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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
    Class Disparity
    The Tyranny of Merit
    The Tyranny of Meritby Michael J. Sandel Class Disparity

    Professor Michael J. Sandel describes the problems and dangerous fallout of America's obsession with status and success.

  • Review
    Do Less
    Drop the Ball
    Drop the Ballby Tiffany Dufu Do Less

    Tiffany Dufu, the Chief Leadership Officer of Levo, offers sound advice for working women who seek work-life balance and true collaboration with their domestic partners.

  • Review
    A Penguin’s Progress
    Our Iceberg Is Melting
    Our Iceberg Is Meltingby John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber A Penguin’s Progress

    Best-selling author John Kotter teams with Holger Rathgeber to present an accessible fable about change initiatives. For many years now, their lovable penguins have been the best change-management teachers around.

  • Review
    Uber’s Icarus
    Super Pumped
    Super Pumpedby Mike Isaac Uber’s Icarus

    Award-winning journalist Mike Isaac tells the fascinating story of Travis Kalanick’s meteoric rise and fall as CEO of Uber.

  • Review
    Language and Democracy
    Surviving Autocracy
    Surviving Autocracyby Masha Gessen Language and Democracy

    National Book Award-winning author Masha Geesen offers a perceptive appraisal of Donald Trump’s perversion of language in his bid for authoritarian power.

  • Review
    Own Your Strength
    WOLFPACK
    WOLFPACKby Abby Wambach Own Your Strength

    Abby Wambach, New York Times bestselling author and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and FIFA World Cup soccer champion, inspires women to accept their strength and their failures.

  • Review
    Accept Yourself
    Rising Strong
    Rising Strongby Brené Brown Accept Yourself

    Brené Brown showcases her singular gift for merging New Age thought and rigorous research to guide readers to greater self-compassion.

  • Review
    Get More Sleep
    The Sleep Revolution
    The Sleep Revolutionby Arianna Huffington Get More Sleep

    No one, Ariana Huffington argues persuasively, gets enough sleep and everybody should get more. Now, find the time.

  • Review
    The Rewards of Diversity
    Rebel Ideas
    Rebel Ideasby Matthew Syed The Rewards of Diversity

    Best-selling author and award-winning New York Times columnist Matthew Syed explores contemporary gestalts to reveal the positive power of diversity.

  • Review
    Pioneering (Incompetent) Analytics
    If Then
    If Thenby Jill Lepore Pioneering (Incompetent) Analytics

    Historian, professor and best-selling author, Jill Lepore turns her intelligence, insight and wit to the saga of a seminal data analytics company and how it predicted…