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This is a summary of Business Adventures (1969), a collection of 12 nonfiction stories about American business and high finance by journalist John Brooks. Each story explores a different subject, including eccentric leaders and their successes, failures, and legal quandaries.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a nonfiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility that adopts an integrated approach to brain health. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book.

With this self-study English guide, you will be able to test your knowledge of common phrasal verbs.

Mastering Bitcoin (2015) by Andreas Antonopoulos is a rigorous introduction to the technologies and capabilities of the blockchain currency known as bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptographic currency. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

In 2009, when Zappos announced that larger retailer Amazon would be acquiring the company, Hsieh recalled that his first attempted enterprise was a worm farm when he was nine years old.

With this self-study English audio guide, you will be able to test your knowledge of common phrasal verbs - and immediately see the correct answer after each question. There are 400 multiple-choice questions within every audio workbook, giving you interactive exposure to the most common phrasal verbs.

Prepositions are an important part of the English language. Normally mentioned before a noun or a pronoun, prepositions show the relation between words. Mentioned in this ESL guide are some of the most common prepositions in the English language and how to use them correctly.

Steven Pressfield's The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is a book dedicated to helping writers and other artists overcome creative barriers and produce valuable and satisfying work. Pressfield discusses his own artistic struggles and uses examples of artists throughout history in order to inspire and guide other creators. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, not the original book.

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr is a self-help book designed to help smokers kick the habit and find freedom from the tyranny of their addiction. To date, Carr's unique method has helped millions of people stop using cigarettes, tobacco, and other forms of nicotine. It's a strategy that helped him quit - without stress or strain - after he had been smoking as many as 100 cigarettes a day for three decades.

In her memoir A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan - and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs.

Smarter Faster Better is a scientifically grounded self-help book that describes ways to increase productivity. Duhigg relates stories about ways to encourage individuals to make decisions and assign their own significant meanings to them, demonstrating that making choices and knowing the meaning of those choices stimulates further action and motivation. Analyses of team productivity programs and the functioning of effective teams show that productive teams should be diverse.

The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case's reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The Third Wave is also a cautionary tale to would-be entrepreneurs who believe the culture of solo founders and tech disruption will always be valued in the future. Please note: This is analysis and key takeaways of the book and not the original book.

You can get the lowdown on winning the office politics game right now in this just-released audiobook. A must-have! How to Protect Yourself Against the Hidden and Dirty Tactics of Office Politics! Know the Secrets and Be on Top of Your Career! Do you sometimes feel like your place of work is more dangerous than a swamp full of alligators? Are there shady characters lurking behind the photocopier disguised as reliable team players in your office?

How to Be Here by Rob Bell is an inspirational self-help book on living an authentic life filled with meaning, purpose, and joy. The genesis of How to Be Here was a concussion that Bell, a pastor and motivational speaker, experienced while water-skiing. For a week after the accident, his head injury impaired his ability to access regrets of the past or worry about the future. Instead, he found himself fully, delightfully present in his life as if for the first time.

Think and Grow Rich (1937) by Napoleon Hill, is a guide to self-improvement and personal enrichment through positive thought. The first prerequisite for success is that a person desire something deeply.

> The Art of War (2003) by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles and edited by Dallas Galvin, is a classic instructional text on the strategies and tactics of war, handed down by Sun Tzu's clan of military strategists, and dating to around the BCE fifth century. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is an expansive account of the days, months, and years leading up to World War I. Clark’s central contention is that scholars’ continuous preoccupation with the question of who was responsible for starting the war stems from an erroneous understanding of the events....

James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency is an oral history of Creative Artists Agency, one of the most powerful talent agencies to emerge in the entertainment industry over the past 40 years. Miller interviewed agents, actors, musicians, and executives who worked at or with CAA. He arranges excerpts from their interviews to provide a narrative of CAA's history from its beginning to 2016.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is a chronicle of the Romanov dynasty over its 300-year reign in Russia. The book focuses on the personalities, choices, and actions of the royal family, including their sexual and romantic relationships. Montefiore provides extensive quotations from the letters and diaries of the Romanovs, many of them unpublished. By telling the story of the Romanovs, Montefiore also tells the story of Russia's rise to empire.

Everybody's Fool, a novel by Richard Russo, is set in the fictional town of North Bath in upstate New York. There, over the course of one weekend, a crew of local eccentrics juggle long-standing grudges, acute crises, and surreal weather events to the best of their limited abilities. Along the way, listeners learn about their troubled pasts. At Hilldale Cemetery, Douglas Raymer, chief of police, arrives late for the interment of a local judge. The service is long, and between the heat and his emotional distress, Raymer's feeling poorly.