Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2019/4845
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: "Step out of the car!" -- Part one: Spies and diplomats: two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part two: Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study: The boy in the shower -- Part three: Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) e...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to und...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2019
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2019/4845
Record Identifier
74VKV5rkAbPd
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5rkAbPd
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780316478526 (hardcover)
0316478520 (hardcover)
9780316536233 (signed)
0316536237 (signed)
9780316536240 (B&N signed)
0316536245 (B&N signed)
DDC
302
MMS ID
991024269629002626
