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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 Great Law of Peace was brought to the Iroquois by a Huron man. The Peacemaker taught the Mohawks about the Creator's desire for harmony, and Aionwahta was needed to translate his words.
#2 Disability has a history among North American indigenous people, but it is different than what Europeans and Americans understand today. It is defined in relational terms, rather...
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#1 We are born to eat wild. Our bodies have not changed much since the days when we lived as hunter-gatherers, but our way of life and diets have changed dramatically. Today, just a few people continue to source most of their calories from the wild.
#2 The foods we are about to meet are all important in understanding why wild foods are so important. They provide less...
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#1 I biked from Mexico to Canada and back with the migrating monarch butterflies.
#2 The monarch butterfly is an ectothermic animal that matches its environment temperature. As temperatures drop, they become unable to move and can't seek out microclimates such as tree trunks.
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#1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus.
#2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean...
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#1 Skip told the stockholders a story about how he had gotten mixed up while drawing electrical engineering plans for a boat building company. He had been so sure of himself that he had transposed starboard and port, which made the drawing an exact mirror image of what it should have been.
#2 Story is your path to creating faith. Telling a meaningful story means inspiring...
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Get the Summary of Carol Tavris & Avrum Bluming's Estrogen Matters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Estrogen Matters" delves into the contentious history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and its relationship with breast cancer, menopause, and women's health. The book scrutinizes the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, which influenced public perception and medical practice by linking HRT to increased breast...
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#1 Scientists have long studied sex to understand human sexual response. However, they have done so by studying animals. It took science a long time to get its nerve up to put sexually aroused human beings under scientific scrutiny.
#2 The first to dip a toe in the potentially scalding waters of research into human sexual response was William Masters, but he was aided...
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#1 Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. It is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. It is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
#2 Earning your freedom to travel is a personal investment...
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Book Preview:Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021) explores
the possible origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-authors
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley examine both the lab leak and
natural origin theories while making clear that more
research is needed to prevent such occurrences from
happening again. They provide a transparent and
comprehensive account of the...
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#1 Not everything that is written contains an argument. In order to determine whether a text contains an argument, we must carefully examine the structure of the text. The first step in analyzing a text for argument is to identify the author's main purpose. Is the author introducing a new idea or refining an existing one. Is the author describing an experience or an...
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#1 Our brain is constantly sifting through and interpreting all the information that comes its way, and it does so by creating stories about it. It knows us well, and uses that knowledge to create stories that will help us survive.
#2 The brain is looking for two key concepts in every story: neuroscientists believe the reason we spend so much time and space getting lost...
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Book Preview:Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19 and
Plandemic: Indoctornation are respectively a video and a
short film, both released in 2020 and produced by filmmaker
Mikki Willis. They claimed to uncover the truth behind the
coronavirus pandemic and bring to the public all secrets
masked by controllers of the global narrative.
This 2021 book version, entitled...
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#1 I was trying to get a visa to travel through Afghanistan, but I was told that under no circumstances would they grant a visa to a woman who intended cycling alone through Afghanistan.
#2 I went to the Afghan Embassy and explained my situation. They gave me a letter that was written on the government's behalf requesting the Afghan Government to grant me a visa for...
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#1 The Netherlands was the most logical place to build an ark. With more than a quarter of the country lying below mean sea level, canals, rivers, and lakes were almost as common as trees.
#2 The Netherlands is a country that was built on land that was reclaimed from the sea. The country is known for its flatness and its windmills, which were used to pump fields dry....
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#1 We all have strategies to keep us from hearing our own voices. It's easier to drink wine and watch TV than it is to try and figure out why this voice is urging us to quit our jobs, set new boundaries in our old friends, or let go of some stability or security that has given us peace for years.
#2 The Hang-Up is the fear of expressing ourselves honestly. We try to...
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#1 Lex Greensill was a young man who grew up on a farm in Queensland, Australia. He had a difficult childhood, but eventually his farm tripled in size within twenty years. He was skilled in law, wireless applications, international trade, insurance, capital raising, sales and marketing, public speaking, written communications, corporate governance, training, organization...
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#1 The Oxford comma is the comma you see before the and in a list. It is highly encouraged by The Chicago Manual of Style, but The Associated Press Stylebook, which governs a lot of what you see in newspapers, doesn't advocate using it unless it's necessary for clarity. I believe strongly in The Chicago Manual of Style, and I use it often. It is a great resource, and...
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#1 The book was made into a movie in 1958, and it was groundbreaking for its frankness on sexual matters at the time. It was seen as a testament to the unwritten law, which stated that a husband who found another man in bed with his wife was justified in killing him. But the law was a myth.
#2 Anatomy of a Murder is a film noir, and it is largely because of its atmospheric,...
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#1 A good sex scene is a dialogue scene with physical details. It should be a sensual detail rather than a overtly sexual one. The Rule of Three can help you make a scene vivid and three-dimensional: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.
#2 When he came to her, he found that she didn't want gentleness or courting....
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