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Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss: Conversation Starters
The book Never Split The Difference is written by Chris Voss. He is a former international hostage investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prior to joining the FBI, Voss was part of the Kansas City police force. He has witnessed crimes after crimes in the city. After this stint, he began his career in the FBI. His job as a hostage...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber: Conversation Starters
Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow contribute something to the world, they become mad or deeply miserable. They hold jobs that have no real usefulness except to justify careers. These jobs won't be missed if they suddenly disappear in the workplace. How do you deal with...
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Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
Foster...
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle: Conversation Starters
Knopf publishing house releases the last book of the late veteran author Peter Mayle entitled My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now. Mayle is known for his books on his life in Provence. This book is the final volume that offers his memories of the life he lived in the South of France for the past twenty-five years. He and his...
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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum: Conversation Starters
In "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic", author David Frum explains why he believes President Trump is threatening our most valuable institutions, and why even the most demanding media is not acknowledging it. Frum unravels the ways in which Trump and his administration are quietly but steadily —and maybe irrevocably- hurting the principles...
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith: Conversation Starters
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy" is a memoir by ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the eighth of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. In her book, she looks back at a time long ago when she and her siblings (including future President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy...
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From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein: Conversation Starters
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was looking for a job in DC. She found a post on Craigslist that landed her a job as one of the stenographers in the Oval Office of Barack Obama. Six years later, she writes about her story in her book From the Corner of the Oval Office: One Woman's True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House. This memoir is a behind-the-scenes...
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean: Conversation Starters
James McGill Buchanan was an economics professor at George Mason University who died in 2013. He was a Nobel Prize winner whose political ideas could very well be the primary cause behind the political divisiveness that the United States is going through. His teachings directed America's billionaires to adopt an agenda that...
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon: Conversation Starters
Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon publishes her first book Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits. She invites you into her world in a southern style. She infuses the style she grew up with into her parties and traditions. She loves all...
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald: Conversation Starters
American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against racism and sexism are promoted on college campuses as professors overlook Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and American history in favor of identity politics and ideology....
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg: Conversation Starters
Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jonah Goldberg his newest book Suicide of the West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Goldberg makes a case that only once in the last 250,000 years have humans found...
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In his book, Dr. John E. Sarno uses what he discovered about TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome) to help people overcome back conditions without dangerous surgery or drugs. He explains that is necessary to identify stress and other psychological factors that can create back pain and, by doing this, patients can heal themselves without physical therapy or specific exercise. Dr. Sarno includes case histories in his book along with the results of in-depth...
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I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir by Bart Miller: Conversation Starters
I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, shows the pain, spark of faith, redemption, and healing that is behind the biggest Christian song in history. Bart Millard shows readers his life with his previously abusive father and how his father found God in an intimate telling within his memoir. I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, became an instant bestseller the moment...
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The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince by James Prince: Conversation Starters
James Prince tells us how he transformed from a street hustler to a music company CEO, to a boxing manager, and a successful entrepreneur. He has successfully managed artists, athletes, and celebrities like The Geto Boys, Suge Knight, Mike Tyson, and Andre Ward. In this book, he gives accounts of how he dealt with wily recording industry executives, faced...
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The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George: Conversation Starters
"The Punishment She Deserves" takes readers in one more adventure with Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as they try to solve an impossible case in a historic medieval town south of England. Ludlow's inhabitants are shocked when one of the most respected residents — Ian Druitt, the town's priest— is charged with a horrendous...
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The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners: Your Essential Guide to Living the Keto Lifestyle by Amy Ramos: Conversation Starters
Amy Ramos' book The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners is one of the most sold books on Amazon. There is a health revolution happening in the world today. Everyone wants to eat healthier, lose weight, feel better and trim their waistline. There are different reasons but most frequently, there is only one goal. One of...
17) Summary of The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great
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Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success. Team practices of highly successful teams like the Miami Heat, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Navy SEALs, and legendary business teams Apple, Twitter, Southwest Airlines, and Google are featured. The author shares the team principles and tools they use to improve their team culture, commitment,...
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Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen: Conversation Starters
Swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen's favorite place in the house is the kitchen, which has to be "completely open and social." Her heart is in the kitchen and thinks it should be the heart of any home. "I am not lying when I tell you I can hang out in the kitchen for twelve hours straight without stopping," she says. And when she is cooking, "I am in the moment....
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Girl in Snow: A Novel by Danya Kukafka: Conversation Starters
When Lucinda Hayes is found dead in the snow, the small town of Broomsville, Colorado is shaken. Who could have killed the town's beloved "golden girl"? Is it Cameron, the mentally unstable boy who obsessed about her? Or could it be Jade who hated Lucinda for taking away from her everything she loved? As the town wrestles with the truth, Russ, the police officer tasked to solve the murder...
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New York Times bestselling book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy is written by Judge Jeanine Pirro. This book tells of her firsthand account of the Fake News the media does not want the public to know. At this moment in the history of America, the American people are victims of sabotage of the presidency. In spite of this, President Trump continues to fight in the hopes of keeping his promise of Making America...