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: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316478526 0316478520 9780316536233 0316536237 9780316536240 0316536245 |