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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
    Lifequakes
    Life Is in the Transitions
    Life Is in the Transitionsby Bruce Feiler Lifequakes

    Best-selling author Bruce Feiler offers sound, compassionate strategies for dealing with lifequakes: powerful events that reshape your identity and your world.

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    Continuous Feedback Loop
    Founder Brand
    Founder Brandby Dave Gerhardt Continuous Feedback Loop

    Marketer Dave Gerhardt explains how and why you should make a company's founder into an effective personal brand.

  • Review
    Value and Outcomes
    Sooner Safer Happier
    Sooner Safer Happierby Zsolt Berend, Simon Rohrer, Jonathan Smart and Myles Ogilvie Value and Outcomes

    Jonathan Smart, agility practitioner, thought leader, speaker and coach, offers a blueprint of the mind-set you need to embrace Agile or Lean.

  • Review
    Blood and Money
    Nine Pints
    Nine Pintsby Rose George Blood and Money

    Esteemed journalist and author Rose George illuminates how blood functions in the body and in the worldwide marketplace.

  • Review
    A Better World
    Factfulness
    Factfulnessby Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund A Better World

    Hans Rosling, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, and his coauthors prove that today's world is more benign than you would believe.

  • Review
    “Go High”
    The Light We Carry
    The Light We Carryby Michelle Obama “Go High”

    Former First Lady Michelle Obama provides warm, heartfelt advice for coping with life's difficulties, honoring your strengths and vesting in self-kindness.

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    Weinstein’s Fall
    Hollywood Ending
    Hollywood Endingby Ken Auletta Weinstein’s Fall

    Journalist Ken Auletta details Harvey Weinstein’s remarkable Hollywood rise and his sordid fall.

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    Ever Darker
    The Country of the Blind
    The Country of the Blindby Andrew Leland Ever Darker

    Andrew Leland, editor of The Believer and former host of The Organist podcast, provides a compelling account of his increasing blindness and the enormous changes it brought…

  • Review
    Pay For Play
    An Economist Goes to the Game
    An Economist Goes to the Gameby Paul Oyer Pay For Play

    Stanford business professor Paul Oyer reveals how money shapes sports and athletes’ dreams.

  • Review
    An Indigenous Consciousness
    Unreconciled
    Unreconciledby Jesse Wente An Indigenous Consciousness

    Anishinaabe tribe journalist Jesse Wente offers an insightful, sensitive journey through his developing understanding of his Indigenous identity.