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02887cam a2200433 a 4500 |
CONTROL NUMBER |
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696173499 |
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20110209010006.0 |
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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110204r20102009nyu 000 0 eng |
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 |
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
d |
814 GLA |
c |
314 |