Malcolm Gladwell is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City. He is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (2013)..
在线阅读本书
"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan
翻译的太不怎么样了!简直惨不忍睹! 钱清还是北大教翻译的,真实难以置信。是让学生翻的吧? 比如第一页第六句,People were going to the Ma and Pa stores, the little stores that still carried them, and buying them up. Ma and Pa ...
评分《引爆流行》中的“个别人物法则”、“附着力因素法则”、“环境威力法则”很好地解释了流行潮发生的原因。 我尝试着用这三个法则分析了一下“超女”的流行: 个别人物法则:通过组织“超女”们的fans,使“超女”成为联系员。 附着力因素法则(事物传递的信息):用PK、女...
评分引爆点-Malcolm Gladwell 这本书结构看起来很简单,典型的德国哲学家黑格尔"三段式",即“认为一切发展都经历三个阶段,即发展的起点(正题),对立面的显现(反题),对立面的统一(合题)。反题否定正题,合题否定反题,合题是否定之否定。黑格尔把三段式作为论证其客观...
评分对于这本书,可以肯定在西方社会流行程度会超过中国,西人擅长理学,逻辑实证精神一直备受推崇,所谓知其然更知其所以然,而东方思维大抵反之,之前看了较多日本设计大家的经典,也当是换个口味。 确实,书里的例子重复引用,这种举例方法初看是絮絮叨叨,言之过实而无法升华...
评分引爆点-Malcolm Gladwell 这本书结构看起来很简单,典型的德国哲学家黑格尔"三段式",即“认为一切发展都经历三个阶段,即发展的起点(正题),对立面的显现(反题),对立面的统一(合题)。反题否定正题,合题否定反题,合题是否定之否定。黑格尔把三段式作为论证其客观...
看的英文,很不错!是好书
评分看的英文,很不错!是好书
评分看的英文,很不错!是好书
评分將近20年過去了,這套理論其實已經不太新鮮了。聽的是作者讀的audiobook,語調讓人昏昏欲睡⋯⋯
评分必读书目 可读性随章节次序迅速递增
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有