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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
    A History of Epidemics
    Epidemics and Society
    Epidemics and Societyby Frank Snowden A History of Epidemics

    Yale University’s Frank M. Snowden brilliantly discusses centuries of epidemics and their societal effects.

  • Review
    Coping with Grief
    Option B
    Option Bby Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Coping with Grief

    Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and the best-selling author of Lean In, candidly describes her grief at her husband’s death and offers guidance for others coping with the…

  • Review
    Language and the Brain
    The Bilingual Brain
    The Bilingual Brainby Albert Costa Language and the Brain

    Professor Albert Costa explores how learning two languages affects cognitive function, multitasking and processing information.

  • Review
    Gladwell’s Tipping Point
    The Tipping Point
    The Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell Gladwell’s Tipping Point

    Iconic author Malcolm Gladwell explains how social movements start small, expand and become popular currency – and he ought to know.

  • Review
    Viral Virus Disruption
    Post Corona
    Post Coronaby Scott Galloway Viral Virus Disruption

    Marketing professor Scott Galloway offers his knowledgeable, rowdy take on how the pandemic is changing, has already changed and will continue to change the US…

  • Review
    Inspiring Olympic Victory
    The Boys in the Boat
    The Boys in the Boatby Daniel James Brown Inspiring Olympic Victory

    Daniel James Brown tells the compelling story of the US crew members who triumphed in the face of Nazi Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

  • Review
    Don’t Bother Excelling
    The Peter Principle
    The Peter Principleby Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull Don’t Bother Excelling

    Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull remade management tactics and perceptions forever with this funny, best-selling business classic.

  • Review
    Essential Coaching
    Trillion Dollar Coach
    Trillion Dollar Coachby Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle Essential Coaching

    Google executives Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle illuminate the intersection of strategy and coaching in this homage to executive coach Bill Campbell.

  • Review
    The Eyes of a Child
    Small Fry
    Small Fryby Lisa Brennan-Jobs The Eyes of a Child

    Lisa Brennan-Jobs writes with candor, skill and remarkably little self-pity about her complex and contradictory relationship with her renowned father.

  • Review
    A Violent History
    The Better Angels of Our Nature
    The Better Angels of Our Natureby Steven Pinker A Violent History

    Steven Pinker searches history for the reasons that violence has shockingly decreased worldwide.