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Summary of Terrence Real's I Don't Want to Talk About It
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The issue of men’s depression is a difficult one to deal with, as it is seen as unmanly. It is a condition that is both shame-filled and shameful, and yet it is extremely impactful. #2 Depression is a disorder of feeling, and yet men are often reluctant to acknowledge it. Men and women often express depression differently, and their pathways toward it are distinct. #3 The traditional socialization of boys and girls hurts them both, each in particular, complementary ways. Girls, and later women, tend to internalize pain. Boys, and later men, tend to externalize pain. Depression in men, unless it is dealt with, tends to be passed along. #4 I had been treating David and Elaine for close to six months. Elaine first wanted me to see the two of them, not for Chad’s sake but for the sake of their marriage. After twenty years, she felt miserable alone. David was good-natured and helpful, but she felt like he wasn’t there.
Summary of Robert A. Doughty's The Breaking Point
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The fighting that occurred near Sedan between 10–16 May 1940 was shaped by the competing strategies of France and Germany. France relied on a defensive strategy, while Germany relied on an offensive strategy. By attacking northern Belgium and the Netherlands with a minimum number of forces, Germany sought to deceive the French and convince them that the main attack was coming through northern and central Belgium. #2 France’s strategy was to defend herself against a German attack, and she believed victory could be hers only if she first defended herself successfully against a German attack. She acce...
Summary of Michael Benson's Gangsters vs. Nazis
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Jewish migration to America began in the nineteenth century, and by the 1920s, there were four million Jews in the country. While some Jews’ lives were dominated by Old World religious practices, there were also teenaged boys who sought to avoid a life of shopkeeping or factory drudgery and instead pursue careers in crime. #2 The Jewish gangsters that the boys admired were not afraid of danger, and they were often the danger. They were not cowering behind a desk, they were wading into fights and tossing people on their ears into the street. #3 Jewish gangsters and their Italian cousins ruled the underworld, and many young Jewish boys found a brotherhood in the gangs. As the fascist menace grew in New York, Meyer Lansky became the nation’s top Jewish gangster. #4 Fascist ideology is based on the belief that a dictator is better than an elected one because many voters are enemies of the people and need to be oppressed. It requires a strong leader and a weaker scapegoat. In Germany, Hitler became the dictator and Jews the scapegoat.
Summary of Simon Winder's Danubia
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The town of Pécs, Hungary, is a good place to start the history of Habsburg Europe. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, and it has a frontier atmosphere. The town was a wine colony in the fourth century, but was destroyed by Hun raiders in AD 400. #2 The area that would become the southern zone of the Habsburg Empire was for centuries a world without writing, without towns, and only residual, short-distance trade. It was against this backdrop that the notional ancestors of Central Europe’s modern nations appeared. #3 The search for origins became obsessive in the nineteenth century as European language nationalism took hold. The Bautzen region is interesting because it shows what was at stake in the Dark Ages, when all these nationalities could find their roots. #4 The Germanic tribes that lived in a massive swath from the North Sea to the Balkans seem to have paused, retreated, diminished or moved to Britain as a result of attacks by Asian nomads and the failure of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
Summary of H. W. Brands' Dreams of El Dorado
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first Americans entered human history as Asia’s east. They were hunters who spread and multiplied across the Americas, and they forgot where they came from. The American West was sparsely populated because of a lack of water, while the Great Plains were rich due to the resource of buffalo. #2 The Mississippi River was the central artery of North America, and its tributaries drained most of what would become the United States. The victory of the United States in the Revolutionary War gave it control of the eastern half of the Mississippi basin. #3 When Thomas Jefferson became president, he sought to purchase New Orleans, which would guarantee the right of deposit and navigation. He discovered that France had reacquired Louisiana from Spain, by a treaty that was supposed to be secret but didn’t stay so for long. #4 Jefferson, despite his strict constructionist philosophy, signed the Louisiana Purchase deal with Napoleon. The acquisition of Louisiana doubled the size of the United States, ensuring a handsome patrimony for generations of American farmers.
Summary of Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My mother had a pet Russian tortoise named Miss Dinnerman. The tortoise lived in a large pen enclosing both shrubs and lawn, delineated by chicken wire. Miss Dinnerman’s main goal in life seemed to be escape. She would walk the perimeter, poking around for a hole in the chicken wire. #2 It can be difficult to distinguish between willed, conscious behavior and that which is habitual or automatic. We often read consciousness into our own actions, and we do this with animals as well. #3 We humans also perform many automatic, unconscious behaviors. We tend to be unaware of them, however, because the interplay between our conscious and our unconscious minds is so complex. #4 My mother, who had been orphaned and sent to a labor camp when she was 16, had developed a skewed view of the world that remained unchanged for the rest of her life. She never recognized that her perceptions were skewed by the ever-present fear that justice, probability, and logic could cease to have force or meaning.
Summary of Richard A. Billows's Before & After Alexander
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The North-West Bend of the Aegean Sea forms a great Gulf—the Thermaic Gulf—enclosed by land on three sides. To the west, the gently rolling plains of Pieria and Emathia are surrounded by the rich Amphaxitis plain. #2 The question of the ethnicity and language of the ancient Macedonians has been caught up in the identity politics of the modern peoples and states of the southern Balkan peninsula. As the Ottoman Empire decayed, four local peoples sought to establish nation-states encompassing as much territory as possible. #3 The question of who the Macedonians were has always been a mystery. They may have been a group of people who lived in the southern Balkans, but they may have also been a group of people who lived in Asia Minor. #4 The earliest surviving Greek inscriptions, dating from the middle and second half of the eighth century, do not mention Macedonians. The first literary reference to Macedonia comes in one of the texts belonging to the Hesiodic corpus, the so-called Catalogue of Women, which was probably compiled around 700.
Summary of Malcolm W. Nance's They Want to Kill Americans
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 2021, Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, and tried to kill the police officer guarding it. They were trying to stop the certification of the election won by Joe Biden. #2 Fanone was left to fend for himself as the other officers were being beaten. He was trapped between the two groups, and he knew that if the rioters got his gun, it would all be over. He could visualize himself drawing his weapon, bracing it at his hip, and firing directly into the men who were beating the life out of him. #3 The day ended with Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick dying from an unknown cause. Seditious words had led to the incitement of insurrection against the American state. Now that the election had been stolen from Trump, he would have to fight to retain his presidency by any means necessary. #4 On November 3, 2020, Joe Biden was elected president, ending the Trump presidency. However, Trump’s die-hard base of 40 percent of the electorate thought they should give him another four years to carry out his promises to make America great again.
Summary of Felix Oberholzer-Gee's Better, Simpler Strategy
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the past few decades, strategy has become increasingly sophisticated. Yet, many companies have little to show for their efforts. The most educated workforce in human history and corporate leaders with extraordinary skills. Yet, enduring financial success seems elusive. #2 A simple, overarching approach to strategy that is tied to financial success is needed to make sense of the many activities that take place in companies today. #3 The WTP-WTS model is simple. It is derived from the bottom to top WTP-WTS stick. #4 The WTP-WTS model starts with the bottom to top WTP-WTS stick. The core idea is to create more customer value by increasing WTP and improving price perception.
Summary of Stevie Cameron's On the Farm
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On February 23, 1995, Bill Wilson, who made his living as a woodcarver and handyman, was on his way to get some water from a narrow slough that ran along the south side of the Lougheed Highway, close to the mouth of the Stave River. He spotted a human skull about forty or fifty feet away. #2 The skull was sent to Corporal Tim Sleigh, a young detective in the RCMP’s Investigative Section in Vancouver. He was intrigued by the skull, which looked as if it had been cut in half with an electric saw. #3 The skull of the woman was sent to Tracy Rogers, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Toronto, who was able to reconstruct her face. No one was reported missing who matched her description, though, so she remained Jane Doe for years. #4 The Pickton brothers, among their many interests, were in the dirt-moving business. Their shabby white clapboard farmhouse needed painting and repair, and the wooden outbuildings seemed on the verge of collapse. The family attended church services at St. Catherine’s Anglican Church in Port Coquitlam.
