Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New YorkTimes bestsellers--The Tipping Point! Blink!Outliers!What the Dog Saw! and David and Goliath. He is alsothe co-founder of Pushkin Industries! an audio contentcompany that produces the podcasts RevisionistHistory! which reconsiders things both overlooked andmisunderstood! and Broken Record! where he! RickRubin! and Bruce Headlam interview musicians acrossa wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included inthe TIME 100 Most Influential People list and toutedas one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers. Klappentext How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation?Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trustAdolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on therise? Do television sitcoms teach us something aboutthe way we relate to each other that isn't true?Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellianintellectual adventure! a challenging and controversialexcursion through history! psychology! and scandalstaken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptionsof Bernie Madoff! the trial of Amanda Knox! thesuicide of Sylvia Plath! the Jerry Sandusky pedophiliascandal at Penn State University! and the death ofSandra Bland---throwing our understanding of theseand other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong!Gladwell argues! with the tools and strategies we use tomake sense of people we don't know. And because wedon't know how to talk to strangers! we are invitingconflict and misunderstanding in ways that have aprofound effect on our lives and our world. In his firstbook since his #1 bestseller! David and Goliath!Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebookfor troubled times.

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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers--The Tipping Point, Blink,Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers.

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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.