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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
    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.

  • Review
    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.

  • Review
    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.

  • Review
    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…

  • Review
    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.

  • Review
    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.

  • Review
    Human Content Filters
    Behind the Screen
    Behind the Screenby Sarah Roberts Human Content Filters

    Professor Sarah T. Roberts explores the seldom-seen world of human content moderators who screen images and text to find and delete offensive, violent, pornographic or terrorist content…

  • Review
    Fight Antisemitism
    Antisemitism
    Antisemitismby Deborah E. Lipstadt Fight Antisemitism

    Scholar and author Deborah E. Lipstadt offers a thorough, rational, evidence-based history and refutation of antisemitism.

  • Review
    Choose Hope
    Calm Within the Storm
    Calm Within the Stormby Robyne Hanley-Dafoe Choose Hope

    Psychology instructor Robyne Hanley-Dafoe offers a compassionate, uplifting guide for dealing with life’s challenges.

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    Beware the Black Box
    Weapons of Math Destruction
    Weapons of Math Destructionby Cathy O'Neil Beware the Black Box

    Math professor Cathy O’Neil explores how algorithms affect much of your daily life and reveals corrupt practices that algorithms sustain.