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Outliers

In this landmark work, the author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" asks what makes high-achievers different? Brilliant and entertaining, "Outliers"... more
Subtitle:
The Story of Success
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
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In this landmark work, the author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" asks what makes high-achievers different? Brilliant and entertaining, "Outliers" is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Long description

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and, why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Like Blink , this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Product details

Publisher:
Limited (UK) Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780141036250
Publication date:
August 2009
Length:
196mm
Width:
131mm
Thickness:
20mm
Weight:
236g
Pages:
320

Review

'You will never again think as you did before about [success] ... This book deserves the gold star that adorns its front cover' - A.C. Grayling, The Times 'Gladwell deploys a wealth of fascinating data and information to illustrate his thesis ... Outliers challenges accepted wisdom' FT 'Malcolm Gladwell is a cerebral and jaunty writer, with an unusual gift for making the complex seem simple' Observer 'Makes geniuses look a bit less special, and the rest of us a bit more so' Time

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  Outliers
Reviewed by Richard from Somerset West, South Africa on 14 January 2013
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

I read this book - Twice! I even made notes! I never read books twice. It an easy read that flows well, its entertaining and fascinating. It is a book that I would recommended to my friends.

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Reviewed by Liz from Cape Town on 22 February 2011
98 of 203 people found the following review helpful:

This I think is his best book. While other of his books introduce a concept and spend the next 10 chapters elaborating, this book is packed with facts and insight and is super interesting. Thanks kalahari.net for another great read!

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