Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316017923)

Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apart--from Bill Gates to the Beatles--in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN-10: 0316017922
ISBN-13: 9780316017923
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.58w x 1.08d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 164990 / Outliers: The Story of Success


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2008 pg. 46
Time 09/08/2008 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2008 pg. 927
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2008 pg. 48
Library Journal 10/01/2008 pg. 86
Entertainment Weekly 11/21/2008 pg. 120
Time 11/24/2008 pg. 48
People Weekly 11/24/2008 pg. 54
Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 8
Newsweek 11/24/2008 pg. 65
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 9
Entertainment Weekly 01/30/2009 pg. 101
Scientific American 04/01/2009 pg. 36
New York Review of Books 05/28/0009 pg. 8
People Weekly 09/20/2010 pg. 63