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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dr. John Medina’s Brain Rules and NOT the original book. Preview: John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist with a special interest in how the brain works. In Brain Rules, he groups his findings into twelve brain rules. Medina only uses...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever You Go, There You Are and NOT the original book. Preview: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn explores the theory and practice of mindfulness meditation and demonstrates...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and NOT the original book. Preview: How Children Succeed by Paul Tough is a journalistic review of the most recent research connecting success in adulthood with character development in childhood, and the programs...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning  and NOT the original book. Preview: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a memoir of Frankl’s imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II, and a brief description of the principles...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to William Davis's, MD Wheat Belly and NOT the original book. Preview: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health, originally published in 2011, is a passionate manifesto deriding modern wheat. Author William Davis...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jason Fung’s, MD The Obesity Code and NOT the original book. Preview: The Obesity Code addresses the history, causes, and treatments of obesity and today’s rising obesity rates. By understanding it through scientific and social study, obesity...

Guide to M. L. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans by Instaread Preview: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman is a novel that chronicles the lives of a couple and the baby they adopt. The couples, Tom and Isabel, live on an island. They find the baby washed up on shore and decide...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Donald J. Trump's Crippled America and NOT the original book. Preview: Much has been written about Donald Trump and his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination for president. But what does the billionaire builder and media personality himself...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to R. Levin's Plunder and Deceit and NOT the original book. Preview: Plunder and Deceit is about what author Mark R. Levin calls a threat to the United State’s experiment with democracy. At the heart of the threat is an executive branch of government...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers and NOT the original book. Preview: David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers is a detailed biographical account of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their journey and achievements in the early, burgeoning world...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk and NOT the original book. Preview: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is a biography by Ashlee Vance. Musk originally refused to cooperate with Vance’s biography. This was no surprise, as...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage and NOT the original book Preview: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni is a practical guide to organizational health. Organizational health is a characteristic...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Laurence J. Kotlikoff’s & et al Get What’s Yours and NOT the original book. Preview: Boston University economics professor, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, journalist specializing in retirement issues, Philip Moeller, and Yale international security...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael V. Hayden’s Playing to the Edge and NOT the original book. Preview: Playing to the Edge considers the changing role of the US intelligence community from 1999 to 2015. The author, Michael Hayden, served as the head of both the National...