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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
    Escaping Gender Stereotypes
    The Gendered Brain
    The Gendered Brainby Gina Rippon Escaping Gender Stereotypes

    Cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon, PhD presents a wealth of scientific data to demonstrate the minimal innate differences between men and women and the enduring power…

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    Information as Energy
    The Ascent of Information
    The Ascent of Informationby Caleb Scharf Information as Energy

    Caleb Scharf, director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center, offers a self-renewing, self-contradictory discussion of information as an evolutionary source of universal energy.

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    Passionate Selling
    It Ain’t Rocket Surgery
    It Ain’t Rocket Surgeryby Brian McKittrick Passionate Selling

    Sales ace Brian McKittrick offers straightforward, functional sales advice all salespeople can apply immediately.

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    Whither AI?
    Architects of Intelligence
    Architects of Intelligenceby Martin Ford Whither AI?

    Futurist author Martin Ford interviews myriad experts to determine the path of oncoming AI.

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    American Empire (now defunct)
    Vanderbilt
    Vanderbiltby Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe American Empire (now defunct)

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper tells his forebears’ amazing tale: once America’s richest clan, they wasted it all.

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    Find Your Job
    Never Search Alone
    Never Search Aloneby Phyl Terry Find Your Job

    Phyl Terry offers a systematic approach to building job-hunting support, gaining crucial feedback and finding the job you really want.

  • Review
    Hope Heals
    The Book of Hope
    The Book of Hopeby Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Hope Heals

    Primatologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, and Douglas Abrams – author of The Book of Joy – offer a detailed guide to vesting…

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    Vest in Self-Belief
    You Coach You
    You Coach Youby Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis Vest in Self-Belief

    Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – who co-wrote the best-selling book The Squiggly Career – offer sound, workable advice for boosting your growth mindset and self-belief.

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    Greater Self-Awareness
    Emotional Intelligence Habits
    Emotional Intelligence Habitsby Travis Bradberry Greater Self-Awareness

    Travis Bradberry, PhD, co-author of the bestseller, Emotional Intelligence 2.0., provides tools to increase your EQ and improve your relationship with yourself and others.

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    An Equitable Economy
    Free and Equal
    Free and Equalby Daniel Chandler An Equitable Economy

    London School of Economics professor Daniel Chandler offers insights into philosopher John Rawls’s economic philosophy and how that philosophy is relevant today.