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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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UK :
Allen lane,
2019
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Talking to strangers : |b what we should know about the people we don't know / |c Malcolm Gladwell |
| 260 | |a UK : |b Allen lane, |c 2019 | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 386p. ; |c 22cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : "Step out of the car!" -- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer -- Part II. Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study : The boy in the shower -- Part III. Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study : The fraternity party -- Part IV. Lessons. KSM : what happens when the stranger is a terrorist? -- Part V. Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study : The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Strangers. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Conduct of life | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Interpersonal relations | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Trust. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Interpersonal relations. |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Children and strangers. |2 sears | |
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