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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

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    Solve It!
    Problem Solving 101
    Problem Solving 101by Ken Watanabe Solve It!

    Ken Watanabe’s problem-solving primer for kids became an international bestseller due to its wide-ranging, effective strategies for tackling problems.

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    Epidemics, Outbreaks and Pandemics
    The Pandemic Century
    The Pandemic Centuryby Mark Honigsbaum Epidemics, Outbreaks and Pandemics

    Prolific medical historian Mark Honigsbaum provides a chilling, detailed overview of the human experience of pandemics, encompassing plague, flu, SARS and AIDS.

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    Follow the Cards
    Fair Play
    Fair Playby Eve Rodsky Follow the Cards

    Philanthropy Advisory Group co-founder Eve Rodsky offers a comprehensive, blame-free system for equitably allocating domestic work.

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    Private Profit, Private Wealth
    The Finance Curse
    The Finance Curseby Nicholas Shaxson Private Profit, Private Wealth

    Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson offers an impassioned, detailed indictment of neoliberalism.

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    Cool Your Thinking
    The Marshmallow Test
    The Marshmallow Testby Walter Mischel Cool Your Thinking

    Renowned cognition researcher Walter Mischel offers a useful, accessible report to give readers a greater understanding of the role of self-control and how it relates…

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    Bleak Prospects
    Nickel and Dimed
    Nickel and Dimedby Barbara Ehrenreich Bleak Prospects

    Barbara Ehrenreich reports with compassion and detail on the plight of America’s low-wage workers, whom she joined to research this heartbreaking indictment.

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    A Different History
    Sapiens
    Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari A Different History

    Best-selling author and thinker Yuval Noah Harari offers a different, learned perspective on the history of human beings.

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    The Flow of Money
    Happy Money
    Happy Moneyby Ken Honda The Flow of Money

    Ken Honda, Japan’s “Happy Little Millionaire,” contends that your attitude determines how much money flows to you.

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    Crashedby Adam Tooze Calamity and Rescue

    Award-winning author and Columbia University history professor Adam Tooze offers a detailed, granular recounting of the 2008 financial crisis.

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    Who Bees Are
    Buzz
    Buzzby Thor Hanson Who Bees Are

    Prolific biologist and author Thor Hanson offers a compelling, fact-filled, fun overview of bees, their evolution, their role in nature, and the benefits and threats of…