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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
    Make Business Moral
    Rotten
    Rottenby Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson Make Business Moral

    Former business professors Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson offer suggestions for curtailing corporate malfeasance and illustrative tales of corruption.

  • Review
    Epidemics, Outbreaks and Pandemics
    The Pandemic Century
    The Pandemic Centuryby Mark Honigsbaum Epidemics, Outbreaks and Pandemics

    Prolific medical historian Mark Honigsbaum provides a chilling, detailed overview of the human experience of pandemics, encompassing plague, flu, SARS and AIDS.

  • Review
    Don’t Fear the Robots
    Human + Machine
    Human + Machineby Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson Don’t Fear the Robots

    An insightful, knowledgeable, fanciful discussion of the future synergy among people, AI and robots.

  • Review
    Coping With Fear
    Nerve
    Nerveby Eva Holland Coping With Fear

    Journalist Eva Holland explores – with admirable candor and charm – the origins of her inescapable fears and the therapeutic paths she followed to minimize…

  • Review
    Marriage During Precarity
    Crunch Time
    Crunch Timeby Aliya Hamid Rao Marriage During Precarity

    Sociologist Alia Hamid Rao offers an insightful, telling study of how unemployed, well-off American couples revert to traditional gender roles under the strain of unemployment.

  • Review
    Community Collaboration
    Mutualism
    Mutualismby Sara Horowitz Community Collaboration

    MacArthur fellow Sara Horowitz offers a workable, actionable blueprint for creating and sustaining nonprofit organizations that fulfill societal needs.

  • Review
    The Post-Covid World
    Pandemic, Inc.
    Pandemic, Inc.by Patrick Schwerdtfeger The Post-Covid World

    Business journalist and prolific author Patrick Schwerdtfeger ventures into the trend-predicting and futurist game with mixed, but readable results.

  • Review
    Animal Thought and Emotion
    The Inner Life of Animals
    The Inner Life of Animalsby Peter Wohlleben Animal Thought and Emotion

    Prolific naturalist author and devout student of nature Peter Wohlleben explores the realms of animal thought, consciousness, emotions and emotional connections.

  • Review
    You Are Your Story
    How to Tell a Story
    How to Tell a Storyby Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness and Kate Tellers You Are Your Story

    The directors of storytelling organization The Moth – Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jennifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness and Kate Tellers – teach the art of compelling, empathetic storytelling.

  • Review
    What Is Self?
    How to Grow a Human
    How to Grow a Humanby Philip Ball What Is Self?

    Science philosopher Philip Ball presents an overview of how cellular science attempts to define the self, which, Ball insists, remains unquantifiable.