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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
    Traditional Values
    The Once and Future Worker
    The Once and Future Workerby Oren Cass Traditional Values

    Conservative Oren Cass argues the poor must pull themselves up and that US policy must bolster pride in simple, hard work.

  • Review
    Take Care of Your People
    Wellbeing at Work
    Wellbeing at Workby Jim Harter and Jim Clifton Take Care of Your People

    Gallup polling aficionados and prolific authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harper analyze data derived from more than 100 million interviews to help leaders improve employee health.

  • Review
    More than a Country Icon
    She Come By It Natural
    She Come By It Naturalby Sarah Smarsh More than a Country Icon

    Sarah Smarsh offers a biography of Dolly Parton covering her cultural, political and business impact.

  • Review
    Don’t Quit
    Make Your Bed
    Make Your Bedby William H. McRaven Don’t Quit

    Admiral William H. McRaven offers aphoristic life advice underscored by a Navy officer’s viewpoint.

  • Review
    You Are Not Your Thoughts
    The Mountain Is You
    The Mountain Is Youby Brianna Wiest You Are Not Your Thoughts

    Self-help poet and best-selling author Brianna Wiest offers a blueprint for escaping your overactive mind.

  • Review
    Employee Resource Groups
    Advancing Inclusion
    Advancing Inclusionby Deborah L. Plummer Employee Resource Groups

    Diversity expert Deborah L. Plummer guides you in developing Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for advancing inclusion – and its attendant innovation and profit – at your…

  • Review
    Harmful or Healthful?
    Seeds of Science
    Seeds of Scienceby Mark Lynas Harmful or Healthful?

    Environmental bestseller Mark Lynas traces his profound shift regarding genetically modified food and its consequences.

  • Review
    How the Greenback Beat Dixie
    Ways and Means
    Ways and Meansby Roger Lowenstein How the Greenback Beat Dixie

    Bestselling economic historian Roger Lowenstein details the fiscal strategies that created the US dollar and won the Civil War.

  • Review
    The Crucible of Connection
    Bowling Alone
    Bowling Aloneby Robert D. Putnam The Crucible of Connection

    Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam's classic analysis of American social dysfunction details how weaker social ties undermine community, health, wealth, social progress and trust.

  • Review
    Gore Inspires
    An Inconvenient Sequel
    An Inconvenient Sequelby Al Gore Gore Inspires

    Former Vice President Al Gore offers words of inspiration and beautiful photographs to inspire people to fight climate change.