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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
    Cursing Rules
    Swearing Is Good for You
    Swearing Is Good for Youby Emma Byrne Cursing Rules

    Science writer Emma Byrne dissects the joys and catharsis of cursing, complete with scientific, cultural and evolutionary justifications for having a dirty mouth.

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    Stick Your Neck Out
    Skin in the Game
    Skin in the Gameby Nassim Nicholas Taleb Stick Your Neck Out

    Get involved, says Nassim Nicholas Taleb, but only if you care enough to invest your time, money or commitment. You've got to have skin in the…

  • Review
    The Baltics and Russia
    The Shadow in the East
    The Shadow in the Eastby Aliide Naylor The Baltics and Russia

    Journalist Aliide Naylor provides a detailed protrait of the Baltics’ past, present and likely future relations with Russia.

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    Countdown!
    The 5 Second Rule
    The 5 Second Ruleby Mel Robbins Countdown!

    Mel Robbins’s mega bestseller details how you can gain courage, overcome procrastination and improve your health just by saying five little words.

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    A Different Perspective
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    21 Lessons for the 21st Centuryby Yuval Noah Harari A Different Perspective

    Historian, philosopher and social critic Yuval Noah Harari provides an articulate, hard-bitten realpolitik of solid philosophical and practical advice.

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    Democracy Threatened
    Peril
    Perilby Bob Woodward and Robert Costa Democracy Threatened

    Woodward and Costa present a deadpan, nonpartisan chronicle of the events leading up to and following Trump’s election defeat.

  • Review
    Purposeful Leadership
    The Heart of Business
    The Heart of Businessby Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert Purposeful Leadership

    Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly details how to transform your company and yourself by pursuing purposeful leadership.

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    Change – Step by Step
    Step Up, Step Back
    Step Up, Step Backby Elsbeth Johnson Change – Step by Step

    Elsbeth Johnson of the MIT Sloan School of Management offers a detailed, actionable manual for leaders driving change and for students studying change implementation.

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    Introducing Agile
    Doing Agile Right
    Doing Agile Rightby Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez Introducing Agile

    A trio of IT consultants explains agile in detail in this worthwhile guidebook for beginners.

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    Discipline and Humility
    Extreme Ownership
    Extreme Ownershipby Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Discipline and Humility

    Best-selling authors and former US Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin relate illustrative war stories and link them to crucial business issues: Own ’em, prioritize…