Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children
Author : Lewis Madison Terman
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Child development
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Madison Terman
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Child development
ISBN :
Author : Catharine Cox Miles
Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Family & Relationships
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Author : Michael Fitzgerald
Publisher : AAPC Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781931282444
Arguing that highly creative people are largely ?born and not made, ? the authors of Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World present case studies of the lives of 21 famous individuals, tying their personalities, talents and lifestyles to the major characteristics of Asperger Syndrome. Subjects range from the well-known to some more obscure, including political/military figures (Thomas Jefferson, Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson, Bernard Law Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle), mathematicians (Archimedes, Charles Babbage, Paul Erd?s, Norbert Wiener, David Hilbert, and Kurt G?del), scientists (Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Henry Cavendish and Gregor Mendel), writers (Gerard Manley Hopkins and H. G. Wells), plus maverick aviator Charles Lindbergh, psychologist John Broadus Watson and sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey.
Author : Sir Francis Galton
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Genius
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Author : David Shenk
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0307387305
"Fresh insights into the nature of exceptional peformance…. A deeply interesting and important book” (New York Times Book Review) that offers a revolutionary and life-changing message on the new science of human potential. Is true greatness obtainable from everyday means and everyday genes? Conventional wisdom says no, that a lucky few are simply born with certain gifts. Now you can forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence, and take a look at the amazing new evidence. Here, interweaving cutting-edge research from numerous scientific fields, David Shenk offers a new view of human potential, giving readers more of a sense of ownership over their accomplishments, and freeing parents from the bonds of genetic determinism. As Shenk points out, our genes are not a “blueprint” that dictate individual destinies. Rather we are all the product of interplay between genes and outside stimuli—a dynamic that we can influence. It is a revolutionary and life-changing message.
Author : Darold A. Treffert
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1849058733
In this fascinating book, Dr. Treffert looks at what we know about savant syndrome, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all. He looks both at how savant skills can be nurtured, and how they can help the person who has them, particularly if that person is on the autism spectrum.
Author : Gene N. Landrum
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1994-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1615925422
The much-awaited sequel to Landrum's Profiles of Genuis offers discussions of the elements that gave 13 extraordinary women--Mary Kay Ash, Margaret Thatcher, Estee Lauder, Maria Callas, and Jane Fonda, among others--the visionary perspective, operating style, and energy to achieve the edge over their competitors.
Author : Dean Keith Simonton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1118367391
With contributions from a multi-disciplinary group of expert contributors, this is the first handbook to discuss all aspects of genius, a topic that endlessly provokes and fascinates. The first handbook to discuss all aspects of genius with contributions from a multi-disciplinary group of experts Covers the origins, characteristics, careers, and consequences of genius with a focus on cognitive science, individual differences, life-span development, and social context Explores individual genius, creators, leaders, and performers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I, Simón Bolívar, Mohandas Gandhi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, John William Coltrane, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Martha Graham. Utilizes a variety of approaches—from genetics, neuroscience, and longitudinal studies to psychometric tests, interviews, and case studies—to provide a comprehensive treatment of the subject
Author : Austin Burt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674017139
In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some genes spread in spite of being harmful to the host organism—by distorting their own transmission to the next generation, or by changing how the host behaves toward relatives. As a consequence, different genes in a single organism can have diametrically opposed interests and adaptations.Covering all species from yeast to humans, Genes in Conflict is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements, those continually appearing stretches of DNA that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism. As Austin Burt and Robert Trivers show, these selfish genes are a universal feature of life with pervasive effects, including numerous counter-adaptations. Their spread has created a whole world of socio-genetic interactions within individuals, usually completely hidden from sight.Genes in Conflict introduces the subject of selfish genetic elements in all its aspects, from molecular and genetic to behavioral and evolutionary. Burt and Trivers give us access for the first time to a crucial area of research—now developing at an explosive rate—that is cohering as a unitary whole, with its own logic and interconnected questions, a subject certain to be of enduring importance to our understanding of genetics and evolution.
Author : Lewis M (Lewis Madison) 187 Terman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781015387959
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