REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT
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. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is 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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GLADWELL MALCOLM
Fareham, Reino Unido, 1963 Es autor de best sellers como Inteligencia intuitiva Taurus, 2005 , El punto clave Taurus, 2007 , Fuera de serie Taurus, 2009 , Lo que vio el perro Taurus, 2010 , David y Goliat Taurus, 2013 , Hablar con extraños Taurus, 2020 y El Clan de los Bombarderos Taurus, 2022 . Es presentador del podcast Revisionist History, redactor en el New Yorker y cofundador del estudio de audiolibros y podcasts Pushkin Industries. Incluido en la lista de las cien personas más influyentes de la revista Time y considerado uno de los pensadores más importantes de la actualidad por Foreign Policy, ha entretenido e inspirado a millones de lectores con su particular manera de ver el mundo. Se graduó en Historia en el Trinity College de la Universidad de Toronto. Actualmente vive en Nueva York.
