Genius explained / Michael J.A. Howe.

By:

Howe, Michael J. A, 1940-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511003072
9780511003073
0511051344
9780511051340
0511149166
9780511149160

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Case studies

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genius explained.DDC classification:

153.9/8 21

LOC classification:

BF416.A1 H68 1999eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Young Charles Darwin -- ch. 3. Long ascent of George Stephenson -- ch. 4. Michael Faraday -- ch. 5. Manufacturing genius -- ch. 6. Einstein and the prodigies -- ch. 7. Expertise of great writers -- ch. 8. Inventing and discovering -- ch. 9. Born to be a genius?

Summary: Genius Explained addresses the belief that genius is born not made. Controversially, it suggests genius is not a mysterious gift but the product of environment, personality and hard work and looks at the lives of, amongst others, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index.

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Genius Explained addresses the belief that genius is born not made. Controversially, it suggests genius is not a mysterious gift but the product of environment, personality and hard work and looks at the lives of, amongst others, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein.

English.

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