What the dog saw and other adventures
Record details
- ISBN: 0316076201 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316076203 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0316075841
- ISBN: 9780316075848
- ISBN: 9780316076326
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Physical Description:
xv, 410 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previously published in the New Yorker. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 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. |
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Subject: | American prose literature -- 21st century Social values -- United States Popular culture -- United States |
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Hamiota | 306.097 GL (Text) | 35419001961243 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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