The Tipping PointAuthor: Malcolm Gladwell Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Abacus Pages: 288 THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against