| Description |
xv, 410 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Penguin psychology |
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Penguin psychology.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Mammography, Air Power, and the Limits of Looking -- Something Borrowed -- Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life? -- Connecting the Dots -- The Paradoxes of Intelligence Reform -- The Art of Failure -- Why Some People Choke and Others Panic -- Blowup -- Who Can Be Blamed for a Disaster Like the Challenger Explosion? No One, and We'd Better Get Used to It -- pt. THREE Personality, Character, and Intelligence -- "̀He'll Be Wearing a Doubled-Breasted Suit. Buttoned.'---And He Was" -- Late Bloomers -- Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? -- Most Likely to Succeed -- How Do We Hire When We Can't Tell Who's Right for the Job? -- Dangerous Minds -- Criminal Profiling Made Easy -- The Talent Myth -- Are Smart People Overrated? -- The New-Boy Network -- What Do Job Interviews Really Tell Us? -- Troublemakers -- What Pit Bulls Can Teach Us About Crime |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius -- "To a Worm in Horseradish, The World is Horseradish" -- The Pitchman -- Ron Popeil and the Conquest of the American Kitchen -- The Ketchup Conundrum -- Mustard Now Comes in Dozens of Varieties. Why Has Ketchup Stayed the Same? -- Blowing Up -- How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster into an Investment Strategy -- True Colors -- Hair Dye and the Hidden History of Postwar America -- John Rock's Error -- What the Inventor of the Birth Control Pill Didn't Know About Women's Health -- What the Dog Saw -- Cesar Millan and the Movements of Mastery -- pt. TWO Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses -- "It Was Like Driving Down An Interstate Looking Through a Soda Straw" -- Open Secrets -- Enron, Intelligence, and the Perils of Too Much Information -- Million-Dollar Murray -- Why Problems like Homelessness May Be Easier to Solve than to Manage -- The Picture Problem -- |
| Summary |
"Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us. Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style"--Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2009 |
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Originally published London : Allen Lane, 2009 |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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Social psychology -- United States.
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Popular culture.
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Social psychology.
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Social values -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0141044802 (paperback) |
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9780141044804 (paperback) |
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