Author:
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
Edition Statement:First Edition.
ImprintNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Descriptionix, 305 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Note:Goliath : "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?" -- The Advantages of Disadvantages (and the Disadvantages of Advantages). Vivek Ranadive: "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. -- The Theory of Desirable Difficulty. David Boies: You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? ; Emil "Jay" Freireich: "How Jay did it, I don't know." ; Wyatt Walker: "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made." -- 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." ; Andre Trocme: "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews."
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
