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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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    Linear and Nonlinear History
    The Innovators
    The Innovatorsby Walter Isaacson Linear and Nonlinear History

    Calling on in-depth research and brilliant nonlinear conclusion-drawing, best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the history of technological innovation.

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    Market with Email
    The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook
    The SaaS Email Marketing Playbookby Étienne Garbugli Market with Email

    Customer engagement specialist Étienne Garbugli shows you how to harness email to drive marketing, build a customer base and retain customers for any software-as-service (SaaS)…

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    Work With Common Sense
    Great at Work
    Great at Workby Morten T. Hansen Work With Common Sense

    Morten T. Hansen Ph.D. shares the results of his prodigious research into how to work smarter.

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    Own Your Data
    Living in Data
    Living in Databy Jer Thorp Own Your Data

    Data visionary Jef Thorp takes you on a tour of data visualization, conceptualization, ownership and inequality, and inspires you to take control of your data.

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    Geckos Rule
    Sticky
    Stickyby Laurie Winkless Geckos Rule

    Physicist Laurie Winkless details the myriad fascinating ways things, animals, paints and socks stick together or resist friction.

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    The Brain and Memory
    In Search of Memory
    In Search of Memoryby Eric R. Kandel The Brain and Memory

    Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel traces his career in medical research and illuminates the philosophy and curiosity that fueled his myriad crucial discoveries.

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    Higher and Higher
    How To Get To The Top of Google in 2022
    How To Get To The Top of Google in 2022by Tim Cameron-Kitchen Higher and Higher

    Tim Cameron-Kitchen offers clear, actionable directions and guidance to help you improve your website’s ranking on Google.

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    The Foundational Text
    The Origin of Species
    The Origin of Speciesby Charles Darwin and Julian S. Huxley The Foundational Text

    Naturalist Charles Darwin defied centuries of science, belief and his society when he offered his then-shocking and now foundational theory of evolution.

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    Small Steps, Big Goals
    Limitless
    Limitlessby Jim Kwik Small Steps, Big Goals

    Jim Kwik details his recovery from a brain injury and how that inspired him to create how-to methods for developing a positive mind-set, retaining what…

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    How Amazon Does It
    Working Backwards
    Working Backwardsby Colin Bryar and Bill Carr How Amazon Does It

    Amazon insiders Colin Bryar and Bill Carr detail Amazon’s processes for hiring, compensation and expansion as well as using metrics, generating new ideas and nurturing its corporate culture.