"The Tipping Point (The Roots album) The Tipping Point is the sixth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released July 13, 2004 on Geffen Records and Interscope Records. It is named after Malcolm Gladwell's book of the same name (2000), and it serves as the follow-up to ""Phrenology"" (2002). The album is a musical departure from their previous work, featuring a more diverse, yet pop-oriented sound, and it contains lyrics associated with rapping-prowess, political insight, and social commentary. ""The Tipping Point"" has been noted by music writers for exhibiting and emphasizing soul, jazz, and funk influences as"
"2005. It was also number 5 on Amazon customers' favourite books of 2005, named to ""The Christian Science Monitor"" best nonfiction books of 2005, and in the top 50 of Amazon customers' favourite books of the decade. ""Outliers"" was a number 1 ""New York Times"" bestseller for 11 straight weeks and was ""Time"" number 10 nonfiction book of 2008 as well as named to the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" list of the 50 best nonfiction books of 2008. ""Fortune"" described ""The Tipping Point"" as ""a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way"". The ""Daily Telegraph"" called"
"police officers while walking in downtown Manhattan, because his curly hair matched the profile of a rapist, despite the fact that the suspect looked nothing like him otherwise. Gladwell's books ""The Tipping Point"" (2000) and ""Blink"" (2005), were international bestsellers. ""The Tipping Point"" sold more than two million copies in the United States. ""Blink"" sold equally well. As of November 2008, the two books had sold a combined 4.5 million copies. Gladwell's third book, ""Outliers"", published in 2008, examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Gladwell's"
"Thomas Schelling and later popularized by Malcolm Gladwell's book ""The Tipping Point"". Granovetter's work has influenced researchers in capability-based security. Interactions in these systems can be described using ""Granovetter diagrams"", which illustrate changes in the ties between objects. Mark Granovetter Mark Granovetter (; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. Granovetter was recently recognized as a Citation Laureate by Thomson Reuters and added to that organization’s list of predicted Nobel Prize winners in economics for the year 2014. Data from the Web of Science show that Granovetter has written both the first and third"
"one of the first publishers of behavioural economics with the groundbreaking Malcolm Gladwell book ""The Tipping Point"", followed by the bestselling Tim Harford ""Undercover Economist"" series. In 2009 Abacus published Gillian Tett’s award-winning work on the financial crisis, ""Fool’s Gold."" Abacus fiction publishing began with Jane Gardam. Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Novel Award, part of an excellent Whitbread record that includes Joan Brady’s Book of the Year for ""Theory of War"", Beryl Bainbridge’s Novel Award for ""Every Man for Himself"" and Christopher Wilson’s shortlisting for ""The Ballad of Lee Cotton"". Valerie Martin won the Orange Prize for ""Property"","
"The Turning Point (book) The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture is a 1982 book by Fritjof Capra written to examine perceived scientific and economic crises through the perspectives of systems theory. Capra begins by outlining and tracing the history of science and economics, highlighting flaws in the Cartesian, Newtonian, and reductionist paradigms which have come to light in the context of more contemporary empirical understanding of the physical sciences. He narrates how such viewpoints have grown inadequate to guide human behavior and policy with regard to modern technology and ecology, then argues that science needs to develop"
"the concepts and insights of holism and systems theory to solve society's complex problems. The 1990 film, ""Mindwalk"", is based on the book. The Turning Point (book) The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture is a 1982 book by Fritjof Capra written to examine perceived scientific and economic crises through the perspectives of systems theory. Capra begins by outlining and tracing the history of science and economics, highlighting flaws in the Cartesian, Newtonian, and reductionist paradigms which have come to light in the context of more contemporary empirical understanding of the physical sciences. He narrates how such viewpoints"
"LuPone. Horchow is a member of The Hill School Class of 1945. In 2002 he received the school's highest alumni honor, The Sixth Form Leadership Award. Horchow was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, Yale University, in 1999, and is one of the subjects of ""The Tipping Point"" (Little, Brown, 2000) 2002 edition , an influential book by ""New Yorker"" writer Malcolm Gladwell. Horchow is the author of three books, """"The Art of Friendship: 70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections"""" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and Neiman Marcus Exclusive, 2005) , ""Elephants in Your Mailbox: How I Learned"
"Point Counter Point Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel, and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""Point Counter Point"" 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel's title is a reference to the flow of arguments in a debate, and a series of these exchanges tell the story. Instead of a single central plot, there are a number of interlinked storylines and recurring themes (as in musical ""counterpoint""). Many of"
"to the ""stop-and-frisk"" policies of the NYPD. However, in the decade and a half since its publication, ""The Tipping Point"" and Gladwell have both come under fire for the tenuous link between ""broken windows"" and New York City's drop in violent crime. During a 2013 interview with BBC journalist Jon Ronson for ""The Culture Show"", Gladwell admitted that he was ""too in love with the broken-windows notion"". He went on to say that he was ""so enamored by the metaphorical simplicity of that idea that I overstated its importance"". After ""The Tipping Point,"" Gladwell published ""Blink"" in 2005. The book"
"fifth book, ""David and Goliath"", was released in October 2013, and it examines the struggle of underdogs versus favorites. The book is partially inspired by an article Gladwell wrote for ""The New Yorker"" in 2009 entitled ""How David Beats Goliath"". The book was a bestseller but received mixed reviews. ""The Tipping Point"" was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon.com customers, ""The A.V. Club"", ""The Guardian"", and ""The Times"". It was also Barnes & Noble's fifth bestselling nonfiction book of the decade. ""Blink"" was named to ""Fast Company"" list of the best business books of"
"$100,000. I mean, you or I could make a dress for $100,000, but to make a T-shirt for $8 – that's much tougher."" Gladwell gained popularity with two ""New Yorker"" articles, both written in 1996: ""The Tipping Point"" and ""The Coolhunt"" These two pieces would become the basis for Gladwell's first book, ""The Tipping Point"", for which he received a $1 million advance. He continues to write for ""The New Yorker"". Gladwell also served as a contributing editor for ""Grantland"", a sports journalism website founded by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons. In a July 2002 article in ""The New Yorker"","
"the Driver's Seat"" for its US publication; ""In-Flight Entertainment"" (2010); and ""Cockfosters"" (2015). ""A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories"" was published in 2012. In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's top 20 novelists under the age of 40. In 2009, she donated the short story ""The Tipping Point"" to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Air' collection. She was a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story. In 2011 she was awarded a PEN/O.Henry Prize for her story ""Diary of an Interesting Year"". Many of her stories"
"The Crossing (Churchill novel) The Crossing is a 1904 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904, and includes illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. A portion of the book first appeared in December 1903 in ""Collier's"" under the title ""The Borderland"". The last of Churchill's sweeping historical novels, the plot concerns the westward expansion of the United States, including the settlement of Kentucky. A stage adaptation written by Churchill and Louis Evan Shipman (who had also worked on the stage adaptation of ""The Crisis"") debuted in 1905 and"
"Decision Points Decision Points is a memoir by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It was released on November 9, 2010, and the release was accompanied by national television appearances and a national tour. The book surpassed sales of two million copies less than two months after its release, breaking the record previously held by former President Bill Clinton's memoir ""My Life"". ""Decision Points"" also opened at #1 on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list. Bush's 481-page memoir is broken up into 14 chapters. The first two chapters are about his life before the presidency. The first chapter is about"
"""I have two parallel things I'm interested in. One is, I'm interested in collecting interesting stories, and the other is I'm interested in collecting interesting research. What I'm looking for is cases where they overlap"". The initial inspiration for his first book, ""The Tipping Point"", which was published in 2000, came from the sudden drop of crime in New York City. He wanted the book to have a broader appeal than just crime, however, and sought to explain similar phenomena through the lens of epidemiology. While Gladwell was a reporter for ""The Washington Post"", he covered the AIDS epidemic. He"
"political extremist in the argument of ""Checkpoint"". Checkpoint (novel) Checkpoint is an American novel written by Nicholson Baker in 2004. The main characters are two men, Jay and Ben. The novel consists of their dialogues in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., in May 2004. The story begins with Jay asking Ben to go to his hotel room. From that conversation it is inferred that Jay is depressed: the women in his life have abandoned him; he has lost his job as a high school teacher and now works as a day labourer; he has declared bankruptcy; and spends his"
"should have stayed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and deployed active-duty troops quickly in order to assist Hurricane Katrina victims as well as Bush's admission that he failed to see the ""house of cards"" in America's financial sector. Decision Points Decision Points is a memoir by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It was released on November 9, 2010, and the release was accompanied by national television appearances and a national tour. The book surpassed sales of two million copies less than two months after its release, breaking the record previously held by former President Bill Clinton's memoir ""My Life"". ""Decision"
"Thunder Point Thunder Point is a novel in the Sean Dillon series by Jack Higgins, published in 1993. Amateur diver Henry Baker goes diving in the Caribbean, when he finds the wreck of a German u-boat. Inside he finds a briefcase which he takes back home with him. On his way home he meets his friend, diver Bob Carney, and lies to him about where he's been. When he opens the briefcase he finds a list of documents in German. His inability to read German frustrates him but one name leaps out at him: Martin Bormann. The dates on the"
"Checkpoint (novel) Checkpoint is an American novel written by Nicholson Baker in 2004. The main characters are two men, Jay and Ben. The novel consists of their dialogues in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., in May 2004. The story begins with Jay asking Ben to go to his hotel room. From that conversation it is inferred that Jay is depressed: the women in his life have abandoned him; he has lost his job as a high school teacher and now works as a day labourer; he has declared bankruptcy; and spends his days reading blogs. Jay explains to Ben"
"French social psychologists Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon. Herd behavior in human societies has also been studied by Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter, whose book ""Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War"" is a classic in the field of social psychology. Sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen's ""The Theory of the Leisure Class"" illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior. More recently, Malcolm Gladwell in ""The Tipping Point"", examines how cultural, social, and economic factors converge to create trends in consumer behavior. In 2004, the ""New Yorker"" financial columnist James Suroweicki"
"Washington's Crossing (book) Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the ""Pivotal Moments in American History"" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with the famous crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the Second Battle of Trenton, and the Battle of Princeton. Fischer discusses the historical context of the crossing, including the crossing's precursors, the intensity of effort required to make the crossing itself, and the effects upon the outcome of the American"
"Breaking Point (novel) Breaking Point is a 2002 young adult novel by Alex Flinn. It was a 'Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers' in 2003. Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books said that the book was ""a dark drama of self-destruction that should make for grimly satisfying reading"" while Voice of Youth Advocates called its characters ""brilliantly twisted."" Paul Richmond moves from homeschooling to a fancy private school, Gate-Brickell Christian, after his lieutenant colonel father has an affair and divorces his teacher-mother. On his first day at Gate, he meets a girl named Binky and a boy named"
"briefly ran on Broadway in January 1906 for eight performances. One commentator summed up the play's short run as one that ""very soon met with disaster."" The Crossing (Churchill novel) The Crossing is a 1904 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904, and includes illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. A portion of the book first appeared in December 1903 in ""Collier's"" under the title ""The Borderland"". The last of Churchill's sweeping historical novels, the plot concerns the westward expansion of the United States, including the settlement of"
"Tipping point (sociology) In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group—or a large number of group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice. The phrase was first used in sociology by Morton Grodzins when he adopted the phrase from physics where it referred to the adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object until the additional weight caused the object to suddenly and completely topple, or tip. Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families remained in the"
"Focal point (game theory) In game theory, a focal point (also called Schelling point) is a solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant to them. The concept was introduced by the Nobel Memorial Prize-winning American economist Thomas Schelling in his book ""The Strategy of Conflict"" (1960). In this book (at p. 57), Schelling describes ""focal point[s] for each person's expectation of what the other expects him to expect to be expected to do"". This type of focal point later was named after Schelling. He further explains that such"
"and it won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History. Washington's Crossing (book) Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the ""Pivotal Moments in American History"" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with the famous crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the Second Battle of Trenton, and the Battle of Princeton. Fischer discusses the historical context of the crossing, including the crossing's precursors, the intensity of effort required to make the crossing itself,"
"patienc. One of the key questions surrounding seeding programs over the last decade has been whether or not it’s more effective for companies to seed via influencers or random people through customers networks. Many authors and scholars addressed this issue. Malcolm Gladwell discuses the “Law of the Few” in his book, ""The Tipping Point"". He suggests that highly connected and rare people have the ability to shape the world. This handful of unique people can spread the word around and create a social epidemic through their connections, charm, personality, expertise and persuasiveness. The notion that a small group of people"
"Lee Eisenberg (author) Lee Eisenberg (born July 22, 1946) is an American editor and author. He was the editor-in-chief of ""Esquire"" magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Eisenberg is the author of several books, including ""The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life"", which appeared on many national bestseller lists. His latest book is ""The Point Is: Birth, Death, and Everything in Between,"" published in February, 2016 by Twelve Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group. A Philadelphia native, Eisenberg was inducted into the Central High School hall of fame in 1988 in"
"the cracks which are appearing in her marriage. However, as the day wears on she makes a discovery that forces her to re-evaluate her long-held image of her uncle, her husband Simon faces a choice that will decide the future of their relationship. http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/point-and-counterpoint/ The Still Point The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel, and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It had also earlier been nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. The book's two central characters are Edward Mackley, an Arctic explorer"
"York, and has been praised as ""an organization that aims to not only help the poor, but actively change the systems that put them there in the first place."" In June 2017 ""Tipping Point completed its largest fundraising year to-date, totaling $25 million in donor gifts, 100% of which will go out as grants by the end of the ensuing fiscal year in June 2018. Its board is composed of local philanthropists including Chris James, Katie Schwab Paige, Jed York and former San Francisco 49er Ronnie Lott. The board underwrites all fundraising and operating costs. Tipping Point Community Tipping Point"
"The Still Point The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel, and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It had also earlier been nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. The book's two central characters are Edward Mackley, an Arctic explorer who went missing during an expedition at the turn of the 20th Century, and his great-grand-niece Julia, who lives a hundred years later. On a hot summer's day Julia begins sorting through the belongings she has inherited from her uncle, while trying to ignore"
"needs, with a deep strategic awareness of broader trends. Malcolm Gladwell popularised the term more widely in his book ""The Tipping Point"" (Little Brown, 2000). Gladwell described those who are intense gatherers of information and also impressions, and so are often the first to become aware of new or nascent trends. The word has since become widely used in marketing contexts and journalistic accounts. Gladwell also suggests that mavens may act most effectively when in loose collaboration with 'social influencers' - i.e., people who have a wide network of casual acquaintances who trust them, often a network that crosses many"