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#1 I loved working at the butcher's shop as a young girl. I learned about tendons and blood vessels, how to remove the confluence of structures at the hilum of the kidney, and how to open the joint between two bones to reveal the glassy, viscous fluid of the synovial joint space.
#2 The first experience of a dissecting room is intimidating for everyone. It is a reminder that everyone...
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's Heart Full of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Heart Full of Lies" delves into the perplexing murder case that shook the serene "Oregon Alps." In 2000, district attorney Dan Ousley faced a confounding murder in Wallowa County, where undersheriff Rich Stein discovered a body by the Lostine River. Liysa Ann Northon, the wife of the deceased, claimed self-defense against her husband,...
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Get the Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election,...
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Get the Summary of Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong's The Justices Behind Roe v. Wade in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a front-row seat to the inner workings of the Supreme Court that led to the monumental Roe v. Wade decision. Spanning from 1969 to 1972, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Bob Woodward and coauthor Scott Armstrong report on the masterful...
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#1 The Federal Aviation Administration is the primary agency regulating civil aircraft in the United States. It sets standards of legal behavior by which a judge or jury may later decide whether you and your employer are legally liable for negligence in the event of an aircraft accident.
#2 The Transportation Security Administration, a new federal agency, was assigned...
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Get the Summary of Rush Doshi's The Long Game in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Taking readers...
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Get the Summary of Alexander Vindman's Here, Right Matters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Here, Right Matters is Vindman's proud, passionate, and candid account of his family, his career, and the moment of truth he faced for his nation. As an immigrant, raised by a father who fled the Soviet Union in pursuit of a better life for his children, Vindman learned about respect for truth...
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Get the Summary of Jorge L. Contreras' The Genome Defense in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, how can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then, he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and...
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Get the Summary of Samuel Moyn's Humane in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at...
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Get the Summary of Henry M. Robert, Daniel H Honemann, Thomas J Balch, Daniel E. Seabold & Shmuel Gerber's Robert's Rules of Order in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established...
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Get the Summary of Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind's The Smartest Guys in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron...
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Get the Summary of Morris Pearl's Tax the Rich! in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In Tax the Rich! Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization's founder, take readers on an insider's tour of the nation's tax code and show how the rich (and the politicians they control) structured the tax code to make themselves even richer....
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Get the Summary of Tom Wheelwright's ‘TaxFree Wealth’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: After 31 years... Major Tax Reform - and what it means to you True overhaul of the tax law only happens about once every 30 years. In the past 75 years, the U.S. tax law has only seen three major revisions, one in 1954, the next in 1986 and most recently at the end of 2017. I have been fortunate...
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#1 The culture market is a winner-takes-all system, in which a handful of people take almost all the rewards. This has always been the case, but now there is less and less to share.
#2 The reason creative workers are receiving a declining share of the wealth generated by their work is the same reason all workers are receiving a smaller share-we have structured society...
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Get the Summary of James J. Sexton's “How to Stay in Love” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Stay in Love" by James J. Sexton offers a pragmatic look at marriage through the lens of a seasoned divorce lawyer. Sexton explores the complexities of marital relationships, emphasizing that marriage is not a cure-all for personal issues but a dynamic interplay of solutions and problems. He highlights the importance...
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Get the Summary of David Miraldi's The Edge of Malice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Richard Thompson and Christopher Martin, drug addicts and robbers, target Marie Grossman at a Burger King drive-thru on December 11, 1987. Marie, a dedicated professional with a background of overcoming adversity, including a traumatic sexual assault and active involvement in civil rights, is shot in the head but manages to...
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Get the Summary of Ryan J. Reilly's Sedition Hunters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Sedition Hunters" by Ryan J. Reilly delves into the events leading up to and following the January 6 Capitol riot, focusing on the influence of Donald Trump's rhetoric on his supporters and the challenges faced by law enforcement in handling domestic terrorism. The book examines the planning and execution of violent acts by...
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#1 Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupuncture points along the skin of the body involving various methods such as penetration by thin needles or the application of heat, pressure, or laser light. It is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine.
#2 The meridian system is a traditional Chinese medicine belief about a...
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Get the Summary of Frederic Bastiat's The Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat is a treatise on the principles of justice, property, and individual rights as they relate to the law. Bastiat argues that the law has been corrupted from its original purpose of protecting these rights into a tool for legal plunder, where the law is manipulated to benefit a select few at the expense of...
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Book Preview: #1 The CRT movement is a collection of activists and scholars who study and transform the relationship between race, racism, and power. They consider many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up, but they place them in a broader perspective that includes economics, history, setting, group and self-interest, and emotions...