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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

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    Toxins, Disease and Intelligence
    A Terrible Thing to Waste
    A Terrible Thing to Wasteby Harriet A. Washington Toxins, Disease and Intelligence

    National Book Critics Circle Award winner, medical ethicist Harriet A. Washington reveals startling correlations between proximity to pollution and lower intelligence.

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    Native American Resilience
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Kneeby David Treuer Native American Resilience

    Ojibwe tribe member Dr. David Treuer delivers Native American history illustrated through the lives of everyday individuals.

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    Passion and Perseverance.
    Grit
    Gritby Angela Duckworth Passion and Perseverance.

    Grit is the ability to persevere in the face of setbacks and disappointments, and to strive to improve even amid success.

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    Don’t Expect Answers
    Antifragile
    Antifragileby Nassim Nicholas Taleb Don’t Expect Answers

    Best-selling author of The Black Swan and brilliant iconoclast Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains – or doesn’t – why fearing volatility paralyzes thinking and systems.

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    Get That Job
    What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019
    What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019by Richard N. Bolles Get That Job

    Perennially bestselling annual manual tells you how to “parachute” into the perfect job situation.

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    Cursing Rules
    Swearing Is Good for You
    Swearing Is Good for Youby Emma Byrne Cursing Rules

    Science writer Emma Byrne dissects the joys and catharsis of cursing, complete with scientific, cultural and evolutionary justifications for having a dirty mouth.

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    Stick Your Neck Out
    Skin in the Game
    Skin in the Gameby Nassim Nicholas Taleb Stick Your Neck Out

    Get involved, says Nassim Nicholas Taleb, but only if you care enough to invest your time, money or commitment. You've got to have skin in the…

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    The Baltics and Russia
    The Shadow in the East
    The Shadow in the Eastby Aliide Naylor The Baltics and Russia

    Journalist Aliide Naylor provides a detailed protrait of the Baltics’ past, present and likely future relations with Russia.

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    Countdown!
    The 5 Second Rule
    The 5 Second Ruleby Mel Robbins Countdown!

    Mel Robbins’s mega bestseller details how you can gain courage, overcome procrastination and improve your health just by saying five little words.

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    A Different Perspective
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    21 Lessons for the 21st Centuryby Yuval Noah Harari A Different Perspective

    Historian, philosopher and social critic Yuval Noah Harari provides an articulate, hard-bitten realpolitik of solid philosophical and practical advice.