Instaread Summaries: 4 books

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Anderson’s TED Talks and NOT the original book. Preview: TED Talks is a comprehensive handbook for learning the now-famous TED talk style. TED is a world-renowned conference series founded by Ricky Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984. Inside...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dominic Smith’s The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and NOT the original book. Preview: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel that describes the way two lives become intertwined through a mutual obsession with a seventeenth-century...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Marshall Goldsmith’s & et al Triggers and NOT the original book. Preview: Triggers, written by executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter, his agent and writing partner, is a nonfiction self-help book designed for people who need...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition and NOT the original book. Preview: Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution focuses on the treachery of Benedict Arnold as it plays...