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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
    The $50 Billion Lie
    Faster, Higher, Farther
    Faster, Higher, Fartherby Jack Ewing The $50 Billion Lie

    Jack Ewing presents a surprisingly suspenseful, shocking tale of Volkswagen’s maleficence, how they were caught and the consequences they face.

  • Review
    Leaving the Gold Standard
    Three Days at Camp David
    Three Days at Camp Davidby Jeffrey Garten Leaving the Gold Standard

    Economist Jeffrey E. Garten details the momentous weekend when President Richard Nixon and his advisers upended the global economy and changed history.

  • Review
    Complete Project Management
    A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Sixth Edition
    A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Sixth Editionby Project Management Institute Complete Project Management

    A detailed, step-by-step guide to every single step of creating, managing and finishing projects of any size in any industry.

  • Review
    Build Your Culture
    The Culture Code
    The Culture Codeby Daniel Coyle Build Your Culture

    Daniel Coyle’s New York Times bestseller details how successful organizations build mutual trust, vulnerability and communication.

  • Review
    Reframing History
    Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Guns, Germs, and Steelby Jared Diamond Reframing History

    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jared Diamond's landmark book details the prime forces driving 13,000 years of human history.

  • Review
    A Refugee’s Survival and Triumph
    The Girl Who Smiled Beads
    The Girl Who Smiled Beadsby Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil A Refugee’s Survival and Triumph

    Human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya details her upbringing amid the horrors of genocide and her slow, painful escape from trauma.

  • Review
    Mansplaining
    Men Explain Things to Me
    Men Explain Things to Meby Rebecca Solnit Mansplaining

    Brilliant essayist and prolific author Rebecca Solnit explores the multiple ways men and society seek to silence, suppress and intimidate women and how women can…

  • Review
    Productive Workflow
    Making Work Visible
    Making Work Visibleby Dominica DeGrandis Productive Workflow

    Dominica DeGrandis, the Principal Flow Adviser at Tasktop, offers a condensed guide to the fundamentals of Lean, kanban and flow to help you prioritize work…

  • Review
    Nurture Employee Growth
    Growing Great Employees
    Growing Great Employeesby Erika Andersen Nurture Employee Growth

    Consultant and author Erika Andersen explores a gardening metaphor to help you hire, nurture and retain the best employees.

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    Extermination, Assimilation, Legalized Payback
    The Inconvenient Indian
    The Inconvenient Indianby Thomas King Extermination, Assimilation, Legalized Payback

    Professor Thomas King laments the brutal treatment of Native Americans and First Nations Canadians at the hands of white settlers and governments and offers a…