Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Couverture souple

Gladwell, Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141014598 ISBN 13 : 9780141014593

Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

Blink An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person... Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the author of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's international bestseller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a revolution in the understanding of the mind. An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person... This book is all about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. Here Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of 'blink', showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you'll never think about thinking in the same way again. 'Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted'
  The New York Times 'Compelling, fiendishly clever'
  Evening Standard 'Brilliant ... the implications for business, let alone love, are vast'
  Observer 'Superb ... this wonderful book should be compulsory reading'
  New Statesman 'Blink might just change your life'
  Esquire 'Should you buy this book? You already know the answer to that'
  Independent on Sunday Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects. His other international bestselling books are Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals and reveals the secrets of their success, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocative and entertaining New Yorker pieces.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. His other international bestselling books are Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals and reveals the secrets of their success, and What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocative and entertaining New Yorker pieces.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141014598
• ISBN 13: 9780141014593
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304