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008			100804s2009 nyu 000 0 eng d
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050	0	0	_aPN4874.G398 _bA25 2009
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100	1		_aGladwell, Malcolm, _d1963-
245	1	0	_aWhat the dog saw and other adventures _cMalcolm Gladwell.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Co., _c2009.
300			_axv, 410 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aPreviously published in the New Yorker.
505	0		_aPt. 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.
520			_aCollects the author's best "New Yorker" pieces, including essays on such topics as why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one type of ketchup, a surprising assessment of what makes a safer car, and an examination of a machine built to predict hit movies.
650		0	_aAmerican prose literature _y21st century _vPeriodicals.
650		0	_aPopular culture _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSocial values _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEssays.
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