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Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,954
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,953
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 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 gripping stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering
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1 out of 5 stars
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Lame
- De Kindle Customer en 10-09-24
- Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
Forces His Narrative
Revisado: 01-16-25
I’ve always appreciated MG’s storytelling and insight. I definitely lost respect for his critical reasoning skills during the Monk Debate. In this book, I still enjoy his perspective, but his mental gymnastics to fit the oppressor/oppressed narrative are a bit too much. He somehow twists the affirmative action college admissions story into another tale of white privilege. The athletics scholarship angle is a worthy contribution to understanding the issue, but his story unfolds like he is exposing the wizard behind the curtain with a bunch of eye-rolling mic drop moments. He implies that all of these universities could achieve his “magical third” proportion of particular minority students but never touches the existing performance gaps between the merit-based and affirmative-action-based admissions. Gladwell is the kind of person I want to hear from but not rely on for perspective. Take everything with a tasty grain of salt.
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Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
- De: Alex Bezzerides
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 192
From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it's a curious thing that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. After all, we're the only survivors on our branch of the tree of life. Why is it that human mothers have such a life-endangering experience giving birth? And why are there entire medical specialties for teeth and feet? In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us just where we inherited our achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Answers questions you haven't thought of yet!
- De Mike en 05-25-21
- Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
- De: Alex Bezzerides
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
Perfectly relatable for the moderately scientifically literate reader.
Revisado: 04-23-24
You can tell this author has many years of experience finding the perfect way to explain complex ideas to learners. I will definitely buy the next book he writes.
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