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Summary of Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine Includes Analysis Preview: Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine is a finance guide that encourages women to generate greater income streams through creative, entrepreneurial business ideas. It lays out ways for women, especially those who have left the workforce or are interested in balancing work with family, to discover business ideas, create and implement an action plan, network with other entrepreneurs...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Instaread The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by blogger Mark Manson is a candid self-help guide for anyone, who needs a dose of inspired, but realistic perspective on their path of self-development. Manson's personal experience in self-improvement is the cornerstone of his philosophy. He argues that people should learn to care less-or in his parlance, give fewer fucks-...

Summary of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Includes Analysis The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a work of speculative fiction that follows a runaway slave, Cora, on a grisly tour through the American South. Conveyed by the underground railroad, which the author has rendered as a literal mode of transportation, Cora travels from Georgia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Tennessee, and finally to Indiana. Dogged every...

Summary of Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins | Includes Analysis Preview: Awaken the Giant Within by motivational speaker Tony Robbins is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives. Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone...

Summary of The Billion Dollar Spy: by David E. Hoffman Includes Analysis Preview: The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the six year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and engineer, Adolf Tolkachev, who spied on the Soviet Union for the United States. Tolkachev was the most productive CIA spies during the Cold War, persistent in his undertakings to...

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. A 15-minute Summary & Analysis Preview of this Instaread: The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See. Before the war, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, who has been blind since childhood, lives comfortably in Paris with her father, Daniel, who is the key master for the natural history museum. She loves to visit the museum...

Summary, Analysis & Review of The Arbinger Institute's Leadership and Self-Deception by Instaread Preview: Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute is a business fable that illustrates the ways that self-deception can undermine interpersonal relationships and productivity. It begins with a new product-line lead employee, Tom Callum, at the fictional Zagrum Company. He's meeting with the company's executive vice president, Bud...

Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of The Last of the President's Men • Summary of book • Introduction to the Important People in the book • Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style

Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler Includes Analysis Preview: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler's role in developing and popularizing the field. The traditional economic theory of the 1970s presumed that people made economic decisions rationally. In this economic vision, rational individuals-or Econs, as Thaler calls them-know what they want, and...

Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: • Summary of book • Introduction to the Important People in the book • Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style