TY - BOOK AU - Gladwell,Malcolm TI - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know SN - 9780316299220 U1 - 302 PY - 2019/// CY - UK PB - Penguin Books KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Strangers KW - Threat (Psychology) KW - Conduct of life KW - Miscellanea KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Trust KW - Noncitizens KW - Confidence KW - Psychologie appliquée KW - Étrangers KW - Menace (Psychologie) KW - Morale pratique KW - Miscellanées KW - Confiance N1 - "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover N2 - "How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland-throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times"--Publisher's description ER -