David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants

Gladwell, Malcolm 1963- (Author).

Summary: The author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to challenge how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, and to fundamentally reshape the way we think about suffering and adversity.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316204378
ISBN: 0316204374
Physical Description: print
xix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Copyright: 2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	With a new afterword by the author. --Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Goliath : "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?" -- The Advantages of Disadvantages (and the Disadvantages of Advantages). Vivek Ranadivé: "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." ; André Trocmé: "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews." -- Afterword: Konrad Kellen: "Tell ihm he knows nothing at all about his enemy."