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Malcolm Gladwell – WHAT THE DOG SAW : And Another Adventures
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(Preloved Wrapped) WHAT THE DOG SAW : And Another Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell
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A Mixed Bag of Quirky Profiles, Thoughtful & Contrarian Analyses of Commonly Embraced Theories

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ISBN 9780316084659
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher BACK BAY BOOKS
Publication Date 01 Mar 2014
Pages 528
Weight 0.35 kg
Dimension 17.3 × 10.5 × 4 cm
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. It is a compendium of nineteen essays by Gladwell that were previously published in The New Yorker. There are three categories of stories: biographies about “minor geniuses,” the hazards of particular theories of interpretation, and the shortcomings of the art of prediction.
 
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. Malcolm Gladwell focuses on “minor geniuses” and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this “delightful” (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.
 
What the Dog Saw is a compilation of 19 articles by Malcolm Gladwell that were originally published in The New Yorker which are categorized into three parts. It is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.


✔ 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 you’ll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. And as usual, a Gladwell book is always food for thought. He covers a broad spectrum of ideas: people we remember, others we’ve never heard about, bits of this and that, all of it so informative.
 
His interest in almost everything is passed on to his readers. In his usual fashion, his calm approach hooks you from the first sentence. Read a few essays or enjoy the entire book, you will not regret picking up What the Dog Saw. 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 why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
 
The first part, Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius, describes people who are very good at what they do, but are not necessarily well-known. Part two, Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses, describes the problems of prediction. This section covers problems such as intelligence failure, and the fall of Enron.
The third section, Personality, Character, and Intelligence, discusses a wide variety of psychological and sociological topics ranging from the difference between early and late bloomers to criminal profiling.
 
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Soundview Summary :
 
A Powerful Peek Beneath the Surface
 
When Malcolm Gladwell tells a story, it’s hard for a reader not to become enthralled. Gladwell’s gifts as a writer have propelled all of his previous books to the top position on the New York Times best-seller list. His stories are immensely popular because they describe issues and ideas that have lingered below the radar of our subconscious only to be brought to the surface by his endless curiosity and keen talents as a journalist and a storyteller.
 
In his first book, The Tipping Point, Gladwell expertly described the moment when a small thought becomes — or does not become — a powerful idea that spreads across the population like wildfire. And how we are all influenced by our shared experiences. In his next book, Blink, Gladwell described how some of the smartest decisions are sometimes made in the blink of an eye.
 
Readers were once again captivated because he put into simple terms one of the most complex ideas: how we often think without thinking. Most people wonder about such thoughts, but Gladwell explored them with such intrigue and insight that readers got a better sense of not only their own brains but also those of others. Similarly, he showed readers how success is built in Outliers by digging into several success stories that are described with such eloquence that they help readers understand how circumstances and persistence can make a person successful.
 
Sharing Our Humanity :
Gladwell continues to fascinate readers with his polished storytelling skills in What the Dog Saw. One of the best measures of a fiction writer is his or her ability to deftly transition between short fiction and the novel. Gladwell is not to be outdone in the realm of non-fiction. If his previous non-fiction books read like novels, this one reads like a collection of his best short stories. As a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1996, Gladwell is an expert in precision.
 
Although each story contained within What the Dog Saw follows its own strange course through the people and experts surrounding each topic, all of its stories follow a single, unifying path. That path is paved with a deep curiosity to discover the answer to a compelling question about our shared humanity. It also twists through many new ideas and leads to a satisfying place where fresh insight is found.
 
Along that path, Gladwell transforms his passion for discovery into revealing stories that make his readers feel a little bit smarter for having opened their minds to his ideas. For example, the story that provides the title of his book is about the famous dog psychologist Cesar Millan, the host of the National Geographic Channel show Dog Whisperer.
 
Gladwell explores Millan’s captivating ability to train dogs and understand their behaviors. Along the way, Gladwell also discovers many intriguing details about how people interact with their pets, and how their animals pick up on subtle environmental and behavioral cues.
 
After piecing together Millan’s history and picking apart the techniques he uses to control dogs through his own posture, actions, attitude and demeanor, Gladwell points out that Millan is more than a simple dog obedience trainer: He is a “people whisperer.”
 
Millan sees through the interactions people have with their dogs by getting into the dogs’ minds and seeing life through their eyes. By doing so, he helps dog owners understand the impact that their physical actions and emotional connections have on their pets.
 
By showing pet owners what their dogs see, Milan opens up a new universe of communication that helps both species successfully live with each other. By showing readers what Millan sees, Gladwell helps unlock the secrets contained in many previously hidden mysteries.
 
Compelling Phenomenon :
The power of the story of Cesar Millan is similar to that of the other stories contained in What the Dog Saw.
 
First, a compelling issue is explored, and then a new understanding arises from the in-depth examination of the people and ideas involved. The result is a deeper understanding of ourselves.
 
The fun, yet thorough, evaluation process that Gladwell undertakes is transformed into stories that touch us emotionally and intellectually while linking us to the world around us. What the Dog Saw shows how a collection of focused articles can offer the same gratifying impact of Gladwell’s other books.
 
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Review From Independent.Co.Uk :
 
The first “adventure” in What the Dog Saw, a selection of Malcolm Gladwell’s articles and essays from his 13 years as a staff writer on The New Yorker, is that of Ron Popeil. Popeil is a renowned TV salesman, or “pitchman”: the creator and vendor of a series of hugely popular cookery appliances, chief among them the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ.
 
His television infomercials are familiar to viewers across the US and, as Gladwell watches him perform live from the production booth in a QVC studio, the pitchman racks up sales worth $1m in a single hour.The book’s title, meanwhile, is taken from Gladwell’s profile of Cesar Millan, aka the Dog Whisperer, who can calm an angry beast with a look and a touch of his hand.
 
As he explains in his introduction, Gladwell is interested more by what’s going on in the dog’s head than by what’s going on in Millan’s. Despite his undeniable success, in most pop-cultural contexts Popeil would be a punchline, a subject of satire, a symbol of America’s unreconstructed capitalist urge; Millan would be merely an eccentric loner. But Gladwell transforms both into heroes. This sort of counterintuitive thinking – examining the world from the dog’s perspective – was long ago assigned a new adjective by his many fans and detractors: “Gladwellian”.
 
Gladwell has a standard modus operandi, which he employs for a good 75 per cent of the articles in What the Dog Saw: take two (sometimes three) disparate topics, use both to illustrate the same insight, and in so doing throw new light on each.
 
Thus, an essay on how to hire the right person for a job deals in college football and primary-school teaching; another views different varieties of failure through the lenses of professional tennis and aviation safety. Certain preoccupations emerge: feminine health, foreign intelligence, Enron.
 
Gladwell’s focus on the Enron scandal dates his pieces on big business to before the more momentous stock-market disasters of 2008, though “Blowing Up”, his 2002 profile of Nassim Nicholas Taleb – a Wall Street trader who subsequently published his own Gladwellian book, Black Swan – presages the financial catastrophe to come. Among the best pieces in this consistently absorbing collection is “The Talent Myth”, an indictment of Enron’s management culture, encouraged by the consultancy firm McKinsey.
 
“The Ketchup Conundrum” asks why Heinz has a near-monopoly on the titular condiment while supermarkets teem with a multiplicity of mustards.
 
“Something Borrowed”, a chin-stroker on the theme of intellectual property, was written after an award-winning play plagiarised Gladwell’s interview with a criminal psychiatrist.
 
Some of his New Yorker articles have undoubtedly informed Gladwell’s longer works: a piece on late-blooming geniuses has echoes of Outliers (his 2008 book about extraordinary talents, from the Beatles to Bill Gates), while “The New Boy Network”, about the efficacy of job interviews, overlaps with Blink (his 2005 book about the importance of first impressions).
 
Yet a volume full of these wide-ranging, 6,000-word essays is, in fact, far more rewarding than an entire 300 pages devoted to a single, relatively simple notion. Gladwell’s detractors often point to what they see as plagiarism in his own writing: the uncredited borrowing of existing scientific research in the service of derivative, Gladwellian theories.
 
Thomas Schelling, a social scientist whose work arguably formed the core of The Tipping Point, Gladwell’s bestselling debut, is quoted as saying, “What he leaves people with is not that scientists are doing some interesting work, but that Malcolm Gladwell has a couple of good ideas.”
 
But Gladwell, who does frequently cite his sources, is a journalist, not a specialist. Moreover, the criticism overlooks his greatest gift – not for ideas, but for captivating stories.
 
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About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.

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