What the dog saw and other adventure stories / Malcolm Gladwell

Previously published in the New Yorker.

Part one: Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius -- The pitchman -- The ketchup conundrum-- Blowing up -- True colors -- John Rock's error -- What the dog saw -- Part two: Theories, predictions, and diagnoses -- Open secrets -- Million-dollar Murray -- The picture problem -- Something borrowed -- Connecting the dots -- The art of failure -- Blowup -- Part three: Personality, character, and intelligence -- Late bloomers -- Most likey to succeed -- Dangerous minds -- The talent myth -- The new-boy network -- Troublemakers.

Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from "The""New Yorker" in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

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