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DAVID UND GOLIATH ENGLISCHE AUSGABE - MALCOLM G...

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success 
motivation  and the role of adversity in shaping our lives.   Three thousand years ago on a
battlefield in ancient Palestine  a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than
a stone and a sling  and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles
between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have
won.   Or should he have?   In David and Goliath   Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think
about obstacles and disadvantages  offering a new interpretation of what it means to be
discriminated against  or cope with a disability  or lose a parent  or attend a mediocre school
or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.  Gladwell begins with the real story of
what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there  David
and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles  the minds of cancer researchers and civil
rights leaders  murder and the high costs of revenge  and the dynamics of successful and
unsuccessful classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the
world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.   In the tradition of Gladwell's
previous bestsellers--- The Tipping Point   Blink   Outliers and What the Dog Saw--- David and
Goliath draws upon history  psychology  and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think
of the world around us.

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