David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants - Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell

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9781846145810: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

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ISBN 10: 1846145813 ISBN 13: 9781846145810

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1800

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About the bookbeing small is not the same as being weak and those considered insignificant can often turn into revolutionaries. The ones who have been discarded as worms, bloom into beautiful butterflies and show humanity a new path. Underestimation is the biggest fallacy of society, but it is this curse that has time and again brought the best out of people.deriving its title from a famous fable, david and goliath: underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants talks about people who excelled beyond their expectations. Hardships make people tougher and push them towards doing something so drastic so that they emerge as winners. This book examines the emergence of the underdog as a winner.david and goliath explains this phenomenon through anecdotes and stories about famous people and some not-so-famous ones as well. The book gives you a beautiful message, showing you that tough times and hardships don't last but tough people do.aimed at making people realise the potential lying latent within them, david and goliath: underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants will help you get a fresh view on all the adversity you have faced. It was published in 2013 and is available in hardcover.key features the book featured in the new york times bestseller list. This book will teach you how to stay positive all the time, based on research in sociology and psychology.

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About the Author:

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History and the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He now lives in New York.

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Praise for Outliers:

"In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today...Outliers is a pleasure to read and leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward."―David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review

"The explosively entertaining Outliers might be Gladwell's best and most useful work yet...There are both brilliant yarns and life lessons here: Outliers is riveting science, self-help, and entertainment, all in one book."―Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

"No other book I read this year combines such a distinctive prose style with truly thought-provoking content. Gladwell writes with a high degree of dazzle but at the same time remains as clear and direct as even Strunk or White could hope for."―Atlanta Journal Constitution

"[An] important new book...Gladwell intelligently captures a larger tendency of thought-the growing appreciation of the power of cultural patterns, social contagions, memes...Gladwell's social determinism is a useful corrective to the Homo economicus view of human nature."―David Brooks, New York Times

"Thought-provoking, entertaining, and irresistibly debatable...[Outliers] is another winner from this agile social observer."―Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor

"Outliers is required reading for boardroom and watercooler crowds alike."―Men's Health

"In Outliers, Gladwell (The Tipping Point) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneered-the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena."―Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Tipping Point

"A fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way."―Fortune

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Praise for Blink

"A real pleasure...Brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves."―Salon.com

"Intoxicating".Gladwell is an engaging writer and a first-rate tour guide.?―Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times

"BLINK moves quickly through a series of delightful stories?.Always dazzling us with fascinating information and phenomena."―David Brooks, New York Times Book Review

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