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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
    Learn To Innovate
    The Innovator’s DNA
    The Innovator’s DNAby Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen Learn To Innovate

    Offering revelatory examples of disruptive innovators, innovation gurus Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and the late Clayton M. Christensen detail their methods to show how you…

  • Review
    Job Search and You
    Search in Plain Sight
    Search in Plain Sightby Somer Hackley Job Search and You

    Expert recruiter Somer Hackley details how to reach out to, maintain relationships with and get the best from job recruiters.

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    The Human Side of Lincoln
    And There Was Light:
    And There Was Light:by Jon Meacham The Human Side of Lincoln

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham presents an emotionally rich biography of Abraham Lincoln, offering a full and human portrait of the man who saved America.

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    Make Careful Choices
    Your Next Five Moves
    Your Next Five Movesby Patrick Bet-David Make Careful Choices

    Valuetainment founder Patrick Bet-David describes what it takes to think about your business like a chess master.

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    How Futures Function
    Back to the Futures
    Back to the Futuresby Scott Irwin and Doug Peterson How Futures Function

    Scott Irwin, the chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois, disarmingly details the history, functions, and dysfunctions of agricultural futures markets.

  • Review
    Up and Down
    We Need to Talk About Inflation
    We Need to Talk About Inflationby Stephen D. King Up and Down

    Economist Stephen D. King — prolific author, senior economic adviser at HSBC, and columnist for the Evening Standard — details the historical and political causes…

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    Bring Out the Dead
    All the Living and the Dead
    All the Living and the Deadby Hayley Campbell Bring Out the Dead

    London broadcaster and journalist Hayley Campbell dissects the processes of taking care of the dead.

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    How to Play the World
    The Biggest Bluff
    The Biggest Bluffby Maria Konnikova How to Play the World

    New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova explores herself by learning to play No Limit Texas Hold ’Em.

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    A Thriving Little-Known World
    The Year 1000
    The Year 1000by Valerie Hansen A Thriving Little-Known World

    Award-winning historian Valerie Hansen dispels any myths about Europeans “discovering” already-thriving lands which, in fact, were participating in globalization long before ships sailed from Europe.

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    A Passionate Call to Reshape Society
    The Future of Capitalism
    The Future of Capitalismby Paul Collier A Passionate Call to Reshape Society

    Professor Paul Collier, author of the award-winning The Bottom Billion, offers pragmatic – and at times radical – solutions to current economic problems.