ISBN: 0141043024
Godina izdanja: 2009
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
Penguin, 2009
365 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of `outliers`--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Contents:
The Roseto mystery `These people were dying of old age. That`s it`
Part one : Opportunity
The Matthew effect `For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hat notshall be taken away even that which he hath` Matthew 25:29
The 10000 hour rule `In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours.`
The trouble with genuises, part 1 `Knowledge of a boy`s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.`
The trouble with genuises, part 2 `After protracted negotiations, it was agreed that Robert would be put on probation.`
The three lessons of Joe Flom `Mary got a quarter.`
Part two : Legacy
Harlan, Kentucky `Die like a man, like your brother did!`
The ethnic theory of plane crashes `Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.`
Rice paddies and math test ` No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.`
Marita`s bargain `All my friends now are from KIPP.`
A Jamaican story `If a progeny of young colored children is brought forth, these are emancipated.`


Nonfiction, Psychology, 0141043024