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von Malcolm Gladwell (Autor)
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 432 Seiten
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company; Auflage: 1 (20. Oktober 2009)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0316075841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316075848
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,4 x 14,6 x 3,6 cm
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GREAT PRAISE FOR WHAT THE DOG SAW:

"[Malcolm Gladwell] is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament...Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have made The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, as well as his lengthy magazine features on topics ranging from cool-hunting to ketchup, into must reads." (Time.com Alex Altman )

"This evidence of a Gladwell effect helps to predict something larger: that Mr. Gladwell's new book will be as successful as his first three...This book full of short conversation pieces is a collection that plays to the author's strengths. It underscores his way of finding suitably quirky subjects (the history of women's hair-dye advertisements; the secret of Heinz's unbeatable ketchup; even the effects of women's changing career patterns on the number of menstrual periods they experience in their lifetimes) and using each as gateway to some larger meaning." (New York Times Janet Maslin )

"Gladwell is a writer of many gifts. His nose for the untold back story will have readers repeatedly muttering, "Gee, that's interesting!" He avoids shopworn topics, easy moralization and conventional wisdom, encouraging his readers to think again and think different...Some chapters are masterpieces in the art of the essay." (The New York Times Book Review Steven Pinker )

"Uniformly delightful...Malcolm Gladwell can write engrossingly about just about anything...His witty, probing articles are as essential to David Remnick's New Yorker as those of Wolcott Gibbs and A.J. Liebling were to Harold Ross's...Gladwell has a gift for capturing personalities, a Borscht Belt comic's feel for timing and a bent for counterintuitive thinking. He loves to start a piece by settling you onto a cushion of received ideas, then yanking it out from under you."- (Bloomberg News Craig Seligman )

"Malcolm Gladwell triumphantly returns to his roots with this collections of his great works from The New Yorker Magazine....Do yourself a favor and curl up with What the Dog Saw this week: It is more entertaining and edifying than should be legal for any book." (Louisville Courier-Journal Scott Coffman )

"In What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell leads the reader on delightful side excursions, shows with insightful conversation how one path interweaves with another, and suggests meaning-he is, in short, an interpretative naturalist of American culture." (The Oregonian Alice Evans )

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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 TheNew 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.

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For readers interested in subtle insights this book is a feast. Gladwell looks at issues you may have had your own experience with, like Enron or Ketchup. He starts at the obvious, the published story, the well known "facts" you are familiar with and then proceeds to reveal more and more information, different perspective and real (scientific) correlations you probably are not aware at all. Finally you find out, that a well established public opinion is just a made up story, concocted by some spin doctors and spread by the mass media.
Don't look for advice in this book. Gladwell just shows you a different, more differentiated picture. He did the searching for background information and scientific evidence for you. He presents the elements and their interrelation. Gladwell never tells you, what to think or how to act. Intelligent readers who prefer to think for themselves love such stuff for thought. It broadens ones mindset. Great book. Highly recommended!
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"You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the depths of the earth." -- Psalm 71:20

Before thinking about buying or reading this book, please be aware that all the articles were originally published in The New Yorker. If you are a loyal reader of that excellent publication, you may well have read all these articles before.

The strength of Mr. Gladwell's writing in these non-fiction articles is his ability to become fascinated with something that most people either don't notice . . . or don't long think about. With the persistence of a terrier, he keeps asking questions until some new perspectives appear. In almost all cases, these new perspectives will advance your thinking from where it is today. Unfortunately, in some cases, his curiosity will leave you short of satisfying answers to new questions that his writing raises.

Some of the articles are either brilliant . . . or just short of being so, listed here in the order in which they appear:

Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster into an Investment Strategy
What the Dog Saw: Cesar Millan and the Movements of Mastery
Million-Dollar Murray: Why Problems Like Homelessness May Be Easier to Manage Than to Solve
Connecting the Dots: The Paradoxes of Intelligence Reform
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?

Some of the other stories don't work nearly as well as they might have:

The Pitchman: Ron Popeil and the Conquest of the American Kitchen (doesn't have enough development of why we like to buy gadgets pitched on television)
The Ketchup Conundrum: Mustard Now Comes in Dozens of Varieties. Why Has Ketchup Stayed the Same? (focuses on taste research in the context of a poorly designed ketchup product rather than the question that's stated)
True Colors: Hair Dye and the Hidden History of Postwar America (too slim a premise to capture the important shifts in female self-image)
John Rock's Error: What the Inventor of the Birth Control Pill Didn't Know About Women's Health (the article's point is pushed too far, assuming that Catholic doctrine can be predicted based on health benefits)
Open Secrets: Enron, Intelligence, and the Perils of Too Much Information (doesn't succeed either as an expose or fully as irony)
The Picture Problem: Mammography, Air Power, and the Limits of Looking (too much information for what the subject will bear)
Something Borrowed: Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life? (too speculative to be very helpful)
Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling Made Easy (the point is hammered a little too hard)
The Talent Myth: Are Smart People Overrated? (the point is too obvious to keep our interest)

A few of the stories just didn't seem worth including:

The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic (not much content here)
Blowup: Who Can Be Blamed for a Disaster like the Challenger Explosion? No One, and We'd Better Get Used to It (the point is pretty obscure and I suspect many people won't be interested)
The New-Boy Network: What Do Job Interviews Really Tell Us? (much ado about first impressions)
Troublemakers: What Pit Bulls Can Teach Us About Crime (much data about the dangers of drawing conclusions from impressions of popular press reports)

At any rate, you'll have lots of new information to use for dinner conversation, if nothing else.

Have fun!
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