Identifies the qualities of successful people, maintaining that culture, family, and idiosyncratic factors can have a decisive impact on shaping high achievers,
In view of the enormous volume ofliterature on the outlier problem and its cousins, no attempt has been made to make the coverage exhaustive.
IN THE LIVING ROOM, MY DAD GUIDES KAREN TO A NEARBY CHAIR. SHE DROPS down, body stiff, face frozen. Nothing at all like I've ever seen her. Because it's more than Karen's clothes that are always perfect. She is always perfect, too.
Jonathan Saltzman (15 Nov 2008), “Companies to Settle for $26m in Tunnel Collapse,” Boston Globe. ... Interest in the Financial Industry,” in The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Alternate Edition, Pearson Education.
Is it pure talent? Personal drive? An off-the-charts IQ? In Outliers, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell explores the subject of success and argues that there is more to the story than individual exceptionalism.
'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times 'Beautiful ... brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today ... one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his ...
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the field of outlier analysis from a computer science point of view.
Outliers ...in 30 minutes is the essential guide to quickly understanding the ideas explored in Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling book, Outliers: The Story of Success.
I lunge forward as I hit the upstairs hall. The bathroom. That's where I need to go. Focus. Focus. Faster. Faster. Before he grabs me. The door isn't far. And I'll only need a second to open the window and crawl out.
How to Detect and Handle Outliers
From its initial publication this book has been the standard text on the subject. Since then there has been a continuing high level of activity, and work has developed in...