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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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    Use Less Stuff
    How to Save the World For Free
    How to Save the World For Freeby Natalie Fee Use Less Stuff

    Environmental activist Natalie Fee offers numerous easy-to-use tips you can follow to help sustain the environment, and she calls on you to take action.

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    Do Better with Less
    Essentialism
    Essentialismby Greg McKeown Do Better with Less

    Co-author of Multipliers, Greg McKeown offers a detailed, workable method for paring your life to its essentials.

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    Become Conscious
    Conscious Leadership
    Conscious Leadershipby John Mackey, Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps Become Conscious

    Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey and forward thinkers Steven McIntosh and Carter Phipps detail how to become a more conscious, egalitarian and successful leader.

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    Names and Numbers
    The Address Book
    The Address Bookby Deirdre Mask Names and Numbers

    Deirdre Mask provides an unlikely fascinating history, overview and cultural analysis of street addresses.

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    Why You Do What You Do
    Payoff
    Payoffby Dan Ariely Why You Do What You Do

    Best-selling author Dan Ariely reflects on his struggles with pain to offer insight into motivation.

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    Find Your Strength
    Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
    Women Don’t Owe You Prettyby Florence Given Find Your Strength

    Activist Florence Given issues a bold call for feminism, self-empowerment and gender tolerance.

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    An Inevitable Crisis
    Wildland
    Wildlandby Evan Osnos An Inevitable Crisis

    Renowned political journalist Evan Osnos charts the steady decline in American communal values that he perceives resulted in Donald Trump’s presidency.

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    Beware the Four
    The Four
    The Fourby Scott Galloway Beware the Four

    Business professor Scott Galloway both eviscerates and praises Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, offering worthy cautions and witty insights.

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    Data Revelations
    Everybody Lies
    Everybody Liesby Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Data Revelations

    Former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers shocking insights gleaned from big data.

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    Addictions for Profit
    The Hard Sell
    The Hard Sellby Evan Hughes Addictions for Profit

    Journalist and author Evan Hughes investigates in lively detail the rise and fall of fentanyl profiteer John Kapoor.