Summary, Analysis, and Review of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express is a murder mystery featuring the famous detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot is on a cross-European train ride when a wealthy American passenger is killed in his cabin by a series of twelve knife blows. It turns out that the passenger was a notorious kidnapper. The novel is divided into three parts: The Facts, The Evidence, and Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks. The Facts begins with Hercule Poirot finishing up a case in Syria. He proceeds to Istanbul, where he plans to take the Orient Express to London. The train is unusually full. Poirot’s friend, M. Bouc, a director of the train line

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Al Franken’s Al Franken, Giant of the Senate PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Al Franken’s Al Franken, Giant of the Senate includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Al Franken: Giant of the Senate is an autobiography written by Minnesota Senator Al Franken. It gives background on Franken’s career as a comedy writer, on his campaigns for office, and on the workings of the Senate. Franken’s father was the child of German Jewish immigrants. He moved from New York to Minnesota to start a quilting factory, which quickly failed. He then became a printing salesman, and Franken, who was born in 1951, grew up in middle class suburbs. His family became Democrats during the Civil Rights era, in part because, as Jews, they identified with marginalized people and believed in equality for all. Franken’s f

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel about Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who is condemned by Communists to spend the rest of his life confined in the Metropol, the capital’s most glamorous hotel. The story opens on his trial in 1922, where he’s shown leniency as a reward for having written a revolutionary poem that pre-dated the Russian Revolution. The only catch? If Rostov ever leaves the hotel, he will be executed. The novel unfolds over the course of the thirty-two years that Rostov spends under house arrest.

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Uncanny Valley is a captivating account of Anna Wiener’s struggle to find meaning and fulfilment in an industry that was brimming with optimism but felt ever so selfish, insidious, and hostile.

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Through the lens of her personal experiences, Wiener traces the rise of Silicon Valley and documents the opportunities and problems it has created. She takes the reader through her experiences working at a literary agency and then an e-book startup in Manhattan to providing customer support at a data analytics company and then an open-source company in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley. In between, Wiener reflects on the failings of startup culture and considers what it might take for the tech industry to be a source of good in a delicate socio-economic landscape. Anyone curious about what Silicon Valley feels like to an outsider and how it is shaping the world will find this memoir a handy guide.

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In this riveting Memoir, Ariana Neumann digs through her family’s past to uncover a Holocaust story that is as thrilling as it is heart-wrenching.

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When Time Stopped is a moving account of the Neumann family’s life before, during, and after the Holocaust. In it, Ariana Neumann describes growing up in privilege in Caracas, Venezuela, and stumbling on clues that hinted at her father’s dark, secretive past. The clues eventually led her to a decade-long, worldwide search for the missing pieces of a family history that key players were unwilling to talk about. What follows is a spell-binding account of a family caught up in what is perhaps the worst evil of the last century, the lucky breaks and unfortunate endings it encountered, the scars that remained, and the attempts it made to heal and cope with the trauma.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is a biography of tech developer and entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk is famous as the CEO of Tesla, which makes electric car, and SpaceX, a private rocket developer. Musk was born in South Africa. His mother, Maye, was a model and his father, Errol, was an electrical engineer. Musk had a difficult childhood, and was often bullied in school. His parents divorced when he was nine and he and his brother, Kimbal, went to live with their father. Errol was a very unpleasant man, and treated the boys coldly and perhaps abusively. The trauma of his chi

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis?and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Ben Sasse, the junior United States Senator from Nebraska, is widely considered a rising star in the Republican Party. Sasse, who studied at Harvard and Oxford and later received a Ph.D. in History from Yale, also numbers among that party’s most prominent intellectuals. However, he claims at the outset that The Vanishing American Adult is a nonpartisan book: he is diagnosing and attempting to solve a problem that affects both Democrats and Republicans alike, since a lack of self-reliance among young people threatens the future of the whole country. While serving

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished Japan PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished Japan includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard have co-authored six books in the Killing… series. Each of the previous five analyzes a relatively short period in the death or defeat of a significant historical figure. This book, by contrast, focuses on the defeat of an entire nation, Japan, as well as the millions of Japanese who died during the course of World War II. O’Reilly and Dugard follow the US and Japan during the last year of the conflict, marshaling evidence to argue in favor of the wisdom of President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs

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In Tiny Habits, behavior scientist BJ Fogg explains the drivers of human behavior and outlines the steps anyone can take to create and sustain positive change.

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BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits is a concise and practical guide to creating long-term change. Drawing from his research at Stanford University and his experiences coaching thousands of people, Fogg explains why change is difficult, why it doesn’t have to be, and how anyone can work with the three elements of human behavior to create habits that stick. Anyone looking to lose weight, be a better parent, become more productive at work, or effect any other positive change at home, work, or in the community will find this book an invaluable resource.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brene Brown’s Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In Braving the Wilderness, researcher and storyteller Brene Brown teaches the masses how to live more wholeheartedly and courageously. In this timely book, she shares personal anecdotes of her own journey, blended with her own and a plethora of others’ research. She applies the metaphor of the world as the wilderness that America has largely disengaged with, or has chosen to engage negatively (Facebook fights, anyone?). Brown revisits and builds on her previous work with the wholehearted- people who feel a deep sense o

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In Daring Greatly, Brene Brown expands her over twelve years of academic research on the anatomy of connection into a 250+ page how-to on engaging more fully with ourselves and our world. The title comes from a 1910 speech by Theodore Roosevelt, given at the Sorbonne after his presidency, about disavowing the non-participatory critics in favor of the man in the arena. Brown discusses where our fear of vulnerability comes from, why we protect ourselves, the price of disengagement, and owning and engaging with vulnerability to transform ourselves into better (if messier) beings.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Brene Brown, noted psychologist and author, has collected thousands of stories about shame from diverse men and women in the United States. Using the data collected from these stories, Brown provides suggestions for readers who want to move past feelings of shame and unworthiness and towards Wholehearted Living. Brown states that Wholehearted Living is not a one-time decision, but a process that takes a lifetime. Brown’s goal is to bring awareness and clarity to the choices that can lead to Wholehearted Living by examining the success stories of the people that she h

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In Until the End of Time, physicist and mathematician Brian Greene offers a detailed analysis of the origins and ultimate destruction of our universe. He explains how and why everything in our universe will ultimately cease to exist, and in so doing forces us to rethink the meaning and purpose of our lives.

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We get up every day and make all kinds of choices, often believing that we are doing what’s best for our future. But what does the future truly hold for humanity and the greater universe? Brian Greene’s latest book, Until the End of Time, is an insightful scientific exploration of the inevitability of death and decay. He presents proof that everything that lives in the universe will ultimately be destroyed, whether through natural death or spectacular cataclysm. We know that our lives are fleeting, and our daily endeavors are but vain attempts at achieving a measure of immortality. Therefore, if all life will end, the only thing that makes sense is to find meaning within ourselves and in the present moment.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Cal Newport’s Deep Work PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Cal Newport’s Deep Work: Rules for Success in a Distracted World includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport is a self-help book that stresses the transformative power of concentration. The premise: today’s world is filled with distractions that lead to dissatisfaction and brain drain. With various forces on the internet constantly seeking to occupy your ever-dwindling attention span, you must fiercely guard the time you set aside for deep contemplation and thoughtful work. Fundamentally, knowledge workers have two modes of work: shallow and deep. Shallow work can take many forms. It can be busywork like meetings or work email. It

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Carol S. Dweck’s Mindset : The New Psychology of Success PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Carol S. Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success is the result of decades of research by Stanford University professor & psychologist Carol S. Dweck. In the book, she argues that a person’s mindset-that is, how they view their own abilities and approach challenges-is the primary predictor of one’s success. She classifies mindset as a simple binary: although there is a middle ground, you either have a predominant fixed mindset or a predominant growth mindset. The fixed mindset is the belief that one’s qualities and abilities are immutable and cannot be changed. In contrast, the growth mindset is the idea that a pe

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.In her book You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance, world-famous astrologer Chani Nicholas guides readers through their birth charts and explains what the placement of each planet, sign, and house means for their identity, emotions, motivations, and life purpose. What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?* Summary of the original book* Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas* An interpretation of what each element of your birth chart means* An exposition of the ways astrology can be a tool for self-acceptance and self-actualization* Editorial Review & Analysis* Background on Chani NicholasAbout the Original Book:In this insightful workbook, Nicholas, who has been a counselling astrologer for more than two decades, guides readers through their charts with the patience, compassion, and expertise of an experienced teacher. She reiterates that your astrological makeup shapes who you are and what your journey here will be like, but there is always room to change, heal, and grow. With journal prompts and personal affirmations for every zodiac sign, her book is a decisive roadmap for figuring yourself out and embracing who you are. Anyone looking to astrology to make sense of the circumstances of their life will find this book an invaluable guide. DISCLAIMER:This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, You Were Born for This Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business includes a summary and review of the book, an analysis, key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. Preview: In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg brings his investigative prowess to bear on the science of habit formation and its real-world applications. Distilling vast amounts of academic research, corporate strategy, and life stories of subjects ranging from unnamed alcoholics to Michael Phelps, Duhigg organizes his findings about habits into three broad categories: individuals, companies/organizations, and society. In the tradition of investigative reporters, Charles Duhigg is a gifted storyteller, content to let most of his research lie in the background and

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ The Magnolia Story PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ The Magnolia Story includes a summary and review of the original book, an analysis, key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. Preview: The Magnolia Story is a joint biography/memoir of Chip and Joanna Gaines, housing developers, renovators, and designers in Waco, Texas. Most of the text is by Joanna, with interpolations by Chris. The book describes their childhoods, their marriage, and how they developed their businesses. It also discusses the process that led them to host the HGTV television show, Fixer Upper. The Magnolia Story, then, is mostly intended as inspiration. It is a story of love, success, finding the right path in one’s marriage and career, and overcoming adversity with the help of love and faith.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad A Novel includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a novel about Cora, an enslaved woman in Georgia who escapes from a plantation and heads north. Although it is loosely based on real slave narratives, it also includes fantastic and ahistorical elements. For example, the historical Underground Railroad was a network, which helped slaves escape, but, in the novel, the Underground Railroad is a buried railway line.

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In Dangerous Prayers, bestselling author and Life.Church founder Craig Groeschel reveals the prayers that can help Christians develop a more intimate relationship with God, strengthen their faith, and fully embrace God’s plan for their lives.

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Groeschel’s Dangerous Prayers is a sobering reminder that safe, comfortable prayers don’t honor or move God. Christ calls his followers to a life of faith and courage, so prayers–if they are to have any impact at all–have to be personal and bold. They have to come from an open and vulnerable place, and they have to ask God for more than his blessings, guidance, and peace. Anyone wondering why their prayers go unanswered and anyone who wants their prayers to transform their life and the world will find this book in invaluable guide.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Dan Harris’ 10% Happier PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Dan Harris’ 10% Happier: How I Tamed The Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works-A True Story includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In 10% Happier, Dan Harris takes readers on his journey to adopt meditation and practice mindfulness. The story begins with Harris chronicling a personal panic attack on national television while he was filling in as a News Reader for a colleague. According to the Nielsen ratings data, over 5 million saw his panic attack, which was the result of an extended period of what Harris calls mindlessness, where he was focused on professional advancement and adventure. Dan Harris began working at ABC News at twenty-eight years old. When he joined the A

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Dan Heath’s Upstream explores how individuals and organizations can shift from a reactive to a preventive problem-solving approach to achieve better personal, business, social, and political outcomes.

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Drawing from the stories of dozens of upstream thinkers who have achieved remarkable success in solving such problems as customer churn and domestic violence, Heath demonstrates how anyone can confront seemingly insoluble problems and design interventions that prevent them from occurring in the first place. Heath, who is a Senior Fellow at Duke University, builds on the latest in psychology and systems thinking to propose, in easily digestible prose, how ordinary people can achieve the change in mindset that creates extraordinary change. Upstream ought to be required reading for parents, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, government officials, and problem solvers of all kinds.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow sums up an exceptionally productive career of scholarly research in behavioral psychology. In collaboration with psychologist Amos Tversky, Kahneman helped develop the fields of behavioral economics and the psychology of judgment. More importantly, they challenged the still-dominant notion that people are rational decision-makers whose preferences remain constant over time by proving that decision-making is heavily influenced by context. Kahneman uses this book to explore how those decision-making processes work, characterizing the rapid-fire, thoughtless reacting that constitutes most though

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Daniel Levitin’s Successful Aging is a relatable and expertly written guide to the scientific, social, and emotional process of aging, buoyed by the latest research into what we can do to increase not just our lifespan, but our active, healthy years.

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Daniel Levitin’s Successful Aging is an incredibly detailed, highly-technical look at the process of aging from a neurological standpoint, including everything we know about the causes of aging and potential “cures.” The book doesn’t just provide helpful tips on how to best counteract the aging process, but rather guides the reader through the underlying causes for a more comprehensive understanding of the myriad factors at play. Whether you’re interested in learning about the intricate neurological processes behind how we develop and age, or you’re looking for evidence-based solutions to help slow or reverse the process, Levitin’s book is a wealth of accessible knowledge.

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.In The Power of Showing Up, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson share a powerful scientific framework that is bound to revolutionize the art of parenting. They provide the key ingredients that can help any parent raise a well-balanced and secure child who enjoys life and thrives in adversity.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasA breakdown of what it means to show up in a child’s lifeTips to help your child feel safe, seen, and soothedEditorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne BrysonAbout the Original Book:Parents often question whether they are doing enough to raise good kids. There seems to be so much pressure to be the perfect parent, and as a result, parents become either too soft or too harsh. In their latest collaboration, The Power of Showing Up, Siegel and Bryson leverage their decades of experience in the area of child psychology to show parents that there is a better way. Perfection shouldn’t be the goal. Instead, parents should focus on establishing a secure attachment with their child. This is achieved by ensuring that your child feels safe, seen, soothed, and secure. In other words, focus less on the child’s behavior and more on the parent-child relationship. This way, you will be able to turn your home into a secure base from which your child can launch out into the world, knowing full well that they have the support that never wavers.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, The Power of Showing Up. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Danny Meyer’s Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Danny Meyer’s Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business is the autobiographical account of Danny Meyer, a world-famous restaurateur. The owner of an eclectic group of eateries, including Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack, Meyer draws on his twenty-one years of experience in the industry to describe the unusual business values that underpin his wild success, including hospitality, which stems from the basic human need for food and family.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: My Cousin Rachel is a quasi-Gothic novel about Philip Ashley, a young man who becomes obsessed with his cousin’s widow. With new information about her past constantly surfacing, Philip often wonders whether Rachel, the object of his affection, is as warm and personable as she seems, but it’s a question he never settles to his satisfaction. As the story begins, Philip bids farewell to his middle-aged cousin Ambrose, who always winters abroad for health reasons. Philip, an orphan, has lived with his cousin since he was just eighteen months old, so Ambrose is more than just a cousin to him—he’s like a father. Philip hates to see him go, but it’s

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Dave Eggers’s The Circle PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Dave Eggers’s The Circle includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Circle follows the career of Mae Holland, a young and angst-ridden millennial, as she advances in the corporate hierarchy of the Circle, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her friend and college roommate, Annie, has already secured an influential position at the Circle, which is described as having combined all the best features of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Assigned to a position in customer service, Mae is trained by Dan, a true believer in the Circle’s social media community. While Mae shows immediate promise as a customer experience representative and is glad to have left her dead-end utility company job behind, she does not initially embrace t

Summary, Analysis, and Review of David Finkel’s Thank You for Your Service PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of David Finkel’s Thank You for Your Service includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Journalist David Finkel, who has written about the experiences of an Army infantry division fighting in Baghdad, now tells the story of soldiers grappling with the after-effects of their service in Iraq. He focuses primarily on Adam Schumann, an extremely capable non-commissioned officer now suffering from PTSD. When Schumann returns from Iraq, he struggles to readjust to family life, which strains his relationship with his wife, Saskia, who wants him to return to serving as a husband, a father, and a provider. His diminished cognition and impaired judgment limit him to menial jobs and much-reduced workloads, and his recurring mood s

Summary, Analysis, and Review of David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis and Review of David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is the true story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British explorer who became obsessed with finding a lost civilization in the Brazilian jungle. Although he began his career as a military man, he always had a keen interest in exploration and proved to be a quick study. The Amazonian expedition that claimed his life ended in 1925, when he and his party disappeared. Eighty years later, New Yorker staff writer David Grann used his investigative reporting skills to try to piec

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. Preview: The Zookeeper’s Wife is the story of Antonina Zabinski, the wife of Jan, the director of Warsaw’s zoo in the 1930s. Antonina’s parents had been executed during the 1917 Russian Revolution when she was nine. Raised by her grandmother, Antonina studied piano and then moved to Warsaw. She met Jan, who was eleven years older than her, while working as an archivist. Jan became the Warsaw zoo director in 1929, and the two married in 1931. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the zoo fell into disrepair, but Jan joined the Polish resistance, and he and Antonina saved 300 Jews by hiding them in their home and helping them

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Doctors Henry Cloud & John Townsend’s Boundaries PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Doctors Henry Cloud & John Townsend’s Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Boundaries is a self-help book with Christian inspirational components by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, a pair of authors and psychologists in California. The book is written in the first-person, although neither of the doctors are named in the text; the pair of them seem to share this point of view. This book is primarily concerned with psychological and spiritual boundaries, particularly how to establish them and how to rebuild them when they are violated. It provides examples of common types of boundary conflicts as well as advice on how to resolve

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements was published in 1997 and remained on The New York Times bestseller list for seven years thereafter. Ruiz, like fellow best-selling spiritualist author Deepak Chopra, had gone to medical school and became a doctor. Also like Chopra, he would become disenchanted with the practice of medicine and sought to distill the wisdom of his ancestors. Chopra’s two biggest-selling books, Ageless Body Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, had appeared in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and would remain fixtures on bestseller lists for years to

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal gives readers a comprehensive look at the author’s life as a businessman. It is divided into three sections: the first offers a detailed look at a single Trump work week, the second lists the business principles to which Trump adheres, and the third contains Trump’s autobiographical reflections on his early life and most notable business ventures. Although there’s some debate about authorship, there’s no doubt that the book channels Trump’s boisterous, success-obsessed personality: both people and projects are described either as winners or losers, and everything Trump-related is given a positive spin, even if h

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment argues that time is an illusion, and that individuals can attain enlightenment by being fully present in the eternal moment of Now. The book is organized into a question and answer format. Tolle provides common questions that have been presented to him as a spiritual teacher and then answers each question in order to guide readers to enlightenment. After years of depression, Tolle’s life became so intolerable that he spontaneously recognized that reality, time, and self were illusions. He attained enlightenment and spent many years in bliss. Eventual

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc. PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (with Amy Wallace) takes a close look at the special culture that the author helped establish at Pixar, the computer-generated animation studio that he co-founded. Reflecting on his personal career, his management philosophy, and the highs and lows of Pixar’s history as a company, Catmull discusses strategies for nurturing creativity and diagnoses common problems faced by creative professionals. In the 1970s, as a graduate student studying computer-generated animation, Catmull was estab

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The American culture has been infiltrated, and ambitious white-collar professionals are left out in the cold with only alcohol and drugs to keep their lights ablaze. It’s reaching epidemic proportions, and Zimmerman’s story is one we all need to hear if we dare to look hard into the crystal ball.

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Eilene Zimmerman isn’t under any illusions about how the real world operates under self-imposed expectations and rising stress. She shines a spotlight into the obscurity of substance abuse in white-collar settings, and the truth that’s reflected is more than any of us may be ready to accept. In Smacked, she takes a straightforward approach to a discussion that has been avoided at the highest levels of power and influence. With America at peak drug abuse in over a decade, it’s timely counsel.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic is her ode to creativity and inspiration. Gilbert, who’s garnered acclaim most famously for her book Eat Pray Love, seeks to impart to readers that the act of artistic creation does not have be a tortured, complicated process: it’s better to just do, and worry about questions of merit or quality only once a work is actually finished. Gilbert opens the book with an anecdote on Jack Gilbert, a poet with no relationship to the author and only a fraction of her notoriety and success. Rejecting fame and fortune in favor of focusing and honing in on his craft, the author uses the poet’s example to lay out t

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Author and entrepreneur Emily Ley shares her personal experience and wisdom in an attempt to help women find balance in their lives. She reveals the secrets that have helped her find joy and peace despite her hectic role as a mother of three, wife, and businesswoman.

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Today, more than ever, the majority of women struggle to balance their personal and work lives. They have to juggle between being wives, mothers, and professionals. As a result, many women are suffering through stress, discontentment, and even burnout. Emily Ley provides practical solutions that are designed to help steer you away from the edge and back into your true harmonious self. She shares her insight into how she went from depressed and stressed mom/entrepreneur to a thriving individual once again. It’s time to lay aside the perfectionism and endless chase for more. It is possible to create your dream life by keeping things simple, slowing down your pace, and learning to settle for good enough.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Eric Barker’s Barking Up The Wrong Tree PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Eric Barker’s Barking Up The Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker examines the science behind success. In the introductory chapter, Barker explains that much of what we have been told about the qualities that lead to success is incorrect. Instead, we should look at successful people, examine their stories, and learn how to be more like them. Barker also adds that many success stories also contain warnings about what traps we should avoid since the qualities that lead to success can also be detrimental to human happiness. Barking Up the Wrong Tree is a continuation of Barker’s s

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The core thesis of pastor/marriage counselor Gary Chapman’s most popular book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, is that most people have not yet learned the difference between in love and real love. Chapman begins by outlining these two loves as they apply to a marriage. Romantic love, which is akin to obsession, is an irrational, temporary, powerful, quasi-biological state that lasts roughly two years. This contrasts with emotional love, which is complicated, disciplined, rational, intentional, and ultimately enduring. People fall into patterns, and, as polemica

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Gary John Bishop’s Unf*ck Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Gary John Bishop’s Unf*ck Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Gary John Bishop’s Unf*ck Yourself is a self-help book that provides coaching and strategies for achieving life goals. In particular, it advises discipline and an end to negative self-talk. You spend a huge amount of time everyday talking to yourself. The kind of thoughts you direct at yourself can have a powerful effect on your attitude and how you perceive the world. Positive self-talk increases happiness and productivity; negative self-talk reduces both. You cannot change the external world, but you can control your own thoughts and attitudes.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams’s The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams’s The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Book of Joy is an account of a meeting in India between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in early July 2015 to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday. Tutu and the Dalai Lama engaged in a series of dialogues about the meaning of joy and how to achieve it. This book details their ideas and their friendship. It also discusses scientific research into joy and happiness in order to confirm and expand on their insights.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.Holly Whitaker’s first book is a seamless blend of personal narrative, science, spirituality, and self-help aimed at creating a new dialogue around alcohol in America, getting rid of the term alcoholic for good, and helping anyone who wants to, create a better, sober, more fulfilled life for themselves.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasActionable advice to help start your journey to sobriety todayWhitaker’s personal story and perspectives on sobriety, spirituality, addiction, and social justiceIn-depth Editorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Holly WhitakerAbout the Original Book:Quit Like a Woman is more than just a self-help book on sobriety. It is a call to action for all of America–and the world–to realize how poisonous alcohol is, and just how much it is truly affecting our lives. Whitker’s personal story drives a moving narrative from addiction to recovery, but more than that, she creates an alternative path to holistic healing. She believes AA isn’t the answer for most, that no one is really an alcoholic, and that the stigma surrounding alcoholism should and can be lifted. She believes in a world, much like the post-cigarette world we live in today, where the majority of people choose a sober life, not because they are addicts, but because they believe in healthier, more fulfilled living. Through her work, she inspires and creates an easy-to-follow path for anyone to join her.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Quit Like a Woman Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir about his life growing up in Ohio as the child of a working-class family with roots in Appalachia. Vance uses his experiences in a dysfunctional family to talk about the problems with what he calls hillbilly culture. He says that hillbilly culture is mired in laziness, drug use, and learned helplessness. Although hillbillies claim to be committed to hard work, Vance believes they actually refuse to work at available jobs, miring themselves in poverty. He argues that they must recommit to institutions like the family and the

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jen Hatmaker’s Of Mess and Moxie PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jen Hatmaker’s Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life is a collection of nonfiction essays and life advice by the bestselling Christian humorist Jen Hatmaker. Sharing a selection of her personal ups and downs from childhood through the present day, Hatmaker reflects on what it means to lead a full and happy life as a modern woman. The titular mess and moxie are two universal experiences that all women share. The mess is the chaos, confusion, and pain that comes standard issue in life. Mess is unavoidable; every woman deals with heartbreak and failure in her life on some lev

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jen Sincero’s You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jen Sincero’s You Are a Badass includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life is a loose set of instructions about how to be happy. There was a time when Jen Sincero felt dissatisfied with her choices and her financial situation, but she managed to turn things around by examining different areas of her life with an open mind, and she knows that you can too. There’s one prerequisite: belief. You need to sincerely believe that you have the power to change your life. You must also believe in God. This God doesn’t need to be a formal religious figure; in fact, Sincero prefers to th

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Our thought life determines how we live and how we feel about our lives. It is possible to change the way we think; negative thoughts can be tamed, and our minds transformed.

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Jennie Allen is a true believer in the power of the mind and how Christians can wield it for a meaningful life. She shares her personal struggles and small victories, taking pains to relate to readers on a level of friend and colleague rather than a holy teacher. Get Out of Your Head is a radical self-help book that is filled with hope and practical encouragement. The idea won’t get you to heaven in seven easy steps, but it may just point you in the right direction. It turns out we DO have a choice.

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.In The Self-Care Solution, physician and ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton offers readers a peek into her world as she shares the 12 wellness challenges that helped her transform her health and wellbeing. She shows us that it is possible to live the lives we desire by simply taking small steps and recasting our challenges as opportunities for change.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasA breakdown of the 12 wellness challenges that Ashton took on as part of her healing and transformationThe benefits of aerobic exercises, meditation, quality sleep, and other underestimated lifestyle changesEditorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Jennifer AshtonAbout the Original Book:Though change is an inevitable part of life, it is never a comfortable experience for most people. After her ex-husband committed suicide, Doctor Jennifer Ashton was so distraught that she knew she had to find a way to transform her life. But what was initially supposed to be a 30-day abstention from alcohol quickly turned into a 12-month experiment! In her book, The Self-Care Solution, she describes how she went on this year-long journey to improve her health and regain her wellness. She shares her successes and failures as she inspires millions of her fans to make small tweaks in their lives in order to transform their wellbeing.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, The Self-Care Solution Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jennifer Rothschild’s Me, Myself, and Lies PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jennifer Rothschild’s Me, Myself, and Lies: A Thought Closet Makeover includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Jennifer Rothschild’s Me, Myself, and Lies is a self-help book for Christian women. It encourages women to stop berating themselves with disempowering lies. Speaking Christian truth about oneself to oneself helps to bring you closer to God. As a child, Rothschild was a perfectionist, who often chastised herself with negative self-talk. She had been storing ugly ideas and insecurities in her thought closet. However, she learned to look to the Bible for examples of what to say to herself. What she discovered was that the Bible encourages soul

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jenny Lawson’s You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jenny Lawson’s You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds is a book of anecdotes, aphorisms, and drawings by Jenny Lawson. The book was inspired by and addresses Lawson’s mental illness, anxiety, and depression. It is designed as a workbook and/or coloring book. Readers are not just meant to read it, but to draw in it and make it their own. The book is a very quick read. Many pages feature only a single inspirational saying. Most of Lawson’s drawings include some text and the drawings themselves are very detailed and bear close study, but, even so, You Are Here goes by quickly. Of course, r

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. Jenny Offill’s third novel follows the thoughts of librian Lizzie Benson as she deals with raising a family, helping her brother overcome addiction, and preparing for the end of the world. In Offill’s signature style of disjointed autofiction, she takes the reader on a journey through the mind of a woman obsessed with doomsday preparation in a world ever threatened by climate change and divisive politics. What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include? Summary of the original book Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main themes A guide to the key characters throughout the book Discussion of the external forces driving Offill’s work In-depth Editorial Review & Analysis Background on Jenny Offill About the Original Book: Weather is an unconventional novel that uses its broken, disparate structure to capture the current American zeitgeist in a spectacular way. Despite its anxiety-driven narrative about the end of the world (whether due to climate change or the rapture), the book is quite humorous as Lizzie relays quick quips and anecdotes throughout, delving often into the farcical and absurd. It is both darkly funny and sardonic as well as absurdly light at other times. A must-read for anyone who has felt lost or disconnected in the last few years of political turmoil, Offill delves into not only the broader threat of climate change, but life, family, privilege, religion, and technology, among other things. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Weather. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

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Open Book is an open monologue about life as Jessica Simpson. It seems there’s more to the blonde pop star than an irreparable legacy of “chicken or tuna?” Bring the Kleenex, but maybe hold the alcohol if you don’t want an ironic finger wagging back at you by the final curtain call.

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Jessica Simpson, popstar extraordinaire, is more than a blonde bombshell with a cute Southern accent. Her life story overflows with extravagant gestures, magical experiences, faith, and a flair for the dramatic. If you want an unabridged bird’s eye view of the star’s successes and failures over two decades in the music industry, Open Book is it–from the heart. Bring out the popcorn and make yourself comfortable; there’s a lot to take in and it’s all about love.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jim Collins’s Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review? of Jim Collins’s Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Jim Collins posits that most American entities (from the federal government and multinational corporations all the way down to individuals) are hindered by being good and, thus, do not rise to being great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem, he writes. It is a human problem(16). As such, the question naturally arises: Can a good enough government, company, organization, or person become a great one? If so, is there a discrete methodology that might consis

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s Extreme Ownership PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win is authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s guide to approaching leadership in such a way that readers can walk away from the book with a sense of ownership and control over what happens under their watch. Extreme Ownership’s teachings are derived primarily from Willink and Babin’s time spent in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 and 2006. Willink and Babin belonged to SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, one of the most decorated special operations outfits of the Iraq War. Willink served as the commander of Task Unit

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.Jocko Willink’s Leadership Strategy and Tactics is a handy guide to the laws and principles of leadership in combat, business, and life.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasA description of the laws and principles of effective leadershipTips to gain more trust and influence, nurture better work relationships, and create high-performance teamsEditorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Jocko WillinkAbout the Original Book:In Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Jocko Willink draws from his experiences in the Navy SEALs and his work consulting for leading companies to offer solutions to some of the toughest challenges in leadership. The most successful leaders, Willink observes, delegate authority and tasks, give subtle directions instead of direct orders, and take complete ownership of their teams’ faults and failures. In-between describing the principles of effective leadership, Willink offers quick tips for everything from leading peers to dealing with indecisive superiors. Any leader, new or seasoned, at any rank or position, will find this book an invaluable guide for steering teams to success.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Leadership Strategy and Tactics. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of John M. Gottman and Nan Silver’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of John M. Gottman and Nan Silver’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: John Gottman and Nan Silver’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a guide and workbook for assessing marriages and saving those that are in trouble. Based on Gottman’s extensive research on marital happiness, the book provides an overview of what makes marriages successful, and concrete steps to improve relationships. Gottman’s research involves extensive observations of couples interacting, as well as lengthy interviews with men and women. Because of his lab work, Gottman is able to

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois, the sad story follows the lives and deaths of female workers who became known as the radium girls. Radium has been known to be a dangerous substance since 1901, but it wasn’t always widely recognized as such. This was for a lot of reasons, including the fragmented medical community, a lack of regulation in the United St

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Kathryn Miles’ Quakeland PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Kathryn Miles’ Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Kathryn Miles’ Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake is a popular science book about earthquake science. It focuses on earthquake dangers in the United States and how to prepare for and reduce harm from quakes. As of 2017, the United States has not had a major earthquake since 1989, and between 1967 and 2017 earthquakes killed only 150 people. However, earthquakes are a serious potential danger, in part because so little is known about them. Because earthquakes are unpredictable, seismologists are rarely able to set up equipment to study them in real time. Earthquakes are difficult to

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Lysa TerKeurst’s Uninvited PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Lysa TerKeurst’s Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely is an inspirational Christian book. Author Lysa TerKeurst discusses her own experiences with rejection, and urges readers to turn to faith for comfort and love. Rejection from others in the present uncovers wounds in the past. Rejection by others intertwines with self-rejection. These messages of rejection and self-rejection become self-fulfilling; when you internalize rejection, you damage your own ability to interact honestly, openly, and generously with others and with God.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success argues that success is not solely the result of merit and hard work. Rather, Gladwell says extremely successful people are successful because they were in the right place at the right time, or because they received crucial help. In order to understand success, it is important to look not at the characteristics of the individual, but at the social and cultural factors that enable success. Sports are often seen as a uniquely meritocratic endeavor. People believe that the most physically talented athletes are the most successful. However, this is not true. In fact, in Canada, children whose bir

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In an alternative version of America, a neo-conservative, alt-right type terrorist group took over in a coup — they shot the President, machine-gunned the Congress, got the army to declare a state of emergency, instituted martial law, suspended the Constitution, and instilled a totalitarian theocracy. Although this group claimed their taking over was only temporary, America became the Republic of Gilead. And because they were able to blame a worldwide fertility crisis (in which babies had a one-in-four chance of being born with deformities that would make them unable to survive outside the womb), the Gileadean regime was able to reverse women

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Hidden Figures begins with a prologue recounting author Margot Lee Shetterly’s childhood in Hampton, Virginia. Her father worked for NASA’s Langley Research Center, and Shetterly was surrounded by an upwardly mobile black community. As Shetterly grew up and left Hampton, she became fascinated by the people she had grown up with and the individuals her father had once mentioned in passing. The popular conception of NASA was that of an o

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Start Publishing Notes Summary, Analysis, and Review of Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, an organization expert, details her KonMari Method, a rigorous cleaning program that promises swift, profound results. Kondo’s beliefs are simple and straightforward: clutter makes your household-and your life-feel chaotic. If you rid your home of clutter, you’ll achieve organizational bliss. The entire process takes about six months. Kondo’s recommendation is to handle each and every object in your home-literally picking it up and holding it in your hands-to consider whether or not it sparks joy. If t

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Mark Manson, a massively successful dating advice and travel blogger, has written The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck to address what he perceives as a major gap in the self-help market: the critical, recurring issue that people do not know what to give a f*ck about (the profanity is intentional-Manson wants to make sure his points are made in as concise and punchy a way as possible). He believes that practical enlightenment is the key to humanity’s spiritual well-being and that suffering has to be accepted as a nat

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Unknown Valor is the moving story of some of the most critical battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II as told through the personal experiences of the brave young men who fought–and died–in them.

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How the war changed the young men who took part in it and what remains
Editorial Review & Analysis
Background on Martha MacCallum and Ronald J. Drez

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Martha MacCallum’s Unknown Valor is both a personal exploration of war and heroism as well as a detailed recounting of several of the most strategic successes in the American campaign against Japanese imperialist expansion during the Second World War. MacCallum relays the grueling details of such critical battles as Tarawa and Saipan, and the narrative culminates in the harrowing story of the months spent fighting for Iwo Jima. Whether you are well versed in World War II history or you’re a casual reader curious about the lives of those who fought for our freedom, you will find Unknown Valor a moving tale of heroism that is expertly told.

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle’s Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle’s Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances is a collection of three interrelated novellas about teenage romance. The first novella is The Jubilee Express by Maureen Johnson, which is written from the perspective of sixteen-year-old Jubilee Dougal. When her parents are arrested during a shopping event that went out of control, Jubilee is put on a train to Florida to spend Christmas with her grandparents. This is far from ideal for a variety of reasons, first and foremost because Jubilee will miss her boyfriend Noah’s Christmas Eve party. Unfortunately, sh

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Meik Wiking’s The Little Book of Hygge PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Meik Wiking’s The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking is a book-length articulation of the essence of Danish culture, geared towards non-natives. The concept under discussion is hygge-a strong feeling of comfort and companionship that can be cultivated through the appreciation of life’s simple pleasures. The first thing to note is that hygge is linguistically flexible. It can morph into different parts of speech at will, and be combined with other words as well. The word’s ubiquity and flexibility convey how essential hygge is to the people of Denmark. As the CEO of a Danish think tank that

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Mel Robbins’s The 5 Second Rule PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Mel Robbins’s The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins is a self-help book based on a simple psychological tool that the author developed to motivate herself. Using a technique that involves counting down backwards from five to one, she gave herself the extra push she needed to complete dreaded tasks, become more productive, and live a more fulfilling life. She hopes that readers will follow in her footsteps. Robbins’ own journey with the 5 second rule began in 2009, a time in her life when it seemed like everything was wrong. Every aspect of her li

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Melissa and Dallas Hartwigs’s The Whole30 PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Melissa and Dallas Hartwigs’s The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig is a set of health-centric dietary guidelines that promote optimal well-being. By eliminating certain food groups, it’s possible to reset your system and rid your life of health problems ranging from pesky symptoms to chronic diseases. All it takes is thirty days. Most people know that eating too much sugar or indulging in too much bread can be bad for your waistline and your health. What many don’t realize is that less obvious foods—choices you may regard as h

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Melody Beattie’s Codependent No More PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Melody Beattie’s Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Melody Beattie’s Codependent No More is a self-help book for families and loved ones of people with alcohol and chemical dependency. People who have loved ones with addictions are called codependents. Codependents are focused on taking care of and helping an addict to such an extent that they lose touch with their own goals, lives, and emotional needs. Codependents are not usually addicts themselves. They often feel that they do not need help, since they are not the ones who are sick, and are not the ones who are behaving badly. However, codependency leads to great unhappiness, a

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Michael Greger, M.D. and Gene Stone’s How Not to Die PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Michael Greger, M.D. and Gene Stone’s How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone asserts that the major causes of disease in the United States are mostly preventable. To encourage Americans to take control of their medical destinies, Greger examines the broken belief systems surrounding food, some specific interventions by disease, and general dietary recommendations. Most Americans hold the false belief that disease is a matter o

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.In How Not to Diet, Dr. Michael Greger combs through thousands of scientific studies to uncover the true cause of obesity and offer a science-backed solution for achieving sustainable weight loss and preventing, halting, and even reversing chronic diseases.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasSpecific foods to eat or avoid for sustainable weight controlTips for boosting metabolism, suppressing appetite, and getting the most out of exerciseIn-depth Editorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Michael GregerAbout the Original Book:Anyone who has tried any diet for any length of time knows that diets don’t work–not for long anyway. What if, instead of counting calories and watching portion sizes, you could eat as much as you wanted and not only lose weight, but also get more energy, improve your major health markers, and enjoy a better quality of life? Dr. Greger demonstrates how a whole-food, plant-based diet is the key to maximizing nutrition and achieving sustainable weight control in this compelling read, How Not to Diet. Anyone looking to make permanent, health-conscious lifestyle changes will find this book an invaluable guide.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, How Not to Diet Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project:A Friendship that Changed Our Minds includes a summary of the book, Review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Michael Lewis, the author of the successful book-turned-movie Moneyball, found inspiration for his new book in a review by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Writing in The New Republic, Thaler and Sunstein argued that the ideas in Moneyball were not original. Rather, Moneyball was a good illustration of ideas that had originated from two Israeli psychologists named Daniel (Danny) Kahenam and Amos Tversky. Lewis had never heard these names before and he was intrigued. Lewis then introduces readers to our main protagonists, Danny and Amos. First, Lewis discusses Danny Kahenman. Danny had survived World War II, par

PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Mitch Albom’s Finding Chika includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed “About the Author” section.When the little girl from Haiti entered Mitch Albom’s life, everything changed. When she left, her legacy of joy, family, courage, and overcoming left the world richer for her being in it, however brief. What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?* Summary of the original book* Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas* The key lessons that Albom learned about pain, love,faith, family, and fatherhood when he and his wife took Chika in* How the Albom family balanced hope and acceptance as Chika’s progronosis worsened* Editorial Review & Analysis* Background on Mitch AlbomAbout the Original Book:Chika Jeune was a Haitian national sent to the same orphanage that Mitch Albom found himself managing in 2013. She was a feisty addition to the neighborhood, and they were devastated when she was diagnosed with DIPG months later. The couple took Chika into their home in America, caring for her, and shouldering her medical bills. There is more to the story than the birth of a family, though. Bring out the Kleenex and search your heart, you’ll need to dig deep to hear what Chika and Mitch have to tell you about lifeDISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Finding Chika Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Neil deGrasse Tyson, a former star, amateur wrestler at Harvard who went on to become an award-winning astrophysicist, might be the most well-known science communicator in the United States since the late Carl Sagan. Tyson, who has served as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City since 1996, had published a dozen books prior to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry; all of them have been aimed at a popular audience. In spite of that, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is probably his most accessible and scaled-down work to date. In the introduction, Tyson explains that he has written the

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: American Gods is a novel about a war between old world gods, who have been transplanted to America by the Vikings, Egyptians, Irish, Africans, and more, and the more modern American gods-personifications of media and technology-who have sprung up in the United States over time. In most mythological systems, gods create; however, in American Gods, Gaiman presents a world in which human beings create gods. The deities require human belief, sacrifice, and/or worship in order to survive. The Old Gods, who are no longer worshipped, have lost power and solidity over the years. Although they still have some special abilities, they can be killed and destroyed much like

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.In Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take a personal and harrowing look at the pervasive problems of poverty, drug abuse, and rising death rate in America through the stories of the people in America’s forgotten towns. What they discover is a problem that goes far beyond unemployment or personal choice: they discover America’s great social depression.What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasA wealth of statistics on poverty, homelessness, incarceration, and their underlying causesA thought-provoking analysis on how we got here and how we can truly make America great againIn-depth Editorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunnAbout the Original Book:Tightrope is an unflinching, personal, statistical, and political account of the problems that have plagued America over the last half-century and how the authors believe we can solve them. Ranging from mass incarceration to homelessness, the opioid crisis and rampant poverty, husband and wife team Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn use intensely personal stories of people they spent time with, and some Nicholas grew up with, to paint a vivid picture of the faces that stand behind the facts.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Tightrope Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton’s American Kingpin PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton’s American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton tells the story of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of an illegal website that helped people buy and sell illicit goods anonymously. The author traces how Ross transformed his nascent idea for an eBay for drugs on the Dark Web into a multimillion dollar business, as well as the team of crafty feds who brought him down—and ultimately put him behind bars for life. Ross was a 24-year-old graduate student at Penn State when he met his girlfriend, Julia. He was politically active on campus to the point where

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Ortner’s The Tapping Solution PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Ortner’s The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Nick Ortner’s The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living presents the basic principles and practice of tapping. Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), is a system for relieving emotional and physical stress and illness. Tapping is based on principles of Chinese acupuncture and Western psychology. It can quickly and effectively eliminate anxiety, phobias, pain, and many physical illnesses. Tapping was developed by Dr. Robert Callahan and his student Gary Craig beginning in 1979. It is based on the meridian points used in acupuncture. Mer

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air is an autobiographical account of his experience with Stage IV lung cancer. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part philosophical investigation, it is the story of his life, his work, and the difficult-but ultimately rewarding-process of coming to terms with his own death. The tragic ironies of Kalanithi’s situation-a non-smoker with lung cancer, a young man with an aggressive terminal illness, a talented surgeon who fell ill before he could realize his potential, a new father whose daughter will never know him-could not pull at readers’ heartstrings more if it had been engineered in a lab.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist concerns Santiago, a young shepherd boy who resides in Andalusia, a mountainous region in the south of Spain. Santiago, who had given up a path of priesthood in order to enjoy the nomadic life of a shepherd, has recently been having recurring dreams. The dream first occurred to him while he and his sheep took respite in an abandoned church in the countryside. Sleeping under the sycamore growing through the church’s ruined roof, the boy’s dream sees him visited by a little girl who guides him toward the Egyptian pyramids. The little girl tells him that if he goes to the pyramids, he will find a hidden treasure there. Having the dream

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex provides an open and incisive look into the sexual experiences of boys and the challenges that come with being a sexually active teen. She goes deep into the teenage psyche to uncover what they think about rape, consent, porn, homosexuality, hookups, and much more. A must-read for every teen and their parents!What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?Summary of the original bookEasily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideasA discussion of how boys view masculinity and how they relate to girls in a predominantly patriarchal societyAn investigation of what consent and sexual assault mean in a hookup culture and the gaps in sex education that parents and teachers need to fillEditorial Review & AnalysisBackground on Peggy OrensteinAbout the Original Book:For some reason, society has always had a problem talking to or teaching boys about sex. Parents and teachers assume that boys will find a way to figure out the details for themselves. And they often do, with drastic results. In Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex, she spends two years interviewing boys from all over the country about their sexual experiences and perspectives. Surprisingly enough, these boys open up about their sexual insecurities, emotions, and performance. They also talk about their sexual misconduct, porn, racism, and even male rape. Without doubt, Boys and Sex shows us the viewpoints of the other side of the gender divide.DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Boys and Sex. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: After a year-long sabbatical in 1995, Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist nun, realized that the way to overcome fear, pain, loss, and anxiety is to confront those negative emotions in order to transform one’s suffering and negative patterns in life in order to obtain a life of joy rather than one of hardship. In When Things Fall Apart Chodron sees two overarching themes: a need for maitri (loving-kindness towards oneself) and how practicing maitri develops a more compassionate attitude towards our own and others’ struggles; and a dissolving of dualistic tensions (us and them) by inviting in what we usually

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In The Future Is Faster Than You Think, authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore how the convergence of different technologies will revolutionize the way we eat, work, play, and live.

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Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas
The key forces that are merging to amplify and accelerate the advancement of tech
The ways technologies are converging to revolutionize business and life
Editorial Review & Analysis
Background on Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

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We know that technology is advancing faster every day. But what we don’t realize is the amazing opportunities that open up when two or more technologies are combined. This is the underlying argument that Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler make in their latest book, The Future is Faster Than You Think. The two tech entrepreneurs paint a clear picture of what the world will look like when AI, quantum computing, 3-D printing, Virtual Reality, and even biotechnology converge and support each another. There is no field of humanity that won’t be untouched, whether its food production, education, real estate, health care, and even advertising. Anyone who wants to know what the next decade will look like will find this book an invaluable resource.

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. Profiles in Corruption is a deep dive into the private finances and secret deals of the most well-known names in politics today, many of whom are currently competing for the Democratic presidential nomination. What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include? Summary of the original book Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas Details of each politician and the ways they have abused their power Lessons on morality and hypocrisy in politics today Editorial Review & Analysis Background on Peter Schweizer About the Original Book: Profiles in Corruption is a heavily researched, heavily cited investigation, primarily into the Democratic presidential hopefuls in the 2020 election. The overarching theme of the book is both the daily hypocrisy we are faced with in politics and the fact that small corruptions often lead to larger ones once more power is concentrated in a single person and begins to flow to everyone in their orbit. Schweizer leaves no stone unturned as he pores through the financial records, backchannel deals, and blantant corruption that many of these seemingly moral politicians have been engaging in for decades. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Profiles in Corruption. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section PREVIEW: Wonder is a children’s novel about a bright, kind, intuitive ten-year-old who has severe facial abnormalities. August Auggie Pullman was born with a rare genetic disorder. He has endured a lot in his short life, including twenty-seven surgeries and the cruelty of strangers who recoil from his unusual appearance. But nothing could quite prepare him for the challenge he must now face: his first year of middle school. Until recently, August, who lives in Manhattan, led a fairly sheltered life with his devoted parents and his fifteen-year-old sister. He’s been homeschooled for his entire life, but his parents think it’s time to send him out into the world. The idea frightens

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a creative nonfiction book that explores the source of HeLa, the most commonly used human cell line in the world. In order to bring its origin to light, Rebecca Skloot weaves together several narrative threads. One is primarily focused on Henrietta Lacks, the woman who, without her knowledge, became central to 20th century biomedical research. Another is the birth of modern biomedical research itself and its roots in the American eugenics movement. Finally, there is the impact of this research, both of the Lacks Family and on society at large. Skloot divides the book int

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The 48 Laws of Power claims to offer readers the secrets to amassing power within the confines of contemporary society. In the book’s preface, Robert Greene argues that, at least on the surface, the quest for power has been demonized. From his perspective, however, very little has changed in the time between the royal courts of old and the high-intensity boardrooms of today. According to Greene, the people who amass the most power are those who can crush their enemies while appearing outwardly benevolent. The essence of Greene’s perspective on power dynamics can be aptly summarized by President Teddy Roosevelt: Speak softly, and carry a big s

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Ron Chernow details the life of Alexander Hamilton, the wunderkind of the Founding Fathers, the ultimate outsider-turned-insider, and the subsequent poster child for both Democrats and Republicans, depending on how they interpret his economic and political theories. To understand how Hamilton arrived at those theories-his idea for a central bank, his belief in a strong executive branch and an independent judiciary, his abolitionist leanings-one needs to see how his surroundings and his psychology impacted him. Hamilton’s origin story begins in the Caribbean, where he was born and raised under inauspicious circumstances, which makes it all the more imp

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ryan Holiday’s Perennial Seller PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ryan Holiday’s Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Perennial Seller is a self-help book targeted to entrepreneurs and creative individuals, such as writers, artists, or filmmakers. This book draws on author Ryan Holiday’s experience in various creative industries and seeks to help people develop a project or product that will be more than a temporary fad- what he calls a perennial seller. Holiday starts the book by addressing a recurring dilemma for creatives: what makes a product successful for years and decades, and what causes other, seemingly just as good, products to fail? What is it that makes a product perennial? Holiday’s definition of pere

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way uses the ancient philosophy of the Stoics to inspire readers to succeed. Holiday argues that in each obstacle there are seeds of opportunity. The Stoics teach that you should find benefits in every barrier. Each roadblock is in fact a new road. Some obstacles are external: lack of money, lack of muscle, lack of physical capability. Other obstacles are mental: self-doubt, fear, lack of skill. Yet, the approach to all obstacles is the same. To overcome barriers requires three qualities: perception, action, and will.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sara Gottfried’s Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sara Gottfried’s Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years is a diet, exercise, and health book that argues that, although genes affect the body’s tendency to age, those genes can be turned on or off by environment and lifestyle choices. By regulating diet, sleep, exercise, and environment, women can change their gene expression, roll back the effects of aging, and live longer and fuller lives. The book aims to increase not just lifespan but

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s Everybody Lies PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: In Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz cleverly manipulates Big Data to explore the dark underside of American consciousness. Using powerful new methodologies, the author analyzes anonymous Google searches across a wide range of subjects about which people tend to be secretive. From Internet pornography to medical diagnoses, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals startling truths about people’s desires, failures, and fears. Published in 2017, the book be

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Shauna Niequist’s Present Over Perfect PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Shauna Niequist’s Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Those familiar with Brene Brown’s Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, or work on shame, vulnerability, empathy, and resilience, might wonder if Shauna Niequist read Brown’s book and immediately sat down to write her own book, Present Over Perfect. Then a more astute reader might go back and read the forward, from Brene Brown. Niequist calls Present Over Perfect a love story about letting us be loved with all our imperfections. Self-help Christianity might be the best classification of this book: an honest, heartfelt sharing of one woman’s realization that she can’t have it

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s Option B PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband’s unexpected death in 2015. Option A—the life that Sandberg always thought she would have-was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband, Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend’s birthday in Mexico when he died. They’d been married 11 years, and had two young children. (A

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature argues that violence has been decreasing over most of human history. People have innate tendencies towards violence, but they also have innate tendencies towards peace. Historical developments, especially the consolidation of state power and the Enlightenment, have allowed humans to move away from violence, murder, and war, and move towards more peaceful ways of living.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven R. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven R. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Steven Gundry’s The Plant Paradox is a diet book, which argues that many fruits and vegetables are dangerous to your health. Gundry says that a plant protein called lectin is responsible for obesity and many autoimmune disorders. Gundry offers a diet that eliminates lectins, GMOs, and other toxins. This diet will allow people to reduce weight, improve health, and eliminate a wide range of conditions including diabetes, heart disease, lupus, and more. Lectins are plant toxins. Plants evolved lectins as poisons to discourage insects from eating plant seeds or other parts

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. In The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+, personal finance guru and bestselling author Suze Orman lays out the steps that people in their 50s, 60s, and beyond need to take to enjoy financial and emotional security in their retirement. What Does this Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review Include? Summary of the original book Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas Practical tips to downsize, save, and invest more for retirement How to create guaranteed sources of income to last you through retirement Editorial Review & Analysis Background on Suze Orman About the Original Book: Retiring today is a lot harder than it was a few decades ago. With the right planning, however, retirement can still be another exciting phase of life to look forward to. Leveraging decades of experience as a world-renowned financial advisor, Suze Orman offers detailed advice for cutting expenses, saving more in the right accounts, investing in low-cost funds, paying off debt, getting insurance, and setting up the right end-of life documents. Anyone approaching retirement will find this book an invaluable guide. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+. Start Publishing Notes is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, Between the World and Me, is an autobiographical account of being black in America and, perhaps more importantly, is also a letter to his son, Samori. After learning that the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, would face no punishment, Samori becomes upset and Coates decided to write him a letter. The first part of the book begins with Coates explaining that Americans believe that race is a natural phenomenon. Coates corrects this misconception and instead explains that the process of assigning race to people has never been about genealogy or physiognomy, but about establi

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Ferriss’s Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Ferriss’s Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers is based on author Tim Ferriss’ interviews with celebrities, thinkers, businesspeople, and creators. Among those interviewed are obstacle-course race champion Amelia Boone, cartoonist and writer Scott Adams, former Navy SEAL commander Jocko Willink, and film actor Kevin Costner. The book is divided into three sections: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Each section includes numerous int

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny is a primer on what people can do to resist tyranny. It also provides tools for recognizing tyranny and discusses historical background on how tyrannical governments have been established in the past. Snyder uses examples from twentieth century Europe, particularly from communist and fascist regimes, to illustrate his arguments. Furthermore, he uses examples from American history and European history to provide resources for recognizing tyranny and combating it. History also shows though that democratic traditions do not necessarily protect a nation from tyranny. The fact that tyrannies ofte

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (with Amy Wallace) takes a close look at the special culture that the author helped establish at Pixar, the computer-generated animation studio that he co-founded. Reflecting on his personal career, his management philosophy, and the highs and lows of Pixar’s history as a company, Catmull discusses strategies for nurturing creativity and diagnoses common problems faced by creative professionals. In the 1970s, as a graduate student studying computer-generated animation, Catmull was establishing and defining his field even as he studied it. Pur

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny is a primer on what people can do to resist tyranny. It also provides tools for recognizing tyranny and discusses historical background on how tyrannical governments have been established in the past. Snyder mostly uses examples from twentieth century Europe, particularly from communist and fascist regimes, to illustrate his arguments. The United States was founded as a response to and a rejection of tyranny. American history and European history provide resources to recognize tyranny and combat it. History also shows that democratic traditions do not necessarily protect a nation from tyranny. Democratic movements after World War I, Wo

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Travis Stork’s The Lose Your Belly Diet PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Travis Stork’s The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Lose Your Belly Fat Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life by Travis Stork is a primer on the benefits of diversity in the human microbiome. In layman’s terms, this is known as good gut health. Scientific knowledge about the human gut is rapidly evolving. But at its center lies a basic truth: diversity in the microbiome is closely connected with good health. Whether or not you want to lose weight, choosing to organize your diet around the principles of good gut health will result in a happier, healthier life. The microbiome consists of microbes (otherwise known as Little Buddies). Microbes are all

Summary, Analysis, and Review of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is television star Trevor Noah’s memoir about growing up as a mixed-race child—first under apartheid, and then in its wake. Part tribute to his mother, part indictment of his white oppressors, this coming-of-age story paints a vibrant picture of Johannesburg in the 1980s and ’90s, and beyond. Born to a black mother and a white father in 1984, Noah and his family navigated many unusual challenges on top of the usual hardships faced by black families in that time and place. Noah’s parents, an African woman and a Swiss man, had an unusual relationship. They never married, and

Summary, Analysis, and Review of William H. McRaven’s Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of William H. McRaven’s Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Make Your Bed presents ten life lessons William H. McRaven gleaned from his training as a Navy SEAL and his career in the military. Each lesson is illustrated with anecdotes drawn from McRaven’s experiences. The book was inspired by a 2014 commencement address McRaven delivered at the University of Texas, Austin. That speech is reprinted at the end of the volume.

Summary, Analysis, and Review of William Paul Young’s The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of William Paul Young’s The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Shack is the story of Mackenzie Phillips, or Mack, whose daughter, Missy, is kidnapped on a camping trip and killed. Mack experiences a crisis of faith. God appears to Mack in the form of the Trinity and heals him. The book explores issues of grief, faith, evil, forgiveness, and God’s presence in human lives. The book opens with a frame story by William Paul Young writing as himself. Young says he is a friend of Mack and his family, including his wife, Nan, and their children, Josh, Kate, and Missy.