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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
    From Brutal Competitor to Philanthropist
    Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King
    Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, Kingby Anupreeta Das From Brutal Competitor to Philanthropist

    Former New York Times finance editor Anupreeta Das provides a complex portrait of a titan who incarnates his era.

  • Review
    Cutting Through the Hokum
    Economism
    Economismby James Kwak Cutting Through the Hokum

    How does what you learned in Economics 101 apply to real life? James Kwak finds that it doesn’t apply at all, except in service to…

  • Review
    Assessing Racism
    How to Be an Antiracist
    How to Be an Antiracistby Ibram X. Kendi Assessing Racism

    A personal, thorough perspective on racism and American life.

  • Review
    Bezos and His Juggernaut
    Bezonomics
    Bezonomicsby Brian Dumaine Bezos and His Juggernaut

    How Jeff Bezos’s Amazon “flywheel” dominates online retail, the cloud and pretty much anything else he wants.

  • Review
    A Fight for the Truth
    True or False
    True or Falseby Cindy Otis A Fight for the Truth

    Former CIA military analyst Cindy L. Otis offers a concise, knowing overview of fake news and its strategies and tactics.

  • Review
    Show Appreciation
    Appreciate
    Appreciateby Todd Nordstrom, Kevin Ames, Gary Beckstrand and David Sturt Show Appreciation

    Executives from the insight firm O.C. Tanner offer a solid guide for showing appreciation to your employees and colleagues.

  • Review
    Money Shouldn’t Talk
    Licence to Be Bad
    Licence to Be Badby Jonathan Aldred Money Shouldn’t Talk

    Economist Jonathan Aldred journeys through the history of economic theory to argue for a more humane, generous and collaborative society.

  • Review
    Never Mind the Dads
    Rich Dad, Poor Dad
    Rich Dad, Poor Dadby Robert T. Kiyosaki Never Mind the Dads

    Best-selling author Robert T. Kiyosaki offers dueling dads and valuable financial planning advice.

  • Review
    Capitalism: Good
    Big Business
    Big Businessby Tyler Cowen Capitalism: Good

    Economics professor and prolific best-selling author Tyler Cowen makes an impassioned, reasoned argument in favor of big corporations.

  • Review
    The Science Behind Habits
    Good Habits, Bad Habits
    Good Habits, Bad Habitsby Wendy Wood The Science Behind Habits

    Renowned psychologist Wendy Wood explains how habits – good and bad – form and how you can jettison bad habits and develop good ones.