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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
    Railroads, Trusts and Strikes
    The Hour of Fate
    The Hour of Fateby Susan Berfield Railroads, Trusts and Strikes

    Award-winning investigative reporter Susan Berfield brings to life the brutal economic struggles of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.

  • Review
    Evolutionary Business Revolution
    The Future of Management
    The Future of Managementby Gary Hamel Evolutionary Business Revolution

    Business author and HR guru Gary Hamel explains revolutionary management and shows how your company can evolve to embrace it.

  • Review
    Gender Disparities
    Invisible Women
    Invisible Womenby Caroline Criado Perez Gender Disparities

    Human rights activist Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, offers a detailed critique – which she backs with numerous studies – of how male norms permeate society to…

  • Review
    Profit and Conscience
    Trailblazer
    Trailblazerby Marc Benioff and Monica Langley Profit and Conscience

    CEO of Salesforce Mark Benioff makes a strong, well-written case for merging corporate responsibility and profit.

  • Review
    The Best Gatherings
    The Art of Gathering
    The Art of Gatheringby Priya Parker The Best Gatherings

    Meetings maestro Priya Parker offers a lively, conversational guide to facilitating effective gatherings.

  • Review
    Negligence, Confusion, Death
    Paradise
    Paradiseby Lizzie Johnson Negligence, Confusion, Death

    Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson provides a detailed, heartbreaking account of the 2018 Paradise fire that destroyed a California town.

  • Review
    Art Doesn’t Pay
    The Death of the Artist
    The Death of the Artistby William Deresiewicz Art Doesn’t Pay

    Essayist and critic William Deresiewicz offers a depressingly realistic assessment of the agonies of earning a living as an artist.

  • Review
    Theory of Constraints
    The Goal
    The Goalby Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox Theory of Constraints

    In this best-selling classic, management guru Eliyahu M. Goldratt teaches Lean principles in novel form.

  • Review
    Reframe Problems
    What's Your Problem?
    What's Your Problem?by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Reframe Problems

    Innovation consultant Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg offers a simple, counterintuitive, commonsense approach to problem-solving.

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    The Way to Sell Is Changing
    Sales Management That Works
    Sales Management That Worksby Frank Cespedes The Way to Sell Is Changing

    Harvard professor and admired author Frank V. Cespedes explains in detail how selling is changing and how salespeople and sales managers must change with it.