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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

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    Individual Actions
    x + y
    x + yby Eugenia Cheng Individual Actions

    Dr. Eugenia Cheng applies mathematics, logic and common sense to transcend gender stereotypes.

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    You Can Change
    The Power of Habit
    The Power of Habitby Charles Duhigg You Can Change

    Charles Duhigg analyzes how your brain forms habits, how companies also form habits, and how people and organizations can choose new, more healthful behaviors.

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    More Effective Teams
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Teamby Patrick Lencioni More Effective Teams

    Bestseller and business consultant Patrick Lencioni uses a fable to explain how to engage teams, increase their commitment and make sure they meet their goals.

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    Unequal Under the Law
    Locking Up Our Own
    Locking Up Our Ownby James Forman Jr. Unequal Under the Law

    Yale Law professor James Forman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical overview tracks America’s unequal treatment of Blacks under the law.

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    The History of Trade
    The Ages of Globalization
    The Ages of Globalizationby Jeffrey D. Sachs The History of Trade

    Columbia University professor and prolific author Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a detailed overview of the development, sustenance and consequences of global trade.

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    Be Less in Control
    Radical Inclusion
    Radical Inclusionby Martin Dempsey and Ori Brafman Be Less in Control

    Relinquishing control yields better, longer-lasting solutions that preserve and enhance your power as a leader and your power as an organization.

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    American Bias
    Biased
    Biasedby Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD American Bias

    Stanford psychology professor and MacArthur Fellow Jennifer Eberhardt offers a detailed, illuminating – and at times disheartening – overview of bias in America and how…

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    Fighting Wage Discrimination
    Equal
    Equalby Carrie Gracie Fighting Wage Discrimination

    Award-winning BBC journalist Carrie Gracie details her long, frustrating struggle to gain equal pay and tells readers how to pursue their own discrimination complaints.

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    Gitomer’s Greatest Hits
    Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Manifesto
    Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Manifestoby Jeffrey Gitomer Gitomer’s Greatest Hits

    Mega best-selling sales and advice author Jeffrey Gitomer provides a 21st-century selling method with advice gathered from his many successful books.

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    Hard Lessons and Pioneering Triumphs
    All In
    All Inby Billie Jean King Hard Lessons and Pioneering Triumphs

    Billie Jean King captures her life, career and the times that shaped her, on and off the court.