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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
    Controlling the Internet
    The Great Firewall of China
    The Great Firewall of Chinaby James Griffiths Controlling the Internet

    CNN’s James Griffiths offers a modern horror story – the rapid conversion of China’s internet into a seamless tool of state repression, conformity and oppression.

  • Review
    Sail Into Wide Open Waters
    Blue Ocean Strategy
    Blue Ocean Strategyby W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Sail Into Wide Open Waters

    W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s updated, bestselling business classic guides you from stormy seas of constant competition to the calm waters of market dominance.

  • Review
    Lifequakes
    Life Is in the Transitions
    Life Is in the Transitionsby Bruce Feiler Lifequakes

    Best-selling author Bruce Feiler offers sound, compassionate strategies for dealing with lifequakes: powerful events that reshape your identity and your world.

  • Review
    Continuous Feedback Loop
    Founder Brand
    Founder Brandby Dave Gerhardt Continuous Feedback Loop

    Marketer Dave Gerhardt explains how and why you should make a company's founder into an effective personal brand.

  • Review
    Value and Outcomes
    Sooner Safer Happier
    Sooner Safer Happierby Zsolt Berend, Simon Rohrer, Jonathan Smart and Myles Ogilvie Value and Outcomes

    Jonathan Smart, agility practitioner, thought leader, speaker and coach, offers a blueprint of the mind-set you need to embrace Agile or Lean.

  • Review
    Blood and Money
    Nine Pints
    Nine Pintsby Rose George Blood and Money

    Esteemed journalist and author Rose George illuminates how blood functions in the body and in the worldwide marketplace.

  • Review
    The Big Boys
    Strategy Rules
    Strategy Rulesby David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano The Big Boys

    Renowned business writers David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano offer insightful, original and highly useful portraits of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Andy Groves,…

  • 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.