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This is an audio summary and analysis of Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Author Daniel Coyle shares the secrets to creating a successful organizational culture. Drawing from various examples, Coyle shows that everyone from companies to comedy troupes can have success with three simple conditions.

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.

The Tangled Tree is David Quammen's detailed, fascinating, and artful look into the history of evolutionary biology and the brilliant minds behind it, as well as the answers to those eternal questions: who are we and where did we come from? The Tangled Tree is so much more than a book about evolution. Quammen covers every facet of this incredible story from the personal history of Charles Darwin to the technological hurdles facing scientists today.

This summary will tell you everything you need to know about Mueller's dense, exhaustive, and fascinating final report on Russian intereference in the 2016 election, the Trump campaign's involvement, and the President's potential attempts to obstruct justice. Save precious time by listening to this summary today!

In Infinite Powers, Strogatz attempts to show us the link between the universe and calculus. Everything human civilization has created has been based on some form of calculus, including cellphones, radios, HIV drugs, and human genome technology. Strogatz makes a compelling argument that without integral and differential equations, there would be no modern civilization. Infinite Powers is a classic description of the history, development, and future of calculus, as well as the phenomenal mathematicians who mastered it.

In Digital Minimalism, author Cal Newport explains how you can experience a massive positive transformation in your life by ruthlessly cutting down on the time you spend online. Learn how to ditch the screen and get your life back.

In his thought-provoking audiobook, Loonshots, physicist, and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall explains how the world we see around us is the culmination of crazy ideas by individuals who refused to accept the status quo and boldly chased after a greater vision...Bahcall shows us how we can create the right environment for nurturing and launching the kind of loonshots that save lives and change the world.

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.

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.

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.

Best-selling Bulletproof Diet author Dave Asprey puts together life-improving tips from some of the most successful people on the planet. Game Changers will certainly encourage you to re-examine some of your life choices and habits, even if it doesn’t turn you into a full-blown biohacker!

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.

In Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas bursts the great myth that large corporations are the key drivers of social change and poverty reduction. He provides critical evidence that shows just how self-serving these large donations are, highlighting the behind-the-scenes machinations that keep the system skewed in favor of the wealthy. Giridharadas pulls no punches as he exposes the inner workings of what he calls MarketWorld, a reference to the philanthropic individuals and companies that make a killing off the misery of poor people.

Stephen Hawking’s final book is a brilliant yet succinct look into some of the biggest questions that face humanity, such as "Where did it all begin?" and "Is time travel possible?" While the first six questions look towards issues science may already be able to answer (at least to some degree), the last four questions focus on Hawking’s outlook for the future of humanity, Earth, and our civilization.

Author and culture critic Ben Shapiro tells in no uncertain terms how Americans are ruining their nation by forsaking the values and virtues that their Founding Fathers believed in. If the people don’t stop being angry and ungrateful at the country that has offered them so much, then the struggle for America’s soul will be lost forever.

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.

About the original book: The Threat, by the former FBI deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, is equal parts memoir and equal parts wake-up call for the American people. In a fast-paced style worthy of a thriller, McCabe narrates how the FBI has overcome challenges to counter the invisible menaces of terrorism and organized crime and how these efforts could be undone by a selfish and incompetent administration under President Trump. This book merits being in the must-read list of anyone interested in the details of some of the biggest FBI cases of recent times.

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.

Just as exciting as winning the World Series, Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter intrigues you as you learn about the behind the scenes process of analytics that drives so many of the decisions made in Major League Baseball clubhouses today.

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.