TY - BOOK AU - Gladwell, Malcolm TI - What the dog saw and other adventure stories SN - 978-0-316-08465-9 AV - 814.6 G45w 2010 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Back Bay Books/Little, Brown KW - American prose literature KW - 21st century KW - Periodicals KW - Popular culture KW - UNITED STATES KW - Social values KW - Literature, Modern KW - Culture KW - United States N2 - Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell`s writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate ER -