Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Extraordinariness (Master Minds)

by HowardGardner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.25

  Howard Gardner's work has concentrated on the varieties of human intelligence, a rejection of simplistic models that rely on IQ tests, and the nature of human genius. In this book, he brings together these concerns to explore the development of human intelligence and creativity in children and how the childhoods and lives of four exceptional individuals (Mozart, Freud, Virginia Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi) can show us both how exceptional achievement can emerge and how we can all learn from such exmapled in understanding the potential of ordinary minds, whether our own or those of our children.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.66

  Renowned for his work on multiple intelligences , which stresses the variety oftypes of intelligence rather then the narrow model represented by IQ tests, Gardner here examines the ordinary development and then the rarer case of extraordimnary development. He draws on case-studies of Mozart, Freud, Gandhi and Virginia Woolf to illuminate four types of exceptional achievements, and shows how these abilities can be exploited by us all in maximising our own creativity and achievements.