Outliers: The Story of Success

<p><P>In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers&#151;the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question&#58; 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&#58; 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. <br>Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.</p> <h3> The Barnes & Noble Review </h3> <p> It's not uncommon, reading a newspaper or watching television, to learn that science has just discovered something everyone already knows. Often it sounds like awful stand-up: Men, women different, finds ten-month toilet-seat study or Drunk researchers: 'Beer goggles' real. If Malcolm Gladwell's <em>Outliers: The Story of Success </em>were pared down to a headline, it would be Gladwell: Life Unfair. </p>