1-Sentence-Summary: When To Rob A Bank is a collection of the best of the Freakonomics authors’ blog posts from over 10 years of blogging about economics in all areas of our life.
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Last Updated on August 8, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: The Geography Of Genius explains how genius is not an inherited trait bound to individual, but rather happens at the intersection of time and place, by talking you on a tour through some of the historically most creative cities in the world.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: Six Thinking Hats divides thinking into six distinct areas and perspectives, which will help you, your team, and your company tackle problems from different angles, thus solving them with the power of parallel thinking and saving time, money, and energy as a result.
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Last Updated on January 27, 2023
1-Sentence-Summary: The Gifts Of Imperfection shows you how to embrace your inner flaws to accept who you are, instead of constantly chasing the image of who you’re trying to be, because other people expect you to act in certain ways.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: The Sunflower recounts an experience of holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, in which he had to make a tough choice about whether to forgive or not, and explores over 50 different perspectives on forgiveness from people with various religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: The Republic is one of the most important works about philosophy and politics in history, written by Plato, one of Socrates students in ancient Greece, as a dialogue about justice and political systems.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: How We Got To Now explores the history of innovation, how innovations connect to one another, create an environment for change and where innovations come from.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022
1-Sentence-Summary: Steal Like An Artist gives you permission to copy your heroes’ work and use it as a springboard to find your own, unique style, all while remembering to have fun, creating the right work environment for your art and letting neither criticism nor praise drive you off track.
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Last Updated on June 15, 2023
1-Sentence-Summary: Make A Killing On Kindle shows you how you can market your self-published ebooks on Amazon the right way, without wasting time on social media or building a huge author platform first by focusing on a few key areas to set up your book for long-term sales in just 18 hours.
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Last Updated on January 5, 2025
1-Sentence-Summary: The Language Instinct argues that we are born with an innate capability to understand languages, that most of them are more similar than you might think and explains where our capability to deal with words so well comes from.
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Last Updated on August 5, 2022