LEADER 00000cam 2200277 a 4500 001 227016360 003 OCoLC 005 20091205160827.0 008 081023s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2008044477 020 9780393337693 035 (OCoLC)227016360 040 DLC|cDLC|dBTCTA|dBAKER|dYDXCP|dWIQ|dC#P|dBWX|dCDX|dIXA |dBUR|dLMR|dVP@|dTTU|dCQU|dKEC 090 00 BF431|b.N57 2009 100 1 Nisbett, Richard E 245 10 Intelligence and how to get it :|bwhy schools and cultures count /|cRichard E. Nisbett 250 1st ed 260 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|cc2009 300 x, 304 p. :|bill. ;|c25 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-282) and index 505 0 Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability - - Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue : What we now know about intelligence and academic achievement -- Appendix A : Infomal definitions of statistical terms -- The case for a purely environmental basis for black/white differences in IQ 520 Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced : the anti-Bell Curve book.-- From publisher description 650 0 Intellect 650 0 Schools 650 0 Culture
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