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Author Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-

Title What the dog saw : and other adventures / Malcolm Gladwell.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1397883~S1
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Description xv, 410 pages ; 22 cm
Note Previously published in the New Yorker.
Summary Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
Contents Pt. 1: Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius. The pitchman : Ron Popeil and the conquest of the American kitchen ; The ketchup conundrum : mustard now comes in dozens of different varieties--why has ketchup stayed the same? ; Blowing up : how Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy. ; True colors : hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America ; John Rock's error : what the inventor of the birth control pill didn't know about women's health ; What the dog saw : Cesar Millan and the movements of mastery -- Pt. 2: Theories, predictions and diagnoses. Open secrets : Enron, intelligence and the perils of too much information ; Million dollar Murray : why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage ; The picture problem : mammography, air power, and the limits of looking ; Something borrowed : should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life? ; Connecting the dots : the paradoxes of intelligence reform ; The art of failure : why some people choke and others panic ; Blowup : who can be blamed for a disaster like the Challenger explosion? No one, and we'd better get used to it -- Pt. 3: Personality, character and intelligence. Late bloomers : why do we equate genius with precocity? ; Most likely to succeed : how do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job. ; Dangerous minds : criminal profiling made easy ; The talent myth : are smart people overrated? ; The New-Boy Network : what do job interviews really tell us? ; Troublemakers : what pit bulls can teach us about crime.
Subject American prose literature -- 21st century -- Periodicals.
Popular culture.
Social values.
ISBN 9780316075848 (hc)
0316075841 (hc)
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SRP 2013
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August 12 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: Love everything Malcolm Gladwell... enough said.
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SRP 2011
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October 12 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: Loved the Essay titled "Million Dollar Murray" because it made you think about the homelessness problem. Also especially enjoyed the essays on Ron Popeil, Nassim Taleb (did it trigger his book Outliers?), Enron, and Job Interviews (the trigger of Blink?). While I loved the book, I preferred his other 3 books.
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SRP 2010
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September 30 2010
SRP 2010 REVIEW: Although I've loved all of Gladwell's other books, I found this one to fall short of my expectations for him. It seemed monotonous, and I struggled to stay interested.
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