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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Autor Malcolm Gladwell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2010
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20thcentury?

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves:The Tipping Point;Blink; andOutliers.Now, inWhat the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing fromTheNew Yorkerover the same period.

Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head."What the Dog Sawis yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316076203
ISBN-10: 0316076201
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books

Notă biografică

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with theNew Yorkermagazine since 1996. He is the author ofThe Tipping Point,Blink,andOutliers, all of which were number oneNew York Timesbestsellers. Prior to joining theNew Yorker, he was a reporter with theWashington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. Gladwell was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.

Recenzii

Gladwell's range is impressive and his writing never less than engaging
The pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art
Make your social commentary sparkle with Malcolm Gladwell's latest
He's able to examine what look like the most mundane aspects of our daily lives and to reveal the cleverness - and the strangeness - within
Vibrant, colourful and packed with surprises
Gladwell soars high

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Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us.
Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.