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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
    Scrum Made Clear
    Essential Scrum
    Essential Scrumby Kenneth S Rubin Scrum Made Clear

    A clear, practical, applicable guide to Scrum’s innate complexities and elegant simplicities.

  • Review
    Men As Allies
    Good Guys
    Good Guysby David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson Men As Allies

    A practical guide – backed by considerable research – on how to become a male ally for the women in your workplace.

  • Review
    The End of the Experiment
    The Next Civil War
    The Next Civil Warby Stephen Marche The End of the Experiment

    Prolific author Stephen Marche provides a frightening overview of the possible unraveling of American society.

  • Review
    Desperate Tenants
    Evicted
    Evictedby Matthew Desmond Desperate Tenants

    Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Genius, offers a heartfelt, heartbreaking detailed portrait of the desperate situations of poor American renters.

  • Review
    Intelligence Always Wins
    The Secret World
    The Secret Worldby Christopher Andrew Intelligence Always Wins

    Best-selling intelligence historian Christopher Andrew provides a complete, detailed history of spying, intelligence and its uses.

  • Review
    Healing Self-Advocacy
    The Healing Self
    The Healing Selfby Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi Healing Self-Advocacy

    Deepak Chopra and Harvard neurology professor Rudolph E. Tanzi offer a detailed, practical guide to merging your mind and body for greater health and happiness.

  • Review
    More with Less
    Subtract
    Subtractby Leidy Klotz More with Less

    Behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz builds a convincing case – with literary, scientific and historical examples – for the elegance and functionality of subtracting, not adding,…

  • Review
    Practical Worthiness
    Conscious Capitalism
    Conscious Capitalismby John Mackey and Raj Sisodia Practical Worthiness

    John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia make a compelling case for a more aware, conscious but still profitable approach to capitalism.

  • Review
    A Long Road
    Being Mortal
    Being Mortalby Atul Gawande A Long Road

    MacArthur Fellow, Harvard professor and National Book Award finalist Atul Gawande combines compassion with his medical know-how to present a sobering account of the state…

  • Review
    Music: Revelation or Damnation?
    Musicophilia
    Musicophiliaby Oliver Sacks Music: Revelation or Damnation?

    With his usual literate empathy, Dr. Oliver Sacks details the effects of music on those with dementia, Tourette’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s and other conditions.