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02984aam a22003735a 4500 001 4DCA226E940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230619s2009 xxu es 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0316086142 020 $a 9780316086141 028 42 $a MWT15985047 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 814/.6 $2 22 100 1 $a Gladwell, Malcolm, $d 1963- 245 10 $a Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius : $b Part One from What the Dog Saw $h [electronic resource] / $c Malcolm Gladwell. 246 30 $a Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Little, Brown and Company, $c 2009. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a 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 is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. 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 "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate. "Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a American prose literature $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States. 650 0 $a Social values $z United States. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12519530?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hbg_9780316086141_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206013153.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4DCA226E940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search