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Title: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Synopsis
After his first book reached a tipping point and became a runaway bestseller, Malcolm Gladwell shot to stardom in a blink and became an outlier in the realm of popular nonfiction. But those who have only read Gladwell in book form have been missing out on some of his most intriguing insights and ideas, which have appeared in his delightfully eclectic and captivating articles for The New Yorker. This volume collects the best of those pieces, on topics including (but not limited to): hair dye, homelessness, kitchen utensils, birth control, criminal profiling, dog training, Enron, plagiarism, NASA, choke artists, job interviews, ketchup and mustard, the nature of intelligence, black swans, pattern fallacy, pit bulls, and, perhaps most famously, spaghetti sauce. Gladwell's ability to weave the tangled threads of our culture into a tapestry of singular wisdom is unparalleled, and this essential anthology of his essays allows readers to observe as he gleans fundamental truths from an astounding array of evidence.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        410 Pages
Weight:        1.2 Pounds
Height:         8.3 Inches
Width:          5.8 Inches
Thickness:    1.3 Inches



Publisher Notes
Collects the best New Yorker pieces by the best-selling author of Outliers 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, an examination of a machine built to predict hit movies, and many more.



Industry Reviews
"This book full of short conversation pieces is a collection that plays to the author's strengths. It underscores his way of finding suitably quirky subjects...and using each as gateway to some larger meaning. It illustrates how often he sets up one premise...only to destroy it....This book's voice always sounds level-headed, whether it is describing ketchup being tasted or pit bulls attacking a boy. It tames visceral events by approaching them scientifically."
(10/20/2009)
"What makes Malcolm Gladwell...so extraordinary is his ability to focus on any topic from the arcane to the apparently banal, research it with shrewd intelligence and wholehearted engagement, then weave in other thoughts and themes that may seem unrelated until he subtly illuminates their relevance. The result is unfailingly riveting."
(11/01/2009)
"...Gladwell displays an easy-going writing style and a sharp critical mind. This is the kind of essay collection you can read from cover to cover or, just as satisfactorily, dip into a bit at a time."
(10/15/2009)
"Gladwell is a writer of many gifts....He avoids shopworn topics, easy moralization and conventional wisdom, encouraging his readers to think again and think different. His prose is transparent, with lucid explanations and a sense that we are chatting with the experts ourselves. Some chapters are masterpieces in the art of essay....But [he] frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring."
(11/15/2009)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures and it was written by Malcolm Gladwell. This edition of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is October 2009 and it has a suggested retail price of $27.99. There are 410 pages in the book and it was published by Little Brown & Co. The 10 digit ISBN is 0316075841 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780316075848. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.