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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
    Men As Allies
    Good Guys
    Good Guysby David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson Men As Allies

    A practical guide – backed by considerable research – on how to become a male ally for the women in your workplace.

  • Review
    The End of the Experiment
    The Next Civil War
    The Next Civil Warby Stephen Marche The End of the Experiment

    Prolific author Stephen Marche provides a frightening overview of the possible unraveling of American society.

  • Review
    Desperate Tenants
    Evicted
    Evictedby Matthew Desmond Desperate Tenants

    Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Genius, offers a heartfelt, heartbreaking detailed portrait of the desperate situations of poor American renters.

  • Review
    Intelligence Always Wins
    The Secret World
    The Secret Worldby Christopher Andrew Intelligence Always Wins

    Best-selling intelligence historian Christopher Andrew provides a complete, detailed history of spying, intelligence and its uses.

  • Review
    Healing Self-Advocacy
    The Healing Self
    The Healing Selfby Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi Healing Self-Advocacy

    Deepak Chopra and Harvard neurology professor Rudolph E. Tanzi offer a detailed, practical guide to merging your mind and body for greater health and happiness.

  • Review
    More with Less
    Subtract
    Subtractby Leidy Klotz More with Less

    Behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz builds a convincing case – with literary, scientific and historical examples – for the elegance and functionality of subtracting, not adding,…

  • Review
    Practical Worthiness
    Conscious Capitalism
    Conscious Capitalismby John Mackey and Raj Sisodia Practical Worthiness

    John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia make a compelling case for a more aware, conscious but still profitable approach to capitalism.

  • Review
    A Long Road
    Being Mortal
    Being Mortalby Atul Gawande A Long Road

    MacArthur Fellow, Harvard professor and National Book Award finalist Atul Gawande combines compassion with his medical know-how to present a sobering account of the state…

  • Review
    Music: Revelation or Damnation?
    Musicophilia
    Musicophiliaby Oliver Sacks Music: Revelation or Damnation?

    With his usual literate empathy, Dr. Oliver Sacks details the effects of music on those with dementia, Tourette’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s and other conditions.

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    The Best MBA Programs
    Rethinking the MBA
    Rethinking the MBAby Srikant Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick G. Cullen The Best MBA Programs

    Harvard Business School professors Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin and HBS research associate Patrick G. Cullen offer a detailed overview from 2010 of the…