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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
    Gladwell’s Tipping Point
    The Tipping Point
    The Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell Gladwell’s Tipping Point

    Iconic author Malcolm Gladwell explains how social movements start small, expand and become popular currency – and he ought to know.

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    Viral Virus Disruption
    Post Corona
    Post Coronaby Scott Galloway Viral Virus Disruption

    Marketing professor Scott Galloway offers his knowledgeable, rowdy take on how the pandemic is changing, has already changed and will continue to change the US…

  • Review
    Inspiring Olympic Victory
    The Boys in the Boat
    The Boys in the Boatby Daniel James Brown Inspiring Olympic Victory

    Daniel James Brown tells the compelling story of the US crew members who triumphed in the face of Nazi Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

  • Review
    Don’t Bother Excelling
    The Peter Principle
    The Peter Principleby Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull Don’t Bother Excelling

    Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull remade management tactics and perceptions forever with this funny, best-selling business classic.

  • Review
    Essential Coaching
    Trillion Dollar Coach
    Trillion Dollar Coachby Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle Essential Coaching

    Google executives Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle illuminate the intersection of strategy and coaching in this homage to executive coach Bill Campbell.

  • Review
    The Eyes of a Child
    Small Fry
    Small Fryby Lisa Brennan-Jobs The Eyes of a Child

    Lisa Brennan-Jobs writes with candor, skill and remarkably little self-pity about her complex and contradictory relationship with her renowned father.

  • Review
    A Violent History
    The Better Angels of Our Nature
    The Better Angels of Our Natureby Steven Pinker A Violent History

    Steven Pinker searches history for the reasons that violence has shockingly decreased worldwide.

  • Review
    Escape From Ignorance
    Educated
    Educatedby Tara Westover Escape From Ignorance

    Tara Westover, PhD, presents the harrowing saga of her rural, abusive upbringing and her escape into the larger world and a life of the mind.

  • Review
    Scrum Made Clear
    Essential Scrum
    Essential Scrumby Kenneth S Rubin Scrum Made Clear

    A clear, practical, applicable guide to Scrum’s innate complexities and elegant simplicities.

  • Review
    Men As Allies
    Good Guys
    Good Guysby David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson Men As Allies

    A practical guide – backed by considerable research – on how to become a male ally for the women in your workplace.