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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
    Building Nike
    Shoe Dog
    Shoe Dogby Phil Knight Building Nike

    As few entrepreneurs could, Nike founder Phil Knight proves himself worthy of his own story.

  • Review
    Enslavement and Emancipation
    On Juneteenth
    On Juneteenthby Annette Gordon-Reed Enslavement and Emancipation

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed combines personal memoir and history to present a moving portrait of enslavement and emancipation…

  • Review
    War Endures
    War
    Warby Margaret MacMillan War Endures

    Prolific historian Margaret MacMillan provides a stark, harrowing assessment of war’s past and its inevitable future.

  • Review
    Cognitive Capacities
    Five Minds for the Future
    Five Minds for the Futureby Howard Gardner Cognitive Capacities

    Howard Gardner, a brilliant thinker about thought, describes the mental capacities everyone must develop to succeed today and in the future.

  • Review
    Find Your Creativity
    Creative Confidence
    Creative Confidenceby Tom Kelley and David Kelley Find Your Creativity

    The renowned Kelley brothers of IDEO fame condense their inspirational approach to personal creativity into a workable, fun manual for everyone.

  • Review
    Connection Beats Content
    The Content Trap
    The Content Trapby Bharat Anand Connection Beats Content

    Harvard Business School professor Bharat Anand explains the magic of connections with myriad charming examples and profound business lessons.

  • Review
    Counter Any Attack
    Buy-In
    Buy-Inby John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Counter Any Attack

    Bestselling leadership professor John P. Kotter and innovator Lorne A. Whitehead offer a detailed set of counterattack tactics for anyone who challenges your proposals.

  • Review
    Linear and Nonlinear History
    The Innovators
    The Innovatorsby Walter Isaacson Linear and Nonlinear History

    Calling on in-depth research and brilliant nonlinear conclusion-drawing, best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the history of technological innovation.

  • Review
    Market with Email
    The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook
    The SaaS Email Marketing Playbookby Étienne Garbugli Market with Email

    Customer engagement specialist Étienne Garbugli shows you how to harness email to drive marketing, build a customer base and retain customers for any software-as-service (SaaS)…

  • Review
    Work With Common Sense
    Great at Work
    Great at Workby Morten T. Hansen Work With Common Sense

    Morten T. Hansen Ph.D. shares the results of his prodigious research into how to work smarter.