Product Description

Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, this title takes everyday subjects and shows us different ways of looking at them, and the world around us.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6627 in Books
• Published on: 2010-05-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

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Review
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 the Author
Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. His other international bestselling books are Blink, which explores how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision, and Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals and reveals the secrets of their success.