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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 was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome.
#2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to...
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#1 Around us, we see a level of individual wealth that has never been seen before. Conspicuous consumption of redundant consumer goods has greatly expanded over the past generation.
#2 The symptoms of collective impoverishment are all around us. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were becoming less unequal. But since then,...
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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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#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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#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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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 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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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 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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#1 I had a hard time adjusting to the fact that I didn't know what was going on in a country I was exploring. It reminded me of how I used to get frustrated with myself when I couldn't understand what a foreigner had just said in a restaurant.
#2 We were driving from Chefchaouen to Fes, and Rida told us about the time he met Brad Pitt in a local market.
#3 We visited...
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#1 There are two Armenias, a Greater and a Lesser. The lord of Lesser Armenia is a king who maintains good and just government in his country under the suzerainty of the Tartars. The Lesser Armenia is bounded on the south by the Promised Land, now in the hands of the Saracens, on the north by the western district of Turkey, known as Karaman, on the north-east and east...
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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 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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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
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#1 I wrote three pieces that became a book called Encounters with the Archdruid. I had been writing profiles for more than a decade at Time magazine and then at The New Yorker, and I was desperate to escalate.
#2 I decided to do a double profile, through a process similar to the one I described above. I would meet myself coming the other way. I would not be able to do...
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#1 The author made a picture of what would happen if a pretty stenographer entered your office. She took off her gloves, opened her purse, and dumped it out on the table. She had two dimes and a nickel, and a cardboard match box. She left the nickel on the desk, put the two dimes back into her purse, and took her black gloves to the stove.
#2 F. Scott Fitzgerald, the...
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#1 I'm a newsletter developer and author, and I help authors start, build, and manage their lists. I can help you with your email list. But if you're looking for step-by-step instructions for setting up an email list, this isn't the book for you.-> The first part of the question is easy for me: My name is Tammi Labrecque and I'm an indie author, editor, and publisher....
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