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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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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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#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 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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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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#1 Rosie was going to be bringing a very important man to Cottisbourne. She was bringing a major-general, no less! She was sure he wouldn't be scared of ghosts.
#2 Nancy went ghost hunting, and she was excited to see what she would find. She was driving to London, and she was accompanied by a smile from Rosie.
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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 The term neoliberalism is used to describe a system of principles that is both new and based on classical liberal ideas. The doctrinal system is also known as the Washington consensus, which suggests something about global order.
#2 The neoliberal Washington consensus is an array of market-oriented principles implemented by the United States and international financial...
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#1 In 1222, Chinggis Khan sent for the most respected Taoist leader of northern China, Qiu Chuji. The old monk provided the backing the Mongols wanted, and his followers took control of temples and summoned the Buddhist and Taoist clergy to submit to the Mongol Empire.
#2 The Mongols had a unique political economy based on long-distance trade, circulation rather than...
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#1 The use of drugs by secret agents had been a part of cloak-and-dagger folklore for years, but this would be the first concerted attempt by an American espionage organization to modify human behavior through chemical means.
#2 The OSS tested the drug on themselves, their associates, and US military personnel, and they found that it made their sense of humor extremely...
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#1 The end of the Cold War in 1989 marked the supremacy of market capitalism, and with it, the demise of self-governing nation-states.
#2 Capitalist realism is the belief that the world is flat and can only be changed by capitalism. It is a world where nothing really matters except for capitalism, and where ultra-authoritarianism and Capital are not at all incompatible.
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#1 My mother told me that when I was born, the doctor said that I was beautiful. The next day, her brother came to the hospital just to see me. He said that I was the most beautiful baby he'd ever seen.
#2 I am in hair and makeup on a photoshoot, and the hairdresser's assistant asks me what my ethnicity is. I tell him simply: I'm a white girl. He laughs.
#3 My mother, who is classically...
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#1 The sea was warm, and Michael was able to swim five to ten miles off the coast of southwest New Guinea. He knew that the shore behind him receded quickly, and that the water was shallow. He should be able to stand when he was still a mile from shore.
#2 He was a Rockefeller, and he knew what was expected of him. He was responsible for doing good things, big things,...
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#1 Islam is often called a religion of peace, but the truth is that most Muslims do not resist or condemn the global Islamic jihad being fought in their name.
#2 The idea of Muhammad as a champion of liberty and democracy was not original to Trump's questioner. The Muslim writer Farida Khanam wrote that Muhammad was a meek, mild man who loved all humankind.
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#1 We are all interconnected, and what we do is only a small part of a much larger world. We must appreciate this reality if we want to be happy. I'd like to thank my wife, Gina Arons, for her patience and support as I worked on this book.
#2 I'd like to thank all the teachers who have helped me develop and enrich my meditation practice, including Jack Kornfield, Joseph...
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#1 The first silk merchants were Chinese merchants, who would pull a colorful swatch of silk from a pouch and show it to the lady of the house. The gods themselves could not resist: Isis was said to have draped herself in fine silk yielding diverse colors.
#2 The Romans knew about Chinese silk, but they did not know China. They believed that silk grew directly on the...
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#1 Environmental justice did not become common vernacular until the early 1980s, but it has been around since the 1960s. In 1982, when a landfill was proposed in Warren County, North Carolina, to accept PCBs, a highly toxic by-product of the chemical industry, it sparked a massive protest.
#2 As the EJ movement grew, so did the research. However, the predominant...
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#1 My life as an FBI Special Agent was perfect. I had the best job in the world, protecting Americans and their way of life from those who would do them harm. I had served as an FBI Agent for seven years and a uniformed policeman for several years before that.
#2 I was always prepared to work extra hours if needed. I was an FBI Special Agent, and my career was progressing...
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#1 The weakness of men is the facade of strength. The strength of women is the facade of weakness. Men have experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than women, and they have remained the silent sex because they have felt powerless.
#2 The question is how it is that if any other group is singled out to register for the draft based on its characteristics at birth,...
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#1 Don't be a feminist if and only if society generally treats men more fairly than women. Otherwise, no one's going to stop you.
#2 There's a gender earnings gap, but it is quite small. If you compare single, childless men and women, almost all of the earnings gap goes away. Also, if you compare single, childless men and men who work full-time jobs, the gap remains....
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