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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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    An Epidemic of Profits
    Empire of Pain
    Empire of Painby Patrick Radden Keefe An Epidemic of Profits

    Award-winning journalist Patrick Radden Keefe details the Sackler family’s incredible success fomenting and sustaining America’s opioid addiction.

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    Ideologues of the Alt-Right
    A World after Liberalism
    A World after Liberalismby Matthew Rose Ideologues of the Alt-Right

    Scholar Matthew Rose profiles the ideologues whose writings spawned and support today’s far-right philosophies.

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    Experts Who Take Action
    Upskill, Reskill, Thrive
    Upskill, Reskill, Thriveby James McKenna Experts Who Take Action

    Professional learning and teaching expert James McKenna provides a comprehensive program to help companies best enable their people to learn and retain new skills.

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    The Bond King’s Rise and Fall
    The Bond King
    The Bond Kingby Mary Childs The Bond King’s Rise and Fall

    Mary Childs — cohost of NPR’s Planet Money podcast — details the vertiginous rise and precipitate fall of Bill Gross, the insightful bond trader who foretold…

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    Economic Overlords
    Technofeudalism
    Technofeudalismby Yanis Varoufakis Economic Overlords

    Economist, political leader, and author Yanis Varoufakis accurately depicts the end of individuality under “technofeudalism.”

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    Uncovering Generational Truths
    The Generation Myth
    The Generation Mythby Bobby Duffy Uncovering Generational Truths

    Public policy expert Bobby Duffy explains how the media and lazy thinking perpetuate untruths about generational differences.

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    Stolen Cells
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot Stolen Cells

    Scientists took Henrietta Lacks’s cells without asking – cells that brought others profit and success.

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    Difficult Topics Well Raised
    Hood Feminism
    Hood Feminismby Mikki Kendall Difficult Topics Well Raised

    Activist Mikki Kendall boldly goes where few Black women writers have gone – she exposes and then suggests how to heal the racial fault lines in…

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    Quick Praise Gets Results
    The One Minute Manager
    The One Minute Managerby Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard Quick Praise Gets Results

    To motivate your staff members – and to get the results you want – catch people doing something right and praise them immediately and in…

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    Passionate, Poetic Science
    Cosmos
    Cosmosby Carl Sagan Passionate, Poetic Science

    Writer, professor, astronomer and NASA adviser Carl Sagan explains the universe and humanity’s place in it.

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