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Summary of Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It is an investigative overview of the food industry’s often intentional efforts to mislead consumers...

Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit is a comprehensive analysis of different cases showing the impact habits have on everyday life.It uses examples of companies, corporations and individuals to describe formation of habits, how to alter them, their use in making business profitable, and the...

Summary of Tears to Triumph: by Marianne Williamson | Includes Analysis   Preview: Tears to Triumph by Marianne Williamson is a nonfiction meditation on suffering and the spiritual pathways that can open as a result of embracing pain. Now more than ever, the teachings of the...

The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Summary & Analysis A Smarter You In 15 Minutes… What is your time worth? A Journey through time to the edge of scientific discoveries that explain why we form habits and how we can change or substitute them for ones we'd like. Duhigg engages...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger’s Contagious by Instaread   Preview: Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a playbook for marketing in the internet age, when products and ideas live or die based on whether or not they can go viral. Author Jonah Berger describes...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy’s To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread   Preview: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History is Lawrence Levy’s personal account of how he and Steve Jobs turned a struggling animation...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Brian Tracy’s The Art of Closing the Sale by Instaread   Preview:   The Art of Closing the Sale delivers advice and guidelines that author Brian Tracy has accumulated throughout his sales career. Tracy became a more productive salesman...

Summary, Analysis & Review of The Arbinger Institute’s Leadership and Self-Deception by Instaread   Preview:   Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute is a business fable that illustrates the ways that self-deception can undermine interpersonal relationships...

Summary of The Euro by Joseph E. Stiglitz | Includes Analysis   Preview:   The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe is Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s evisceration of the euro as the cause of political and economic turmoil in...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Dan Ariely's Payoff by Instaread   Preview: Payoff by Dan Ariely is a companion to the author’s well-known TED talks, which focus on research that illuminates the role of reward and effort in motivation. Ariely examined his own motivations...

This is a Summary of Anne Garrels' Putin Country: A Journey into The Real Russia More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the...

This is a Summary of The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de BeckerTrue fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference.A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger...

So much to read, so little time? Get a brief overview of The Innovator’s Dilemma—the bestselling business book about disruption and how companies adapt.   Named one of the most important business books ever written by the Economist and the winner of the Global Business Book Award, The Innovator’s...

Summary of How Not To Be Wrong: by Jordan Ellenberg | Includes Analysis   Preview: How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg attempts to demonstrate real-life applications of mathematics. In schools, students learn math principles in abstract contexts. Math in the real world is...