This is a book about outliers,about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.It is also a book of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage.Outliers is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, released on November 18th, 2008 In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success, looking at how Bill Gates and Bill Joy achieved their extreme levels of success, why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, and why Asian children are seemingly much better at math than children from other countries.A must read book of 2008.