Malcom Gladwell (84 results)

Condition: Poor. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] [ Water Damage: MODERATE ] Publisher: Worth Publishers Pub Date: 12/29/2011 Binding: Paperback Pages: 270 First edition.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. 5th Print. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 5th or later Edition. Book.

Condition: Fair. Wasserschaden / Verschmutzung; Leichte Abnutzungen; Gebogener Buchrucken; Farbveranderung durch Alter/Sonne; Geknickte Ecken. Malcolm Gladwell explores "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to reveal how we organize our experiences in this engaging collection of writings from The New Yorker. He poses intriguing questions: What distinguishes choking from panicking? Why are there numerous mustard varieties but only one ketchup? What can football players teach us about hiring teachers? How does hair dye reflect 20th-century history? Over the past decade, Gladwell has authored three influential books--The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers--that reshaped our understanding of the world. In this compilation, he presents the best of his New Yorker pieces, featuring the bittersweet story of the birth control pill's inventor and the innovative pasta sauce creator Howard Moscowitz. He shares insights from Ron Popeil, the American kitchen king, and uncovers the techniques of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell delves into topics like intelligence tests, ethnic profiling, and "hindsight bias," examining why Silicon Valley once favored a particular college graduate. He asserts that "good writing" engages readers and offers a glimpse into others' minds. This collection exemplifies Gladwell's buoyant spirit and relentless curiosity, solidifying his reputation as a brilliant investigator of the extraordinary.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken. 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 why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

Condition: Fair. Wasserschaden / Verschmutzung; Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken; Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne. Intuition is often presented as the opposite of structured achievement. There are people who intuit the answer to a problem, and there are those who work it out the long and hard way. This distinction is false: intuitive facilities turn out to be gifts that are developed and educated by practice and experience.

Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse. Malcolm Gladwell explores "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to reveal how we organize our experiences in this engaging collection of writings from The New Yorker. He poses intriguing questions: What distinguishes choking from panicking? Why are there numerous mustard varieties but only one ketchup? What can football players teach us about hiring teachers? How does hair dye reflect 20th-century history? Over the past decade, Gladwell has authored three influential books--The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers--that reshaped our understanding of the world. In this compilation, he presents the best of his New Yorker pieces, featuring the bittersweet story of the birth control pill's inventor and the innovative pasta sauce creator Howard Moscowitz. He shares insights from Ron Popeil, the American kitchen king, and uncovers the techniques of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell delves into topics like intelligence tests, ethnic profiling, and "hindsight bias," examining why Silicon Valley once favored a particular college graduate. He asserts that "good writing" engages readers and offers a glimpse into others' minds. This collection exemplifies Gladwell's buoyant spirit and relentless curiosity, solidifying his reputation as a brilliant investigator of the extraordinary.

hardcover. Condition: New. 5th Print.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Beschriftungen / Markierungen; Leichte Risse. The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Wasserschaden / Verschmutzung; Leichte Risse. THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change. Many of the social ills that face us today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as the epidemics that periodically sweep through the human population: little things can cause them to 'tip' at any time and if we want to understand how to confront and solve them we have to understand what those 'Tipping Points' are. In this revolutionary new study, Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply for politicians and policy-makers, his method provides a new way of viewing everyday experience and enables us to develop strategies for everything from raising a child to running a company.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne. The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse. "New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.". "Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth. He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children's television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high-tech company, and one of the world's greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics."--BOOK JACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse. Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken. From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse; Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne. Malcolm Gladwell intertwines the narratives of a Dutch genius with a homemade computer, a group of brothers in Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to explore a significant moral dilemma in modern American history. In the lead-up to World War II, most military strategists dismissed the airplane's potential. However, a group known as the "Bomber Mafia" proposed a radical idea: could precision bombing of key industrial and transportation hubs incapacitate the enemy and reduce overall casualties? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell revisits historical moments to question whether initial judgments were correct. In this work, he reflects on the bombing of Tokyo, the war's deadliest night, and ponders its justification. The attack stemmed from General Curtis LeMay's ruthless tactics, which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths but may have prevented a more extensive US invasion. The outcome might have differed had General Haywood Hansell, a key Bomber Mafia member advocating for precision bombing, remained in command. His strategies were thwarted by adverse conditions and human error. The clash between Hansell and LeMay in Guam ultimately led to a tragic turning point in the war. This narrative captures the themes of persistence, innovation, and the profound costs of warfare.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse. Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling and provocative exploration of why everything we think we know about power is wrong What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits, outsiders, tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won. With his trademark warmth, humour and gift for showing us the world through new eyes, Gladwell lets us see why the powerful aren't always what we think they are - and that some of us have more strength and purpose than we could ever imagine.