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#1 There is a five-paragraph introduction to Vonnegut's advice series. He suggests that you find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
#2 The author's father had a list of criteria for when he...
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#1 The ironman is a contest against a fixed and unyielding foe: the race itself. It brings out the best in people, and it is a victory when you finish it.
#2 The Ironman race is a part of the folklore of the sport. It is a drama that captured the imagination of millions of Americans. The main question for the ironman athlete is, will I finish and at what cost....
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Get the Summary of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton...
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#1 When Emily fell, she was weightless for a moment between the point where the upward momentum from her limbs was about to give way to gravity, and the point where her body would hit the ground. Her body was still hers, but her fate was sealed.
#2 I was asked to come to the hospital to identify the body of Emily, who had died of apparent suicide. Her home city of New...
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#1 The book, Moneyball, has sold well over a million copies. It was a significant catalyst in spreading the sabermetric gospel in baseball offices, as well as feeding the growing popularity of sports analytics over the Internet.
#2 The movie and the book both claim that the A's implemented this philosophy. It is also claimed that the strategy worked and explains why...
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#1 The second book in the series, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon, focuses on the Dogon tribe and their cosmology. The book documents many consistent similarities between Dogon mythological keywords and symbols and those of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language.
#2 The Dogon are a modern remnant of a very ancient tradition. They share many common elements of culture, mythology,...
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#1 The two men who got on that flight from Moscow to London were actually spies working for a foreign power. They were career officers with Russian military intelligence. Their real names were Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. They had come to London to murder someone.
#2 The GRU, by contrast, was global. It dealt with external threats. Its mandate was everywhere....
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#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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Get the Summary of Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey around the coastline of Britain. Theroux sets out to explore the country beyond London, where he has lived for eleven years, to understand the nation he resides in. He travels on foot, by train, and by bus, avoiding typical travel...
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#1 I would often end up in places like this-back pockets of the world where less desirable things and people are crammed away. I was always shocked by the sight of children working, smiling, in some places.
#2 I meet my friend in the orange dress again, and we walk to the other side of the river. We say goodbye, and I continue on my journey. I know with certainty that I'll see her...
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#1 I've learned more about life from people than from books. I'm on the road a lot, and when I travel, I visit food markets, pastry shops, butchers, and grocery stores. I read menus posted outside restaurants. I watch the residents argue back and forth with the merchants over the virtues of their wares.
#2 I have always been curious about what people eat, and as I grew...
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#1 All fats are equal, and will be stored as fat if you don't use them for fuel. Olive oil is far worse for your body than sugar, as it is easily stored as fat and doesn't satisfy your hunger.
#2 The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss is a no-nonsense diet based on the latest scientific and medical evidence about nutrition and the hunger drive. It is a weight...
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#1 The most reliable path toward a successful nonfiction book is to write something so useful that readers can't stop talking about it. This guide teaches you how to do that, by applying the lessons of product designers and entrepreneurs.
#2 This guide is designed to be read from start to finish. It covers the foundations of writing a book, from designing your book's...
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#1 The body, in cooperation with your mind and spirit, has miraculous self-healing abilities. The body is the temple of your life. Mind and spirit are the dwellers within the temple. Mind's intelligence and spirit's inspiration vitalize and quicken the body.
#2 The secret of healing is now available to the masses. The simple practices of focusing on the breath, applying...
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#1 Ubuntu is a philosophy that was developed by the African people to overcome oppression. It recognizes the inner worth of every human being, and it is this belief that allows you to face adversity and oppression and still hold on to ubuntu and live it in your daily life.
#2 We are only who we are thanks to the people around us. We have our parents to thank for...
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#1 Following the rules listed in this section will put you in the best position to protect yourself and your family should a crisis arise.
#2 Life is rarely cut and dry. While knowing what to do in emergency situations is important, it's your ability to adapt to new situations that can make the biggest difference.
#3 I believe in self-reliance. I don't want to depend...
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#1 The basic unit of writing practice is the timed exercise. You may time yourself for ten minutes, twenty minutes, or an hour. It is up to you. Whatever amount of time you choose for that session, you must commit to it and for that full period: keep your hand moving, don't pause to reread the line you have just written, and don't edit yourself.
#2 When you write from...
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Get the Summary of Salman Rushdie's Victory City in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who...
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#1 Forgiveness is essentially something we do for ourselves, regardless of whether the perpetrator shows any contrition. It is counterproductive to tell someone that you are forgiving them, as they may not even be aware that they have upset you.
#2 Forgiveness is extremely difficult, and very few people ever manage to achieve it. Self-forgiveness is even more difficult,...
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#1 Evans came to Crete in the late 1880s to excavate the ruins of an ancient civilization that Heinrich Schliemann had excavated a quarter century earlier. He proved that the poems of Homer, which described a war between the Greeks and Trojans, were indeed historical.
#2 Despite the great refinement of the Mycenaean kingdom, there was no evidence of writing anywhere...
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