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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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#1 I was born in 1954 in a small village in Rwanda. I was the ninth child of my parents, and I was an island in time's river, separated by six years from my older sister and five years from my younger brother. I got a lot of attention from my mother because of it.
#2 I grew up in Rwanda, and as I was a middle child, I was often in charge of the family. I had rows of...
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Book Preview: #1 When we arrived in Rome, we were taken to a refugee camp where we were lodged with other asylum seekers from all over the world. It was a temporary safe space for us until we could be processed and assigned a new country to live in.
#2 At the Hotel Barba, I had the chance to meet many different grandmothers and grandfathers from all over the world. I learned how to...
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Book Preview: #1 I took my dog to the vet, who found that he had a violent cough. The vet decided to do an X-ray to see if something was stuck in his windpipe. The nurse gave him a shot to knock him out, because he was not a good boy and did not want to behave.
#2 I had always wanted to believe in something like dogs bringing out the best in us, but I couldn't picture it with an old,...
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Book Preview: #1 I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: gradually and then suddenly. I had been intermittently unwell since I graduated from college in 1997, and now I was getting steadily worse. I was met by turns with cutting skepticism but also genuine concern from clinicians, friends, and colleagues.
#2 There is a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses that are often marginalized,...
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Book Preview: #1 My mother was against me writing a book about myself. She had tried to talk me out of it, but now that the book was actually a thing, she had changed her mind. She gave me her blessing, but insisted that I burn the book after I was done with it.
#2 I had always been Jewish, but when I asked my mother if I had ever had a conversion ceremony, she said she didn't remember....
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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.
#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the...
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Book Preview: #1 When I was seven years old, I saw nine men in orange softball uniforms racing around Memorial Field, the silhouette of Charles Dickens silk-screened on their chests. They were competitors, but they never stopped laughing. I laughed harder than anyone.
#2 I remember the game well, and the beginning of my relationship with time. I wanted to watch the men forever, so...
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Book Preview: #1 I am shy. I've never asked a question in a large lecture hall. I've always rolled my shopping cart back to its place of origin if there's no more half-and-half on the counter at the coffee shop.
#2 I went to Stanford with my parents. I was dropped off near the Stanford bookstore, where on rainy days my mom had brought me for hot cocoa and madeleines. I drank whiskey...
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Get the Summary of Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Token Black Girl" is a memoir by Danielle Prescod that delves into her personal experiences of growing up as a Black girl in predominantly white spaces. She recounts her childhood in Westchester County, where she attended white private schools and felt disconnected from her own community. Her family rarely discussed race,...
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Book Preview: #1 I had been hiding under the stairs when I decided to walk. I'd read “Five Hundred Mile Walkies”, the story of a man who walked the South West Coast Path with his dog. Moth was squeezed in next to me, his head on his knees, his arms wrapped around in self-defense, and pain, and fear, and anger.
#2 We had no choice but to walk away from our old lives and start anew....
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#1 The grift has a gentle touch. It takes its toll from the verdant sucker by means of the skilled hand or the sharp wit. It never employs violence to separate the mark from his money.
#2 The three big-con games are the wire, the rag, and the pay-off. They have taken a toll from a gullible public for over 40 years. They are locating and investigating a well-to-do victim,...
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Book Preview: #1 Ben Souther, my mother's friend, arrived with a dozen freshly killed squab. The Southers followed my parents' lead and had a cocktail together.
#2 My mother, who was a chef, would prepare the dinner. She had been coming to this town on Cape Cod since she was a young girl. She had a major renovation done when she bought this house, and the kitchen had the best views.
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#1 I grew up in a castle. It was a six-bedroom house with gables, turrets, and lead-paned glass windows. It was built in the early twentieth century by a wealthy industrial baron. My father was a well-respected neurosurgeon in Boston, and my uncle was a combat veteran and adjutant general of Connecticut.
#2 I had always had an itch for adventure and independence, despite...
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#1 I was born in 1938, the first Turner born north of the Mason-Dixon line. I was showered with love from my parents and extended family. My earliest memories are of holding the screen door open for my great-grandmother on my mother's side.
#2 I was a energetic child, and I spent much of my time in the backyard and at the creek that ran through a little vacant lot down...
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#1 The FDA received a copy of the Lancet study, which showed that HIV-infected material could be sucked back into waterlines and expelled via a dental handpiece. They sent a letter to every dentist in the United States and every possession of the United States instructing them to heat-sterilize their handpieces after every patient.
#2 The CDC had changed its guidelines...
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#1 The why is the motive behind a crime. It's important to understand it to solve most crimes. The how and the why gives you the who. motives in daily life are often hidden. With crime, the motives are sometimes hidden.
#2 I have a crime funk. I'm a gloomy child who filches her mother's People magazines to read about the killers and kidnappers, and I get depressed when...
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Book Preview: #1 I have never liked Christmas. In my family, there were happy Thanksgivings and tolerable Easters, but Christmas was a holiday we failed at with real vigor. I blame this on my parents' divorce.
#2 Christmas was a bad day for expectations and heart's desires. My father's presents were always the saddest because they were so consistently wrong. I never liked the presents,...
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Book Preview: #1 I was a midwife, and I was on my way to deliver a baby. It was cold and raining outside, and I was pedal-powered. The sound of the moving river was always present.
#2 I was able to talk to Muriel as she was having her baby. I gave her a sterile sheet, and two fingers into her vagina. The head was well down, and her waters had not yet broken. I told her everything...
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#1 The Yoders had a son, Adam, who was the practice's full-time office manager. He had a white towel slung over his shoulder as he made his way into the kitchen to rehydrate. His parents had gotten to know his girlfriend, Katie, fairly well as she immersed herself in the daily business of the practice.
#2 The Yoders began to divide their workweek between Mary and Bill,...
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