Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. The first book in the series follows a young Viking boy, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III,...
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The story of an epic life on a grand scale, Michael Korda’s Hero is a gripping, in-depth biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman still famous the world over as “Lawrence of Arabia.” An Oxford scholar and...
"Lawrence of Arabia" began World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle East, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he...
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The German concentration camps of World War II, the horrors of the Vietnam war, the prolific rape and brutality during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the Hutu massacres of Tutsis in Rwanda. All are abhorrent violations of the laws and...
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Abstract of the book. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
This is the abstract of Daniel Levitin's book
Taken from https://www.blinkist.com/en/reader/the-organized-mind-en/
Who should read it?
Anyone who wants to be more organized
Anyone who is interested in...