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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...

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...

Summary of Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Includes Analysis   Preview: Think Like a Freak is about approaching common problems with a unique and childlike mindset to find practical and real solutions. The authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner,...

Summary of #AskGaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk | Includes Analysis   Preview: #AskGaryVee is entrepreneur and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk’s guide to leadership and media. Structured in the form of questions and answers, #AskGaryVee follows the model of Vaynerchuk’s...

Summary of Get What’s Yours by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Philip Moeller | Includes Analysis   Preview: Boston University economics professor, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, journalist specializing in retirement issues, Philip Moeller, and Yale international security professor and...

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 of Daring Greatly by Brene Brown | Includes Analysis   Preview: Daring Greatly, a book by researcher Brene Brown, deals with vulnerability. But its key tenet is one that will surprise many people. That tenet is the idea that being vulnerable is not a negative aspect...

Summary of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson | Includes Analysis   Preview: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant at the same time. The author, Jenny Lawson, suffers from clinical depression, an anxiety...

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...

Summary of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | Includes Analysis Preview: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a self-help book offering advice on how to gain and maintain power, using lessons drawn from parables and the experiences of historical figures. Power depends...

Summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People: by Dale Carnegie | Includes Analysis     Preview: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic self-help book. It instructs readers on ways to improve their standing with others and convince...

The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck | Summary & Analysis Preview: Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey chronicles Rinker and his brother’s experiences reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers of the Oregon Trail. At the same time, the...

How to Raise an Adult: by Julie Lythcott-Haims | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review   Preview: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success is a book of parenting advice. The author, Julie Lythcott-Haims, is a former freshman dean...

Summary of Brain Rules: by Dr. John Medina | Includes Analysis   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 research...