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▼a 9780316076326 |
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▼a Gladwell, Malcolm |
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▼a What the dog saw and other adventure stories /
▼d Malcolm Gladwell |
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▼a New York :
▼b Little, Brown and Company,
▼c 2009 |
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▼a xv, 410 p. ;
▼c 21 cm. |
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▼a Previously published in the New Yorker. |
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▼a Pt. 1: Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius -- The pitchman : Ron Popeil and the conquest of the American kitchen -- The ketchup conundrum : mustard now comes in dozens of different 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. 2: Theories, predictions and diagnoses. 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 : 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 refo |
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