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This brand new exclusive material is for elib members, please keep it here, thanks.Outliers: The Story of SuccessAuthor: Malcolm GladwellPublished: Nov. 2008Book Description: 312 pages scanned, OCRed & bookmarked.In this stunning new 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. Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a bestselling author of narrative nonfiction that examines the intersection of science and culture. In 2005, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People.The author’s web site is at:http://www.gladwell.com/Please keep this a elib exclusive, thanks.The audio book version of this book is posted at: Power Users & Above,Thanks, Mazen