Falcon Press
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Chip Gaines's Capital Gaines is a collection of life lessons that Gaines gathered from his experiences as a business owner, husband, father, and television personality.
Gaines realized at an early age that he was not a gifted student, but he was still talented in other ways.
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Euro is Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz's evisceration of the euro as the cause of political and economic turmoil in Europe today.
From the very start, the decision to create a single currency for Europe was a major mistake founded on faulty ideology and misconceived economic principles. The economic half-truths that guided the construction of the eurozone no longer hold water in 2016 and are outdated.
The...
Author
Language
English
Description
Love is not the same for all people, neither is passion, sex, or intimacy. Sometimes what one person finds thrilling, another can only hope to understand. These are the lessons learned from the experiences of Anastasia Steele after meeting Christian Grey in the now famous Fifty Shades of Grey series. In this book, the motivations, thoughts, and introspections of the man who introduced Ana to the world of bondage and discipline, Christian Grey, are...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice that insisted on charging patients a minimal fee. He also occasionally administered psychological tests at settlement houses. Myril, on the other hand, rose to the top on Madison Avenue as an advertising executive. Their marriage ended by the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Walter Isaacson's Einstein is a meticulous and engaging account of the life of Albert Einstein, best known for discovering the principle of relativity. The narrative uncovers Einstein's nuanced personality and describes the ways in which his passions governed his personal, political, and scientific life…
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich's Beyond Biden
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt's The Rainbow Comes and Goes is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder if he and his mother knew one another as well as they could. After the untimely death of his father...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......
Author
Language
English
Description
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) All too often, our society seems to cherish doing things the hard way. This results in the mindset that in order to overachieve, we must overdo. This can lead to problems down the line, because if we're overworking, we're making things more difficult for ourselves.
2) To invert this assumption about our world and work, we need to ask if the opposite is true: "Could our work be made easy?" Asking this simple question can...
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mihir A. Desai's How Finance Works
A lot of people have no idea how anything about finance works. However, finance is an essential part in any successful career, and in How Finance Works (2019), economist Mihir A. Desai offers ideas and techniques that you can master and use for the rest of your life. Mihir guides you through the complex financial world by thoroughly unpacking it. He covers the foundations of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a personal account of the famous magazine editor's tenure as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, culled from excerpts of her own private journals. Beginning when she was drafted for the job and tracing her steps as she resuscitated the ailing magazine, Brown examines key moments in both the magazine's history and in her own life…
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Allan Pease and Barbara Pease's The Definitive Book of Body Language is a comprehensive guide to non-verbal communication. An expanded version of Allen Pease's Body Language (1981), The Definitive Book of Body Language outlines the basics of body language, including expressions, gestures, and physical movements, and offers supporting scientific data to explain what body language telegraphs in everyday exchanges...
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the key takeaways from Josh Hawley's The Tyranny of Big Tech.
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) Big Tech is managed by thieves who drain prosperity and power from society by creating an oligarchy. Consumers' personal data are extracted, tracked, and fed into a vast data machine to produce algorithms that manipulate users with advertisements tailored for them. This produces an online-addicted economy, with a never-ending cycle.
2) Corporate...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Tom Brady's The TB12 Method is an athletic training manual that reveals the details of Brady's famously strict personal training regimen, which he uses to complement team training exercise. Developed in close collaboration with Brady's longtime trainer Alex Guerrero, the TB12 Method is a holistic lifestyle program that incorporates deep tissue work, exercise, nutrition, and brain care…
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Scott Kelly's Endurance is the memoir of a retired American astronaut who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2015. Alternating between scenes from the ISS and the story of his life, Scott describes the emotional and physical demands as well as the many rewards of being an astronaut…
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the main key ideas from William H. McRaven's Sea Stories
Sea Stories (2019) is the autobiography of four-star Admiral William H. McRaven. As a five-year-old, McRaven would sneak around the American Officers' Club in Fontainebleau, France, and hide near the bar while his father sat with three other Air Force officers. Their tales of air-to-air combat, life on the front lines, and bold escapes fueled McRaven's yearning for adventure....
Author
Language
English
Description
Buy now to get the key takeaways from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland.
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) Itinerants, drifters, hobos, and restless souls have always existed. However, a new type of wandering tribe is emerging in the second millennium.
2) People who never imagined themselves as nomads are on the move. They're abandoning traditional homes and apartments in favor of "wheel estate," which includes vans, used RVs, school buses, pickup campers, and travel...
Author
Language
English
Description
Summary of Timothy Egan's The Immortal Irishman is a biography of Thomas Meagher: Irish revolutionary, convict, and Civil War general. The book also offers a broad portrait of the experiences of the Irish during the period, both at home and abroad.
Meagher was born in 1823 into a prominent and wealthy Catholic family. This gave him advantages of education and standing. At the same time, Catholics in Ireland were brutally oppressed, with limits on...