Author: Nils Hansson File Type: pdf The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, with its history of multiple cultural and social transformations, as well as mixture of national and regional scientific styles, has lately attracted much attention from scholars of various disciplines. This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The anthology consists of ten chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. The contributing authors are historians, physicians, geographers, ethnologists, and scholars of literature.CONTRIBUTORS Katharina Beier, Motzi Eklof, Frank Gruner, Martin Gunnarson, Nils Hansson, Axel C. Huntelmann, Ken Kalling, Michaela Malmberg, Joanna Nieznanowska, Anders Ottosson, Maike Rotzoll, Erki Tammiksaar, Jonatan Wistrand

Author: Scott Barry Kaufman File Type: epub Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right? In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufmanwho was relegated to special education as a childsets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young persons personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory. In so doing, he increases our appreciation for the intelligence and diverse strengths of prodigies, savants, and late bloomers, as well as those with dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Combining original research, anecdotes, and a singular compassion, Ungifted proves that anyoneeven those without readily observable gifts at any single moment in timecan become great. ReviewKaufman presents a convincing theory of personal intelligence. But what emerges most clearly is how all childrengifted, disabled or simply humming with untapped abilitiesneed a fine-tuned, holistic education to shine in their own extraordinary ways.*Nature* Kaufman makes a convincing case for incorporating valuable but less easily measured attributes into our view of intelligenceMost powerfully, Kaufman illustrates the importance of uncovering what gives each person his or her own brand of intelligence, taking into account individual goals, psychologies and brain chemistry.*Scientific American Mind* A good readintroduces the reader to the world of intelligence testing in a highly literate style and pulls back the curtain on some very bad practices in public schoolsKaufman makes a strong case that anyone can be great, even the ungifted.*Post and Courier* A warmly human and coolly scientific survey of both the reductive and the liberating fruits of two centuries of cognitive research.*The Scientist* A convincingand movingcase for the great potential of even an ordinary mind.*Parade* Fascinating.a smart, lucid, and down-to-earth exposition of the underlying neuroscience and the contentious history of theories of intelligence.Blending incisive analysis with a warm sympathy for intellectual insecuritiesand potentialKaufman demonstrates that even the most ordinary mind is a strange and wondrous gift.*Publishers Weekly* Kaufmans portrait of the history of intelligence provides a background on experiments in cognitive psychology, biographical information about influential researchers, and details of his own experience in the special education classroom, making this academic work also personal. Highly recommended for readers curious about human intelligence.Library Journal, starred review Kaufman makes a convincing case that stereotyping students is not only unsupported by research, but also discriminatory An inspiring, informative affirmation of human potential combined with an overview of historical developments in standardized tests, cognitive psychology and current research.*Kirkus Reviews* A moving personal story of overcoming the effects of having been labeled as learning disabled, and at the same time a wide ranging exploration of a set of fascinating topics related to ability, learning, and achievement. An inspiring account that should both educate and give hope to children, teachers, and parents.Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, Boston College, and author of *Gifted Children Myths and Realities* Ungifted provides a wealth of information about unlocking the potential of those at all levels of the IQ and personality scales. It is interwoven with the authors early life history, which was a tragedy of misdiagnosis.James R. Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Otago, and author of *What is Intelligence?* Ungifted insightfully interweaves a personal story with scientific research to prove that many of us have special gifts that can lead to greatness. Scott Barry Kaufman shows that we just cannot let others tell us what those gifts are.Dean Keith Simonton, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis, and author of *Origins of Genius* Ungifted moves us closer to being more intelligent about how we define intelligence. Scott Barry Kaufmans new theory of intelligence includes IQ but is not limited to itit also includes generous doses of inspiration, talent, energy, curiosity, creativity and sometimes, serendipity. His definition is dynamic and sculpts, rather than sterotypes and confines.Darold A. Treffert, M.D., author of *Islands of Genius The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant* Ungifted is a virtuoso book that gracefully weaves science, psychology, and the authors personal experience into a powerful argument for valuing the cognitive strengths of all students, particularly those sidelined in the past by short-sighted assumptions about the limits of their potential.Steve Silberman, correspondent, Wired magazine About the AuthorScott Barry Kaufman is adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University. He completed his doctorate at Yale, received an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge under a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and completed his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University. He is co-founder of The Creativity Post, and writes the blog Beautiful Minds for Scientific American Mind. He lives in New York City.

Author: J. Andrew Foster File Type: pdf This book is a study of Theocritus narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a close, careful description and analysis of these features as particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew Foster provides detailed readings of these specific poems, demonstrating how each poems narrative structure and its intratextual and intertextual affiliations interact to characterize the voices and audiences expressed and imagined by the discourse. Within these poems Theocritus especially orchestrates polyphonic voices speaking to diverse fictional, ideal, and actual audiences and so authorizes a range of responses to speech-in-text. His densely allusive poems exhibit an iterative aspect and resistance to closure that particularly encourage his readers to help compose larger metanarratives in which such resolution can be achieved or the particular episode can be better understood. The interplay between the referential systems inscribed within these poems and their rhetorical structure exemplifies how Theocritus encourages his poetry to be incorporated into a wider literary discourse by which that wider literary landscape is transformed. Within these experiments in narration and reception, Theocritus exhibits an intense engagement with the literary past and his critical present whose receptions and authority are continually problematized. These readings will serve as a springboard into the wider ongoing study of the problems of poetic voice, authority, and literary innovation within Theocritus poetry in particular and Hellenistic poetry in general. **About the Author J. Andrew Foster is Assistant Professor of Classics at Fordham University. He has written several articles and reviews on a wide variety of Classical subjects including Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Hellenistic poetry, and Platonic dialog. He is also co-author with Kathryn Kueny of a study of the bee as a religious symbol in Antiquity.

Author: Ron Field File Type: epub From an internationally renowned expert on US history, this highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East. Ulysses S Grants Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lees Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnstons Army of Tennessee. This book, with informative full-colour illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lees surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable.