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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
    Migration and Climate Change
    Nomad Century
    Nomad Centuryby Gaia Vince Migration and Climate Change

    Gaia Vince details how climate change will drive immigration, how immigrants help their host nations and how the world must adapt to the escalating climate…

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    How to Talk to Tweens
    Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen
    Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteenby Michelle Icard How to Talk to Tweens

    Michelle Icard, author of 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success and an NBC parenting expert, offers straightforward, workable advice for communicating with and…

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    Looking Toward Tomorrow
    Superforecasting
    Superforecastingby Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner Looking Toward Tomorrow

    Behavioral scientist Philip E. Tetlock reveals how to apply your perceptions to figuring out the future.

  • Review
    Microbes Rule
    Pathogenesis
    Pathogenesisby Jonathan Kennedy Microbes Rule

    Bacteria and viruses have played a fascinating, unexpected role in human, urban, and political development.

  • Review
    A Regionalized World
    The Globalization Myth
    The Globalization Mythby Shannon K. O'Neil A Regionalized World

    The author of Two Nations Indivisible and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, Shannon K. O’Neil details why nations thrive when neighbors cooperate.

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    A Towering Figure
    The Price of Peace
    The Price of Peaceby Zachary D. Carter A Towering Figure

    HuffPost reporter Zachary D. Carter’s biography of that titan of economics, John Maynard Keynes, eschews the theoretical to recount a human journey of intense emotion and moral combat.…

  • Review
    Someday Come Back with Books
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the Worldby John Wood Someday Come Back with Books

    Microsoft changed the world. Former Microsoft executive John Wood made it a better place to live: He gave up corporate life to deliver books and build…

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    Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon
    The Climate Casino
    The Climate Casinoby William D. Nordhaus Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon

    Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus details the complexity of the political and economic responses to climate change.

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    “I’m Against It”
    Natural Causes
    Natural Causesby Barbara Ehrenreich “I’m Against It”

    Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich offers her stringent views of current American society and its discontents.

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    Humanist Economics
    Doughnut Economics
    Doughnut Economicsby Kate Raworth Humanist Economics

    Renegade economist Kate Raworth cites the problems that today’s economic system generates and offers radical but practical solutions.