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WHAT THE DOG SAW
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL

ABOUT THE BOOK:

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 20^th 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Malcolm Gladwell is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of three books, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference," (2000) , "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005), and "Outliers: The Story of Success" (2008) all of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.

From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.

GIVEAWAY

THANKS TO MIRIAM AND THE
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, I HAVE
5 COPIES OF THIS FABULOUS BOOK
TO GIVE AWAY. HERE IS WHAT YOU
NEED TO DO TO WIN A COPY!

RULES:

--U.S. AND CANADIAN RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!

HOW TO ENTER:
(VERY EASY)

+1 ENTRY: GO TO "Q & A: DOG DAYS", AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORKER, BY BEN GREENMAN, AND READ ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL'S TAKE ON CESAR MILLAN, "THE DOG WHISPERER". AS PART OF WHAT THE DOG SAW, THIS ARTICLE WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA ABOUT GLADWELL'S WORK, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ANY OF HIS WRITING BEFORE. TELL SOMETHING YOU FOUND OUT READING THE ARTICLE.

THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT!
THIS GIVEAWAY WILL END
AT 6 PM, NOVEMBER 1

GOOD LUCK!

COME BACK, COMO
GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED!
WINNING THE HEART OF
A RELUCTANT DOG
BY STEVEN WINN

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This is the story of a unique journey: one man's valiant quest to win the love of a truly one-of-a-kind dog, a creature usually thought of as man's best friend. With humour and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects Como had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Award-winning journalist and fiction writer Steven Winn was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and a founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, his work has appeared in publications from Good Housekeeping, Parenting, and Parents, to Sports Illustrated, AARP magazine, the Utne Reader, and the National Lampoon. He has appeared on 20/20, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, AandE Biography, and NPR.

GIVEAWAY

COMO IS SOME GREAT DOG!
READ AND FALL IN LOVE!
I HAVE ONE NEW ADVANCED COPY
TO GIVE AWAY !

RULES:

---U.S. AND CANADIAN RESIDENTS ONLY
---NO P.O. BOXES PLEASE
---YOU MUST PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN YOUR COMMENT SO I DON'T
HAVE TO HUNT FOR IT!

HOW TO ENTER:
(VERY EASY)

+1 ENTRY: COMMENT AND TELL ME THE NAME OF A FICTIONAL DOG OR CAT FROM A BOOK YOU HAVE READ. TELL THE NAME OF THE BOOK AS WELL IF YOU CAN

THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT!
THIS GIVEAWAY WILL END TOMORROW,
OCTOBER 13, AT NOON!