David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants
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- ISBN: 9780316204361 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316204366 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780316251785 (paperback)
- ISBN: 031625178X (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780316204378 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0316239852 (lg. print)
- ISBN: 9780316239851 (lg. print)
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Physical Description:
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ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Goliath : "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?" -- Part 1. The advantages of disadvantages (and the disadvantages of advantages). -- Vivek Ranadivé: "It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before." -- Teresa DeBrito: "My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun." -- Caroline Sacks: "If I'd gone to the University of Maryland, I'd still be in science." -- Part 2. The theory of desirable difficulty. -- David Boies: You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? -- Emil "Jay" Freireich: "How Jay did it, I don't know." -- Wyatt Walker: "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made." -- Part 3. The limits of power. -- Rosemary Lawlor: "I wasn't born that way. This was forced upon me." -- Wilma Derksen: "We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to." -- André Trocmé: "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews." |
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