Off the charts : the hidden lives and lessons of American child prodigies
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New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018., New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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First edition.
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xviii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018., New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-352) and index.
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Ann Hulbert examines the lives of children whose rare accomplishments have raised hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it. She probes the changing role of parents and teachers, as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, who push back against adults more as the decades proceed. Among the children are the math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a Harvard graduate student at age fifteen; two girls, a poet and a novelist, whose published work stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple and the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and autistic "prodigious savants"; and musical prodigies, present and past. Off the Charts also tells the surprising inside stories of Lewis Terman's prewar study of high-IQ children and of the postwar talent search begun at Johns Hopkins, and discovers what Tiger Mom Amy Chua really has to tell us. In these moving stories, it is the children who deliver the most important messages.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hulbert, A. (2018). Off the charts: the hidden lives and lessons of American child prodigies (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hulbert, Ann. 2018. Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hulbert, Ann. Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hulbert, Ann. Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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