Alrededor de The Beatles han surgido toda suerte de leyendas sobre su música y sobre la vida de cada uno de los componentes del grupo. Se ha analizado con lupa la trayectoria de Lennon, se ha especulado con la personalidad de McCartney, y se ha dicho de todo de las vidas de Ringo Starr y George Harrison. Pero hasta este momento no se había hecho un ejercicio de recopilación anecdótica de quien fue parte esencial de la banda sonora de tantas generaciones. El...

Offers insight into the lives of the members of The Beatles, looking at the formation and separation of the group, major shows, the deaths of some of the band members, and more.

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions. In reconciling the northern...

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations...

Summary of Jason Fung's The Obesity Code addresses the history, causes, and treatments of obesity and today's rising obesity rates. By understanding it through scientific and social study, obesity becomes less of a blanket term for metabolic complications and a more tangible problem with real, though not widely practiced, solutions…

Summary of Tony Robbins's Awaken the Giant Within is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives. Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone is happy and fulfilled.

Summary of Daniel G. Amen M.D.'s Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility that adopts an integrated approach to brain health.

Summary of Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat is a compelling nonfiction investigation into how corporate food manufacturers have come to rely on salt, sugar, and fat as the mainstays of processed and prepackaged food. The food industry in the United States has become intensely dependent on these three potentially harmful ingredients to achieve its massive profits.

Summary of Patrick Lencioni's The Ideal Team Player posits that in order to succeed-especially in a work environment-one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team players share three core virtues: They are hungry, humble, and smart. To illustrate the ideal team player model in practice, Lencioni...

Summary of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School.