Outliers, The Story of Success--------------------------------------------------From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, MalcolmGladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdomabout genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie sofar out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, MalcolmGladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes,software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the storyof success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than wecould ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about wherewe're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not evena genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think" about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. ""Gladwell"" is not only a brilliant storyteller" tell us, the lessons they contain"". (Guardian). ""Malcolm Gladwell is"a global phenomenon ...he has a genius for making everything he writes" seem like an impossible adventure."" (Observer). "He is the best kind"of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather" than he's a genius"". (The Times). Author, journalist, cultural commentator"and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer forthe New Yorker magazine. His first book The Tipping Point capturedthe world's attention with its theory that a curiously small changecan have unforeseen effects. His other international bestselling booksare Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individualsand reveals the secrets of their success, Blink: The Power of ThinkingWithout Thinking and What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocativeand entertaining New Yorker pieces.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectualadventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaicanmother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada andgraduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post,first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosityand breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging overa wide array of subjects including early childhood development andthe flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to becool. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attentionwith its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects,and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politiciansand business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strangephenomena. 'His other international bestselling books are Blink, whichexplores how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautiousdecision, and What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocativeand entertaining New Yorker pieces.