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Note: This is a summary and analysis of Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope and not the original book. If the world is statistically better off than ever before, then how come everything feels so f*cking terrible? This is the question Manson attempts to answer in his latest best-selling book, Everything Is F*cked.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi reviews the link between food and brain function and offers specific recommendations for staying mentally younger, sharper, and fitter in her book Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power.

In Everything Happens for a Reason, Kate Bowler asks some serious questions regarding some of the statements people make whenever someone is going through a tragedy. She opens up about how her regular life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She pulls no punches as she tries to figure out why, at the age of 35, she is dying and leaving behind her beloved family, yet she has always had faith in God. Disclaimer: This audiobook is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Everything Happens for a Reason.

In Why Religion?: A Personal Story, the award-winning religious scholar Elaine Pagels weaves together a story of heart-breaking personal loss with an examination of the relevance of religious traditions in modern times. The book relates how she found solace in the insights discovered in these “secret” texts and offers the reader a deeper understanding of how Christian folklore continues to shape Western cultural attitudes centuries later.

We all want to be happier, more productive, more creative, and healthier. But we fail to realize that our surroundings are not aligned with the desires of our heart. In Outer Order, Inner Calm, Gretchen Rubin lays out a simple plan that will help you achieve these goals. All you have to do is clean and declutter your environment, whether it’s at home or the office. How you do it is up to you - you can go hard and spend an entire day cleaning up, or you can spend a few minutes every day decluttering your surroundings.

Psychiatrist and mental health professional Daniel J. Siegel, MD, has written another in-depth book describing not only how the brain functions, but explaining how individuals can access the deepest recesses of the mind to change and integrate new and healthy pathways to better thinking. Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence - The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice provides tremendous insight into improving mental health and overall happiness.

Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not these books are for you, ZIP Reads Summary and Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in about 20 minutes per book! This five-audiobook bundle includes When, The Talent Code, Drive, The Culture Code, and To Sell Is Human.

Please Note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Researchers and scientists DiNicolantonio and Fung take us deep into the world of longevity as they explain the little-known details of what aging is, why it happens, and how you can slow it down. About the original book: What is aging and why do we have to grow old and die? In this insightful and eye-opening book, DiNicolantonio and Fung offer a descriptive explanation of how aging works at a physical and physiological level.

Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools is a collection of essays presented as a call to change the elite power structure that has grown beyond its usefulness in America. As conservative as Carlson is, he laments the loss of classic liberal values such as worker’s rights and international peacekeeping. The liberal position, he argues, was critical for maintaining the checks and balances necessary to keep a functioning, middle-class society. Carlson argues that we, as America, need to take back our democracy and demand accountability from the "fools" in charge.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Columnist and running enthusiast Alex Hutchinson attempts to discover the secret behind the performance of the most successful endurance athletes. Based on scientific experiments and personal experiences, he shows you how you too can stretch the limits of your mind and body.

Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. In Best Self, Life coach Mike Bayer reveals the practical steps you can take today to connect to your true self and transform your whole life. Using his Best Self Model, Bayer describes in detail how he has managed to help people from all walks of life to overcome their limitations and achieve their goals. He uses real-life experiences to show us that anybody can change their life if only they choose to align with their Best Self.

It’s a shove off the fence post and a call to action - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will not be satisfied until barriers to understanding climate change are obliterated. David Wallace-Wells taps into our collective survival instinct by challenging our individual roles in this all-encompassing issue.

Writer and web designer Paul Jarvis shares his insightful wisdom and experience on how to set up and run a successful company that plays big but stays small. His premise is simple - bigger is not always better! Paul Jarvis provides a different and fresh approach to building a brand. He explains how a business can stay small, focus on customer experience, and launch products quickly while still reaping massive success and profits.

Buy this five-audiobook bundle and start healing your body from the inside out! Each summary includes key takeaways and analysis of the original book to help you quickly absorb the author's wisdom in a distilled and easy-to-digest format. Please note: This is a collection of summaries, analyses, and reviews of the books, and NOT the original books.

In this audio summary and analysis, authors Marc and Angel Chernoff of the original book Getting Back to Happy provide a powerful testimony on how you can overcome the trials of life and still live happily. They use personal tales to inspire us to be mindful and to help us discover happiness in every moment of our lives.

This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans. A bold tribute to the man of the hour in the 1814 Battle for New Orleans, the story of Andrew Jackson embodies what it is to be an American. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans is the inspirational story of a tumultuous time which changed the course of the American nation, led by an unassuming man who refused to relent.

External rewards only motivate people to get more rewards, not to do the work for which they are being rewarded. If businesses, governments, and schools are to motivate people, they have to find a way to meet their deepest psychological needs, namely autonomy, mastery, and purpose. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

Striking and poignant, this searing exposé unravels the untold stories behind the Soviet nuclear disaster of 1986. Midnight in Chernobyl captures the truth below the molten core which irradiated the tangled web of bureaucracy determined to erase it and ended an era.

Steven Johnson explores the art and science of making long-term decisions, whether in business, military, in your personal life, or on a global scale. Start making better decisions for your life today!

A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Atlantic essays and musings originally published during President Obama’s administration. These essays concern black America and the shift of presidencies today. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)