So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Jared Diamond's book.

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This short summary and analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond includes:

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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Euro tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Joseph E. Stiglitz's book.

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This short summary and analysis of The Euro by Joseph E. Stiglitz includes:

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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Underground Railroad tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Colson Whitehead's book.

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This short summary and analysis of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead includes:

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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Handmaid's Tale tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Margaret Atwood's book.

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This short summary and analysis of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood includes:

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So much to read, so little time? Get an overview of Hidden Figures, the true story about the African American female mathematicians who helped NASA win the space race.

Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures tells the incredible real-life account of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden--who, in a time when black women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles, went to work as "calculators" at NASA. With pencils, paper, and slide rules, they transformed airplane, rocket, and satellite designs--and ensured a World War II...