02331cam a2200229Ia 4500 20230110145548.0 100428r20092009nyum d a000 0 eng d 978184614765 BTCTA BTCTA GK6 NYP P@N VP@ CXP PN4874.G398 A25 2009 Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- What the dog saw and other adventures / Malcolm Gladwell. 1st large print ed. London : Allen Lane, 2009. xxi, 410 p. (large print) ; 21 cm. Previously published in the New Yorker. 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 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. 3: Personality, character and intelligence. 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. American prose literature 21st century. Popular culture United States. Social values United States. lcc 54900 54900 0 0 lcc 0 0 UQLM UQL UQL 2023-01-10 0 0261126 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM