What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell

Name: What the Dog Saw By Malcolm Gladwell
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Covering everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world. The author explores the underdogs, the overlooked, the curious, the miraculous and the disastrous, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an incredible story.

What the Dog Saw Summary

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world.

'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times

'Beautiful ... brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today ... one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his generation' Ian Sample, Guardian

'Chatty, perceptive, impish and amiable ... Comes exuberantly close to ... what goes on inside other people's heads' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph

'Gladwell makes the world seem fresh and exciting again' Evening Standard

What the Dog Saw Reviews

Gladwell's range is impressive and his writing never less than engaging * FT *
The pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art * Guardian *
Make your social commentary sparkle with Malcolm Gladwell's latest * Sunday Times *
He's able to examine what look like the most mundane aspects of our daily lives and to reveal the cleverness - and the strangeness - within * Sunday Telegraph *
Vibrant, colourful and packed with surprises * Guardian *
Gladwell soars high * Spectator *

About Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History and is a staff writer atThe New Yorker. He was named one of the 100 most influential people byTime magazine and one of the Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers. Previously, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business and science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

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GOR002022371

ISBN 13

9780141044804

ISBN 10

0141044802

Title

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

Author

Malcolm Gladwell

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2010-05-06

Number of pages

432

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N/A

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