David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants /
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. He begins with the r...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2013.
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| Έκδοση: | First edition. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Author photo Cover image Additional information at Google Books Staff Review |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction : 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."