Catalog Search Results
Provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Lemon and his anti-Trump guests mocked the tens of millions of Americans who voted for Trump as being elitists who only know how to sip their lattes and know about other countries. They didn't care that Trump was from New York City.
#2 The media's small-minded approach to its job and routine dismissal of conservative and populist thought is a major reason America...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:
#1 Erik was in over his head, and he knew it. He was a rookie pilot, and he'd been in and out of cloud for most of his outbound flight from Grande Prairie. He was running late, and he had passengers bound for the small communities of High Prairie and Fairview.
#2 The author, Erik, was the pilot on Wapiti Flight 402. He had to warn his passengers about the flight if...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The education industry has settled on finding ways to look good rather than be good. They play a numbers game, masking problems with statistics. This helps their careers, but harms kids.
#2 The graduation rate increased throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, but not every single one of those graduates was accepted to college. In reality, half of the students...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The taste of Jägermeister is bitter and sweetly harsh, and yet it has grown exponentially. You did the shot because of the unpleasant taste, not in spite of it.
#2 The drink was commercially released in Germany in 1935, and it was marketed as an after-dinner digestif. But it soon became popular with college students, who spread the cult wildfire.
#3 The brand sold...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I visited my college again in 2018 as a reporter for The Washington Post. The freshmen were shown a skit that dramatized a typical weekend night out, complete with budding romances and too much to drink.
#2 In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, a wave of similar stories about sexual misconduct sweeps through Hollywood. But it's not as simple as bosses locking...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The goal of burlesque parties is to look fuckable. At such parties, students are often completely shitfaced.
#2 The first step in hooking up is to get shitfaced. Party-oriented students believe that drinking enhances their experience. They believe that alcohol improves their personality, and that getting drunk brings out their intoxicated self, which is freer and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was called to leave the room. I was compelled to leave college, and I felt a deep, undeniable summons disturb my sleep. I was ready to meet the source of the summons.
#2 I was a new Christian, and I was consumed with a new passion: to study Scripture and learn how to pray. I wanted to make my life count for Christ.
#3 The beginning of Genesis 1 is not the start...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I had never visited the campus, but I was excited to start college. I was especially out of place because I had never visited Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 100,000 fishermen.
#2 I learned that water in Southern Florida is especially contaminated with birth control hormones. I also learned that reclaimed water is all around me in Florida, and that lawns use...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The obvious answer to how cities can attract creative talent is to provide the sort of environment that these people want. Surveys show how creative-class citizens, especially millennials, favor communities with street life.
#2 The American landscape has changed since the seventies, when most teens could walk to school, to the store, and to the soccer field. Now,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Anne Case and Angus Deaton's Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I came to Fuling on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996. The city was small, and there was only one other foreigner in town.
#2 The Fuling group, which was the biggest of the Long March groups, had walked more than a thousand miles. They had been sponsored by Magnificent Sound cigarettes, and they had run...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The global education standards and the number of college-educated graduates are growing rapidly. This is causing many white-collar jobs to be outsourced.
#2 The Shan Zhai culture is the practice of producing fake and imitation products, services, and brands. It is extremely difficult to develop new products and services, and it is often easier to globalize a technology...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The Pittsburgh Steelers are hosting a political event at their restaurant, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, near Heinz Field. Candidates are seeking the endorsement of the Steel City Stonewall Democrats, a group that represents LGBTQ Democrats in Pittsburgh.
#2 Autism has been around as long as humans have, but it was a narrowly defined condition until very recently. It...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was one of a handful of Bible-clinging oddities at my secularized college. The Christian student group at Cambridge was larger and more active than people thought.
#2 New Atheists have spun a web of credibility around faith, and they have been joined by other atheists in their attempts to discredit Christianity. They have even gone as far as to claim the moral high...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Justyn Walsh's Investing with Keynes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction:
John Maynard Keynes was a many-sided figure — world-changing economist, architect of the post-War international monetary system, bestselling author, a Baron in the House of Lords, and key member of the Bloomsbury group.
He also had the talent and ability to make vast sums of money in the stock...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Well-educated people are critical thinkers, and they can contribute to society in many ways. However, today's education system is not prepared to lead productive and fulfilling lives.
#2 Colleges and universities used to be places where students learned to listen to different points of view, but in recent years, safe spaces have become more and more common....
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Hard rock has always had a core audience that sustains it through times when the mainstream is occupied elsewhere. The period at the tail end of the 1970s was one of these troughs in popularity for the genre.
#2 The Starwood was a club in Hollywood that was frequented by rock stars. It was a completely different vibe than the Hot 100 Club, which was upstairs. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 China has long understood the importance of understanding America, as the Chinese Communist Party believes their survival depends on it. However, America has rarely felt the need to understand China, as their geopolitical footprint is so large.
#2 China's history is one of periodic incursions by foreign invaders. Chinese official culture has long taken pride in its ability to Sinify...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I am the only left-handed person in my family, and this was not seen as a praiseworthy characteristic. I was also known as very healthy and mashallah, which means Allah has willed it. I inherited my father's unique back-hair patterns.
#2 The first step to becoming American is to create your own superhero origin story. Share it with others, and they will understand...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request