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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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Covering the years 1859 to 1912, the book tells the exploits of the Pima County Sheriff's Office. Arizona became a territory of the United States in 1863 and a full fledge state in 1912. During this time period, the Arizona Territory went from the wild west to a civilized society. The Pima County Sheriff's Office played a key role in this transition. The story laid out illustrates the difference between the law officer in western films and the reality...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with...
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The land of the free and home of the brave. How much do you know of the history of modern-day America? From its discovery by Columbus to its participation in World war 1 and 2 we can see that America has left its mark on the world. It hasn't all been plain sailing and nobody should dare say otherwise, but has it been a success? Jump into this concise retelling of American history and judge for yourself as we attempt to take a neutral approach to the...
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#1 The men in the canoes were skilled, but they knew disaster was just a moment away. They were navigating among the islands of wbanakik, a beautiful but dangerous edge of the world.
#2 The Wapánahki were not a unified people. The languages spoken by those living far away were similar but subtly different from those of Ktə̀hαnəto and his relatives. They knew that...
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#1 In the early 20th century, Texas passed a law that would prevent Black Texans from voting in the Democratic primary.
#2 Nixon moved to El Paso in 1910, at the height of the Mexican Revolution. The city was a melting pot of cultures and aspirations, and it was not yet set or defined.
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Este libro analiza la construcción simbólica del Estado-nación, uno de los temas más fascinantes de la historia de Colombia. Por lo tanto, aborda los procesos de memoria sobre la independencia y las disputas a lo largo de un siglo para producir un referente fundacional de la República.
Una de esas confrontaciones en el plano simbólico tuvo lugar en el primer siglo de vida republicana con la adopción de las fechas andinas 20 de julio y 7 de...
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Book Preview: #1 Eisman had a special talent for making noise and breaking with consensus opinion. He started as a junior equity analyst at Oppenheimer in December 1991, but was quickly appointed the lead analyst for Aames Financial, a subprime mortgage lender, after telling his superiors that he'd worked on a deal for The Money Store.
#2 Eisman became one of the few analysts at Oppenheimer...
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#1 Two new concepts that focus on the origins, legacies, and persistence of white supremacy in the United States and other settler societies have emerged in the last few decades. They are settler colonialism, which documents the contact and colonization by a nation that wishes to populate the encountered land, and racial capitalism, which describes the intertwined history...
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#1 The American Civil War was the first time the American political elites failed to compromise, and it led to the loss of life and land for many. 150 years later, we are seeing the same problems arise among American political elites.
#2 The difference between us and our predecessors is that we are gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of societies. We...
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The First Modern Woman 2,000 years Ago:
• The Most Powerful Woman in the West
• Source of Inspiration & Empowerment for the Modern Women.
• Showcases the Potential of Women
• Champions: Leadership abilities of Women
• Highlights: the Genius & Great Intellect of Black Woman through Cleopatra's life
• Connects Black Panther with Cleopatra and Ancient Egypt
First book ever that stresses her African Origins along with her sterling qualities...
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#1 The first to notice something was wrong was Matt Hawks, the father of the newborn baby. The calls from Tom and Jackie Hawks stopped completely after November 15, the day they took a prospective buyer out for a sea trial.
#2 Tom and Jackie had spent a lot of time and money fixing up the Well Deserved, which they'd purchased for $290,000 in November 2000. They...
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#1 The planter aristocracy was made up of ten thousand families that owned fifty or more slaves apiece. These were the people who, as the former North Carolina slave William Yancey recalled, gave shape to the government and tone to the society.
#2The planter elite was made up of about fifty southern planters, who each owned at least five hundred slaves. The richest planter...
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#1 Beatrice, a former U. S. Army nurse, was tired of her girlfriend Debra Jackson's lies and denials about her fondness for drugs. She decided to end things.
#2 Debra was a strict parent who took her children to the beach and local theme parks, but she did not hesitate to punish them if they stepped out of line. She lost custody of her children when they were placed...
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As the Olmec culture developed in the early pre-classic period, we observe the phenomenon of the Olmec Heads and their Mysterious origins. Through ideological management and coercion mechanisms, the dominant ruler appears and alludes to forms of government exercised by individuals. Massive sculptures and large-scale architecture represent the first representations of political power.
The socio-political complex that developed thus encouraged the...
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#1 Cortés had staked everything he had on this expedition. He had incurred significant debt building the ships and stocking them with provisions. His hope to get off to a good start was slightly compromised when his patron, the fat hidalgo Diego Velázquez, attempted to thwart his departure.
#2 When the conquistadors arrived on the island, they found that the local...
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True tales of history's sea-faring scoundrels and their daring deeds, Buccaneers and Pirates recounts the legends of the notorious brigands who plundered North American coasts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Meet Blackbeard, who reveled in shooting down members of his own crew; Henry Morgan, the infamous pirate who eventually became Deputy-Governor of Jamaica; and Jean Lafitte, master of an enormously profitable piracy ring-even though...
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#1 The Aztecs rose to power late in the history of Mesoamerica. Other significant cultures such as the Olmecs, the Maya, and the Zapotecs had flourished for over a thousand years before the Aztec Empire was created.
#2 The Toltecs were a people who lived in central Mexico. They were displaced by the Mexica, who were a tribe of Nahuatl-speaking people who worshiped the...
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#1 The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 marked the beginning of restriction in American immigration policy. It placed numerical limits on immigration and established a quota system that classified the world's population according to nationality and race, ranking them in a hierarchy of desirability for admission into the United States.
#2 Until the 1920s, immigration...
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