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This is an analysis of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Flowers which follows the lives and aspirations of residents of Annawadi, one of Mumbai’s many densely inhabited slums. Boo, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, spent three years visiting and researching Annawadi, which was located near the Mumbai airport but hidden from travelers’ view by a wall advertising Italian floor tiles that purportedly stayed “beautiful forever".

The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand is a novel about a group of fictional architects and their critics in the 1920s and ’30s. Set mostly in New York City, the story follows Howard Roark, a young, preternaturally assured architect, and Peter Keating, his fair-weather friend and quasi-rival, through the ups and downs of their careers and personal lives… Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Skin in the Game (2018) argues that balancing risk and reward is essential to creating a fair society, and that a lack of such balance creates a world fraught with unnecessary complexity and risk. Understanding the balance or imbalance of risk and reward in social systems helps to explain how the world works… Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more about Skin in the Game. Note: This is not Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Skin in the Game. It is an analysis of that book.

Everyone wants to make money in real estate. Big money! But is it as easy as some people might suggest? Can you really make a million bucks while working just a handful of hours each week? What’s the truth - the whole truth and nothing but the truth? In Real Estate Investing Uncensored, Delinda Harrelson, the Flipping Coach, answers these questions and many more. Making millions is indeed possible, but at what price? What will it take? Are you willing to do the work? Can you follow a plan?

In Make It Stick (2016), Peter C. Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel offer an introduction to cognitive science for those who wish to enhance their individual learning processes. The authors believe that most people tend to adopt unproductive learning styles.... Listen to this in-depth analysis to learn more.

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (2018) by Daniel H. Pink is a meditative yet practical exploration of time. Most success in life comes down to a matter of good timing. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) by Malcolm Gladwell examines statistically anomalous people and events to better understand why individuals succeed or fail. Too many people toil under the myth of meritocracy.... Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson chronicles the origins and development of computers and the Internet. The book begins in 1833 with the vision of the English mathematician Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and ends with the question of whether artificial intelligence will ever surpass human intelligence. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (2012) is a guide for parents of babies up to one year old by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam. The guide was first published in 1993 and has since gone through many editions. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

This is an analysis of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (2017) by Kate Moore, which tells how young women won a landmark workers’ compensation case against employers who hired them to work with radium. Moore traces the history of the so-called radium girls’ employment, illnesses, and deaths.... Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

“Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” - Matthew 18:3-4 (NIV). In Living Free, like You're 3!, Alicia V. Sharpe uses these words from Jesus in Matthew to relate the freedom that three-year-olds experience to the freedom we adults could live out if we simply held an attitude that resembles young children.

The world of premium quality tea is every bit as complex and fascinating as wine, and 19 Lessons On Tea is the ultimate guide to everything you need to know about this healthy and flavorful daily indulgence.

His gift is a rare talent; his art celebrates an important American legacy. But it's born from a torment that might make him as dangerous as he is irresistible. Wealthy, beautiful, and sophisticated, Cassandra Westbrook collects exquisite art objects with a connoisseur's fine taste and a rich woman's whims. She always dominates an art auction - until a mysterious artist named Thomas Warrior bids against her for a set of Native American ledger drawings. Though he's outbid, Thomas feels a strong connection to the historic artwork that embodies his Native American heritage and symbolizes the survival of its courageous spirit.

Jake's Grace On The Road West, is about a Canadian Amish family's decision to move out West where they feel they will have more freedom to express themselves. Along the way and after they join up with a wagon train, the young man of the family--Jake--does indeed, find Grace. This is a gentle and sweet love story suitable for any age and it contains a few inspirational passages of scripture.

Do you want to learn more about how to overcome common struggles for adults with ADD such as managing time and procrastination? Would you like to change your view of Attention Deficit Disorder from a weakness to utilizing it as a strength? Are you interested in the differences between childhood ADD and Adult ADD? Then this book is for you! Adult ADD starts by examining the common symptoms and struggles of those with ADD. It then gives you simple, applicable strategies to manage your ADD symptoms.

After a car accident leaves Elizabeth White, a mild mannered accountant, with amnesia, she fights to remember the past while fumbling with the present. Then her boss, the gorgeous billionaire Cal Mustang, asks Elizabeth to take over the accounts of his three lavish Las Vegas casinos. She's hesitant - but no one denies Cal Mustang his desires. Not only does the enigmatic billionaire have his eye on the young accountant, his seductive domination stirs Elizabeth's body and memory in a way no one else can.

The Mystic Knowledge series is a group of compilations of the Mystic and Out-of-Body Travel Works of Marilynn Hughes on various subjects of scholarship so you may have at your fingertips all the Out-of-Body Travel instructions on a particular area of study. We hope this series helps those who are interested in a special area of study to listen to all the recorded mystical and out-of-body travel experiences that the author has on each subject.

Sexy contemporary romance with a family subplot from award-winning, best-selling author Karen Rose Smith. An intimate relationship has been missing from Zack Clark's life for years. Divorced, he learned the hard way that happily-ever-after is only for dreamers. Skye Delaney also learned that marriage doesn't always live up to expectations. Her ex-husband hadn't even found time to be by her side after her miscarriage. When she first meets Zack, she believes he's the same type of man. But he shakes her calm and makes her believe dreams can come true.

HEAVEN, HELL AND PURGATORY (OUT-OF-BODY TRAVEL): The Mystic Knowledge Series is a group of compilations of the Mystic and Out-of-Body Travel Works of Marilynn Hughes on various subjects of scholarship so you may have at your fingertips all the Out-of-Body Travel Instructions on a particular area of study. We hope this series helps those who are interested in a special area of study to read all the recorded mystical and out-of-body travel experiences that the author had on each subject.

Finding Me: A Woman's Theology of Self-Identification was written in partial fulfillment for my Master of Sacred Theology Degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. The premise for this book is to take a specific look at women of faith who have had the eyes of their understanding opened as they read, reflected, and reassessed how they understand the Bible along with how they understand themselves in God's eyes.