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Don't miss out on this simple, yet life-changing insight presented by famed television producer and author Shonda Rhimes in her book Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person. This FastReads' Summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you quickly grasp the essence of her story and learn how to say YES today!

Arianna Huffington's latest book, The Sleep Revolution, examines the ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon of sleep and explores the ways sleep can be utilized to regain control over our lives.

In Scott Adam's life-changing book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, the author encourages listeners to invite failure into their professional lives as it is often the raw material for success. He asserts that no matter how many times you fail, you can come out ahead if you learn something in the process.

Whether you are currently aspiring, succeeding, or failing, ego is always lurking around. It limits your attempt to build, to maintain, or to recover. Ryan Holiday's best-selling book, Ego Is The Enemy offers practical wisdom to overcome your inner ego and find real success.

Hypnosis is an amazing tool that can literally reshape your life. If your life is not quite how you envisioned it, then it's time to take a look at what kind of information you have programmed into it over time This incredible book can show you how to get your mind and body in sync, how to write effective self-hypnosis scripts, and tell you everything you need to know about hypnosis.

Jenny Lawson's bestselling collection of hysterical, off-beat wisdom, Furiously Happy tells the story of her struggle with depression and anxiety through her hilarious, laugh-out-loud point of view that manages to put everything into perspective.

This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to Furiously Happy to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!

He was the only sitting member of the House of Representatives elected President to date, but he served only about half a year in the office. He was the second president in less than 20 years felled by an assassin’s bullet. Yet James A. Garfield, a man little known outside his own party before his “dark-horse” nomination by the Republican Party in 1880, was significant in a number of ways. Garfield’s short term marked the first entrance of a “reformist” strain into the presidency that sought to root out corruption and political favoritism in government.

How to Draw is a practical drawing course that will guide you in learning how to draw in general. This guide will teach you different techniques in drawing different kinds of things - the most fundamental skill of the arts.

In 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do author and psychotherapist Amy Morin offers a fresh perspective on mental strength and behavior. She points out 13 things to avoid, thus hopefully arming the listener with knowledge to avoid having to learn by trial and error. She explains each "Don't" with excellent examples and case studies, and gives the listener tools to avoid those mistakes by offering what "to do" in simple to understand terms.

This FastReads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to help you distill the key takeaways, review the books' content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes per book!

Lamott takes a conventional approach and uses personal narratives to convey lessons on writing in her time-tested book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. She paints elaborate pictures of her family, friends and personal struggles. For Lamott, writing and life go hand in hand.

The following chapters will discuss the Spirit, Akasha, and a related Wiccan symbol, the pentagram. The Spirit is said to be the fifth Element of the Wiccan tradition, the substance that unifies the four material Elements. Each Element occupies its own apex on the Wiccan pentagram. Chapter one discusses the pentagram's symbolic history. In chapter two, listeners can expect to make sense of the ways that Wiccans relate to and make use of the pentagram.

As humanity has spent more and more time on earth, we have begun to understand better, albeit in little bits, our world and its impact on us. Astrology is perhaps the most ancient of all arts, beginning in Babylon and enjoying, over time, some Hellenistic cultural edits, but its accuracy has never been in doubt, giving birth to the zodiac signs and their use in the classification of people.

This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to help you distill the key takeaways, review the books' content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. This six-book bundle covers everything from dealing with adversity and finding happiness to creating healthier habits and cultivating a better life. Improve your life from the inside out!

Do want to change your life and achieve anything you want? Then this is a book that will truly change one’s life, if the information learned is applied. There will be a step-by-step process on exactly what to do for a 30-90-day period with goal-setting. The information in the book was compiled by years and years of study of public figures such as Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Napoleon Hill, John Assaraf, and etc.

This is a book that gives excellent insight to those who want to understand how to perform the emotional freedom technique, which is also known as EFT. The author provided step-by-step instructions on how to perform the process and be able to become emotionally free within minutes. The author also offers additional resources a person can use to visually see the process being performed to give another perspective to the listeners of the book. This book is action-packed with information to make sure the listeners are well-informed and receive great value.

Patty, LaVerne, and Maxene Andrews created their “unique sound” in part through the development of a “very bright harmonic sense,” first achieved by the older sister, LaVerne. The trio mastered a virtuosic use of close, intricate harmonies, coupled with a precise and a seemingly telepathic rhythmic sense that could be honed for performance in a short period of rehearsal time. These qualities were enveloped in a timbral sheen reminiscent of multiple trumpets.

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed. The Catholic Church rose to great prominence. Some of history’s most famous wars occurred. And a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years.

In the span of scarcely more than a half century, the West developed from a handful of scattered fur trapping enterprises, predominantly inhabited by males, to a region full of burgeoning rustic communities. Before the government’s official “closure” of the frontier as a lawless expanse, Western societies were essentially living apart from traditional American rule of law.

The Know Nothing movement can actually be tied to a number of violent episodes and ethnically charged riots that occurred during the last 1850s. The debate over immigration in the 1850s was more than a clash of worldviews - it touched upon the core of America’s values. While nativists, like the Know Nothings, believed that immigrants who embraced politics from their native lands represented a threat to America’s values, those who opposed them argued that it was precisely America’s values that made immigration a necessity and a valuable component of American life.