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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
    Whither AI?
    Architects of Intelligence
    Architects of Intelligenceby Martin Ford Whither AI?

    Futurist author Martin Ford interviews myriad experts to determine the path of oncoming AI.

  • Review
    American Empire (now defunct)
    Vanderbilt
    Vanderbiltby Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe American Empire (now defunct)

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper tells his forebears’ amazing tale: once America’s richest clan, they wasted it all.

  • Review
    Find Your Job
    Never Search Alone
    Never Search Aloneby Phyl Terry Find Your Job

    Phyl Terry offers a systematic approach to building job-hunting support, gaining crucial feedback and finding the job you really want.

  • Review
    Hope Heals
    The Book of Hope
    The Book of Hopeby Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Hope Heals

    Primatologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, and Douglas Abrams – author of The Book of Joy – offer a detailed guide to vesting…

  • Review
    Vest in Self-Belief
    You Coach You
    You Coach Youby Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis Vest in Self-Belief

    Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – who co-wrote the best-selling book The Squiggly Career – offer sound, workable advice for boosting your growth mindset and self-belief.

  • 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
    An Equitable Economy
    Free and Equal
    Free and Equalby Daniel Chandler An Equitable Economy

    London School of Economics professor Daniel Chandler offers insights into philosopher John Rawls’s economic philosophy and how that philosophy is relevant today.

  • Review
    An Insider’s Managerial Manual
    The Making of a Manager
    The Making of a Managerby Julie Zhuo An Insider’s Managerial Manual

    Facebook’s Julie Zhuo, a design executive who’s been with the company since it began, refers to her journey from working at a small tech startup to managing hundreds…

  • Review
    The New World of Work
    An Everyone Culture
    An Everyone Cultureby Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey The New World of Work

    Harvard professors detail groundbreaking mental and emotional approaches to work at cutting-edge corporations.

  • Review
    Blunt Heartfelt Advice
    So You Want to Talk About Race
    So You Want to Talk About Raceby Ijeoma Oluo Blunt Heartfelt Advice

    In this indispensable guide, Nigerian-American New York Times best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo explores how – and why – to talk about race and racism.