David and Goliath

Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

David and Goliath

Gladwell, Malcolm

Editorial Little&Brown
Fecha de edición octubre 2013 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780316251785
304 páginas
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Resumen del libro

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 Gladwell""challenges 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.



Biografía del autor

(born September 3, 1963) is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. 1 He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). All five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.<br><br>Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. Gladwell was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011<br><br><br><br>Malcolm Gladwell (Inglaterra, 1963) escribe habitualmente, desde 1996, para la revista The New Yorker. Es autor de Inteligencia intuitiva (Punto de Lectura, 2006), La clave del éxito. The Tipping Point (Taurus, 2007) y Fuera de serie (Punto de Lectura 2010), que han ocupado, todos ellos, primeros puestos en las listas internacionales de ventas. Antes de unirse a The New Yorker, trabajó como reportero para The Washington Post, del que cubría las secciones de Negocios y Ciencia y dirigió la oficina de Nueva York.





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