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Malcolm Gladwell

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Talking to Strangers

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
 
'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year 
 
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? 
 
Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.

I love this book . . . reading it will actually change not just how you see strangers, but how you look at yourself, the news - the world. Reading this book changed me.

Fascinating . . . you should read the book . . . He's tackling the dark side of human nature - what do we ever know about other people?

Now that practically everybody seems to be spoiling for a fight, I have found Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers invaluable . . . His moral - to approach new people with caution and humility - has become my motto.

Taut, provocative, smart . . . Gladwell's cool, playful intelligence has made him one of our leading public thinkers

A book examining the ways we misinterpret or fail to communicate with one another could not feel more necessary . . . the page-turning urgency of a thriller

Superb writing. Masterful . . . bears all the marks that have made Gladwell one of the most successful non-fiction authors of his generation.

A dazzling book . . . Gladwell is a rock star of nonfiction . . . ideas are slowly revealed until the reader arrives at a conclusion they didn't expect. Gladwell is advancing ideas and, sure, they are all open to challenge . . . but they are stimulating and convincing - and you won't regret a minute you spend mastering them

A wonderful provocation which Gladwell delivers like no other, an awakening to just one of the fascinations that lie in ordinary human experience . . . as ever, Gladwell's genius is in the telling.

Malcolm Gladwell made his name bringing intellectual sparkle to everyday subjects, and his new book - about how strangers talk to each other - is no exception.

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? 
 
Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences. 
 
No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.

Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath

The Penguin Gladwell

Malcom Gladwell's bestselling books have engaged, entertained and inspired millions of readers, transforming the way they see the world and covering a wide range of modern day issues, from success to relationships and the complexities of our minds. This newly designed box set gathers four of his best selling books, offering readers a captivating selection of his innovative and outstanding thinking.

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

'Mesmerizing' Time 
 
An art expert instantly spots a fake. A cop decides whether to shoot. A psychologist accurately predicts a couple's future in minutes. This book is about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. It shows that honing your instincts could change the way you think about thinking forever. 
 
'Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted' David Brooks, The New York Times 
 
'Fiendishly clever' Evening Standard 
 
'Provocative, fascinating, radical' Fergal Byrne, Financial Times

Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted

Superb . . . this wonderful book should be compulsory reading

Astonishing ... Blink really does make you rethink the way you think

The Story of Success

Outliers

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. 
 
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? 
 
In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. 
 
He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. 
 
Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 
 
'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 
 
'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 
 
 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

You will never again think as you did before about [success] ... This book deserves the gold star that adorns its front cover

Malcolm Gladwell is a cerebral and jaunty writer, with an unusual gift for making the complex seem simple

Makes geniuses look a bit less special, and the rest of us a bit more so

Gladwell deploys a wealth of fascinating data and information to illustrate his thesis ... Outliers challenges accepted wisdom

And Other Adventures

What the Dog Saw

In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 
 
'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times 
 
'Beautiful ... brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today ... one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his generation' Ian Sample, Guardian 
 
'Chatty, perceptive, impish and amiable ... Comes exuberantly close to ... what goes on inside other people's heads' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph 
 
'Gladwell makes the world seem fresh and exciting again' Evening Standard

Gladwell's range is impressive and his writing never less than engaging

The pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art

Make your social commentary sparkle with Malcolm Gladwell's latest

He's able to examine what look like the most mundane aspects of our daily lives and to reveal the cleverness - and the strangeness - within

Vibrant, colourful and packed with surprises

In this brilliant and provocative book, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell shows how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 
 
Looking under the surface of the seemingly mundane, he explores the underdogs, the overlooked, the curious, the miraculous and the disastrous, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an incredible story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and finding surprising answers.

Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

David and Goliath

'A feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind ... What unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage. Yet there is something more powerful and more uplifting that links them' Kate Kellaway, Financial Times 
 
'I devoured in a single reading' Richard E. Grant 
 
'When you read it, you feel like you can topple giants' Jon Ronson 
 
'An energetic, counterintuitive exploration of why (and how) underdogs succeed' Lisa Appignanesi, Guardian, Books of the Year 
 
'Breathtaking' The New York Times 
 
'Truly intriguing and inspiring' Los Angeles Times

Gladwell's most enjoyable book so far. It is a feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind. Each of its stories ... has an ending that is both happy and surprising. What ostensibly unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage. Yet there is something more powerful and more uplifting that also links them. It is that good beats bad - just when you least expected it

When you read it, you feel like you can topple giants

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told

Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all

Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious captains from the age of fighting sail . . . Gladwell is a wonderful storyteller

Impassioned . . . engagingly written

Riveting . . .The Bomber Mafia looks at one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War

Told with the muscular, driving narrative and fizzingly charismatic (real-life) characters of a movie

A thought-provoking, accessible account of how people respond to difficult choices in difficult times . . . Gladwell's easy conversational style works well . . . his portraits of individuals are compelling

Unexpected empathy . . . fabulistic energy

Lively, engaging . . . a fascinating story

Important and characteristically readable . . . Gladwell is possibly the most confident storyteller in non-fiction. He always knows exactly where he is going, and he takes you with him in pleasure and comfort.

Gladwell's eloquence and flair for lateral thinking make for a compelling read

Malcolm Gladwell

Praise for The Bomber Mafia

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told

Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all

Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious captains from the ag ...

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told

Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all

Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious captains from the ag ...

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told

Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all

Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious captains from the ag ...

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