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Genre/Form: | studium przypadku |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Steptoe |
ISBN: | 0198523734 9780198523734 |
OCLC Number: | 749202348 |
Description: | VI, [7], 274 s. : il. ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Exceptional Creativity and the Psychological Sciences ; 2. The Genetics of Genius ; 3. Creativity and Genius: A Systems Perspective ; 4. Historical Developments of Expert Performance: Public Performance of Music ; 5. Early Lives: Prodigies and Non-prodigies ; 6. Mathematical Giftedness and Mathematical Genius: A Comparison of G.H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan ; 7. Mozart: Resilience Under Stress ; 8. The Creative Genius of William Shakespeare: Historiometric Analyses of his Plays and Sonnets ; 9. Lord Byron: The Apostle of Affliction ; 10. Creativity and Madness: Clues from Modern Psychiatric Diagnosis ; 11. Artistic Temperament in the Italian Renaissance: A Study of Giorgio Vasari's Lives |
Responsibility: | ed. by Andrew Steptoe. |
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"This rich, informative and literate collection of papers works around ideas of genius. The writers are generally well-known within their specialities, and the disagreement between them makes for a thought provoking read." Psychological Medicine, October 1999... This book provides an interesting, thought provoking read.Michael Rutter, THES, June 1999 Read more...
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