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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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    Why You Do What You Do
    Payoff
    Payoffby Dan Ariely Why You Do What You Do

    Best-selling author Dan Ariely reflects on his struggles with pain to offer insight into motivation.

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    Find Your Strength
    Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
    Women Don’t Owe You Prettyby Florence Given Find Your Strength

    Activist Florence Given issues a bold call for feminism, self-empowerment and gender tolerance.

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    An Inevitable Crisis
    Wildland
    Wildlandby Evan Osnos An Inevitable Crisis

    Renowned political journalist Evan Osnos charts the steady decline in American communal values that he perceives resulted in Donald Trump’s presidency.

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    Beware the Four
    The Four
    The Fourby Scott Galloway Beware the Four

    Business professor Scott Galloway both eviscerates and praises Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, offering worthy cautions and witty insights.

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    Data Revelations
    Everybody Lies
    Everybody Liesby Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Data Revelations

    Former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers shocking insights gleaned from big data.

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    Addictions for Profit
    The Hard Sell
    The Hard Sellby Evan Hughes Addictions for Profit

    Journalist and author Evan Hughes investigates in lively detail the rise and fall of fentanyl profiteer John Kapoor.

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    Basic Leadership Advice
    She Thinks Like a Boss: Leadership
    She Thinks Like a Boss: Leadershipby Jemma Roedel Basic Leadership Advice

    Jemma Roedel offers a basic primer of advice for women leaders.

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    Streaming Money
    The Spotify Play
    The Spotify Playby Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud Streaming Money

    Swedish tech journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud tell the warts-and-all saga of Spotify’s long hard climb from a tech entrepreneurs’ fantasy to a $35…

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    No Fear
    The Genius of Women
    The Genius of Womenby Janice Kaplan No Fear

    Bestselling author Janice Kaplan offers an honor roll of accomplished women – fearless geniuses, all.

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    Everybody Wants Land
    Land
    Landby Simon Winchester Everybody Wants Land

    Prolific bestselling historian Simon Winchester provides telling, illuminating examples of human interaction with land and with one another in land disputes.