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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!

Note: This is a summary and analysis of Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope and not the original book. If the world is statistically better off than ever before, then how come everything feels so f*cking terrible? This is the question Manson attempts to answer in his latest best-selling book, Everything Is F*cked.

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.

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.

It’s a shove off the fence post and a call to action - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will not be satisfied until barriers to understanding climate change are obliterated. David Wallace-Wells taps into our collective survival instinct by challenging our individual roles in this all-encompassing issue.

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!

We all want to be happier, more productive, more creative, and healthier. But we fail to realize that our surroundings are not aligned with the desires of our heart. In Outer Order, Inner Calm, Gretchen Rubin lays out a simple plan that will help you achieve these goals. All you have to do is clean and declutter your environment, whether it’s at home or the office. How you do it is up to you - you can go hard and spend an entire day cleaning up, or you can spend a few minutes every day decluttering your surroundings.

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.

Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools is a collection of essays presented as a call to change the elite power structure that has grown beyond its usefulness in America. As conservative as Carlson is, he laments the loss of classic liberal values such as worker’s rights and international peacekeeping. The liberal position, he argues, was critical for maintaining the checks and balances necessary to keep a functioning, middle-class society. Carlson argues that we, as America, need to take back our democracy and demand accountability from the "fools" in charge.

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.

Educated, is a no-holds-barred memoir of her life growing up in an ultra-conservative survivalist Mormon family in Idaho in the 1990s. This is the inspirational story of how, having never been inside a classroom till she was seventeen, Westover went on to study at Cambridge and Harvard and write a book that has been lauded by people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama. This is also the story of the other America that, despite existing in our midst, continues to be suspect of the government and disowns children who try to join the mainstream.

This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original. Jason Fried and David Hansson, founders of Basecamp, share some of the radical ideas that have enabled them to create a calm environment within their organization. Infused with wit and inspiring logic, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work is chock-full of ideas you won’t find anywhere else.

Steven Johnson explores the art and science of making long-term decisions, whether in business, military, in your personal life, or on a global scale. Start making better decisions for your life today!

This is an audio summary that includes a synopsis of the original book, chapter-by-chapter summaries, an editorial review, and much more.

In her best-selling book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns examines four historic American leaders and the crucibles of adversity that brought them to greatness. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original audiobook. Noah Harari will challenge the way you look at the world, the future, and yourself in his third number-one best-selling book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Atlantic essays and musings originally published during President Obama’s administration. These essays concern black America and the shift of presidencies today. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)