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ISBN:	0316078573 (ISBN13: 9780316078573)
Edition Language:	English

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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 The New Yorker over the same period. Here you'll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of 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 why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

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Title	:	What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Author	:	Malcolm Gladwell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Large Print
Pages	:	Pages: 444 pages
Published	:	October 20th 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Psychology. Business. Writing. Essays. Sociology. Science. Audiobook

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What makes the writing of Malcolm Gladwell so interesting and compelling to read is that he looks at the everyday stuff of life just a little bit differently from the rest of us. He must have been an incredibly curious child, probably driving his parents completely crazy with question after question about absolutely everything. And most of the stuff he writes about is stuff that from time to time may flash through our minds, but there it stops. In 'Outliers', for example, he looks at why Asians

This is an interesting collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings that were originally published in The New Yorker. In the preface, Gladwell says this collection includes his favorite articles. I've read most of his books, and What the Dog Saw is a similarly fun mix of popular sociology, psychology, economics, social history and marketing. My favorite articles in the bunch were the ones on Ron Popeil, hair color, Cesar Millan, homelessness, plagiarism, criminal profiling and pit bulls. Gladwell

Probably the best Malcolm Gladwell book that I've read, and I've read them all.

Unlike Outliers, The Tipping Point, or Blink, Malcom Gladwell's newest book What the Dog Saw isn't an examination of one topic cut from whole cloth, but rather an eclectic mix of articles that originally appeared in The New Yorker. In it he examines everything from why it's impossible to improve on Ketchup, why Enron's failure was a mystery but not a puzzle, what makes for a good dog trainer, and what FBI criminal profilers have in common with psychics. It's good stuff.The format of What the Dog

What the Dog Saw is a compilation of Malcolm Gladwell's best writing for the New Yorker. As always, Gladwell's work is informative, provocative, and fun to read. While I don't always agree with Gladwell's opinions, I always enjoy reading them.In this work, my favorite piece was called "John Rocks Error: What the Inventor of Birth Control Didn't Know About Women's Health". This may surprise you because I'm not a woman, and I'm not really interested in birth control. I am very interested in the

This is a series of essays, non-fiction. They were very smart and interesting. 1.) The Pitchman is a about a salesman. 2.) The Ketchup Conundrum is about how tastes are developed and how people deal with challenges to that developed taste. 3.) Blowing Up is about investment strategy, it's kind of boring. 4.) True Colors. This is about hair dye and advertising. I liked it. 5.) John Rock's Error. This was about birth control. He raises some interesting points, but I don't know if I agree with all

While reading this book I was wondering all the way - how nice it would be to open a magazine and find such intriguing, well-researched, knowledgeable post with a morning tea! Yes, these are the posts from The New Yorker where he has been working. Such fine posts are rarity these days.I like non fiction. Especially when they're told in intriguing way like this. It's fun to read and many times I found myself waiting for what's next? This is hard to achieve when it comes to research and real life