What the dog saw and other adventure stories
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316075848
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Physical Description:
xv, 410 pages ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2009].
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Essays previously published in the New Yorker". |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius -- The pitchman -- The ketchup conundrum-- Blowing up -- True colors -- John Rock's error -- What the dog saw -- Part two. Theories, predictions, and diagnoses -- Open secrets -- Million-dollar Murray -- The picture problem -- Something borrowed -- Connecting the dots -- The art of failure -- Blowup -- Part three: Personality, character, and intelligence -- Late bloomers -- Most likey to succeed -- Dangerous minds -- The talent myth -- The new-boy network -- Troublemakers. |
Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources |
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Subject: | Popular culture -- United States Social values -- United States American prose literature -- 21st century |
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Quesnel Branch | 814.6 GLA (Text)
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