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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 Gladwellchallenges 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 th

David and Goliath

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      Publisher Back Bay Books
      Published 6 May 2014
      ISBN-13 9780316285254
      978-0316285254
      ISBN-10 0316285250
      Also in:
      Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Gladwellchallenges 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 th

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