about those around us rather than those with whom we shared blood.
#2 Our tendency to form groups is what makes us humans, and it is what has enabled...
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#1 In August 2005, Dan Ivascyn drove around with his mortgage broker to look at houses in the suburbs of Boston. They talked about the state of the market, which was not surprising to Ivascyn. It was slowing slightly, but that was normal for this time of year.
#2 One of Ivascyn's colleagues was in Detroit, one in Miami, one in Vegas. They called their contacts at various...
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#1 The power that you are born with is a part of God, the spiritual aspect of your being, which is perfect. This power is a creator of energy that is either potential or kinetic. Potential energy is passive energy, energy that is stored, waiting to be used. Kinetic energy is active energy, energy that is being used.
#2 You are a complete person with nothing missing....
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#1 I was arrested and taken to an interrogation room, where I was beaten and tortured by soldiers who were taking pleasure in doing so. I was bound, blindfolded, and unarmed, and still they beat me. I felt sad before losing consciousness.
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#1 Queen Elizabeth was born in Regent's Park. The area is now home to luxury stores and fashionable restaurants, embassies, and five-star hotels. It is not easy to find Cumberland Terrace, the house where Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907.
#2 The little girl, Daphne, has to pass under the arch and climb the steps to the house. She likes to look at the maids' uniforms,...
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Get the Summary of Fareed Zakaria's Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World in 20 minutes.
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Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social,...
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#1 The past 200 years have seen a stupendous leap in the standard of living for billions of people around the world. In 2012, life expectancy in the most affluent countries surpassed that in the poorest country, Sierra Leone.
#2 The past two centuries have seen explosive growth both in population and prosperity worldwide. Per capita income is now ten times what it was...
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#1 If you are rich, Renowned will make you feel just fine. If you aren't rich, well..-> At Renowned, the majority of students are affluent. Even with its no-loan financial aid policies in the early 2000s, the school still primarily serves the needs of the rich.
#2 Renowned is a rich school, and for many, it feels that way. For a smaller group of disadvantaged students,...
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#1 Write because it's something to do, something your parents will let you do because it looks like homework. Write because you need to drown out the sound of your parents' fighting deep into the night. When your favorite professor, senior year, fails your paper on modernism, you promise yourself to write more.
#2 When you are writing your thesis, do not mention that...
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#1 The Victorian era was a time of sexual repression, and the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality. The Victorian regime supported a Victorian regime.
#2 Repression is the characteristic feature of Victorian society, which distinguishes it from the prohibitions maintained by penal law. Repression is the practice...
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