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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robin Sharma's The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny (1997), life improvement and leadership expert Robin Sharma uses a fable to make the case that the world needs mental and spiritual transformation. Sharma explains through his story's protagonists, John and Julian, that this transformation...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's & et al The Dictator's Handbook and NOT the original book. Preview: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (2011) is an examination of what motivates leaders in democracies and dictatorships. Authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith argue that those in power try to stay in power by catering to the members of their winning coalition, whether that...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Plato, ancient Greek philosopher. Titles in this study guide include The Republic, Gorgias, Meno, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
As a philosopher and poet during the Classical period, Plato created dialogue and dialect within philosophy. Moreover, he is considered the father of Western political philosophy....
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Christina Baker Kline's A Piece of the World and NOT the original book. Preview: A Piece of the World, a novel by Christina Baker Kline, is the partially true story of Christina Olson, the subject of Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting. Christina and Andy, as she called him, were kindred spirits who formed a special friendship before he became known in the art world... Inside this companion to...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephen Richards's Develop Jedi Self-Confidence and NOT the original book. Preview: In Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You (2011), self-help guru Stephen Richards aims to train his readers to build self-confidence in the style of a Star Wars Jedi. Two factors combine to create Jedi self-confidence... Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights from the Book •...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, a short story written during the Civil War.
As a work of patriotic literature, The Man Without a Country bolstered support across the U.S. for the Union in the North. Moreover, Hale uses irony, mystery, and realism to tell the gripping story of a man who feels seemingly no patriotism or connection to his country...
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This is a companion to Judson Brewer's The Craving Mind and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Craving Mind (2017), Judson Brewer argues that addiction is the result of behavioral conditioning. Certain behaviors are initiated by triggers and are associated with specific rewards, such as pleasure or distraction…Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights from the Book • Important People • Author's Style and Perspective...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespear's As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's "great" or "middle" comedies.
As a satirical tale of pastoral romance, As You Like It examines the cruelties and corruption of court life and love. Moreover, Shakespeare amusingly weaves a tale of love manifested in varied forms but targets the main theme of "love at first sight" through his playful imagery...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, renowned American novelist. Titles in this study guide include The Marble Faun, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter.
As an author of the nineteenth-century, his novels and short stories, primarily contained themes of mortality, religion, and history. Moreover, his writing influenced and followed the literary...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert M. Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and NOT the original book. Preview: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (2004) by Robert Sapolsky is a thorough explanation of the impact of chronic stress on the body. It describes the many systems and mechanisms that stress triggers, and the ways that those systems and mechanisms can malfunction…Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day. Titles in this study guide include Faustus, Tamburlaine, Jew of Malta, and Edward II.
As Shakespeare's most important predecessor and influencer of English drama, Marlowe's plays are most known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Moreover, Marlowe...
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10% Happier chronicles author and television news reporter Dan Harris' life as he discovers mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist theories for happiness and wellness. A war reporter in the trenches for the American Broadcasting Company News (ABC News), Harris began to struggle with depression while at home between assignments. To battle the symptoms of depression, he began using drugs. Harris had a panic attack while on the set of Good Morning America....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, published in 1859 and regarded as his best work.
As a philosophical novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel tells the story of an abusive father and his son who fell in love with a girl of a lower social class. Moreover, Meredith uses intellectualism, satire, and poetry to explore human motive and rationalization....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Titles in this study guide include The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, The State of Siege, The Misunderstanding, The Just Assassins, Requiem for a Nun, The Possessed, The First Man, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, The Plague, Caligula, Summer, Betwixt and Between, Nuptials,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Günter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel.
As a novel, The Tin Drum is a memoir of a man living in an insane asylum with supernatural powers who grew up in Nazi Germany. Moreover, Grass uses allusion and metaphor to comment on modern society, history, the individual, and the government. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virgil, ancient Roman poet. Titles in this study guide include The Aeneid.
As a poet of the Augustan period, his poems are, regarded as one of the most important poems in Latin literature. Moreover, The Aeneid, captures the personal qualities of Romans and what life in Rome looked like. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ron Powers's No One Cares About Crazy People and NOT the original book. Preview: No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America (2017) by Ron Powers is a memoir by the father of two schizophrenic sons, Dean and Kevin. Powers incorporates history about the treatment of mental illness into personal narrative about his family... Inside this companion to the book: • Overview...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by D.H. Lawrence, distinguished British writer and poet. Titles in this study guide include Sons and Lovers, The Plumed Serpent, The Rainbow, and Women in Love.
As a controversial writer of the twentieth-century, Lawrence unknowingly shaped early modernism. Moreover, his reflections of human behavior depict the effects that industrialism had on the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams. Titles in this study guide include, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.
As an author of southern gothic and memory literature, Williams had a significant impact on theater and has been, established as one of America's most successful playwrights. Moreover, he brought symbolism and poetic language to the stage as...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Harold Pinter, receiver of the New York Critics' Antoinette Perry Award for Best Broadway Drama in 1967. Titles in this study guide include The Homecoming, The Comedies of Menace, The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, and other minor works.
As an author of mid-twentieth-century drama, Pinter...
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