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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
    Reframing History
    Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Guns, Germs, and Steelby Jared Diamond Reframing History

    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jared Diamond's landmark book details the prime forces driving 13,000 years of human history.

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    A Refugee’s Survival and Triumph
    The Girl Who Smiled Beads
    The Girl Who Smiled Beadsby Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil A Refugee’s Survival and Triumph

    Human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya details her upbringing amid the horrors of genocide and her slow, painful escape from trauma.

  • Review
    Mansplaining
    Men Explain Things to Me
    Men Explain Things to Meby Rebecca Solnit Mansplaining

    Brilliant essayist and prolific author Rebecca Solnit explores the multiple ways men and society seek to silence, suppress and intimidate women and how women can…

  • Review
    Productive Workflow
    Making Work Visible
    Making Work Visibleby Dominica DeGrandis Productive Workflow

    Dominica DeGrandis, the Principal Flow Adviser at Tasktop, offers a condensed guide to the fundamentals of Lean, kanban and flow to help you prioritize work…

  • Review
    Simplicity Is Better
    Simply Effective
    Simply Effectiveby Ron Ashkenas Simplicity Is Better

    Ron Ashkenas believes simplicity improves results and leads to competitive advantages – and he shows you how to achieve it.

  • Review
    Purpose Is Power (and Profit)
    Deep Purpose
    Deep Purposeby Ranjay Gulati Purpose Is Power (and Profit)

    Renowned business author Ranjay Gulati takes a deep dive into the power of purpose, its profitability and its pitfalls.

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    Powerful Public Speaking
    TED Talks
    TED Talksby Chris Anderson Powerful Public Speaking

    TED curator Chris Anderson offers a superb, knowledgeable guide for beginner public speakers.

  • Review
    It Ain’t Easy
    Beyond Order
    Beyond Orderby Jordan B. Peterson It Ain’t Easy

    Best-selling cosmic advice-giver and moralist Jordan B. Peterson offers 12 more insightful, applicable, hard-nosed rules for living a fulfilled life. The only kind, he contends,…

  • Review
    Protecting Soldiers with Science
    Grunt
    Gruntby Mary Roach Protecting Soldiers with Science

    Bestseller Mary Roach turns her keen eye to the science that addresses the many ills that combatants face, with fascinating results.

  • Review
    Ardern’s Remarkable Journey
    Jacinda Ardern
    Jacinda Ardernby Supriya Vani and Carl Harte Ardern’s Remarkable Journey

    This personal and political portrait illuminates New Zealand’s admired, astute leader, Jacinda Ardern.