Nick's Non-fiction

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything—and usually failed. Twain’s encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.

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0:00 Introduction

4:50 About the Author

6:30 Ch1: Stage 1

15:40 Ch2: Heart of the West

26:50 Ch3: Salt Lake

33:35 Ch4: Mine Struggle

51:45 Ch5: Lye After Lye

1:00:35 Ch6: Golden Coast

1:04:55 Ch7: Cooked Islands

1:10:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca, who lived from 5 BC to AD 65, offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality. The Shortness of Life, continues to provide profound guidance to many through its eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom. Start the year off right with an amaranthine epic which has inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.

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0:00 Introduction

5:20 About the Author

10:25 Ch1: The Shortness of Life

18:10 Ch2: Nature

30:00 Ch3: Bounty of Youth

35:40 Ch4: Why?

49:15 Ch5: Memory Hole

1:00:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Take a trip down memory lane and relive this seasons most cancelable moments. All twelve themed books for the year have their entire plot summarized within five minutes each. Enjoy an homage to the year the show got monetized and un-fog those reading glasses for next seasons levee of literature about to break.

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0:00 Introduction

4:35 Crime & Punishment

8:05 More Sex is Safer Sex

13:30 My Secret Garden

18:30 The Dirt

23:25 Robin

28:50 Into Thin Air

32:05 Word Freak

38:45 The Comedians

46:10 Rule Makes, Rule Breakers

51:35 Hell’s Angels

57:10 Salt

1:02:55 Way of Zen

1:05:55 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history’s most influential book with new eyes

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0:00 Introduction

3:50 About the Author

6:30 Ch1: September

17:05 Ch2: October

27:00 Ch3: November

35:00 Ch4: December

43:35 Ch5: Winter

54:45 Ch6: Spring

1:07:00 Ch7: Summer

1:11:55 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as Toy Story, A Bugs Life, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Soul, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity; in some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Creativity Inc. is an all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation, into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. In this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired and so profitable.

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0:00 Introduction

6:35 About the Author

9:55 Ch1: Animated

19:15 Ch2: Defining a Goal

27:55 Ch3: Protecting the New

41:10 Ch4: Change and Randomness

48:30 Ch5: The Hidden

1:03:10 Ch6: The Unmade Future

1:14:25 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Alan Watts, Way of Zen, is a useful book for everybody. Derived from his mesmerizing lectures, Alan guides readers one step closer towards ”the Way”. Hinduism, Native American myths and the Bible include a lot of tao principles, in their stories. Jesus himself might have been influenced by a Zen philosopher who got off at the wrong airport. “The true practice of zen is no practice.” For those raised Catholic, take a load off and try on this feel good religion.

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0:00 Introduction

6:40 About the Author

10:05 Ch1: Philosophy of the Tao

19:35 Ch2: Origins of Buddhism

29:45 Ch3: Mahayana Buddhism

34:55 Ch4: Rise and Development of Zen

44:15 Ch5: Empty and Marvelous

48:50 Ch6: Sitting Quietly and Doing Nothing

54:55 Ch7: Za-Zen

1:01:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Friends and political allies for most of their lives, Madison was the Constitution’s principal author, Monroe one of its leading opponents, go toe to toe in Founding Rivals. Monroe thought the Constitution gave the federal government too much power and failed to guarantee fundamental rights. Madison believed that without the Constitution, the United States would not survive. It was the most important congressional races in American history and yet it is one that historians have virtually ignored. Debates between these two future presidents forever altered their friendship and the trajectory of American history.

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0:00 Introduction

6:05 About the Author

8:30 Ch1: Final Colonial Days

16:55 Ch2: In-between Days

26:55 Ch3/4: The Tedious Sessions

50:55 Ch5: Great Expectations

56:45 Ch6: The Race for 9th

1:09:10 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. Award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe. McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body with the realization that all of us were born to run.

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0:00 Introduction

4:20 About the Author

7:05 Ch1: My Feet Hurt

18:50 Ch2: El Caballo Blanco

32:05 Ch3: Leadville

46:15 Ch4: Stoned Age

58:50 Ch5: Second Wind

1:06:50 Ch6: Runners Take Your Mark

1:14:40 Ch7: Get Set, Go

1:20:05 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

Fear, honed by millions of years of natural selection, kept our ancestors alive. Whether by slithering away, curling up in a ball, or standing still in the presence of a predator, humans and other animals have evolved complex behaviors in order to survive the hazards the world presents. Despite our evolutionary endurance, we still have much to learn about how to manage our response to danger. For more than thirty years, Daniel Blumstein has been studying animals’ fear responses. His observations lead to a firm conclusion: fear preserves security, but at great cost. Delving into the evolutionary origins and ecological contexts of fear across species, The Nature of Fear considers what we can learn from our fellow animals

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0:00 Introduction

3:40 About the Author

6:15 Ch1: A Sophisticated Neurochemical Cocktail

14:10 Ch2: Beware of Looming Objects

19:40 Ch3: Noise Matters

25:25 Ch4: Smells Risky to Me

31:05 Ch5: Be Very Aware

39:25 Ch6: Listening to Signalers

44:30 Ch7: Our Inner Marmot

50:30 Next Time & Goodbye!

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

In his fifth bestseller, non-fiction nobleman, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating detail s, Salt is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece.

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0:00 Introduction

3:50 About the Author

6:20 Ch1: A Mandate of Salt

13:45 Ch2: Celtic Diem

22:20 Ch3: Venetians

28:50 Ch4: Basques & Vikings

35:30 Ch6: The Hapsburg Pickle

41:20 Ch7: Leaving Liverpool

50:30 Ch8: Preserving Independence

57:05 Ch9: The Odium of Sodium

1:04:50 Ch10: Sodium & Gomorra

1:11:40 Next Time & Goodbye!

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