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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    Sanctioned Theft
    Autocracy, Inc.
    Autocracy, Inc.by Anne Applebaum Sanctioned Theft

    Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum — who is also the author of Gulag — details how today’s dictators grow rich as their citizens suffer.

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    Constant Turmoil
    Age of Revolutions
    Age of Revolutionsby Fareed Zakaria Constant Turmoil

    Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria — author of The Gang of Three and The Future of Freedom — links historical and economic trends to provide a…

  • Review
    An Indigenous Consciousness
    Unreconciled
    Unreconciledby Jesse Wente An Indigenous Consciousness

    Anishinaabe tribe journalist Jesse Wente offers an insightful, sensitive journey through his developing understanding of his Indigenous identity.

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    Productive Change
    Move Fast and Fix Things
    Move Fast and Fix Thingsby Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Productive Change

    Focus on excellence (and fast!) and effective change management.

  • Review
    Greater Self-Awareness
    Emotional Intelligence Habits
    Emotional Intelligence Habitsby Travis Bradberry Greater Self-Awareness

    Travis Bradberry, PhD, co-author of the bestseller, Emotional Intelligence 2.0., provides tools to increase your EQ and improve your relationship with yourself and others.

  • Review
    Microbes Rule
    Pathogenesis
    Pathogenesisby Jonathan Kennedy Microbes Rule

    Bacteria and viruses have played a fascinating, unexpected role in human, urban, and political development.

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    Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul
    Head & Heart
    Head & Heartby Kirstin Ferguson Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul

    Leadership expert Kirstin Ferguson shows you how to combine your conscious rational skills and your soulful, reflexive understanding to be the best possible leader.

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    “Zennials” Explained
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transferby Ken Costa “Zennials” Explained

    Banker Ken Costa highlights some fundamental differences in the “Zennial” and baby boomer financial mind-sets.

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    Friction or Not
    The Friction Project
    The Friction Projectby Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Friction or Not

    Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao explain how organizational friction works, for good or ill, and how to use it productively.

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    Not So Green
    The War Below
    The War Belowby Ernest Scheyder Not So Green

    Reuter’s senior correspondent Ernest Scheyder presents the complex trade-offs that emission-reducing technologies create.