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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…

  • Review
    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…

  • Review
    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.

  • Review
    Mutual Misunderstanding
    Talking From 9 to 5
    Talking From 9 to 5by Deborah Tannen Mutual Misunderstanding

    Linguist Deborah Tannen explores the complexity of gender-based office communication and how it affects women.

  • Review
    An Exponential Tomorrow
    The Exponential Age
    The Exponential Ageby Azeem Azhar An Exponential Tomorrow

    Host of the Exponential View podcast Azeem Azhar paints a detailed, grim portrait of a future in which tech giants immune to the will of governments…

  • Review
    Looking at Musk
    Elon Musk
    Elon Muskby Ashlee Vance Looking at Musk

    Ashlee Vance takes a long, perhaps too admiring look at Elon Musk, Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.

  • Review
    Speak with Confidence
    Mastering the Art of Public Speaking
    Mastering the Art of Public Speakingby Michael J. Gelb Speak with Confidence

    Executive coach Michael J. Gelb, a prolific self-help author, offers a basic blueprint for everyone who is fearful of public speaking.

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    Economic Theory Vs. Real Life
    The Economists’ Hour
    The Economists’ Hourby Binyamin Appelbaum Economic Theory Vs. Real Life

    New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum delves deep into the histories and philosophies of influential economists to see how their ideas have shaped the American…