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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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    Own Your Brand
    Platform
    Platformby Cynthia Johnson Own Your Brand

    Digital branding expert Cynthia Johnson offers a basic primer for beginners who want to burnish their online personal brand.

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    Mortal Air
    Choked
    Chokedby Beth Gardiner Mortal Air

    Journalist Beth Gardiner provides a sobering, detailed, carefully researched overview of air pollution worldwide and its devastating health and economic consequences.

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    Recruit, Retain and Develop
    Retooling HR
    Retooling HRby John W. Boudreau Recruit, Retain and Develop

    Professor John W. Boudreau details a remarkable method for recruiting, retaining and developing talent.

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    Healing Truths
    The Path Made Clear
    The Path Made Clearby Oprah Winfrey Healing Truths

    Oprah Winfrey offers advice to help you become your best self, achieve your dreams and live your truth.

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    Immelt Looks Back
    Hot Seat
    Hot Seatby Jeff Immelt Immelt Looks Back

    Jeff Immelt, who was CEO of General Electric for 16 years, offers a surprisingly candid, feisty memoir.

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    Build Your Skills
    Lead to Win
    Lead to Winby Carla A. Harris Build Your Skills

    Author, speaker, investment banker – and gospel singer – Carla A. Harris details what skills today’s leaders must develop, now and in the future.

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    Save the World
    Earth for All
    Earth for Allby Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per Espen Stoknes Save the World

    The authors provide numerous, well-conceived, data-based solutions to oncoming, existential threats to human life.

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    Think Less Live More
    Live More Think Less
    Live More Think Lessby Pia Callesen Think Less Live More

    Metacognitive therapist offers techniques and exercises for avoiding rumination that can spur depression.

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    Reagan’s Deceptive Simplicity
    Reagan's War Stories
    Reagan's War Storiesby Benjamin Griffin Reagan’s Deceptive Simplicity

    Historian Benjamin Griffin deconstructs Ronald Reagan’s genius for turning complex political and social issues into simple good-guys-versus-bad-guys narratives – and the good guys always win.

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    Sister Jean Rules the Court
    Wake Up With Purpose!
    Wake Up With Purpose!by Sister Jean Schmidt and Seth Davis Sister Jean Rules the Court

    Sister Mary Jean Dolores Smith – better known as Sister Jean – details her (as of now) 104 years-long life of Catholic devotion and service…