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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
    What Went Wrong
    Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
    Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of Americaby Kurt Andersen What Went Wrong

    Bestselling humorist and cultural commentator Kurt Andersen describes the downward arc of America’s social, economic and political circumstances with great wit and no shortage of…

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    A New Clarity
    Almost Everything
    Almost Everythingby Anne Lamott A New Clarity

    Best-selling author Anne Lamott’s tender, sage musings on her struggles will comfort anyone who doesn't always follow through on his or her best intentions – which…

  • Review
    Make Change Stick
    Leading Change
    Leading Changeby John P. Kotter Make Change Stick

    Bestselling management guru and Harvard Business School professor John P. Kotter details how to initiate change and make it endure.

  • Review
    Build Joy
    Good Company
    Good Companyby Arthur Blank Build Joy

    Arthur Blank, co-founder of The Home Depot and owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, offers a moving manifesto about bringing and sustaining joy in your organization…

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    To Serve Humankind
    To Be a Machine
    To Be a Machineby Mark O'Connell To Serve Humankind

    Slate columnist Mark O’Connell describes, debunks and contextualizes transhumanism – the mind-set that humans can merge with machines.

  • Review
    Smil’s World
    Numbers Don’t Lie
    Numbers Don’t Lieby Vaclav Smil Smil’s World

    Vaclav Smil offers a brief omnibus of his most relevant ideas and insights to paint a clear, unexpected portrait of today’s world.

  • Review
    Weinstein Caught
    Catch and Kill
    Catch and Killby Ronan Farrow Weinstein Caught

    Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting reveals Harvey Weinstein’s harassment of women and the corrupt tactics he – and some news outlets – used to suppress…

  • Review
    Made, Not Born
    Forged in Crisis
    Forged in Crisisby Nancy Koehn Made, Not Born

    Best-selling Harvard professor Nancy Koehn studies leadership through the lives of five modern heroes and one heroine.

  • Review
    Russia in the Arctic, and in the World
    International Politics in the Arctic
    International Politics in the Arcticby Geir Hønneland Russia in the Arctic, and in the World

    Arctic expert Geir Hønneland offers a collection of essays detailing conflict, identity, and the likely future of Russia and the West in the Far North

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    An Inspiring Role Model
    My Life in Full
    My Life in Fullby Indra Nooyi An Inspiring Role Model

    Former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo Indra K. Nooyi offers a career and life retrospective that seeks to inspire women to succeed in the corporate…