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#1 The American linguist Noam Chomsky has a very difficult time explaining how his linguistic theories are connected to his political criticisms of American imperialism. His approach is straightforward, and anyone can do it.
#2 The elitist claim that only intellectuals can produce insightful analyses of social issues is false. In fact, the social sciences are accessible...
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#1 Imagine a box with a set of objects in it that represent your fundamental qualities. Imagine that each object is more than just an object. To help you figure out your essence, imagine a box with a set of objects in it that represent your fundamental qualities. Each object is more than just an object.
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Get the Summary of Dean Nelson's Talk to Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro" by Dean Nelson is a comprehensive guide to the art of interviewing. Drawing from his own experiences and those of other professionals, Nelson emphasizes the importance of a central idea to steer both writing and interviewing. He illustrates...
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#1 The Chinese Politburo Standing Committee, the seven men who lead the country, is chosen almost entirely behind closed doors. The run-up to this particular selection process was particularly fraught, as it was the first time in two-and-a-half decades that the general secretary of the CCP was not hand-selected by Deng Xiaoping.
#2 The new members of the Politburo were...
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Book Preview: #1 I wanted to write a book about raising the perfect dog, and I wanted it to have a personal touch. I wanted to illustrate how raising puppies as naturally as possible will prevent problems and issues in the future.
#2 Pit bulls are not born aggressive, but they can be made that way by their owners. They are not wild animals, but they are not domesticated pets like...
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#1 The new conception of human sickness and health is based on the assumptions that we have an essential, biologically based inner nature that is good or neutral, and that it is best to bring this out and encourage it rather than to suppress it.
#2 The classical approach to personality problems considers them to be problems in an undesirable sense. Struggle, conflict,...
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#1 Take a nap. The truth is, coming up with ideas is hardest in the first few hours of waking up. It's not unusual for me to try to write down an idea in the shower, only to realize after I've written it down that it's a terrible idea. By the time your coffee cup is cold and you're out of the shower, you've forgotten whatever you were going to write down-and while it's...
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Book Preview: #1 The roots of Western philosophy can be found in the work of Greek philosophers during the fifth and sixth centuries. These philosophers, later referred to as pre-Socratic, started to question the world around them. Rather than attributing their surroundings to the Greek gods, they searched for more rational explanations.
#2 The term pre-Socratic refers to the differences...
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#1 I had been on the job for a few months when I was assigned the task of voting on early decision applications. The process seemed straightforward, but actually voting-that was another story. The thing is, when it comes to college admissions, there are no clear-cut answers. No easy answers. The decision-making process is a messy, complicated, and imprecise art. The...
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#1 The relationship between alcohol and war has been long and intimate. While alcohol has helped soldiers prepare for combat, it has also made them unreliable and self-destructive. It has helped civilian populations endure wartime hardships, but it has also provoked charges that it undermines worker productivity.
#2 The importance of alcohol for war can be seen in the...
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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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#1 Around us, we see a level of individual wealth that has never been seen before. Conspicuous consumption of redundant consumer goods has greatly expanded over the past generation.
#2 The symptoms of collective impoverishment are all around us. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were becoming less unequal. But since then,...
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#1 I was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome.
#2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to...
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#1 I had a hard time adjusting to the fact that I didn't know what was going on in a country I was exploring. It reminded me of how I used to get frustrated with myself when I couldn't understand what a foreigner had just said in a restaurant.
#2 We were driving from Chefchaouen to Fes, and Rida told us about the time he met Brad Pitt in a local market.
#3 We visited...
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#1 There are two Armenias, a Greater and a Lesser. The lord of Lesser Armenia is a king who maintains good and just government in his country under the suzerainty of the Tartars. The Lesser Armenia is bounded on the south by the Promised Land, now in the hands of the Saracens, on the north by the western district of Turkey, known as Karaman, on the north-east and east...
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#1 Scientists have long studied sex to understand human sexual response. However, they have done so by studying animals. It took science a long time to get its nerve up to put sexually aroused human beings under scientific scrutiny.
#2 The first to dip a toe in the potentially scalding waters of research into human sexual response was William Masters, but he was aided...
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#1 Skip told the stockholders a story about how he had gotten mixed up while drawing electrical engineering plans for a boat building company. He had been so sure of himself that he had transposed starboard and port, which made the drawing an exact mirror image of what it should have been.
#2 Story is your path to creating faith. Telling a meaningful story means inspiring...
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#1 Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. It is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. It is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
#2 Earning your freedom to travel is a personal investment...
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#1 Our brain is constantly sifting through and interpreting all the information that comes its way, and it does so by creating stories about it. It knows us well, and uses that knowledge to create stories that will help us survive.
#2 The brain is looking for two key concepts in every story: neuroscientists believe the reason we spend so much time and space getting lost...
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#1 I was trying to get a visa to travel through Afghanistan, but I was told that under no circumstances would they grant a visa to a woman who intended cycling alone through Afghanistan.
#2 I went to the Afghan Embassy and explained my situation. They gave me a letter that was written on the government's behalf requesting the Afghan Government to grant me a visa for...
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