false 6516450 7 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:<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. 6708278 book 20 10 2009 What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures total:81|5:16|4:41|3:19|2:4|1:1| 81 310 828 32 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:04:09 -0800 2009 Mon 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...]]> 5 7 false false Sat Nov 07 02:43:37 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 02:46:12 -0800 2009
And I really love his writing. He is...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 20:26:02 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 15:25:43 -0800 2009
"What the Dog Saw" is a collection of his ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:01:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:01:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 20:15:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 20:15:35 -0700 2009 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...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 11:51:54 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 11:51:54 -0700 2009
Reading Malcolm Gladwell is like putting your brain against a whirring electrical grindstone. Sparks fly out, and your critical perceptions sharpen to a Ginsu blade-wielding caliber. And it's not just that I feel smarter....more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 19:36:48 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 19:36:48 -0800 2009 pitching Ronco kitchen appliances
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Theories, Predictions, Diagno...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:47:09 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:15:06 -0800 2009 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...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:42:15 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:44:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:28:55 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:28:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 08:32:52 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 07:18:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 21 18:41:33 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 13:29:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 08:11:52 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 17:31:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 05:36:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 11:19:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 29 10:04:15 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 10:15:05 -0700 2009 surroundings and the circumstances that effect us: either to anger, happiness, melancholy, whatever and how to use more critical thinking to decrease our sadness and increase our...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 07:22:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 07:24:54 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 13:22:46 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 16:09:17 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 22:44:04 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 22:45:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 17:36:18 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 17:41:26 -0800 2009 (At my library: "133 holds on first copy returned of 10 copies". Sigh. But then, they're ordering something like another fifty or so.)]]> 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 18:22:05 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 18:23:00 -0700 2009