When Strangers Meet : How People You Don't Know Can Transform You Hardback
by KIO STARK
Part of the TED series
Hardback
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Part of the TED series: When Strangers Meet Our lives are increasingly insular.
We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience something or someone new.
When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don’t know.
Talking to a stranger pulls you into a shared humanity, it’s a source of creative energy, it opens your world, it cements your relationship to the places you live and work and play, it’s a beautiful interruption in the steady routines of our lives.
Talking to strangers wakes you up. But who is a stranger? Many of us have a deep-seated belief that strangers are dangerous.
That idea cripples us and prevents us from connecting with the wider world.
Exploring the rich meanings that are conjured up in these experiences of fleeting intimacy, Stark renders visible the hidden processes by which we decide who to trust in passing, and the unwritten rules by which these encounters operate.
When Strangers Meet teaches readers how to start talking to strangers, and includes adventurous challenges for those who dare.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 4 colour throughout
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:13/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781471156090
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 4 colour throughout
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:13/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781471156090
