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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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    Advice from One Who Knows
    Secrets of Sand Hill Road
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    Wildly successful venture capitalist Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, provides a welcome and straightforward guide for founders seeking venture capital.

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    Decisive Success
    What It Takes
    What It Takesby Stephen A. Schwarzman Decisive Success

    Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, details his extraordinary career.

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    Toni Morrison Speaks
    The Source of Self-Regard
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    American icon, Nobelist Toni Morrison, offers her views on literature, race, politics and creative writing.

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    10,000 Hours?
    Outliers
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    Bestseller Malcolm Gladwell explores what makes an outlier and the cultures that outliers outlie from.

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    Hidden Forces at Work
    Aroused
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    Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH offers a lively, accessible discussion of the role of hormones in the human body, the history of medical discoveries relating to…

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    Toxins, Disease and Intelligence
    A Terrible Thing to Waste
    A Terrible Thing to Wasteby Harriet A. Washington Toxins, Disease and Intelligence

    National Book Critics Circle Award winner, medical ethicist Harriet A. Washington reveals startling correlations between proximity to pollution and lower intelligence.

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    Native American Resilience
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Kneeby David Treuer Native American Resilience

    Ojibwe tribe member Dr. David Treuer delivers Native American history illustrated through the lives of everyday individuals.

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    Passion and Perseverance.
    Grit
    Gritby Angela Duckworth Passion and Perseverance.

    Grit is the ability to persevere in the face of setbacks and disappointments, and to strive to improve even amid success.

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    Don’t Expect Answers
    Antifragile
    Antifragileby Nassim Nicholas Taleb Don’t Expect Answers

    Best-selling author of The Black Swan and brilliant iconoclast Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains – or doesn’t – why fearing volatility paralyzes thinking and systems.

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    Get That Job
    What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019
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    Perennially bestselling annual manual tells you how to “parachute” into the perfect job situation.