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Get the Summary of David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planett in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.
I have been witness...
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Get the Summary Robin George Andrews' Super Volcanoes of in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms...
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Get the Summary of Avi Loeb's Extraterrestrial in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In Extraterrestrial, Loeb takes readers inside the thrilling story of the first interstellar visitor, to be spotted in our solar system. He outlines his controversial theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our species and our planet. A mind-bending...
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Get the Summary of Marco Alverà's The Hydrogen Revolution in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
We're constantly told that our planet is in crisis, that to save it, we must stop traveling, stop eating meat, even stop having children. But, in The Hydrogen Revolution, Marco Alverà argues that we don't need to upend our lives. We just need a new kind of fuel: hydrogen. From transportation and infrastructure to heating...
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Get the Summary of in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries.
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist...
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Get the Summary of Simon Mainwaring's Lead with We in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Enter Simon Mainwaring, New York Times-bestselling author and founder and CEO of We First. A decade ago, he showed how business leaders and consumers could use social media to build a better world in We First. Now, after decades of research and field experience at the vanguard of the world's most successful brand revolutions,...
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Get the Summary of Alex Epstein's The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet, at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better.
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Get the Summary of Rhonda Byrne's The Greatest Secret in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Ancient traditions knew that to hide a secret it should be put in plain sight, where no one will think to look for it. Billions of people on our planet have searched-but few have discovered the truth. Those few are completely free from negativity and live in permanent peace and happiness.
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#1 There are four institutions that are prerequisite for economic growth: secure property rights, a scientific method, a capital marketplace, and rapid communication.
#2 The world has gotten better in the past fifty years, not worse. The proportion of the world's population subjected to totalitarianism, genocide, starvation, war, and pestilence has been decreasing over...
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#1 A benign science fiction scenario is that an extremely sapient civilization monitors Earth and its inhabitants. The probes make periodic visits to our planet, and only when they detect a previously unknown form of energy conversion or a new physical manifestation dependent on it do they make a second pass.
#2 The first microorganisms emerge nearly 4 billion years...
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#1 The Moon can be used as a fantastically simple cosmic timer to help you create the life you dream of. You simply need to become aware of the lunar cycles and the basic principles of manifesting. This book will show you how to do both of these things.
#2 The Moon is up there every night for us to see. We are connected to her and she is connected to our planet. That's...
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#1 Life exists in a multitude of forms, from bacteria to complex organisms. It is an extremely rare thing, but in an infinite universe there is always a probability of life emerging on one planet, and we must live on that planet.
#2 The origin of life is not a mystery, it's just a matter of the rules that govern the emergence of life. Life probably emerged from the...
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#1 The theory of evolution by natural selection states that organisms are exquisitely tailored for their environments because they have been evolutionarily selected to survive. This process of natural selection causes organisms to change incrementally over time to better adapt to their environments.
#2 The process of evolution by natural selection is extremely slow,...
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Get the Summary of Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler's The Future Is Faster Than You Think in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence...
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Get the Summary of Bernie Sanders's It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sanders argues that unfettered capitalism is to blame for an unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality, is undermining our democracy, and is destroying our planet. How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom...
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