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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
    Embrace Compassion
    Lead…for God’s Sake!
    Lead…for God’s Sake!by Todd Gongwer Embrace Compassion

    Todd G. Gongwer offers an accessible sports parable to help you become a compassionate servant leader.

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    Debunking Brain Claims
    Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging
    Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imagingby Amir Raz and Robert T. Thibault Debunking Brain Claims

    Neuroscientist Amir Raz and postdoctoral researcher Robert T. Thibault offer an overview of brain imaging technology to separate facts from popular perceptions and marketing hype.

  • Review
    Tomorrow Is Here
    The Future Starts Now
    The Future Starts Nowby Theo Priestley and Bronwyn Williams Tomorrow Is Here

    Bronwyn Williams – economist – and Theo Priestley – anti-futurist – provide a collection of compelling essays on the changes and challenges the onrushing future…

  • Review
    Don’t Believe the Hype
    Rebooting AI
    Rebooting AIby Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis Don’t Believe the Hype

    AI researchers and prolific authors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis offer a wide-ranging, readable refutation of myths about AI capability and its likely threat or…

  • Review
    The Big Boys
    Strategy Rules
    Strategy Rulesby David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano The Big Boys

    Renowned business writers David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano offer insightful, original and highly useful portraits of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Andy Groves,…

  • Review
    Migration and Climate Change
    Nomad Century
    Nomad Centuryby Gaia Vince Migration and Climate Change

    Gaia Vince details how climate change will drive immigration, how immigrants help their host nations and how the world must adapt to the escalating climate…

  • Review
    How to Talk to Tweens
    Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen
    Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteenby Michelle Icard How to Talk to Tweens

    Michelle Icard, author of 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success and an NBC parenting expert, offers straightforward, workable advice for communicating with and…

  • Review
    Looking Toward Tomorrow
    Superforecasting
    Superforecastingby Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner Looking Toward Tomorrow

    Behavioral scientist Philip E. Tetlock reveals how to apply your perceptions to figuring out the future.

  • Review
    Microbes Rule
    Pathogenesis
    Pathogenesisby Jonathan Kennedy Microbes Rule

    Bacteria and viruses have played a fascinating, unexpected role in human, urban, and political development.

  • Review
    A Regionalized World
    The Globalization Myth
    The Globalization Mythby Shannon K. O'Neil A Regionalized World

    The author of Two Nations Indivisible and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, Shannon K. O’Neil details why nations thrive when neighbors cooperate.