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  2. Outliers (book) - Wikipedia

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    Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success.

  3. Why I Write - Wikipedia

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    In the decade since 1936-37 his desire had been to "make political writing into an art". He concludes the essay explaining that "it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally."

  4. Girl Dreams Of Becoming An Author, Her Dream ... - AOL

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    A story just like this recently happened to this one woman who had dreamed of becoming an author ever since she was a child. When Bryn Donovan was just 8 years old, she found her immense passion ...

  5. Why Bother? (essay) - Wikipedia

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    In the introduction to the collection, Franzen explained his changing the title as a response to the many interviewers asking about the essay but failing to understand its intention, believing the essay to be an explicit promise on Franzen's part of a third "Big Social Novel" featuring a good deal of local detail and observation. [3]

  6. Fooled by Randomness - Wikipedia

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    Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that deals with the fallibility of human knowledge. It was first published in 2001. It was first published in 2001.

  7. Academic authorship - Wikipedia

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    Many scientific journals also require that authors provide information to allow readers to determine whether the authors may have commercial or non-commercial conflicts of interest. Outlined in the author disclosure statement for the American Journal of Human Biology , [ 48 ] this is a policy more common in scientific fields where funding often ...

  8. Richard Rodriguez - Wikipedia

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    Rodriguez went to Catholic school starting from age 6 at Sacred Heart School in Sacramento and graduated from Christian Brothers High School.. He received a BA from Stanford University in English in 1967, an MA in philosophy from Columbia University in 1969, and was a PhD candidate in English Renaissance literature at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1972.

  9. These 4 economic variables could 'easily flip' the 2024 ... - AOL

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    The authors find that a surge of mortgage rates to more than 8.5% would "crush housing affordability" and could undo Biden’s chances. On this front, the White House again has little it can do ...