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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

by Malcolm Gladwell
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Eclectic insights unraveling everyday phenomena's magic.

If you're intrigued by the quirks and conundrums of daily life, "What the Dog Saw" is your kind of read. Gladwell has a knack for uncovering the extraordinary in the mundane, turning a curious gaze on everything from ketchup to canine psychology. It's not just trivial facts; it's about discovering the hidden threads that weave our world together. This book will coax your mind into viewing ordinary things through a lens of wonder and contemplation.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

by Malcolm Gladwell
RM33.17 MYR
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ISBN: 9780316076203
Authors: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date of Publication: 2010-12-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Business, Creative Nonfiction, Science, Economics, Personal Development
Related Topics: Economics, Self Help, Personal Development, Essays, Psychology, Sociology, Social Science, Business, Psychology, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 3.85
(rated by 103034 readers)

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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 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."
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Eclectic insights unraveling everyday phenomena's magic.

If you're intrigued by the quirks and conundrums of daily life, "What the Dog Saw" is your kind of read. Gladwell has a knack for uncovering the extraordinary in the mundane, turning a curious gaze on everything from ketchup to canine psychology. It's not just trivial facts; it's about discovering the hidden threads that weave our world together. This book will coax your mind into viewing ordinary things through a lens of wonder and contemplation.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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