Author:Malcolm Gladwell Binding: Hardcover Published: 2009-10-20 ISBN: 0316075841 Availability:
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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 TheNew 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.
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I praised this book so highly that it was scooped up by college-bound grandson, who read it between his Summer Reading List books, and then borrowed by high school sophomore granddaughter, who did the same. Malcolm Gladwell has an enjoyable writing style, and these selections from his articles for "The New Yorker" make me grateful to The New Yorker for their having brought this young man to our midst. I think I might even adopt him !
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A collection of 19 of his essays that cover an eclectic range of subjects and personalities.:
Malcolm Gladwell has written three of my favorite non-fiction books: THE TIPPING
POINT, BLINK and OUTLIERS . . . I'll now add his latest, WHAT THE DOG SAW,
to that list. This is actually a collection of 19 of his essays from THE NEW YORKER magazine,dating back to 1996 . . . they cover an eclectic range of subjects and personalities,
and each accomplishes exactly what the author says in his preface: * Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to... more info
do not buy this book there are better things to do in life:
Malcolm is a good author his book tipping point really impressed me and had a big impact on my way of thinking but this book titled "What the dog saw" is a complete waste of time I did not complete reading the book I am confused I do not know what to do with it knowing that not many people would enjoy reading such a book. The title is not very good and the content is not any better. Please do not buy this book there are better things to do in life.
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