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  • SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY INTO HUMAN POTENTIAL
    DAVID YUN DAI / ROBERT J. STERNBERG
    Scientific Inquiry into Human Potential explores the intellectual legacy and contemporary understanding of scientific research on human intelligence, performance, and productivity. Across nineteen chapters, some of the most eminent scholars of learning and psychology recount how they originated, distinguished, measured, challenged, and adapted their theories on the nature and n...

    $1,160.00

  • NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
    ROBERT L. STERNBERG, ANTHONY J. KALINOWSKI AND JOHN S. PAPADAKIS
    In this volume are twenty-eight papers from the Conference on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equationsin Engineering and Applied Science, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and held at the Universityof Rhode Island in June, 1979. Included are contributions from an international group of distinguishedmathematicians, scientists, and engineers coming from a wide variety of ...

    $7,500.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON THINKING, LEARNING, AND COGNITIVE STYLES
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J. / ZHANG, LI-FANG
    This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical perspectives; * includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and * shows the application of these perspectives to school situations, as well as situatio...

    $1,760.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON COGNITIVE ABILITIES
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J. / GRIGORENKO, ELENA L.
    It sometimes seems that it is difficult to pick up a current newspaper or a magazine without it containing a story about some behavioral characteristic for which it has been found that a gene is responsible. Even aspects of behavior that one would feel certain are environmentally controlled are now being attributed in part to the effects of the genes. But genes never act alone:...

    $1,560.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
    ROBERT J. STERNBERG
    First published in 1987. Since the 1960s, we have witnessed a remarkable resurgence of interest in the psychology of human intelligence. In the late 1960s, research in the field of intelligence seemed to have gone into at least partial remission. But today, a large number of investigators are pursuing active research programs concerning human intelligence. Advances in the Psych...

    $1,480.00

  • COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
    ROBERT J. STERNBERG
    Although complex problem solving has emerged as a field of psychology in its own right, the literature is, for the most part, widely scattered, and often so technical that it is inaccessible to non-experts. This unique book provides a comprehensive, in-depth, and accessible introduction to the field of complex problem solving. Chapter authors -- experts in their selected domain...

    $2,220.00

  • ADVANCES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    Volume five continues to mark the significant advances made in the psychology of human intelligence, problem solving, and thinking abilities. Papers contributed by leaders in the field reflect a diversity of perspectives and approaches to the human intelligence. Subjects discussed include: * genetic and environmental contributions to information-processing abilities * developme...

    $980.00

  • CONFRONTING DOGMATISM IN GIFTED EDUCATION
    DON AMBROSE, ROBERT J. STERNBERG, AND BHARATH SRIRAMAN
    This title looks at the dogmatism that limits the perspectives of professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in gifted education. In a field where concepts and definitions surrounding high ability have been contested for many years, there is increasing interest in clarifying these notions today. This book offers such clarity, searching outside of the predominant concep...

    $1,420.00

  • THE CREATIVITY CONUNDRUM
    ROBERT J. STERNBERG / JAMES C. KAUFMAN / JEAN E. PRETZ
    This book challenges traditional notions of creativity as a trait, and brings forward ideas of multiple types of creativity, along with the possibility of development of creativity. ...

    $1,540.00

  • THE NATURE OF INTELLECTUAL STYLES
    LI-FANG ZHANG / ROBERT J. STERNBERG
    This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. Readers will gain a broad understanding of the field--its nature, origins, historical development, theories, research, and applications, as well as the interrelationships among major theoret...

    $1,380.00

  • THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL THINKING
    ROBERT J. STERNBERG
    Why do some children seem to learn mathematics easily and others slave away at it, learning it only with great effort and apparent pain? Why are some people good at algebra but terrible at geometry? How can people who successfully run a business as adults have been failures at math in school? How come some professional mathematicians suffer terribly when trying to balance a che...

    $1,760.00

  • GERIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
    JOHN TONER / J. ROBERT STERNBERG
    "Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness significantly contributes to the somewhat limited literature available on this topic."--The Gerontologist"This is a must-read book for clinicians, service providers, policy makers, program planners, and teachers in the fields of mental health, aging, and emergency preparedness."From the Foreword by Robert N. Butler, M...

    $1,685.00

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN TIMES OF CRISIS
    BARBANEL, LAURA / STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    There is controversy as to whether psychological interventions in the aftermath of disaster are helpful or not. This book addresses these controversies and describes the responses that psychologists have made in different parts of the world to disaster. ...

    $1,951.00

  • THE GENERAL FACTOR OF INTELLIGENCE
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J. / GRIGORENKO, ELENA L.
    This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological, behavior-genetic, sociocultural, systems--and asked distinguished scholars to writ...

    $1,560.00

  • FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING
    GRIGORENKO, ELENA L. / STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    What is the impact of the family environment on us, particularly with regard to our intellectual functioning? Does the role of early family environment wear off, as some researchers have suggested, or does it maintain or possibly even become more important as we grow older? This book examines the interrelationship between family environment and intellectual functioning in a lif...

    $980.00

  • UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING THE INTUITIVE MIND
    TORFF, BRUCE / STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    The intuitive mind is a powerful force in the classroom and often an undetected one. Intuitive conceptions--knowledge or knowledge-structures that individuals acquire and use largely without conscious reflection or explicit instruction--sometimes work to facilitate learning in the classroom and other contexts. But learning may also be impeded by intuitive conceptions, and they ...

    $1,380.00

  • INTELLIGENCE, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J. / WILLIAMS, WENDY M.
    Intelligence, Instruction, and Assessment shows how modern theories of intelligence can be directly applied by educators to the teaching of subject matter, regardless of the age of the students or the content being taught. It is intended primarily for teachers at all levels--elementary, secondary, tertiary--who want to apply in their classrooms what we know about intelligence. ...

    $960.00

  • HOW TO DEVELOP STUDENT CREATIVITY
    ROBERT J. STERNBERG / WENDY M. WILLIAMS
    Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues. The strategies include explanations entwined with personal experiences from the authors' own classrooms and research.Sternberg and Williams give a basic explanation of creativity and relate techniques you can use to choose cr...

    $266.00

  • INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF GIFTEDNESS AND TALENT
    HELLER, K. A. / MÖNKS, F. J. / SUBOTNIK, R. / STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    The first edition of this popular reference work was published in 1993 and received critical acclaim for its achievement in bringing together international perspectives on research and development in giftedness and talent. Scholars welcomed it as the first comprehensive volume in the field and it has proved to be an indispensable resource to researchers. Since the first edition...

    $4,577.00

  • THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
    STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
    Thinking and Problem-Solving presents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of literature on cognition, reasoning, intelligence, and other formative areas specific to this field. Written for advanced undergraduates, researchers, and academics, this volume is a necessary reference for beginning and established investigators in cognitive and educational psychology. Thinking and P...

    $953.00