shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

2 comments By Sheila A.

donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
  1. $13.99 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller
Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$11.95
List price: $30.00
Used Hardcover
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
3 Local Warehouse Politics- United States Culture

More copies of this ISBN:

This title in other formats:

The bell curve :intelligence and class structure in American life

by Richard Herrnstein

The bell curve :intelligence and class structure in American life Cover

ISBN13: 9780029146736
ISBN10: 0029146739
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
All Product Details

Only 3 left in stock at $11.95!

Synopses & Reviews

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 775-832) and index.
back to top

Table of Contents

Cognitive class and education, 1900-1990 — Cognitive partitioning by occupation — The economic pressure to partition — Steeper ladders, narrower gates — Poverty — Schooling — Unemployment, idleness, and injury — Family matters — Welfare dependency — Parenting — Crime — Civility and citizenship — Ethnic differences in cognitive ability — Ethnic inequalities in relation to IQ — The demography of intelligence — Social behavior and the prevalence of low cognitive ability — Raising cognitive ability — The leveling of American education — Affirmative action in higher education — Affirmative action in the workplace — The way we are headed — A place for everyone.
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780029146736
Author:
Herrnstein, Richard
Publisher:
Free Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Educational Psychology
Subject:
Intelligence tests
Subject:
Intellect
Subject:
Intelligence levels
Subject:
Nature and nurture
Subject:
Intelligence
Subject:
Environment.
Subject:
Social class.
Subject:
Intelligence levels -- Social aspects -- United States.
Subject:
Cogniciâon
Subject:
General Social Science
Subject:
Psicopedagogâia
Subject:
Inteligencia, Cociente de la
Copyright:
1994
Series Volume:
89-5
Publication Date:
19940901
Binding:
HC
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
912
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $3.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    SNA :IBM's networking solution

    James Martin
  2. $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The bell curve debate :history, documents, opinions

    Russell Jacoby
  3. $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Beating Cancer with Nutrition: Clinically Proven & Easy-to-Follow Strategies to Dramatically Improve Your Quality & Quantity of Life & Chances for a Complete Remission

    Patrick Quillin
  4. $9.98 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    American Art Painting Sculpture Architec

    Milton W Brown
  5. $16.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Three Worlds of Michelangelo

    James H. Beck
  6. $40.00 New Set Softcover add to wish list

    Spirit Flyer: Volumes 1-4

    John Bibee
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.