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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation (2011) shows companies how assertive sales representatives can increase profits and create repeat customers. Authors and entrepreneurs Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson use the results of interviews with more than 5,000 sales representatives to outline five different profiles most employees fit into. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more. 

The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (2018) introduces a simple, effective organizational method that uses only a pen and notebook to improve productivity and enhance introspection. Author and Bullet Journal creator Ryder Carroll explains how readers can lead a more meaningful life, vanquish challenging tasks, and streamline their workflow by creating a custom planner using the book’s journaling system. Listen to this in-depth summary by Swift Reads to learn more.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (2015), by Jack Canfield, is a self-help book designed to help people achieve their personal and professional goals. By focusing on one business principle per chapter, the cofounder of the Chicken Soup for the Soul mega-series methodically breaks down the strategy behind his remarkable success.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

In How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018), Michael Pollan explores the benefits that psychedelics can provide, both for those suffering from mental illness and for those trying to cultivate new perspectives and habits. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (2017) examines how four technology companies became powerful leviathans with the power to defy law, gather large amounts of private data about citizens, and create monopolies. Author Scott Galloway argues that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have created a climate where their products are indispensable for anyone who wants to get ahead, either professionally or personally. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

Today the world is nose-deep in trouble of every kind, moral, ethical, social, political, and legal. How did we get here? That is the right question to ask! What I Have Learned About the Demise of Mankind is a stunning and not-so-fictional revelation of the key answers to the question of how did we get here? In this paradigm-shifting debut novel, Truman Alexander reveals the evil works of the Dark One on earth by exposing the Underworld's training manual for new devils, tempters, and dark angels.

Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more about The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019) in which science journalist David Wallace-Wells uses the latest scientific research to construct a portrait of how climate change will affect life on Earth, and what humanity can do to mitigate it. For decades, climate change has been treated as a theoretical but distant problem, something that will only affect future generations. 

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001) explains how humans routinely underestimate the role luck plays in determining outcomes. This failure to account for uncertainty can lead someone to attribute meaning to a result where none exists, or to overlook the probability of a rare but cataclysmic event....

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008) by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein explores how "nudges", or subtle prompts, can help people make better decisions about spending and saving. Applying significant findings from the fields of business, psychology, law, and economics to some of the most controversial issues and problems in the United States, they propose strategies that can help anyone make a good choice, whether it’s on a personal or governmental level....

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1994) by Barack Obama chronicles his quest to understand how the varied threads of his upbringing, including his father’s absence and his multiracial and multinational roots, shaped him and his understanding of his place in the world. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to Stanley Ann Dunham, a white woman, and Barack Obama Sr., a black economist from Kenya. Obama Sr. and Dunham met while studying at the University of Hawaii....

In this kids' sci-fi adventure, three boys become unlikely heroes when they attempt to save Mastercore - their favourite gaming and technology company - from AG&T: a group of anti-tech protesters and saboteurs. Traveling through hyperspace from Canada to Hong Kong, their courage is tested and long-held secrets are brought to light. 

In The Big Short (2010), journalist Michael Lewis traces the stories of a handful of misfit investors who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. In the parlance of Wall Street, to “short” something is to bet against an investment or company through the purchase of a complex high-finance product.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (2015) by Laszlo Bock describes the unorthodox methods Google uses to hire and retain the most talented employees. Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, knew they wanted to create the world’s best search engine.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

This is the audio summary of Eating Animals, a nonfiction work that explores the ethics of modern omnivorism and examines the treatment of animals in industrial agrarian systems. Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who became a vegetarian after his son was born, informs people of the environmentally unsound and inhumane practices common to factory farms.

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (2018), by Ronan Farrow, traces the decline of US diplomacy and the militarization of foreign policy. Under President Donald Trump, the State Department has a skeleton staff, most of whom are low-level officers.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

Across the globe, obesity rates have doubled over the last three decades. Listen to this audio analysis of Fat Chance by Robert H. Lustig, MD, which explores the ill effects of processed foods on the human body.

Listen to this audio analysis of James Comey’s book A Higher Loyalty, a memoir of the author’s tenure as FBI director and a warning to the American public about the dangers of an unethical president.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018) describes author Michelle McNamara’s quest to identify a California serial killer who committed a rash of rapes and murders during the 1970s and 1980s. The book examines both the serial killer’s crimes and the efforts made by law enforcement and amateur detectives to identify him. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund) is a work of nonfiction that systematically debunks common misunderstandings about the world. The sweeping scope of human history is, by and large, a story of incremental progress, but most people fail to see it that way. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)   

Chuckle along with the best 19th-century humorists, who provide you with tall tales, puns, and witty ripostes. No guarantees of political correctness, but they're sure to tickle your 21st-century funny bone! Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous -- "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" -- and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this anthology collects several of Twain's own pieces in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by 14 of Twain's contemporaries.