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Summary & Analysis of Factfulness by ZIP Reads

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Summary & Analysis of Factfulness by ZIP Reads

Hans Rosling challenges everything you thought you knew about the world in his groundbreaking book, Factfulness.

Think you know what percent of the world is vaccinated? Or many people have access to electricity? Rosling proves that whatever you think, you’re most likely wrong. Learn how to fight your own personal bias and get a more realistic perspective on the world with Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.

What does this ZIP Reads Summary Include?
– Synopsis of the original book
– Rosling’s original quiz to help determine where your world view stands
– The ten “instincts” that lead us astray
– Detailed guidance on how to fight the instincts
– Anecdotal evidence of damange the instincts can have
– Analysis of troves of Rosling’s data to paint a clearer picture of the world
– Editorial reivew
– Background on the author

About the Original Book:
In Factfulness, Rosling has compiled a life of work and research into a call-to-action for reason, rationality, and data. He argues that most people assume the world is worse off today than it was in the past, and that this is patently false. Using decades, and sometimes centuries, of data, he systemically counters many common notions held today–that the world is more violent, that more people live in poverty, and that population growth is not truly exponential–to name a few.

DISCLAIMER:This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Factfulness. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

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Bargain Book: The Decline of Democratic Society in the New Age by Giovanni Soriano

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This book is a complete account of where the world stands today with regard to politics, economics, human biology, society, and culture. It introduces many new ideas about how things came to be the way they are, why they must change, and how they can be altered before it’s too late. Thirteen images, both in color and black and white, are used to supplement the arguments throughout the book.

Targeted Age Group: 19 – 65

Book Price: 1.99
This book is bargain priced from 02/26/2018 until .

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Essays by a Man with Too Much Free Time by Kim A. Smith @kimsmith313

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This book is bargain priced from 07/24/2014 until 07/10/2020

This book was originally published as Triathlon Workout Thoughts.

I retired from Iowa State University in 2009, after a 30-year career as a journalism professor at four universities. My immediate plan was to spend my extra time swimming, biking, and running with the goal of completing an ironman-distance triathlon. Inspired by several triathletes’ blogs, I decided to have a go at blogging about my training experiences. It turned out that I had only so much to say about being a triathlete. But the often-solitary long swims, rides, and runs were conducive to reflecting on my life and thinking about assorted other subjects. So The Smith Report, as I creatively called it, evolved into a blog about whatever I happened to be thinking about while I trained.

With no lectures, research, or university politics to occupy my thinking, I was surprised about what popped into my head some days. Perhaps the rhythmic nature of swimming, biking, and running opens the mind to thoughts long buried. I sometimes pondered events and people from my career as a professor, some from decades ago. Much thought was given to my family life over the years. News events, especially from the political world, often occupied my thinking as a scholar of political communication. But most of all, I assessed my own up and down life. The essays in this book, some serious, some satirical, about anything and everything, are an outcome of these long training sessions.

Targeted Age Group: 15+
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The Gang Bust by Dorothy May Mercer @DorothyMMercer

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This book is bargain priced from 07/14/2014 until 07/16/2014

Review: Current cross border immigration issues feature prominently in this action novel. An intelligent police officer battles cross border drug Lords, while he and his fiancee prepare for their marriage. On the other hand, a junior Senator learns how tough the opposition can be, particularly if you happen to be on the wrong side of influential men.

The book presents some introspective views on the immigration argument, and the inclusion of the love story, is a deft stroke, that mellows the serious issues addressed in the story with entertaining side issues.

A definite read, not only for the action, but also for the views expressed through the different characters!

Review: I love genre stories that transcend their genre and present a deeper significance to the unfolding events and this is certainly one of those. The story covers not just some significant geographical ground (from Mexico to San Diego and Los Angelus to San Francisco, New Mexico and even cross country to Washington D.C.) but also political and philosophical. We get to see how laws enacted (or not enacted) in D.C. get to play out on the street and how they impact and in some cases impair the local law enforcement’s ability to deal with local crime. However, as this story so deftly shows, crime is not so local, after all, especially when they occur in high places like the U.S. Senate, which this author shows is undeniably plausible. I loved the character of Mike McBride, is there anything this guy cannot do? Although I wonder where he goes from here having been seriously promoted. At least, for his sake, I’m hoping it’s a promotion that he’s going to be happy with (although, knowing him, I seriously doubt it). What happens next, I wonder?

Targeted Age Group: 21-50
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Indiscretion by Dahlia Savage @DahliaSavageWIB

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This book is bargain priced from 01/21/2014 until 12/31/2014

Elisa Tinsley only wanted one night of passion from the handsome, powerful, and wealthy state Senator Carson Royal. What was intended to be a one time fling turns into something more complicated when Elisa discovers she’s pregnant. Her plans to keep not only her marriage intact but the baby’s paternity hidden from her husband combined with Carson’s decision that he wants Elisa for himself leads to a course of events which could be more than what either of them bargained for.

Targeted Age Group: 18+
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