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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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    This Is How You Do It
    The Leadership Code
    The Leadership Codeby Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman This Is How You Do It

    Three noted business authors combine their career-long insights to offer clear, basic, comprehensive rules great leaders should follow.

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    Keep Moving
    Sink, Float or Swim
    Sink, Float or Swimby Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel Keep Moving

    Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel provide up-to-date life guidance on sleep, nutrition, exercise, mind-set and positive attitude.

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    We’re All In Sales
    To Sell Is Human
    To Sell Is Humanby Daniel H. Pink We’re All In Sales

    Daniel Pink sets out to construct “a broad rethinking of sales as we know it.”

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    The Medium Is the Messenger
    Messengers
    Messengersby Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks The Medium Is the Messenger

    Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and researcher Joseph Marks draw insightful conclusions from in-depth research into how messengers influence your responses and the attention you pay…

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    Work With Common Sense
    Great at Work
    Great at Workby Morten T. Hansen Work With Common Sense

    Morten T. Hansen Ph.D. shares the results of his prodigious research into how to work smarter.

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    Own Your Data
    Living in Data
    Living in Databy Jer Thorp Own Your Data

    Data visionary Jef Thorp takes you on a tour of data visualization, conceptualization, ownership and inequality, and inspires you to take control of your data.

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    Through Your Nose
    Breath
    Breathby James Nestor Through Your Nose

    James Nestor offers revelatory insights into the health and psychological benefits of breathing more slowly – and always through your nose.

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    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.