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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

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    After the Factory Closes
    American Made
    American Madeby Farah Stockman After the Factory Closes

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman chronicles the monetary, emotional, and political impact of the loss of American skilled blue-collar jobs.

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    Friction or Not
    The Friction Project
    The Friction Projectby Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Friction or Not

    Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao explain how organizational friction works, for good or ill, and how to use it productively.

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    Stolen Cells
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot Stolen Cells

    Scientists took Henrietta Lacks’s cells without asking – cells that brought others profit and success.

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    Difficult Topics Well Raised
    Hood Feminism
    Hood Feminismby Mikki Kendall Difficult Topics Well Raised

    Activist Mikki Kendall boldly goes where few Black women writers have gone – she exposes and then suggests how to heal the racial fault lines in…

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    Quick Praise Gets Results
    The One Minute Manager
    The One Minute Managerby Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard Quick Praise Gets Results

    To motivate your staff members – and to get the results you want – catch people doing something right and praise them immediately and in…

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    Passionate, Poetic Science
    Cosmos
    Cosmosby Carl Sagan Passionate, Poetic Science

    Writer, professor, astronomer and NASA adviser Carl Sagan explains the universe and humanity’s place in it.

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    Empathy and Warmth
    The Excellence Dividend
    The Excellence Dividendby Tom Peters Empathy and Warmth

    Business advice titan Tom Peters explains that the human element drives excellence, and it is the only thing that can temper an avalanche of tech.

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    Trust Your Instincts
    Blink
    Blinkby Malcolm Gladwell Trust Your Instincts

    Malcom Gladwell’s bestseller explores the relationship between rational thought and intuition, with surprising insights into both.

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    Melinda Gates’s Journey
    The Moment of Lift
    The Moment of Liftby Melinda Gates Melinda Gates’s Journey

    Melinda Gates describes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to break cycles of poverty, ignorance, disease and discrimination.

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter
    How Ike Led
    How Ike Ledby Susan Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter

    Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan Eisenhower offers a politically and emotionally astute accounting of Ike’s life and career.

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