[PDF] What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures eBook

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0141044802

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Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us. Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best – asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0307275906

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to be a superb storyteller. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann takes the reader around the world, revealing a gallery of rogues and heroes with their own particular fixations who show that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0316086142

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!--StartFragment--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. !--EndFragment--

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0141998385

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century 'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.' In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War. In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?

Author : Jack Weyland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2016-01-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781515364603

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Benny the Dog is having a nice quiet day in his backyard until his friend Earl the Squirrel shows up and cries out, "This is the worst thing that could happen to the squirrels in this town!" As Earl explains, squirrels have always buried nuts in the ground in the summer so they'll have something to eat in the winter. In the past they just tried to remember where they'd hidden the nuts. But a few years ago they got themselves a laptop. Now, anytime a squirrel buries a nut, he or she enters into their laptop the location where it was buried. But last night, according to Earl, somebody stole the laptop. He pleads, "Will you help us? If we don't get that laptop back, there's a lot of squirrels in this town who aren't going to make it through the winter." And so Benny and Earl start out on an adventure to solve this crime. They have three main suspects: Ratty the Rat, Casey the Cat, and Billy the Bat. But which of them did this terrible deed? And where is the laptop now? They need to find all this out as soon as possible. Delightfully illustrated by Becky Cowley with the text by Jack Weyland, this book will be a favorite for children of all ages.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0316086150

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!--StartFragment--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. !--EndFragment--

Author : Sydney Heinack
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781979624145

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This is a comical true story from a dog's perspective written by his 10 year old owner. Follow Oscar through his many wacky adventures in the three years they have been together.

Author : Harry Thomason
Publisher : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781624911385

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A humor-laced episodic memoir, Brother Dog is the story of a working-class childhood in the rural South during the 1950s and 60s, striving to become a filmmaker on an ever-expanding stage, helping elect a friend to the presidency, and anecdotal encounters with Chuck Berry, Prime Minister Tony Blair and other luminaries, all rich in imagery, grit, and humor.