The Order of Things by Gladwell Malcolm Assignment.
In “Listening with Your Eyes,” the Conclusion of Blink, Malcolm Gladwell says that the book provides two main lessons. Before detailing them, he offers a case study of the “revolution.
The Salesmen that Gladwell identifies in his informal survey have many things in common: they’re charismatic, and seem to take keen pleasure in influencing other people’s behavior. As the Law of the Few would suggest, a small group of charismatic, influential smokers inspired a large group of other people to take up smoking as well.
Revisionist History is a podcast “about things overlooked and misunderstood” created by best-selling author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell and produced through Panoply Media. Summary In 1918, Frederick Hoffman, a senior statistician at Prudential Insurance, published a landmark report highlighting the large number of asthma-induced deaths among US coal miners.
Gladwell begins by discussing the inexplicable resurgence of then-terminally-uncool Hush Puppies shoes among a handful of hipsters in Manhattan’s cutting-edge enclaves in the 1990s, a trend which soon spread across the United States and resulted in exponential increases in the company’s sales.
Discussion Questions 1. The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.At what point does it become obvious that something has reached a boiling point and is about to tip? 2.
Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding-school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the '80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become.
Summary General Summary The Archeology of Knowledge is Foucault's attempt, after the fact, to describe theoretically the method he used in his first three books of history (Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things).