Malcolm Gladwell
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Series
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing volume 21
Language
English
Description
Learn Malcolm's advice for aspiring writers, including how to launch and maintain your career as a professional writer.
Author
Series
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing volume 13
Language
English
Description
Learn how Malcolm uses sentence length and punctuation to guide readers through a sophisticated idea.
Author
Series
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing volume 11
Language
English
Description
If you could choose to describe a character by the way they look, or by what they keep in their bedroom, Malcolm says to choose the bedroom. Learn how to use the setting and action around a character to build their personality.
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Series
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing volume 18
Language
English
Description
For Malcolm, a title is the ultimate attention-grabber. Learn how to write powerful titles that will speak to your reader's' emotions.
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Series
Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing volume 14
Language
English
Description
Using a New Yorker article he wrote about a company testing out a new drug, Malcolm demonstrates how to employ jargon to hook your readers.
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English
Description
The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
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English
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How do we think without thinking, seem to make choices in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem? Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines to illustrate that...
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English
Description
Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, and the powerful and the dispossessed.
"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...
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English
Description
Ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do." Behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points -- industrial or transportation hubs -- cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell re-examines moments from the past and asks whether...
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English
Description
Delve into this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
33) What the dog saw
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (approximately 13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An elite distance runner explores the science of human endurance and performance and discusses the cutting-edge studies that show it is the brain?and not heart size, lung capacity or muscle strength?that dictates how far a person can go.
"From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner's World columnist, frequent NewYorker.com contributor, and Cambridge-trained physicist: a fascinating and definitive exploration of the science of endurance and peak...