false<![CDATA[What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251800580m/6516450.jpg65164507What 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:<i> The Tipping Point</i>; <i>Blink</i>; and <i>Outliers.</i> Now, in <i>What the Dog Saw</i>, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from <i>The</i><i>New Yorker</i> 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."<i>What the Dog Saw </i>is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.6708278book20102009What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventurestotal:144|5:28|4:69|3:39|2:6|1:2|14454712016241falsefalseMon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Nov 09 11:04:09 -0800 2009Mon Nov 09 11:10:40 -0800 2009 This is a compilation of New Yorker articles that he has written over the last 15 years. There were riveting chapters on why the Pill is a monthly medicatio...more...]]>
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(At my library: "133 holds on first copy returned of 10 copies". Sigh. But then, they're ordering something like another fifty or so.)
I hadn't realized this was a collection of Gladwell's essays, many (most? all?) have seen publication in the New Yorker. I found this out while ...more...]]>
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Genre: Non-fiction
Rating: 3/5
What the dog saw tells some interesting stories and gives details about things that you never thought about, and probably never wanted to know. It was entertaining but a little silly when you get right d...more...]]>
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The Independent: Gladwell has a standard modus operandi, which he employs for a good 75 per cent of the articles in What the Dog Saw: take two (sometimes three) disparate topics, use both to illustrate the same insight, and in so doing throw new light on each. Thus, an essay on how to hire the right...more...]]>
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is a wonderful collection of (author: Malcolm Gladwell]'s New Yorker columns spanning more than a decade. Gladwell tackles an enormous range of topics, each in an engaging and thought provoking way. It never, for example, would have occurred to me that I migh...more...]]>
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