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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
    The One and Only Jobs
    The Steve Jobs Way
    The Steve Jobs Wayby Jay Elliot and William L. Simon The One and Only Jobs

    Covering Steve Jobs while he was still alive to be interviewed, expert authors detail his business genius.

  • Review
    Embrace Power
    Get Promoted
    Get Promotedby Michael Wenderoth Embrace Power

    Executive coach and Madrid’s IE Business School lecturer Michael Wenderoth offers unsentimental, pragmatic steps to gain promotions and power at work.

  • Review
    Procurement Power
    Profit from the Source
    Profit from the Sourceby Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbächer, Alenka Triplat and Daniel Weise Procurement Power

    Four Boston Consulting Group partners offer a radical – and profitable, they insist – revamping of procurement and of its relationship with the rest of your…

  • Review
    Believe In Yourself
    No More Gold Stars
    No More Gold Starsby Carol Sanford Believe In Yourself

    Management theorist Carol Sanford — author of The Regenerative Business, The Regenerative Life, and No More Feedback — provides a clear blueprint for developing intellectual self-reliance.

  • Review
    The South
    South to America
    South to Americaby Imani Perry The South

    National Book Award winner and Harvard University professor Imani Perry provides a poignant perspective on the American South, past and present.

  • Review
    Best Served Cold
    Frostbite
    Frostbiteby Nicola Twilley Best Served Cold

    Gastropod podcaster Nicola Twilley provides a surprisingly compelling history of keeping food cold.

  • Review
    Putting It Bluntly
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckby Mark Manson Putting It Bluntly

    Mark Manson wants the generations whom social media and consumer culture affect most to question what they see and believe, to grow up, and to…

  • Review
    No Time to Spare
    Blitzscaling
    Blitzscalingby Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh No Time to Spare

    Toss what you know about strategy and start running.

  • Review
    A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma
    Joe Biden
    Joe Bidenby Evan Osnos A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma

    National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Evan Osnos examines President Joe Biden’s personality and history, both personal and political.

  • Review
    Swashbuckler, Turnaround Artist, and More
    Mean Business
    Mean Businessby Bob Andelman and Albert Dunlap Swashbuckler, Turnaround Artist, and More

    Liar, braggart and turnaround genius Al Dunlap reveals his hardheaded business strategies and successes in this entertaining and instructive – if not entirely true – memoir.