Malcolm Gladwell
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Blink
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.96(541497 ratings)
David and Goliath
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.96(152696 ratings)
Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell’s dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.
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 shouldn’t have won.
Or should he have?
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms–all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell’s previous bestsellers–The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
Outliers
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 18, 2008
- Language: English
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4.19(678971 ratings)
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart–from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from “a singular talent” (New York Times Book Review).
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
... Read moreTalking to Strangers
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.02(230910 ratings)
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The Tipping Point
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 03, 2007
- Language: English
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4(762490 ratings)
“A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” –Michael Lewis
What the Dog Saw
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 20, 2009
- Language: English
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3.85(88884 ratings)
The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on “minor geniuses” and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this “delightful” (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from TheNew Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the “dog whisperer” who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and “hindsight bias” and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
“Good writing,” Gladwell says in his preface, “does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head.” What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.