Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know /
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came fr...
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| Iaith: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
©2019.
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| Rhifyn: | First edition. |
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
| Crynodeb: | In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence. |
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| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
| Llyfryddiaeth: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316478526 0316478520 |