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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
    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.

  • Review
    The End of the Experiment
    The Next Civil War
    The Next Civil Warby Stephen Marche The End of the Experiment

    Prolific author Stephen Marche provides a frightening overview of the possible unraveling of American society.

  • Review
    Desperate Tenants
    Evicted
    Evictedby Matthew Desmond Desperate Tenants

    Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Genius, offers a heartfelt, heartbreaking detailed portrait of the desperate situations of poor American renters.

  • Review
    Intelligence Always Wins
    The Secret World
    The Secret Worldby Christopher Andrew Intelligence Always Wins

    Best-selling intelligence historian Christopher Andrew provides a complete, detailed history of spying, intelligence and its uses.