- Contagion (Social psychology), Business, Causation, Nonfiction
"New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease.
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Cool, spare, plot-driven and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio, Tandem Library, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, German, Spanish, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780316648523
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“In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis.”
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.
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