10 Days to Faster Reading Summary of Key Points

10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale is a guide to increasing reading speed and comprehension. Through exercises, tools, and techniques, the book offers readers ways to read faster, understand more and save time. It covers various aspects including pre-reading, overviewing, previewing, and clustering, while demonstrating how to eradicate bad habits, speed up reading and improve comprehension.

The Great Leveler Summary of Key Points

Walter Scheidel’s ‘The Great Leveler’ examines the history of inequality across different civilizations and points in time. The book argues that throughout history, significant reductions in inequality have been the result of catastrophic events, which Scheidel labels as ‘the Four Horsemen’: mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and plagues. He explores how these forces have periodically leveled the playing field, but at great human cost, and questions the possibility of reducing inequality through less violent means.