Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know /
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Penguin Books,
2020.
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| Summary: | The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences. |
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| Item Description: | First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2019. First published in the USA by Little, Brown and Company 2019. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0141988495 0141988509 9780141988498 9780141988504 |