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Get the Summary of Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Attack from Within" by Barbara McQuade examines the rise of authoritarianism and the role of disinformation in undermining democratic institutions. The book delves into historical and contemporary examples of leaders who have used disinformation to seize and maintain power, such as Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Donald...
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#1 The town of Rexburg, Idaho, is a Mormon stronghold. The town houses are all painted in the same muted beige tone, and the streets are lined with businesses that wink at the fact that this may not be Utah, but it is most definitely Mormon country.
#2 When the police went to check on the boy, they were told he was visiting his grandmother in Louisiana. However, the...
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Book Preview: #1 I had a dream that I was in a blue poufy dress with a white pinafore, and I was constantly being made fun of and treated like a child. I wanted to be a queen, but I didn't want to be left alone or tested.
#2 I was diagnosed with scoliosis four years earlier during a routine insurance medical for the television series Road to Avonlea. My world began to curve nonsensically...
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#1 I catch the underground to Leipzig, a couple of hours from Berlin. It's snowing outside. I move through the slush to where I know there are toilets. The large woman in a purple apron and loud makeup at the bottom of the steps is guarding her stash of condoms and tissues and tampons.
#2 I can't smell anything anymore. The train travels through northern Germany, and...
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#1 Commerce Bank was founded in 1973 by Vernon Hill, and it became the fastest growing retail bank in America by deciding to be great at some dimensions of service and bad at others. It grew by making carefully chosen and carefully integrated trade-offs.
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#1 We begin with ten tales of strategy from different aspects of life and offer preliminary thoughts on how to play. Many of you will have faced similar problems in everyday life and will have reached the correct solution after some thought or trial and error.
#2 The hot hand misconception is when athletes seem to have a long streak of consecutive successes, and sports...
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#1 On January 23, 1978, a murder was committed in Sacramento that was far beyond the ordinary murder, in terms of the violence done to the victim. The victim was David Wallin, 24, a laundry-truck driver, who had returned home after work with his 22-year-old wife, Terry, who was three months pregnant. The police said they could not determine a motive.
#2 The local police...
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#1 Northampton, a small town in Massachusetts, is the epitome of a classic New England landscape. It is full of agricultural history and laid-back living. Nothing ever happens there of any national interest.
#2 The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, Massachusetts, has served the health needs of Massachusetts veterans since 1924. It provides tertiary psychiatric...
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#1 Lincoln had chosen William Seward, his closest rival for the Republican nomination, for the State Department. He wanted to appoint Chase to be the next Treasury secretary. The country was suffering a financial crisis, and investors were losing faith in government securities.
#2 Financial pressure was being applied to the South to keep them in the Union. The North...
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Book Preview: #1 The room where the stroke was diagnosed was chaotic, with beeping heart monitors, alarms, and people murmuring all around. The smell of disinfectant was overwhelming.
#2 On her first day on the job, she encountered a wide variety of cases, from a fall to a chest pain to suicidal ideation. She kept the patients upbeat and made sure they were taken care of.
#3 Strokes...
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Get the Summary of Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths's Algorithms to Live By in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Algorithms to Live By" explores the intersection of computer science and human decision-making, illustrating how algorithms can inform and improve everyday choices. The book delves into optimal stopping problems, such as the "turkey drop" and the Secretary Problem, which involve determining the right time...
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Book Preview: #1 The miasma theory, which was the prevailing theory in medieval Europe, stated that diseases arose from bad smells. Medieval physicians and scholars believed that diseases were caused by foul airs, and therefore, they would often force local residents to clear away their waste.
#2 The disease Rhazes wrote about in the tenth century was similar to chicken pox. He thought...