Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

ISBN: 9780141988504
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Weight, 420 g
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The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?

Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.

No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.

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Siti Radhiah
Dealing with strangers

Basically, this book is about the assumptions and mistakes we make when dealing with people we don’t know. The authors use a few real case study to explain and argue in details about his opinion on what it should be done. Overall, it is a good book for us to read and learn on how we should do before making any interaction with strangers.

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Liza
Talking to Strangers

Very interesting and easy to read. Really underlines how you can't judge s book by its cover.

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Izan
Talking to strangers

This book to learn and get understand of human behaviour.

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Siti Aishah
Talking to strangers

This book is a fascinating look at all of the misunderstandings individuals have about communicating with strangers. Gladwell takes a highly sensible and reasonable approach to describing factors that contribute to huge and small-scale misunderstandings.

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Anis Syahira Mhd Yusof
Great book

The book is excellent, in my opinion. It's an explanation of the problems we sometimes have speaking with others. It discusses the implications of misreading conversational signals.