Social Analysis

The chapters contained in this book present Mr. Roosevelt's views on many of the great national issues of the day. They were written since Mr. Roosevelt's return to America and appeared originally in The Outlook as editorials or articles. These articles include "The Management of Small States Which Are Unable to Manage Themselves", "A Remedy for Some Forms of Selfish Legislation", "Rural Life", "The Progressives, Past and Present", "The Pioneer Spirit and American Problems", and "The Tariff: A Moral Issue".

Ben Sasse...claims at the outset that The Vanishing American Adult is a nonpartisan audiobook: he is diagnosing and attempting to solve a problem that affects both Democrats and Republicans alike, since a lack of self-reliance among young people threatens the future of the whole country. While serving as president of Midland University in Omaha, Nebraska, Sasse encountered a population of undergraduates who were in a profound state of arrested development, unable to properly mature into adulthood.

Kahneman uses this audiobook to explore how these decision-making processes work. He characterizes the type of rapid-fire, thoughtless reacting, that constitutes most thought as "System 1" thinking, and more reflective, strategic thinking as "System 2." Examples of System 1 managed functions include simple arithmetic, basic reading comprehension, and determining the relative distances and sizes of objects. System 2, by contrast, handles difficult tasks such as parallel parking, walking at a faster-than-normal speed.

In Infinite Powers, Strogatz attempts to show us the link between the universe and calculus. Everything human civilization has created has been based on some form of calculus, including cellphones, radios, HIV drugs, and human genome technology. Strogatz makes a compelling argument that without integral and differential equations, there would be no modern civilization. Infinite Powers is a classic description of the history, development, and future of calculus, as well as the phenomenal mathematicians who mastered it.

In Digital Minimalism, author Cal Newport explains how you can experience a massive positive transformation in your life by ruthlessly cutting down on the time you spend online. Learn how to ditch the screen and get your life back.

Author and culture critic Ben Shapiro tells in no uncertain terms how Americans are ruining their nation by forsaking the values and virtues that their Founding Fathers believed in. If the people don’t stop being angry and ungrateful at the country that has offered them so much, then the struggle for America’s soul will be lost forever.

This is an audio summary and analysis of Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Author Daniel Coyle shares the secrets to creating a successful organizational culture. Drawing from various examples, Coyle shows that everyone from companies to comedy troupes can have success with three simple conditions.

When we think about viruses, we think about diseases such as the flu. For the most part, the flu comes and goes—the body is able to fight it. For some, it can be deadly. There are of course more dangerous viruses out there such as Ebola that in some cases kills 90 percent of those infected. In today's world, viruses can spread very quickly and it's for this reason we must be vigilant. Carl Zimmer in his book A Planet of Viruses discusses what viruses are and why they are so hard to eradicate. He also explains how not all viruses are bad and are, in fact, vital to our survival. Enjoy!

Marcus Aurelius is most known for his philosophical musings, especially one brand of philosophical thought called stoicism. This philosophy has as much application in today's world as it did in his age. Marcus put his philosophical musings to paper; this work is now famously known as the Meditations. This is an analysis and review of Meditations.

There is no doubt that the economic crisis of 2008 was one of the worst in recorded history. It was scary times. What is even scarier still is the fact that it's only a matter of time before another crisis will occur. In Thomas E. Wood's book Meltdown, he makes the case that the US Government was to blame for the 2008 meltdown and asks how the government can insure it doesn't happen again. In this edition of Summary Shorts, we will analyze and summarize the ideas put forth in Meltdown and learn how a future financial crisis can be avoided.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section.

-En español Neutro- Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo (en alemán Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse) es una obra de Sigmund Freud publicada en 1921.

Every Podcaster’s Biggest Hurdles provides a clearly laid out plan which you can follow to get over the things holding you back on your podcasting journey - even if you have only one listener and are on the verge of giving up. This audiobook will reveal why more than half of all podcasters end up failing after the first six months, the five highly proven techniques to immediately eliminate paralysis by analysis, and more.

In this audiobook, Carmen Simon explores how writers, artists, and business communicators can use memory to create content that is impossible to ignore. She asserts that people act on what they remember and that ventures become profitable when they learn to influence what their customers recall in the future. According to the author, people act in favor of a business when the business learns to influence their memory by using the right proportion of facts, distinctiveness, familiarity, emotion, sensory intensity, and other variables in its content.

The most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself. The next is to understand the other fellow. From this book you are going to learn which of the five types you are and how to get the best out of it. The alimentive type, or The Enjoyer, is discussed in this volume as well as all key principles of human analysis. Read in English (unabridged).

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. Preview: Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is a primer on what people can do to resist tyranny. It also provides tools for recognizing tyranny and discusses historical background on how tyrannical governments have been established in the past.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished Japan includes: a summary of the book; a review; analysis and key takeaways; and a detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined includes: a summary of the book; a review; analysis and key takeaways; and a detailed "About the Author" section.

Peggy Orenstein’s Boys and Sex provides an open and incisive look into the sexual experiences of boys and the challenges that come with being a sexually active teen. She goes deep into the teenage psyche to uncover what they think about rape, consent, porn, homosexuality, hookups, and much more. A must-listen for every teen and their parents!

In Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take a personal and harrowing look at the pervasive problems of poverty, drug abuse, and rising death rate in America through the stories of the people in America's forgotten towns. What they discover is a problem that goes far beyond unemployment or personal choice: they discover America's great social depression.