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Summary, Analysis & Review of Susan David's Emotional Agility by Instaread
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Emotional Agility by psychologist Susan David is a nonfiction self-help book designed to help people embrace difficult emotions that hold them back in life and work so that they can thrive even in the most challenging of situations. David outlines a four-part method for becoming emotionally agile. The four parts are facing emotions, creating distance from those emotions,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Gary Taubes's The Case Against Sugar by Instaread
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The Case Against Sugar argues that sugar is a toxic substance responsible for a wide array of health problems including diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Author Gary Taubes recounts the history of how sugar came to be cultivated and ultimately refined into the cheap, ubiquitous substance that is eaten globally today. He takes on the American sugar industry...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad and NOT the original book.
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Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) is an educational story that contrasts the mindsets of the rich and the poor. The Poor Dad is the main character's biological father, who works as a college professor...
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· Overview of the Book
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Emma Donoghue's The Wonder by Instaread
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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a novel about Elizabeth "Lib" Wright, a British nurse whose wits, beliefs, and compassion are tested during an unusual assignment in rural Ireland circa 1859. Lib's charge is Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old who allegedly hasn't had a bite to eat in four months. Dubious of this so-called miracle, Lib has just two weeks to uncover her young...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things by Instaread
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is the story of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse who is charged with the murder of the newborn son of white supremacists. The novel is also the story of Ruth's public defender, Kennedy McQuarrie, who learns to confront the criminal justice system's racial prejudice.
Twenty years into her career at Mercy-West...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards's Captivate and NOT the original book.
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People (2017) by Vanessa Van Edwards is a collection of tips and tricks, or hacks, aimed at creating more meaningful and productive social interactions. Interpersonal skills are acquired, not innate...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amy Myers's The Thyroid Connection and NOT the original book.
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The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do. Myers took up her mission to help others understand thyroid conditions when she was in medical school and was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune condition that results in hyperthyroidism,...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and NOT the original book.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) is a serious examination of four approaches to food production in the United States: industrial, industrial organic, sustainable, and foraging. Author Michael Pollan tries to resolve what he calls the omnivore's dilemma, or the problem of deciding what and how to eat from among...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Olivia Fox Cabane's & et al The Net and the Butterfly and NOT the original book.
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The Net and the Butterfly (2017) by executive leadership experts Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack is a nonfiction book that demystifies the concept of breakthroughs, or specific times when a person is able to transcend previous limitations or thinking. These eureka moments are generally considered the product of luck. In...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Chip and Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Story with Mark Dagostino by Instaread
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The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna "Jo" Gaines, with Mark Dagostino, is the true tale of how the husband-and-wife team, stars of the HGTV show Fixer Upper, built a life together in Waco, Texas. Starting with their first date, which was about 15 years before the book's publication in 2016, the couple traces the development of their...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book.
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In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly leads to better outcomes in many cases...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Van Der Merwe's Lucky Go Happy and NOT the original book.
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Author Paul van der Merwe follows an unlikely journalist on an adventure to define happiness in Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen! (2014). The journalist is not actually a person but rather a rat named Lucky who searches for a shared definition of happiness among the animals of the African Bushveld...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jason Fung's MD The Complete Guide to Fasting and NOT the original book.
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Jason Fung's The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting promotes fasting as a treatment for obesity and diabetes. Fung argues that weight gain and type 2 diabetes are the result of insulin resistance, which can be corrected through fasting.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things and NOT the original book.
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012) is a collection from the popular advice column that novelist and essayist Cheryl Strayed wrote for The Rumpus, a literary website, from 2010 to 2012. Using the pen name Sugar, Strayed responded to queries from troubled readers who were coping with love, loss, and other...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John C. Maxwell's Developing the Leader Within You and NOT the original book.
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John C. Maxwell's Developing the Leader Within You (1993) is a guide to forming the necessary traits required of a leader. A leader is someone who can attract, motivate, and mentor followers who help bring the leader's vision to life...
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My Own Words is a collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's public writing and speeches. It includes biographical information and a discussion of her intellectual interests and positions. Ginsburg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She excelled in academics and showed an early interest in human rights as evidenced by an eighth-grade paper praising the Charter of the United Nations. In 1950, she entered Cornell University...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus and NOT the original book.
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Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2017) argues that human beings have come to a fundamental turning point in history. The great struggles that have defined human existence have largely been won.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife and NOT the original book.
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007) by Diane Ackerman is the strange but true tale of a couple who took advantage of their unique situation living in a bombed-out zoo to hide some 300 Jews from the Nazis who terrorized Warsaw during World War II. As active members of the resistance, Jan and Antonina Zabinski used the abandoned zoo grounds...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Seth Godin's Purple Cow and NOT the original book.
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Seth Godin's Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (2003) is a short book about marketing remarkable products. Godin argues that marketing has changed drastically since the early days of television and that most companies have been slow to adapt...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sheryl Sandberg's & et al Option B and NOT the original book.
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Option B (2017), coauthored by Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and organizational psychology expert Adam Grant, explores how to cope and ultimately thrive in the aftermath of tragic events and extreme adversity. In June 2015, Dave Goldberg, Sandberg's husband of 11 years, suddenly died from a cardiac arrhythmia...
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