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Get the Summary of Abhijit V. Banerjee's Good Economics for Hard Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.
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Book Preview: #1 I learned to keep my back to the wall and my eyes on my mother at all times. She was constantly angry and would sometimes throw things at my father to get his attention.
#2 I wished I could go back in time and fix my parents' marriage. I imagined they had been happy, but their marriage was already curdling. Their disagreements had multiplied and spread like a cancer,...
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#1 I am headed to the fellowship hall of the Unionville Baptist Church in South Carolina, where I will meet with pastors from around the country to discuss their views on social justice and the Bible.
#2 The Watchmen on the Wall, an affiliate of the Family Research Council, is hosting a pastors briefing in Unionville. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council,...
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Get the Summary of Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions, Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until...
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#1 High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the second most common cause of death in the United States. It is typically asymptomatic, meaning no symptoms are shown, but some people with high blood pressure will experience symptoms, such as chest pain, dizziness, headaches, shortness of breath, palpitations, and heart and nose bleeds.
#2 Blood pressure is the measurement...
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#1 On December 9, 2001, Mary Allen took the first step onto the world stage of a long-playing drama when she answered a call from Michael Peterson, who was frantic that his wife, Elizabeth, was not breathing.
#2 When the paramedics arrived at the Peterson house, they were shocked by the amount of blood on the stairs. Kathleen's body was sprawled across the floor of the...
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#1 The modules in this book are designed to be taught out of order. However, they are not numbered so that therapists can adapt the order as needed. The key is balancing a structured and predictable approach with sufficient flexibility.
#2 Socratic questioning is a method that draws clients to answer their own questions. Group therapy is a great way to teach clients...
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#1 The city is so proud, so grand, and in some places so beautiful, but it also displays all the disgusting features of a bloated glutton. The city as a whole is a caricature of the human body: smelly, dirty, commanding, rich, and indulgent.
#2 A major town is a intimidating place. It is a place of fear and decay, but it is also a place of activity and life. As you walk...
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#1 I am brought into a restricted area where the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence meets. The walls are paneled in dark wood, and the air smells old and stale. The guards confiscate our phones and other electronics, and give us numbered tickets.
#2 I was in Washington to testify about how Cambridge Analytica, a military contractor, developed psychological warfare...
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#1 I was the black sheep of the community, and I had been warned many times by the Mistress of Novices that I could not race down the staircase like that, taking two and three steps at a time.
#2 I was sent to Aigen, Austria, to teach Baron von Trapp's daughter. I was to leave the world and give up everything, but I did it wholeheartedly.
#3 I was bowing farewell to...
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#1 I was on the phone with an old friend when I saw the burning Notre Dame Cathedral on television. I knew the building well, having visited it many times as a child. I understood what was burning and how the fire was gathering strength, but the journalists commenting did not.
#2 The burning of Notre-Dame was a heart-stopping moment for the crowds on the streets and...
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#1 The last picture of my mother, taken at the crime scene, is the formal portrait made only a few months before her death. She did not look at the camera, her eyes fixed at a point in the distance. She was 40 years old.
#2 I went back to the place where my mother was murdered. I had not been there since I was nineteen, when I had to clean out her apartment. I kept only...
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#1 The Wall Street Poker Night Tournament was held on March 8, 2006. More than a hundred well-heeled players attended the event, including elite traders and buttoned-down dealmakers. The small, private affair was a gathering of a select group of wealthy and brilliant individuals.
#2 By the early 2000s, quants had come to dominate Wall Street, using brain-twisting math...
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#1 The walls of refrigerators are typically insulated with polyurethane foam, which was originally blown with chlorofluorocarbons. The refrigerant was later replaced by hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to the greenhouse effect.
#2 The snake that coiled around a staff is a symbol of healing, and it was originally found in Greece. It may be that snakes have some healing...
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#1 Crosswicks is a typical New England farmhouse that has withstood the batterings of many storms over the years. It stands staunchly on the crest of one of the Litchfield hills in the northwest corner of Connecticut.
#2 I had a happy childhood, but my parents were planning to move to Europe after the Wall Street crash. They were planning to have the summer in the French...
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#1 Michelangelo was summoned back to Rome in April 1508 to resume work on the tomb of Pope Julius II, which was supposed to be the most beautiful work of marble in Rome. However, he had been brought back to Florence to complete another statue.
#2 The Pope wanted Michelangelo to sculpt his tomb, and he sent him to Rome to do so. The tomb was to be the largest since the...
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#1 I was a pianist in the Café Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the Warsaw ghetto. The afternoon was best for smuggling, as the police were less alert then. Small black figures would rush towards the openings in the wall, where they would haul consignments of goods through.
#2 The Nowoczesna was a café in the ghetto that was frequented by the rich. They...
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#1 As schools and businesses shut down, the Fed went into overdrive. Alongside COVID-19, another disease was spreading, and its progress could not be halted using N-95s or social distancing. This disease moved faster than any virus, and threatened economic harm as great as the pandemic itself.
#2 A panic is when a shock causes an initial round of selling, which in turn...
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#1 For the past seven weeks, a group of volunteer cavers had been searching for the remains of a missing 19-year-old girl named Erin Corwin, the wife of a Marine. They had narrowed down the search to a group of abandoned mines just outside of Joshua Tree National Park.
#2 The last location on the list was a 140-foot deep hole in the shadows of a sheer cliff. The search...
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Book Preview: #1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment...
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