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Summary of Dr. Steven Novella's The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Summary of Dr. Steven Novella's The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first set of skills is called neuropsychological humility. It involves knowledge of how your brain functions and is limited. The second category of skeptical gear is metacognition, which involves thinking...
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Summary of Phyllis D. Light's Southern Folk Medicine
Summary of Phyllis D. Light's Southern Folk Medicine

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 We went ginseng hunting down the mountain, but had no luck. We were exhausted, so we headed back toward the truck, a long walk up the north face of the mountain on an overgrown and long-deserted roadbed. #2...
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Summary of Michael Waldman's The Second Amendment
Summary of Michael Waldman's The Second Amendment

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 On the night of April 18, 1775, the British marched out of Boston with the intent of capturing John Hancock and Samuel Adams, two prominent Patriot leaders, and confiscating their guns. The next morning,...
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Crossing Continents
Crossing Continents

Robert Arnott

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory. These were initially between India and its Indus...
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Summary of Roger Crowley's Conquerors
Summary of Roger Crowley's Conquerors

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In August 1483, a group of weather-beaten sailors was hauling a stone pillar into an upright position on a headland on the coast of what is now Angola. It was five and a half feet tall and surmounted by an iron...
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Summary of Mary Brave Bird's Ohitika Woman
Summary of Mary Brave Bird's Ohitika Woman

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had become very depressed. I had no place to live, and my book had not sold well. I was constantly borrowing money from my co-author Richard. I was often getting drunk, and when I was, I would get rowdy...
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Before the Break of Dawn
Before the Break of Dawn

Devaki Nilayamgode

Before the Break of Dawn: Secrets of the Namboodiri Women is a celebration of life in a Kerala Brahmin household. Most of the narratives start before dawn. The ordinary business of having a bath, the almost compulsory visit to the temple, the task of caring for the unapologetically patriarchal...
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Summary of R. Kent Hughes' Disciplines of a Godly Man
Summary of R. Kent Hughes' Disciplines of a Godly Man

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a tennis bum in the summer before I entered the seventh grade. I was so passionate about the sport that I would idly hold a tennis ball and just sniff it. I became good enough that I was second man on the varsity...
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Summary of Luke Epplin's Our Team
Summary of Luke Epplin's Our Team

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Bob Feller's ascent from the cow pastures of Iowa to national prominence was as baffling as it was astonishing. He was a figure straight out of a dime-store novel, an adolescent dream come to life. In his first...
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La tribuna
La tribuna

Emilia Pardo Bazán

In this novel are seen the political ideas of the writer through their/her characters. The laborer, as social layers appear her for the first time from the perspective of the Spanish novel. The crisis marked by the Revolution of 1868, the emancipation of the working woman and the labor...
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