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What the Dog Saw : And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316075841
ISBN-139780316075848
eBay Product ID (ePID)73086413
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat the Dog Saw : and Other Adventures
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Culture, Social Psychology, Essays, Economics / Theory
Publication Year2009
GenreSocial Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-024010
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsIn What the Dog Saw , Malcolm Gladwell leads the reader on delightful side excursions, shows with insightful conversation how one path interweaves with another, and suggests meaning-he is, in short, an interpretative naturalist of American culture., GREAT PRAISE FOR WHAT THE DOG SAW: "[Malcolm Gladwell] is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament...Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have made The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , as well as his lengthy magazine features on topics ranging from cool-hunting to ketchup, into must reads.", Malcolm Gladwell triumphantly returns to his roots with this collections of his great works from The New Yorker Magazine....Do yourself a favor and curl up with What the Dog Saw this week: It is more entertaining and edifying than should be legal for any book., "Uniformly delightful...Malcolm Gladwell can write engrossingly about just about anything...His witty, probing articles are as essential to David Remnick's New Yorkeras those of Wolcott Gibbs and A.J. Liebling were to Harold Ross's...Gladwell has a gift for capturing personalities, a Borscht Belt comic's feel for timing and a bent for counterintuitive thinking. He loves to start a piece by settling you onto a cushion of received ideas, then yanking it out from under you."-, This evidence of a Gladwell effect helps to predict something larger: that Mr. Gladwell's new book will be as successful as his first three...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 (the history of women's hair-dye advertisements; the secret of Heinz's unbeatable ketchup; even the effects of women's changing career patterns on the number of menstrual periods they experience in their lifetimes) and using each as gateway to some larger meaning., Malcolm Gladwell triumphantly returns to his roots with this collections of his great works fromThe New YorkerMagazine....Do yourself a favor and curl up withWhat the Dog Sawthis week: It is more entertaining and edifying than should be legal for any book., "Uniformly delightful...Malcolm Gladwell can write engrossingly about just about anything...His witty, probing articles are as essential to David Remnick's New Yorker as those of Wolcott Gibbs and A.J. Liebling were to Harold Ross's...Gladwell has a gift for capturing personalities, a Borscht Belt comic's feel for timing and a bent for counterintuitive thinking. He loves to start a piece by settling you onto a cushion of received ideas, then yanking it out from under you."-, In What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell leads the reader on delightful side excursions, shows with insightful conversation how one path interweaves with another, and suggests meaning-he is, in short, an interpretative naturalist of American culture., "Gladwell is a writer of many gifts. His nose for the untold back story will have readers repeatedly muttering, "Gee, that's interesting!" He avoids shopworn topics, easy moralization and conventional wisdom, encouraging his readers to think again and think different...Some chapters are masterpieces in the art of the essay.", GREAT PRAISE FOR WHAT THE DOG SAW : "[Malcolm Gladwell] is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament...Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have madeThe Tipping Point,BlinkandOutliers, as well as his lengthy magazine features on topics ranging from cool-hunting to ketchup, into must reads.", GREAT PRAISE FORWHAT THE DOG SAW: "[Malcolm Gladwell] is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament...Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have made The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , as well as his lengthy magazine features on topics ranging from cool-hunting to ketchup, into must reads."
Dewey Decimal814/.6
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., Delve into this "delightful" ( Bloomberg News ) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience. 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.
LC Classification NumberPN4874.G398A25 2009
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- 03 Dec, 2019
Of course I like it, it's Gladwell!
Can't really say this is a totally unbiased review because I like everything Gladwell writes. I don't always agree with him (I'm not a liberal), but he's brilliant, articulate, and a great story teller.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Mar, 2021
Essential, engrossing, entertaining.
Each of Gladwell's books bring new light to aspects of society and culture and have given us many concepts like the 10,000 hour rule to excellence. Absolutely essential to understanding, well, everything.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Sep, 2019
Another level of Gladwell
I enjoy all of Malcolm Gladwell's books as they give interesting perspective on life. I did not know about this collection of stories from his reporting days so it is another layer of the background of his thought processes.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Jan, 2020
Love it
Love itVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Jan, 2019
More tales of Tipping , Blink and freakonomics.
More tales of Tipping , Blink and freakonomics.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
