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This copy is from the personal library of the legendary author. View the entire collection here.
Condition Notes: (New York): Basic Books, (1983) Trade paper. Anne Rice's copy, with her handwritten library label taped to the spine. Signed & dated on the front free endpaper, annotated throughout. With color tabs affixed to the top & fore edge of the text. Text is age-toned. Good condition. KB/kb
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Publisher Comments:
More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book.
Synopsis:
A revolutionary challenge to the widely held notion that intelligence is a single general capacity possessed by every individual to a greater or lesser extent.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-427) and indexes.
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A revolutionary challenge to the widely held notion that intelligence is a single general capacity possessed by every individual to a greater or lesser extent.
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