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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
    Continual Discord
    The Age of Unpeace
    The Age of Unpeaceby Mark Leonard Continual Discord

    Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations Mark Leonard presents a compelling, discouraging overview of the current state of the world: ever-increasing fragmentation and…

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    Become a “Happy High Achiever”
    Happen to Your Career
    Happen to Your Careerby Scott Anthony Barlow Become a “Happy High Achiever”

    Career coach Scott Barlow, host of the HTYC podcast, guides you toward building the mind-set you need to pursue a deeply fulfilling career – and life.

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    Productive Change
    Move Fast and Fix Things
    Move Fast and Fix Thingsby Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Productive Change

    Focus on excellence (and fast!) and effective change management.

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    Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul
    Head & Heart
    Head & Heartby Kirstin Ferguson Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul

    Leadership expert Kirstin Ferguson shows you how to combine your conscious rational skills and your soulful, reflexive understanding to be the best possible leader.

  • Review
    Not So Green
    The War Below
    The War Belowby Ernest Scheyder Not So Green

    Reuter’s senior correspondent Ernest Scheyder presents the complex trade-offs that emission-reducing technologies create.

  • Review
    Stolen Cells
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot Stolen Cells

    Scientists took Henrietta Lacks’s cells without asking – cells that brought others profit and success.

  • Review
    Difficult Topics Well Raised
    Hood Feminism
    Hood Feminismby Mikki Kendall Difficult Topics Well Raised

    Activist Mikki Kendall boldly goes where few Black women writers have gone – she exposes and then suggests how to heal the racial fault lines in…

  • Review
    Quick Praise Gets Results
    The One Minute Manager
    The One Minute Managerby Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard Quick Praise Gets Results

    To motivate your staff members – and to get the results you want – catch people doing something right and praise them immediately and in…

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    Passionate, Poetic Science
    Cosmos
    Cosmosby Carl Sagan Passionate, Poetic Science

    Writer, professor, astronomer and NASA adviser Carl Sagan explains the universe and humanity’s place in it.

  • Review
    Empathy and Warmth
    The Excellence Dividend
    The Excellence Dividendby Tom Peters Empathy and Warmth

    Business advice titan Tom Peters explains that the human element drives excellence, and it is the only thing that can temper an avalanche of tech.