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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
    Build Joy
    Good Company
    Good Companyby Arthur Blank Build Joy

    Arthur Blank, co-founder of The Home Depot and owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, offers a moving manifesto about bringing and sustaining joy in your organization…

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    To Serve Humankind
    To Be a Machine
    To Be a Machineby Mark O'Connell To Serve Humankind

    Slate columnist Mark O’Connell describes, debunks and contextualizes transhumanism – the mind-set that humans can merge with machines.

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    Smil’s World
    Numbers Don’t Lie
    Numbers Don’t Lieby Vaclav Smil Smil’s World

    Vaclav Smil offers a brief omnibus of his most relevant ideas and insights to paint a clear, unexpected portrait of today’s world.

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    Weinstein Caught
    Catch and Kill
    Catch and Killby Ronan Farrow Weinstein Caught

    Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting reveals Harvey Weinstein’s harassment of women and the corrupt tactics he – and some news outlets – used to suppress…

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    Made, Not Born
    Forged in Crisis
    Forged in Crisisby Nancy Koehn Made, Not Born

    Best-selling Harvard professor Nancy Koehn studies leadership through the lives of five modern heroes and one heroine.

  • Review
    Russia in the Arctic, and in the World
    International Politics in the Arctic
    International Politics in the Arcticby Geir Hønneland Russia in the Arctic, and in the World

    Arctic expert Geir Hønneland offers a collection of essays detailing conflict, identity, and the likely future of Russia and the West in the Far North

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    An Inspiring Role Model
    My Life in Full
    My Life in Fullby Indra Nooyi An Inspiring Role Model

    Former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo Indra K. Nooyi offers a career and life retrospective that seeks to inspire women to succeed in the corporate…

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    This Is How You Do It
    The Leadership Code
    The Leadership Codeby Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman This Is How You Do It

    Three noted business authors combine their career-long insights to offer clear, basic, comprehensive rules great leaders should follow.

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    Keep Moving
    Sink, Float or Swim
    Sink, Float or Swimby Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel Keep Moving

    Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel provide up-to-date life guidance on sleep, nutrition, exercise, mind-set and positive attitude.

  • Review
    We’re All In Sales
    To Sell Is Human
    To Sell Is Humanby Daniel H. Pink We’re All In Sales

    Daniel Pink sets out to construct “a broad rethinking of sales as we know it.”