Publisher's Weekly Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (The Tipping Point) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgments-about people's intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategy-he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why does Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell's conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant facts-and that less input (as long as it's the right input) is better than more. Perhaps the most stunning example he gives of this counterintuitive truth is the most expensive war game ever conducted by the Pentagon, in which a wily marine officer, playing "a rogue military commander" in the Persian Gulf and unencumbered by hierarchy, bureaucracy and too much technology, humiliated American forces whose chiefs were bogged down in matrixes, systems for decision making and information overload. But if one sets aside Gladwell's dazzle, some questions and apparent inconsistencies emerge. If doctors are given an algorithm, or formula, in which only four facts are needed to determine if a patient is having a heart attack, is that really educating the doctor's decision-making ability-or is it taking the decision out of the doctor's hands altogether and handing it over to the algorithm? Still, each case study is satisfying, and Gladwell imparts his own evident pleasure in delving into a wide range of fields and seeking an underlying truth.

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MALCOLM GLADWELL

Management & Leadership

Back Bay Books / Little Brown, 2005

Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 bestsellers, The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many different kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; the reasons why homelessness might be easier to solve than manage; his famous profile of inventor and entrepreneur Ron Popeil; a look at why employers love personality tests; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America. For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation-a mix tape from America's alpha mind

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin

Social commentator Malcolm Gladwell once again takes the pulse of contemporary experience and, in BLINK, comes up with this enlightening exploration of the role of rapid thinking in everyday life. Gladwell shows how what we call snap judgments, first impressions, or instinct are often right on target and get to the core truths. He reveals that experts call this process "thin-slicing"--the ability to dive for truth the way a basketball player grabs a loose ball on the court, cutting through layers and levels of knowledge that resist tortured analysis. He reports on current research in the fields of science and psychology, and their applications in marketing. Gladwell writes of the marriage therapist who can discern, by listening to three minutes of the parties talking to each other, whether their marriage will last, and how thin-slicing operates in a job interview or when an insurance company wants to identify which doctors are candidates for lawsuits. It might be a sense of structures and patterns, or a Sherlock Holmesian sensitivity to the messages we send out, or just the ability to filter out bad signals and bad information. Gladwell draws examples from the home, office, and school, and proceeds with care and caution through his material; his exposition is as engaging as it was in his previous book, THE TIPPING POINT. After reading Gladwell you will more likely trust your first impressions, but wonder what others are thinking, too.

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Little

His most enjoyable book so far. It is a feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind. Each of its stories...has an ending that is both happy and surprising. What ostensibly unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage. Yet there is something more powerful and uplifting that also links them. It is that good beats bad - just when you least expected it. - Financial Time.

David and Goliath: Art of Battling Giants (A)

Penguin Export

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Talking to Strangers

Brought to you by Penguin.\nThe highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History.\nWith original archival interviews and musical scoring, this enhanced audiobook edition of Talking to Strangers brings Gladwell's renowned storytelling to life in his unparalleled narrating style.\nThe 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?\nThrough a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - 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.\nNo one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

Penguin Uk

二战期间，一小队被称为 “轰炸机黑手党” 的乌托邦空军战略家试图通过精确轰炸赢得大战，在充分研究了全新技术设备诺登投弹瞄准器后，他们认定在白天实施只针对敌方特定重要基础设施的轰炸会起作用。然而事与愿违，数次行动失败后，战局失控。随后军方高层下令更换指挥官，新指挥官李梅实施了与前任指挥官汉塞尔截然相反的区域轰炸战略，在凝固汽油弹的帮助下，李梅共轰炸了日本的 67 座城市，但由于轰炸造成的伤亡惨重，李梅的行为引起极大争议。\n这是一个关于理想主义、实用主义、技术创新和不可估量的战争代价的故事。在书中，格拉德威尔肯定了李梅的贡献，其方式虽然粗暴，但缩短了战争的时间，在某种程度上可谓避免了更大的代价，让所有人最快地重新获得和平与繁荣。以汉塞尔为代表的 “轰炸机黑手党” 虽未获得成功，但格拉德威尔用大量篇幅描述并称赞了其对梦想、创新和科技的坚持，将其视为道德典范。没有坚持，原则便没有意义。汉塞尔是一个典型的堂吉诃德式人物，他的行为生动地给读者展示出好的意图如何事与愿违。格拉德威尔引出的是一个道德判断与事实判断的哲学问题，考验的是道德与人性。

The Bomber Mafia

Mr. Malcolm Gladwell breaks down snap judgments and reveals how powerful a tool they can be in decision making. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially our representatives in government.

Little. Brown and Company

DJ missing only flaw. Minimal shelfwear. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight.

Outliers: The Story of Success

Little,Brown & Company

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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

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David and Goliath: Art of Battling Giants (A)

Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

The Bomber Mafia

The Bomber Mafia

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Outliers: The Story of Success