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What the Dog Saw : And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (2009, Hardcover)

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What the Dog Saw : And Other Adventures, Hardcover by Gladwell, Malcolm, ISBN 0316078573, ISBN-13 9780316078573, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Collects the author's best "New Yorker" pieces, including essays on such topics as why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one type of ketchup, a surprising assessment of what makes a safer car, and an examination of a machine built to predict hit movies.

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PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316078573

ISBN-139780316078573

eBay Product ID (ePID)73718197

Product Key Features

Book TitleWhat the Dog Saw : and Other Adventures

Number of Pages688 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicPopular Culture, Social Psychology, Essays, Economics / Theory

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, Psychology

AuthorMalcolm Gladwell

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight26.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal814/.6

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisMalcolm Gladwell focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" ( Bloomberg News ) collection of writings from The New Yorker . 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 20th century? 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 ; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw , he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over 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 Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.