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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
    Time Has Come Today
    Four Thousand Weeks
    Four Thousand Weeksby Oliver Burkeman Time Has Come Today

    Bestseller Olivier Burkeman offers a Zen method for accepting the passage and limitations of time.

  • Review
    Beware Facebook
    An Ugly Truth
    An Ugly Truthby Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang Beware Facebook

    Award-winning journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang detail Facebook’s inner workings, tactics and defenses with unsettling facts and insights.

  • Review
    Lincoln’s Practical Ideals
    Lincolnomics
    Lincolnomicsby John F. Wasik Lincoln’s Practical Ideals

    Abraham Lincoln was an economic and infrastructure visionary, according to this well-researched and surprising historical account.

  • Review
    Be a Great White
    Eat Their Lunch
    Eat Their Lunchby Anthony Iannarino Be a Great White

    Anthony Iannarino urges you to embrace conflict, steal clients from your competitors and learn to fight for sales in a bloody red ocean.

  • Review
    Successful Public Speaking
    Talk Like TED
    Talk Like TEDby Carmine Gallo Successful Public Speaking

    Prolific author Carmine Gallo studied more than 500 TED talks to compile a guide outlining the methods of the best speakers.

  • Review
    Activism and Love
    Saving Us
    Saving Usby Katharine Hayhoe Activism and Love

    Katharine Hayhoe harnesses her strong Christian faith and pragmatic legal and scientific background to explain how you can take action to mitigate climate change today.

  • Review
    Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle
    The Chimp Paradox
    The Chimp Paradoxby Steve Peters Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle

    Professor and psychiatrist Dr. Steve Peters offers an insightful model for understanding your brain and unconscious motivations and provides tools for managing both.

  • Review
    Oppressive Assumptions
    Entitled
    Entitledby Kate Manne Oppressive Assumptions

    Philosophy professor Kate Manne breaks down in detail the manifestations of male entitlement in America and how that entitlement oppresses and belittles women.

  • Review
    Nurture Employee Growth
    Growing Great Employees
    Growing Great Employeesby Erika Andersen Nurture Employee Growth

    Consultant and author Erika Andersen explores a gardening metaphor to help you hire, nurture and retain the best employees.

  • Review
    Extermination, Assimilation, Legalized Payback
    The Inconvenient Indian
    The Inconvenient Indianby Thomas King Extermination, Assimilation, Legalized Payback

    Professor Thomas King laments the brutal treatment of Native Americans and First Nations Canadians at the hands of white settlers and governments and offers a…