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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
    No Fear
    The Genius of Women
    The Genius of Womenby Janice Kaplan No Fear

    Bestselling author Janice Kaplan offers an honor roll of accomplished women – fearless geniuses, all.

  • Review
    Everybody Wants Land
    Land
    Landby Simon Winchester Everybody Wants Land

    Prolific bestselling historian Simon Winchester provides telling, illuminating examples of human interaction with land and with one another in land disputes.

  • Review
    Human Content Filters
    Behind the Screen
    Behind the Screenby Sarah Roberts Human Content Filters

    Professor Sarah T. Roberts explores the seldom-seen world of human content moderators who screen images and text to find and delete offensive, violent, pornographic or terrorist content…

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    Fight Antisemitism
    Antisemitism
    Antisemitismby Deborah E. Lipstadt Fight Antisemitism

    Scholar and author Deborah E. Lipstadt offers a thorough, rational, evidence-based history and refutation of antisemitism.

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    Choose Hope
    Calm Within the Storm
    Calm Within the Stormby Robyne Hanley-Dafoe Choose Hope

    Psychology instructor Robyne Hanley-Dafoe offers a compassionate, uplifting guide for dealing with life’s challenges.

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    Beware the Black Box
    Weapons of Math Destruction
    Weapons of Math Destructionby Cathy O'Neil Beware the Black Box

    Math professor Cathy O’Neil explores how algorithms affect much of your daily life and reveals corrupt practices that algorithms sustain.

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    Granular Perfection
    The Perfectionists
    The Perfectionistsby Simon Winchester Granular Perfection

    Bestseller Simon Winchester, OBE, presents a fascinating history of humans attempting to create precision, all in the face of the natural world’s indifference.

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    Learn To Innovate
    The Innovator’s DNA
    The Innovator’s DNAby Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen Learn To Innovate

    Offering revelatory examples of disruptive innovators, innovation gurus Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and the late Clayton M. Christensen detail their methods to show how you…

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    Job Search and You
    Search in Plain Sight
    Search in Plain Sightby Somer Hackley Job Search and You

    Expert recruiter Somer Hackley details how to reach out to, maintain relationships with and get the best from job recruiters.

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    The Human Side of Lincoln
    And There Was Light:
    And There Was Light:by Jon Meacham The Human Side of Lincoln

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham presents an emotionally rich biography of Abraham Lincoln, offering a full and human portrait of the man who saved America.