Milkyway Media: 151 books

In Make It Stick (2016), Peter C. Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel offer an introduction to cognitive science for readers who wish to enhance their individual learning processes. The authors believe that most people tend to adopt unproductive learning styles… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (2007), Marshall Goldsmith generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at...

In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen (2017), author and StoryBrand CEO Donald Miller argues that companies flounder not because they lack quality wares, but, rather, because they fail to create clear, engaging messaging that draws in consumers. Businesses flourish...

Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman’s book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) offers a review of science about how the brain works, and considers the nature of human consciousness. Everything a person thinks, believes, and feels emanates from the brain... Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014) by Naomi Klein argues that we must act now, both individually and collectively, to cut greenhouse gas emissions. If allowed to grow at the current pace, greenhouse gas emissions will destroy the Earth… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (2017) explores emerging scientific research into how outdoor excursions benefit the brain and body. Although Romantic and Transcendentalist writers in the nineteenth century extolled the virtues of spending time in nature,...

The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty (2013) examines how businesses can retain old customers and gain new ones by decreasing the amount of effort consumers must expend to resolve problems. Authors Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi use data collected...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Skin in the Game (2018) argues that balancing risk and reward is essential to creating a fair society, and that a lack of such balance creates a world fraught with unnecessary complexity and risk. Understanding the balance or imbalance of risk and reward in social...

Mastery (2012) by Robert Greene instructs readers on how to achieve their greatest potential in a skill or career and provides examples of masters from the past and present. Anyone can reach mastery, even if he or she is not born with natural talent… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (2008) is neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s reckoning with the stroke she had in 1996, when she was 37 years old. Describing her experience in terms of her brain anatomy and how her symptoms progressed, Taylor combines her perspectives as a scientist and a patient… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex (2018) by Aubrey Marcus is a self-help book that features diet, exercise, mindfulness, and productivity tips designed to help people tweak their health and performance. By walking...

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (2018) by Ronan Farrow traces the decline of US diplomacy and the militarization of foreign policy. Under President Donald Trump, the State Department has a skeleton staff, most of whom are low-level officers... Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman (2004) is a complete and detailed guidebook for performing cunnilingus. Author and sex counselor Ian Kerner argues that women require prolonged and consistent clitoral stimulation to achieve orgasm, which can best be provided through oral sex… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual (2017) by Jocko Willink is a collection of tips and strategies for living a disciplined life. Whether one’s long-term goals relate to diet, exercise, or work, self-imposed discipline is a tried and true methodology for reaching an objective… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.