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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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    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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    Hope Heals
    The Book of Hope
    The Book of Hopeby Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Hope Heals

    Primatologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, and Douglas Abrams – author of The Book of Joy – offer a detailed guide to vesting…

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    Vest in Self-Belief
    You Coach You
    You Coach Youby Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis Vest in Self-Belief

    Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – who co-wrote the best-selling book The Squiggly Career – offer sound, workable advice for boosting your growth mindset and self-belief.

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    Greater Self-Awareness
    Emotional Intelligence Habits
    Emotional Intelligence Habitsby Travis Bradberry Greater Self-Awareness

    Travis Bradberry, PhD, co-author of the bestseller, Emotional Intelligence 2.0., provides tools to increase your EQ and improve your relationship with yourself and others.

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    An Equitable Economy
    Free and Equal
    Free and Equalby Daniel Chandler An Equitable Economy

    London School of Economics professor Daniel Chandler offers insights into philosopher John Rawls’s economic philosophy and how that philosophy is relevant today.

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    Learn from the Worst
    Extreme Economies
    Extreme Economiesby Richard Davies Learn from the Worst

    Economist Richard Davies explores the lives of people in nine “extreme economies” around the globe, each tested by a radical situation or challenge. What’s to be learned from…

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    A “Superordinate” Elite
    The Meritocracy Trap
    The Meritocracy Trapby Daniel Markovits A “Superordinate” Elite

    Yale law professor Daniel Markovits explains – using telling statistics and hard-nosed analysis – how meritocracy in the United States is not as democratic as it appears…