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What the dog saw and other adventures / (Record no. 307756)

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DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2010525599
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780316076203 (pbk.)
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0316076201 (pbk.)
SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)696173499
CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency ZY8
AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library NOGA
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PN4874.G398
Item number A25 2010
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 814/.6
Edition number 22
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME Gladwell, Malcolm,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title What the dog saw and other adventures /
Statement of responsibility, etc Malcolm Gladwell.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Back Bay Books/Little Brown & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 410, 8 p. ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
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.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element American prose literature
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular culture
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social values
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Koha item type 01. English Non Fiction
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
d 814 GLA
c 314
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