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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
    Difficult Topics Well Raised
    Hood Feminism
    Hood Feminismby Mikki Kendall Difficult Topics Well Raised

    Activist Mikki Kendall boldly goes where few Black women writers have gone – she exposes and then suggests how to heal the racial fault lines in…

  • Review
    Quick Praise Gets Results
    The One Minute Manager
    The One Minute Managerby Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard Quick Praise Gets Results

    To motivate your staff members – and to get the results you want – catch people doing something right and praise them immediately and in…

  • Review
    Passionate, Poetic Science
    Cosmos
    Cosmosby Carl Sagan Passionate, Poetic Science

    Writer, professor, astronomer and NASA adviser Carl Sagan explains the universe and humanity’s place in it.

  • Review
    Empathy and Warmth
    The Excellence Dividend
    The Excellence Dividendby Tom Peters Empathy and Warmth

    Business advice titan Tom Peters explains that the human element drives excellence, and it is the only thing that can temper an avalanche of tech.

  • Review
    Trust Your Instincts
    Blink
    Blinkby Malcolm Gladwell Trust Your Instincts

    Malcom Gladwell’s bestseller explores the relationship between rational thought and intuition, with surprising insights into both.

  • Review
    Melinda Gates’s Journey
    The Moment of Lift
    The Moment of Liftby Melinda Gates Melinda Gates’s Journey

    Melinda Gates describes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to break cycles of poverty, ignorance, disease and discrimination.

  • Review
    Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter
    How Ike Led
    How Ike Ledby Susan Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter

    Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan Eisenhower offers a politically and emotionally astute accounting of Ike’s life and career.

  • Review
    Leaders serve first.
    Leaders Eat Last
    Leaders Eat Lastby Simon Sinek Leaders serve first.

    TED star and best-seller Simon Sinek says companies need both hierarchy and collaborative leadership.

  • Review
    New Geopolitics
    The New Map
    The New Mapby Daniel Yergin New Geopolitics

    Pulitzer Prize–winner Daniel Yergin details today’s map of geopolitical power through the prism of energy and economics.

  • Review
    Seek the Bottom
    The Innovator's Solution
    The Innovator's Solutionby Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Seek the Bottom

    Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor offer a follow-up to Christensen’s best-selling The Innovator’s Dilemma, presenting a clear blueprint to disruptive innovation.