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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
    Up and Down
    We Need to Talk About Inflation
    We Need to Talk About Inflationby Stephen D. King Up and Down

    Economist Stephen D. King — prolific author, senior economic adviser at HSBC, and columnist for the Evening Standard — details the historical and political causes…

  • Review
    Bring Out the Dead
    All the Living and the Dead
    All the Living and the Deadby Hayley Campbell Bring Out the Dead

    London broadcaster and journalist Hayley Campbell dissects the processes of taking care of the dead.

  • Review
    A Towering Figure
    The Price of Peace
    The Price of Peaceby Zachary D. Carter A Towering Figure

    HuffPost reporter Zachary D. Carter’s biography of that titan of economics, John Maynard Keynes, eschews the theoretical to recount a human journey of intense emotion and moral combat.…

  • Review
    Someday Come Back with Books
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the Worldby John Wood Someday Come Back with Books

    Microsoft changed the world. Former Microsoft executive John Wood made it a better place to live: He gave up corporate life to deliver books and build…

  • Review
    Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon
    The Climate Casino
    The Climate Casinoby William D. Nordhaus Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon

    Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus details the complexity of the political and economic responses to climate change.

  • Review
    “I’m Against It”
    Natural Causes
    Natural Causesby Barbara Ehrenreich “I’m Against It”

    Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich offers her stringent views of current American society and its discontents.

  • Review
    Humanist Economics
    Doughnut Economics
    Doughnut Economicsby Kate Raworth Humanist Economics

    Renegade economist Kate Raworth cites the problems that today’s economic system generates and offers radical but practical solutions.

  • Review
    Bill Gates Fights Climate Change
    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
    How to Avoid a Climate Disasterby Bill Gates Bill Gates Fights Climate Change

    Microsoft founder Bill Gates presents a clear, indispensable primer on climate change issues and possible actions.

  • Review
    Oliver Sacks’s Final Words
    Everything in Its Place
    Everything in Its Placeby Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks’s Final Words

    Best-selling neurologist and cultural touchstone Oliver Sacks’s final collection of essays on the fundamental mysteries of the human condition.

  • Review
    Less of Everybody
    Empty Planet
    Empty Planetby Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson Less of Everybody

    Researcher Darrell Bricker and journalist John Ibbitson offer startling, evidence-based predictions regarding an ever-diminishing population and its effects.