Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:
#1 The happiness trap is a psychological trap that prevents us from finding happiness. It is based on the inaccurate belief that we can find happiness by trying to find it. But the more we try to find happiness, the more we suffer.
#2 The western world has a higher standard of living than ever before, but human misery is still growing. The numbers of psychologists,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Identity Trap" by Yascha Mounk examines the cultural and political impact of identity politics in post-World War II Europe and its evolution into a dominant ideology. Mounk explores the skepticism towards universal truths and societal progress that emerged among intellectuals influenced by Marxism and postmodernism, leading...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Achilles Trap" by Steve Coll is a comprehensive account of the political and military events surrounding Iraq's nuclear program and the complex relationship between Iraq, the United States, and other global powers. The narrative follows key figures such as Jafar Dhia Jafar, an Iraqi nuclear physicist, and his colleague Hussain...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 For almost half a century during the Cold War, the world was focused on the global espionage battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The duel between the CIA and the KGB, portrayed in countless books, films, and news stories, captured the public imagination.
#2 China and America are in an uneasy embrace, and they constantly spy on each other....
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Josh Mitchell's ‘The Debt Trap’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As he charts the seventy-year history of student debt in America, Mitchell never loses sight of the countless student victims ensnared by an exploitative system that depends on their debt. Mitchell also draws alarming parallels to the housing crisis in the late 2000s, showing the catastrophic consequences...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The Advice Trap is when giving advice is your default management style. It's difficult to not give advice when you're curious and rushing to give it, and it's difficult to not give advice when you're not curious and rushing to give it.
#2 Curiosity helps you identify the real challenge. It is important to stay curious long enough to find out the real challenge, because...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Michael Bungay Stainer's The Advice Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: So I've been sweating on the follow-up. The pressure! The anticipation! But here it is, and I think you're going to like it. If The Coaching Habit says, "here are the seven essential questions to be more coach-like," The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I had to lose my confidence and then regain it in order to believe that there are no limits to what I can accomplish. I had completely lost my confidence on the field and the court. In 2003, my career was booming, and I decided to learn how to box like a professional.
#2 I had started boxing again, this time with a friend who was a trainer. I had never heard of an...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On February 15, 2002, as the ten o'clock hour came to pass, Joan Bates was stressed and worried. Her middle child, Alan, who was supposed to have arrived in Marietta from downtown Birmingham hours ago, had not shown up. The day before, Alan had flown from his home in Frederick, Maryland, into Alabama to give a deposition in a child custody matter he was pursuing.
#2...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The third world has shrunk. For forty years, the development challenge has been a rich world of one billion people facing a poor world of five billion people. But the real challenge of development is that there is a group of countries at the bottom that are falling behind, and often falling apart.
#2 There are some societies that have fallen into poverty,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The Emotion Code is a simple and powerful method of finding and releasing trapped emotional energy. It can result in astonishing and sudden improvements in physical and emotional wellness.
#2 Emotions are vibrations of pure energy. They come from the body based on what we are experiencing in the present and what we have experienced in the past. They serve a purpose...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 When a donated kidney becomes available in the United States, it is evaluated for matches and then offered on a first-come, first-served basis to the matched individuals on the wait-list. This means that, when a person at the top of the queue rejects a kidney, others in line have to decide whether to accept that same, previously rejected kidney.
#2 We are all...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The most dangerous trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. When we believe the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, we find ourselves easily tempted by success, popularity, and power.
#2 The most dangerous trap in our lives is not success, but self-rejection. When we believe the voices that call us worthless and unlovable,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The enemy's most deadly and deceptive trap is the offense trap. It severs relationships, widens the existing breaches between us, and handicaps us from fulfilling our full potential.
#2 The Greek word skand-alon, which is used to describe the offense of Luke 17:1, originally referred to the part of the trap to which the bait was attached. It is used in the New Testament...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Sesali Bowen's ‘Bad Fat Black Girl’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self-love.
Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip-hop...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. They had saved enough by the late 1960s to buy their first trawler.
#2 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I have a vivid memory of my father playing records in our house when I was three years old. I remember being scared of the mouse trap that was next to the turntable, but I also remember being fascinated by the final synthesizer sound that played when the mouse's neck was caught in the trap.
#2 I began to think about every record in the house as if it were more than...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The advice to just live your life can have a dark side: it can lead us to turn our back on our most sacred privilege, our ability to choose our own path. We must commit ourselves to the idea that there are more possibilities than we normally see, and then make the effort to choose the best one for us.
#2 When we feel trapped, we must choose to choose. We must...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Petroleum is the fuel of modernity. It does more than just keep the lights on and your car moving. It is an input in almost everything you have ever used or purchased. Without petroleum, there is no Internet, no cell phones, and no Christmas ornaments.
#2 Shale is a type of rock formation that often holds petroleum. It is trapped within the rock in tiny pockets that...
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase