TY - BOOK AU - Gladwell, Malcolm TI - What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures SN - 9780141044804 U1 - 814.6 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. KW - American Prose Literature - 21st Century - Periodicals KW - Popular Culture - United States KW - Social Values - United States N1 - 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 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 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 ER -