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#1 I was extremely nervous about climbing Moonlight Buttress. It was one of the hardest crack climbs in the world, and I was planning on free soloing it. The Rocker Blocker, a large ledge at the top of the third pitch, was something I was worried about breaking.
#2 I had planned to get an early start in order to beat the heat, but the water was freezing when I forded...
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#1 The president of the United States was to reveal the future of the world to his advisers. The secretary of state, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the president all looked extremely serious.
#2 The Book of Daniel has been under attack by liberal scholars for centuries. They claim that prophecy is an impossibility, and that the book was written after...
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#1 The French capital, Paris, was abuzz with progress in the 1890s. The city was home to the Bourse, France's principal financial exchange, and the Palais Brongniart, a palace built by Napoleon as a temple to money.
#2 Paul Samuelson, an economics professor at MIT, was interested in mathematical finance. He had never heard of Louis Bachelier, but he had read his dissertation,...
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#1 The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the United States Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials that American financial assistance had helped build the German cartel system, and the German Wehrmacht.
#2 The American business press was aware of the Nazi threat and the nature of German war preparations, and they warned their readers about them. They were also...
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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 The Wall is a monument to the Roman emperor Aulus Platorius Nepos, who conceived it, and the three legions who dug the complex of ditches and mounds, and raised the parapet and intervening fortresses. It was a dividing line between civilization and barbarism, between safety and danger, between the tamed and the wild, and between the settled country and the outland...
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Book Preview: #1 The people of Mesopotamia, who lived in the area now known as Iraq, fought against the effects of time. They lived as if in sand castles, constantly building and rebuilding a world that would eventually be washed away. Nothing endured.
#2 The Mesopotamians were able to overcome the constraints of time only in their record keeping, and this led to the habit of kings...
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#1 I had a spotty record in life already. I was quiet and shy when I was young, and I didn't have any skills or interests. I had a vague interest in being a rock star, but I wasn't a good musician. I was never good at anything.
#2 I was a fun-loving, social person, but I didn't have many close friends. I felt self-conscious and desperate for approval and acceptance. I was able to...
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#1 The city of Rome was once the capital of a mighty empire. But in the middle of the fifteenth century, two-thirds of the area inside the walls was uninhabited, and the city was covered in moss-covered statues, defaced and indecipherable inscriptions, and parts within the walls that look like thick woods or caves where forest animals were wont to breed.
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#1 I was a 9-week calendar hanging on the wall in our operations room, marking the passing of days. I was glad it was there as the weeks passed, as the large X'd out dates gave me comfort.
#2 During my first rotation in Russia, I was a 9-week calendar hanging on the wall in our operations room, marking the passing of days. I was glad it was there as the weeks...
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#1 The author lived in a death-row cell with other women, and she hated it. She had to turn the walls of her cell into a screen on which she could project the memories of what it was like to walk down a street, buy a dress, or make love with a man. She had to convince herself that a life beyond the cell waited for her.
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Get the Summary of Joel Greenblatt's You Can Be a Stock Market Genius in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he's going to show you how to do it, too. You're about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school...
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Get the Summary of Geezer Butler's Into the Void in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book."Into the Void" chronicles the life of Geezer Butler, from his humble beginnings in postwar Britain to his rise as a rock icon with Black Sabbath. Born in a working-class district of Birmingham, Butler's early life was filled with financial struggles, a tight-knit community, and a passion for Aston Villa Football Club. Despite facing...
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Get the Summary of Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo's Poor Economics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around...
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#1 In August of 1961, Joachim was on vacation in the Berlin area with his best friend, Manfred. They heard the announcement that the border between East and West Berlin had been closed. It meant that the city had been split in half, and that everything would be cut off from each other.
#2 As the campsite buzzed with rumors, Joachim felt a long way from home. He and his...
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Get the Summary of Dean Graziosi's Millionaire Success Habits in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine. Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity...
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Book Preview: #1 The Victorian era was a time of sexual repression, as Victorian physicians warned against the dangers of sexual indulgence for boys. However, this outlook also spread beyond the walls of the Methodist churches into the homes of Anglicans, Unitarians, and even agnostics.
#2 Charles Darwin was originally going to be a doctor, but he became interested in zoology instead....
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#1 There is a difference between bravery and stupidity. You asked for it, girls! There is an indistinguishable line between bravery and stupidity.
#2 The house was a cacophony of sounds, some pleasant, others not. Strange occurrences happened in the house, and the children would hear the cries of a little girl, Johnny Arnold, in pain. They would also hear the calls...
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#1 I was seven years old when I saw my father's neck bulge as he searched the neighborhood for men who might have been following my mother home. I didn't know that people could live together harmoniously without punching holes in the walls or kicking the dog.
#2 My mother, Linda, was twenty-five years old and the most beautiful woman I ever saw. She had long silky hair...
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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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