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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.

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!

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.

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.

Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life is a guide to civility, modern etiquette, and treating others with care and respect. Authored by White House social secretaries Lea Berman and Jeremy Bernard, this book gives civility insights alongside White House anecdotes. Don't miss out on this ZIP Reads summary of Treating People Well. Learn how simple etiquette can change your work and life.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

This is a summary and analysis of Unconventional Medicine, author and alternative medicine expert Chris Kresser’s call to action for revolutionizing a health care industry that is corrupt, dysfunctional, and unequipped to properly address the chronic disease epidemic.

This ZIP Reads summary provides key takeaways and analysis from Tony Robbins' national best-selling book, Awaken the Giant Within. His life-changing self-help book teaches you how to take control of your life from day one and realize real change in your life. Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

This is an audio summary of Bob's Woodward's best-selling book that explores the detailed inner workings of Trump's highly unorthodox, and often toxic, White House. It is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, the original book.

Michelle Obama's moving and intimate memoir has been topping the best-seller lists for weeks! Understand the past, present, and future of this remarkable woman with our summary of Becoming. Michelle Obama’s Becoming is the moving and intimate memoir of the first African-American First Lady of the United States.

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.

In The First Conspiracy, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch tell the thrilling and little-known true story of how a vengeful Loyalist governor plotted to assassinate the leader of the rebellious Continental army, George Washington. The First Conspiracy, written by a master of political thrillers, shines a light on the bizarre plot to kill George Washington in the days leading up to the Revolutionary War and how it came to be discovered.

This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original. Jason Fried and David Hansson, founders of Basecamp, share some of the radical ideas that have enabled them to create a calm environment within their organization. Infused with wit and inspiring logic, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work is chock-full of ideas you won’t find anywhere else.

Summary & Analysis of This Is Marketing includes a synopsis of This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See, breakdown of the seven practices to help you work smarter, key takeaways from each chapter, tips on how to put the practices into action, how to avoid getting burned out, an editorial review, and background on Morten T. Hansen. This is an audiobook summary and analysis of This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See and not the original audiobook.

This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Everybody Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People. Listen to the audio synopsis and summary of the original book.

Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Feeling burnt out after devoting excessive effort to her job - with none left for her family - writer Shauna Niequist committed to making a life change. From then on, she was going to slow down, accept imperfection, and prioritize peace over productivity, a journey she documents in her self-help memoir, Present Over Perfect.

(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book). Lifestyle blogger Rachel Hollis has built a career out of being honest about how she’s trying to live her best life. In Girl, Wash Your Face, Hollis serves up all the lies she’s told herself over the years, to encourage us all to start seeing the most basic truth: it is up to you to live the life you want to live. Don't miss out on this ZIP Reads summary of Rachael Hollis' funny, heartwarming, and honest take on motherhood, success, authenticity, and life.