In recent years, perhaps no magazine writer has been as reliably unpredictable in his choice of subject matter as The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell has taken on such topics as risk theory; the precipitous drop in New York City's crime rate during the past decade; a grandmother in Chicago who seems to know everybody; hair dye and the world of advertising; the potential demise of blockbuster books; and revisionist theories of early childhood development. Now Gladwell has tied many of these apparently disparate topics together in his first book, The Tipping Point, the subtitle of which -- "How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" -- concisely sums up what seems to motivate him as a writer.

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