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Book Of The Week: Outliers, By Malcolm Gladwell

Published November 20, 2008, 4:29 pm, Independent

In 1904, a German professor of economics went back to work after a long bout of depression. He began to publish a series of essays about the links between a community, its core beliefs, and material success. Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism not only unleashed a century of debate and dispute. It more or less created the sociology of culture as a study of the ...

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Tim Lincecum, The Outlier... - ESPN.com
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