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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
    What Is Home?
    The Yellow House
    The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom What Is Home?

    National Book Award winter Sarah Broom’s evocative, singular memoir describes her family’s close-knit poverty and the New Orleans house at the center of their lives.

  • Review
    Swashbuckling Television
    Up All Night
    Up All Nightby Lisa Napoli Swashbuckling Television

    Lisa Napoli details the almost unbelievable history of media mogul Ted Turner and his foremost invention: CNN.

  • 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.

  • Review
    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
    Weinstein’s Fall
    Hollywood Ending
    Hollywood Endingby Ken Auletta Weinstein’s Fall

    Journalist Ken Auletta details Harvey Weinstein’s remarkable Hollywood rise and his sordid fall.

  • Review
    Ever Darker
    The Country of the Blind
    The Country of the Blindby Andrew Leland Ever Darker

    Andrew Leland, editor of The Believer and former host of The Organist podcast, provides a compelling account of his increasing blindness and the enormous changes it brought…