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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 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 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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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 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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#1 The existence of an order of human activities that transcends the vision of an ordering mind is a miracle. It is the result of the rules of human conduct that evolved over time. These rules are taught and imitated rather than instinctive.
#2 Morals are learned traditions that contrast with impulsive and unreflective conduct and with rational concern with specific...
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#1 Minnesota's Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.
#2 Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they...
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#1 The economy is greatly affected by the car industry, as cars and trucks are a large purchase that requires a lot of money and resources. When the big car companies are making and selling cars, it tells us that many ancillary industries are also working hard.
#2 Auto sales are a good indicator of impending recessions. When automobile sales look like they are signaling...
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#1 The Massagetae, a rough, rural folk, were little known to the glittering courts of the Persian Empire. They were a target of conquest by King Cyrus the Great.
#2 In 530 BC, the season of swords, Cyrus turned his attention to his northeastern frontier. He tried a soft approach with the barbarian queen Tomyris, but her response was to offer him a fair fight on her side...
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Get the Summary of Voddie T. Baucham's Fault Lines in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that "black lives matter" and that racial justice "is a gospel issue."
But what if there is more to the social justice movement...
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#1 The life of Monroe, the original playgirl, followed a similar trajectory to that of her pin-up predecessor Bettie Page, who survived into old age but spent her final decades in a psychiatric institution. The most successful modern porn stars are also likely to have been sexually abused as children, to have been in foster care, and to have been victims of domestic...
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#1 I loved when Baba called me Ah-mun, a shortened, endearing version of my full name Yiu-man. I was proud of him, and I couldn't wait to get to the kindergarten every morning to learn to read and write like he did.
#2 The town of Shiqi, near the mouth of the Pearl River Delta, was the site of a kindergarten that I attended. The town was close to the South China Sea,...
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#1 The hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House, Will Menaker, Felix Biederman, and Matt Christman, combine their obnoxiously guy-ish humor with an aggressive and often insightful critique of centrist media figures and right-wing blowhards.
#2 The Chapo crew, like their non-socialist predecessors at The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, often got around to putting...
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#1 Churchill's speech was inspiring, but what he didn't mention was the struggle he had to get his plan accepted in the War Cabinet. It had been his plan to summon this extraordinary meeting of the Outer Cabinet, where his supporters were potentially vocal and actually numerous.
#2 The widespread perception is that Hitler was a fanatic who started a war and turned most...
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#1 Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.
#2 The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into...
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#1 The Way of Men is about being a man within a group of men. It is about what men want from each other, and it has always been about that. Men have always wanted to be accepted by other men, and The Way of Men is about that.
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#1 The struggle many black women face is to figure out which way is up in a crooked room full of warped images of their humanity. Some black women tilt and bend themselves to fit the distortion.
#2 The play, For Colored Girls, was first produced Off-Broadway in 1975. It has sold more than a hundred thousand copies. It is a definitive artistic, visual, and poetic representation...
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#1 Conventional wisdom states that coercion is rare, but I demonstrate that it is used frequently and to great effect. I define coercive engineered migration as the cross-border population movements that are deliberately created or manipulated to induce political, military, and economic concessions from a target state or states.
#2 Coercive engineered migration...
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#1 The dark world calls to you constantly. You must learn how to resist it, or you will be swept up by it. This book is derived from many sources. The most important source is the burning desire to live that underpins everything a man must think, do, and be.
#2 The lessons above are your immediate entry into the dark world. They are skills with which you swim and lift...