Milkyway Media: 151 books

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food (2008) by Catherine Shanahan, a physician and nutrition expert, explores how ancient nutritional wisdom can be applied to today’s lifestyle for maximum health and wellness benefits. Shanahan studied global cuisines and discovered basic commonalities,...

Meditations are a series of reflections written by the famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180) as a personal diary. The aim of Aurelius’ text was self-improvement through Stoicism, a philosophical movement that the emperor embraced and sought to internalize... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers(2012) follows the lives and aspirations of residents of Annawadi, one of Mumbai’s many densely inhabited slums. Boo, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, spent three years visiting and researching Annawadi, which was located near the Mumbai airport but...

Elad Gil’s High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (2018) is a reference guide for founders and executives of fast-growing new technology businesses that draws advice from some of the leading minds in Silicon Valley.Fast-growing startups have unique needs... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (And Other People’s Lives Better, Too) (2017) by Gretchen Rubin is a self-help book that outlines a framework for understanding motivation. Rubin believes that everyone naturally falls into one of...

How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens (2015) by Benedict Carey investigates the conditions under which the brain learns best. Carey provides counterintuitive advice on how to modify study habits and improve performance… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (2017) by Mihir Desai looks at the principles of finance through popular culture, life experience, and history. Exploring finance through the lens of the humanities reveals that markets are not divorced from other realms of life… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Antifragile (2012), by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things. Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human...

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007) by veteran economic and foreign policy journalist Amity Shlaes is a historical reevaluation of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the American economic recovery from the Great Depression during the 1930s. Shlaes offers a popular...

The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968) by OgMandino offers a set of precepts that salespeople should follow to achieve happiness and success. This classic bestseller is written as a parable about Hafid, a Biblical-era man who inherits a set of ancient scrolls that teach him the right way to live and sell… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017) is a collection of feature essays for Atlantic magazine written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. They discuss race and racism during the Obama administration… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944) is a classic of the self-help genre and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Carnegie outlines numerous time-tested techniques for modifying thoughts and behavior in order to banish worry... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Janesville: An American Story (2017) by Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein details the hardships that befell a Wisconsin city of 63,000 people after General Motors (GM) halted production at the Janesville Assembly Plant on December 23, 2008. For years, rumors circulated that Janesville...

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) by Chris Hadfield tells the Canadian astronaut’s life story and offers practical life advice based on this professional experience. Focusing on his training...