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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
    Create the Right Team
    Team Topologies
    Team Topologiesby Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Create the Right Team

    An indispensable guide to developing software teams written not for the layperson, but for those really creating teams.

  • Review
    Death for Profit
    Fentanyl, Inc.
    Fentanyl, Inc.by Ben Westhoff Death for Profit

    Investigative reporter and author Ben Westhoff offers a chilling overview of the scope and profitability of, and corruption within, the world of synthetic opioids.

  • Review
    What Went Wrong
    Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
    Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of Americaby Kurt Andersen What Went Wrong

    Bestselling humorist and cultural commentator Kurt Andersen describes the downward arc of America’s social, economic and political circumstances with great wit and no shortage of…

  • Review
    A New Clarity
    Almost Everything
    Almost Everythingby Anne Lamott A New Clarity

    Best-selling author Anne Lamott’s tender, sage musings on her struggles will comfort anyone who doesn't always follow through on his or her best intentions – which…

  • Review
    Make Change Stick
    Leading Change
    Leading Changeby John P. Kotter Make Change Stick

    Bestselling management guru and Harvard Business School professor John P. Kotter details how to initiate change and make it endure.

  • Review
    Better Habits Now
    Better Than Before
    Better Than Beforeby Gretchen Rubin Better Habits Now

    Gretchen Rubin provides unusually intelligent, workable, commonsense advice for anyone seeking to develop healthier habits – and she includes herself in that cohort.

  • Review
    Who Is Baba Ramdev?
    The Baba Ramdev Phenomenon
    The Baba Ramdev Phenomenonby Kaushik Deka Who Is Baba Ramdev?

    Indian journalist Kaushik Deka offers a sometimes detailed and always positive biography of Indian yoga and business star Baba Ramdev.

  • Review
    Building Nike
    Shoe Dog
    Shoe Dogby Phil Knight Building Nike

    As few entrepreneurs could, Nike founder Phil Knight proves himself worthy of his own story.

  • Review
    Enslavement and Emancipation
    On Juneteenth
    On Juneteenthby Annette Gordon-Reed Enslavement and Emancipation

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed combines personal memoir and history to present a moving portrait of enslavement and emancipation…

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    War Endures
    War
    Warby Margaret MacMillan War Endures

    Prolific historian Margaret MacMillan provides a stark, harrowing assessment of war’s past and its inevitable future.