Revenge of the Tipping Point : overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering / Malcolm Gladwell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 352 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9780316575805
  • 0316575801
Other title:
  • Overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1033 .G527 2024
Contents:
The passive voice -- Casper and C-Dog -- The trouble with Miami -- Poplar grove -- The magic third -- The mysterious case of the Harvard women's rugby team --Mr. Index and the Marriott outbreak -- The L.A. survivors' club -- Doing time on Maple Drive -- Overstories, superspreaders, and group proportions.
Summary: "Why is Miami...Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis"--Provided by publisher.
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new book 2025 winter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-338) and index.

The passive voice -- Casper and C-Dog -- The trouble with Miami -- Poplar grove -- The magic third -- The mysterious case of the Harvard women's rugby team --Mr. Index and the Marriott outbreak -- The L.A. survivors' club -- Doing time on Maple Drive -- Overstories, superspreaders, and group proportions.

"Why is Miami...Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis"--Provided by publisher.

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