Author: Alfred ElwesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Adventures of a Dog and a Good Dog Too
Author: Alfred ElwesWhat the Dog Saw
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141044802
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
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.
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Author: David GrannPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307275906
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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!
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316086142
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
!--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--
Talking to Strangers
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316535621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316086150
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
!--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--
Adventures of Benny the Dog
Author: Jack WeylandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781515364603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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.
The Bomber Mafia
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141998385
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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?
The Dog Who Went To School
Author: Denise MeridithPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The worldwide pandemic in 2020 placed great pressure on everyone. Children missed usually lifelong-memorable events, like the first day of kindergarten or graduation. Grandparents and parents suddenly became teachers and guidance counselors and bedrooms became classrooms. But the pandemic also provided a greater opportunity for grandparents and parents to read to and with children either at home or online. In this Adventure, Arry learns about the value of education and those who provide it. Join Arry's Fan Club ( https: //tinyurl.com/yxnxgr9p ) or Instagram family (@arrypotta2018) and Follow his Facebook page (Adventures of Arry) to connect with others who want to spend more time reading to their children (ReadtoKids.US).
A Dog Like Sam
Author: Edward van de VendelPublisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802854841
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kix and Emilia adopt a stray dog and name him Sam, even though their parents say they cannot keep him, but then Sam's original owner is looking for him.