DAVID AND GOLIATH MALCOLM GLADWELL UNDERDOGS, MISFITS AND THE ART OF BATTLING GIANTS
Publication details: LONDON ALLEN LANE: AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN BOOKS 2013Description: IX, 305 P. HARDISBN: 978-1-846-14581-0Subject(s): MOTIVATION (PSYCHOLOGY) | STRUGGLE -- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS | OPPORTUNITY | SUCCESSDDC classification: 155.2Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Goliath : "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?" --
Part 1. The advantages of disadvantages (and the disadvantages of advantages). --
Vivek Ranadivé: "It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before." --
Teresa DeBrito: "My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun." --
Caroline Sacks: "If I'd gone to the University of Maryland, I'd still be in science." --
Part 2. The theory of desirable difficulty. --
David Boies: You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? --
Emil "Jay" Freireich: "How Jay did it, I don't know." --
Wyatt Walker: "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made." --
Part 3. The limits of power. --
Rosemary Lawlor: "I wasn't born that way. This was forced upon me." --
Wilma Derksen: "We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to." --
André Trocmé: "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews."
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) and most recently, Outliers (2008) all three of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.
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