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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
-- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He -- real In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point draws upon history, psychology,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 410 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and hindsight bias, and why...
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