David and Goliath underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants
Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, and the powerful and the dispossessed.
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2013]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a David and Goliath : |b underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants / |c Malcolm Gladwell. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c [2013] | |
| 300 | |a ix, 305 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, and the powerful and the dispossessed. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Goliath: "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?" -- Pt. 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" -- Pt. 2: The theory of desirable difficulty. David Boies: "You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you?" ; Emil "]ay" Freireich: "How Jay did it, I don't know" ; Wyatt Walker: "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made" -- Pt. 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." | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Motivation (Psychology) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Struggle |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Opportunity. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Success. | |
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