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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
    It’s Worse Than You Think
    Falter
    Falterby Bill McKibben It’s Worse Than You Think

    Leading environmentalist Bill McKibben offers a detailed presentation of the ongoing climate catastrophe and how humanity can forestall it.

  • Review
    Ginsburg Speaks
    Conversations with RBG
    Conversations with RBGby Jeffrey Rosen Ginsburg Speaks

    Legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen presents decades of interviews with Ruth Bader Ginsburg highlighting her brilliance and fortitude.

  • Review
    World Order 2.0
    A World in Disarray
    A World in Disarrayby Richard Haass World Order 2.0

    President of the Council on Foreign Relations and global political veteran Richard Haass offers an overview of current world politics and warns of destabilizing forces.

  • Review
    Flying In
    Our Towns
    Our Townsby James Fallows and Deborah Fallows Flying In

    Don’t fly over America’s small towns. Instead, fly in for a portrait of the current and likely future state of US cities.

  • Review
    Science and Religion
    For Small Creatures Such As We
    For Small Creatures Such As Weby Sasha Sagan Science and Religion

    Sasha Sagan explains how the faithful and the skeptical both use rituals to celebrate life events and honor the wonder of nature.

  • Review
    Cool, Calm and Collected
    Executive Presence for the Modern Leader
    Executive Presence for the Modern Leaderby D.A. Benton Cool, Calm and Collected

    Executive coach D.A. Benton – author of New York Times bestseller How To Think Like a CEO – details how you can develop executive presence.

  • Review
    A Tell-All from “Inside a Pinball Machine”
    The Room Where It Happened
    The Room Where It Happenedby John Bolton A Tell-All from “Inside a Pinball Machine”

    Former national security adviser John Bolton offers an insider’s take of the fundamental dysfunction in the Trump White House.

  • Review
    Surviving Leadership
    The First 90 Days
    The First 90 Daysby Michael Watkins Surviving Leadership

    Michael Watkins practical bestseller warns freshly promoted leaders: Your first 90 days as a new leader can make or break you. Here’s how to make sure…

  • Review
    Cope With Change Step by Step
    Leadership, Reinvented
    Leadership, Reinventedby Hamza Khan Cope With Change Step by Step

    Hamza Khan, author of The Burnout Gamble, offers a comprehensive guide to developing your company and yourself to deal with constant change.

  • Review
    Design Thinking
    Change by Design
    Change by Designby Tim Brown Design Thinking

    Design icon and founder of the influential IDEO design firm, Tim Brown offers a practical workbook for new, inspiring methods of problem-solving and product implementation.