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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
    Vroom!
    Are We There Yet?
    Are We There Yet?by Dan Albert Vroom!

    Dan Albert, PhD, explores the history and cultural significance of the American automobile, and his own dread of a less romantic, more functional future of…

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    Listen with Care
    Listen Like You Mean It
    Listen Like You Mean Itby Ximena Vengoechea Listen with Care

    User researcher Ximena Vengoechea provides detailed, emotionally aware guidance for anyone seeking more connected, fruitful and productive conversations.

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    Commanding Genes
    Evolving Ourselves
    Evolving Ourselvesby Steve Gullans and Juan Enriquez Commanding Genes

    Excel Venture Management co-founders Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans describe several possible futures that might emerge from gene editing and engineering.

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    Abandon Envy
    Work
    Workby James Suzman Abandon Envy

    James Suzman presents a compelling historical overview of work while lamenting humankind’s infinite acquisitiveness.

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    Happier Later Years
    Successful Aging
    Successful Agingby Daniel J. Levitin Happier Later Years

    Bestseller Daniel Levitin details habits, practices and attitudes that ensure graceful, joyous aging.

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    Latinx Identity Today
    Finding Latinx
    Finding Latinxby Paola Ramos Latinx Identity Today

    Journalist Paola Ramos traveled the US to report this in-depth view of its diverse Hispanics communities.

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    A Decade of Ambivalence and Irony
    The Nineties
    The Ninetiesby Chuck Klosterman A Decade of Ambivalence and Irony

    Raucous cultural correspondent Chuck Klosterman focuses his gimlet eye and genius for non-linear conclusions on an ambivalent, culturally rich decade.

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    Identity in a Small Sack
    All That She Carried
    All That She Carriedby Tiya Miles Identity in a Small Sack

    US National Book Award winner Tiya Miles relates the heartbreaking saga of a young enslaved girl being separated from her mother and sold in pre-Civil…

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    To the Barricades!
    Fight Like Hell
    Fight Like Hellby Kim Kelly To the Barricades!

    New Republic journalist Kim Kelly offers a fervid, impassioned history of the United States’ labor movements and the tactics owners used against workers.

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    Death at Sea
    The Wager
    The Wagerby David Grann Death at Sea

    New Yorker staff writer David Grann — author of Killers of the Flower Moon — recounts the 1741 shipwreck, mutiny, depravation, and survival of the HMS Wager's crew.