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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/07/2011
ISBN: 9780316017930
Pages: 309
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/24/2011 pg. 24
People Weekly 03/18/2013 pg. 53

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