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    Family Characteristics of Gifted Children

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    This book describes some of the most critical issues in gifted education, i.e., gender inequity concerning giftedness examinations and the boys/girls ratio. The book also discusses the background of the gifted child's family, including their parents’ education and number of their siblings. The book’s findings are based on quantitative studies concerning 5–15-year-old gifted children participating ... Read more

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  • Gifted Children and Adolescents Through the Lens of Neuropsychology

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses a wide range of issues situated in the core of theoreticians’ and clinicians’ work in the field of giftedness. It gathers practical issues, relevant for the lives of many gifted children, adolescents and adults, from a neuropsychological point of view. By studying the basic questions in gifted education through a neuropsychological lens, this book aims to establish a uniform ... Read more

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  • Broken Icarus

    The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism

    2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power, the city of ... Read more

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  • Perspectives In U.s. Marxist Anthropology

    An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, thiscollection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thoughtand the diversity of contemporary anthropology. Linked by a commonapproach-a shared commitment to Marxist analysis-the contributorslook at a variety of phenomena, including the problems of labor andwork, in terms of a coherent theory of Marxism. Examining political ... Read more

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  • Trains of Recollection

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    Trains of Recollection: Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes is a captivating memoir chronicling the remarkable life and career of David Blyth Hanna, a pioneering figure in the development of railways across two continents. Spanning half a century, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of the evolution of the railway industry from the ... Read more

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  • Religion and Politics in America

    A Conversation

    As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements ... Read more

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  • Neutrality’s Empire

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    Reconciling Sweden’s reputation for political neutrality and scientific prestige alongside its involvement in extractivist colonial projects exposes uncomfortable overlaps between these seemingly disparate ventures. In this illuminating reappraisal of the intersections between Swedish colonialism and its industrial history, Neutrality’s Empire explores how Swedish actors—ranging from diplomats and ... Read more

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  • The Future of Prejudice

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    Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice. ... Read more

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  • Knights of the Sea

    The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812

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    On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812...Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on ... Read more

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    The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight For France and For Civilization

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    Before America joined World War I, a small group of Americans volunteered for the French Foreign Legion to help defeat the Central Powers. Historian David Hanna profiles seven of these volunteers: a poet, an artist, a boxer, a stunt pilot, a college student, a veteran of the Spanish American War, and an advertising executive. All seven men were united in courage; and some, like poet Alan Seeger, ... Read more

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  • Rendezvous with Death

    The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight for France and for Civilization

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  • Understanding literacy in its historical contexts : socio-cultural history and the legacy of Egil Johansson

    Under nära 30 år har den svenske pastorn och socialhistorikern Egil Johanssons forskningsinsats förbluffat den internationella akademiska världen. Johansson, som tidigt kom att intressera sig för kyrkoförsamlingarnas arkiv i norra Sverige, och särskilt för kyrkornas undervisningsregister, upptäckte dessa dokuments unika potential för att få en inblick i läs- och skrivkunnighetens historia i ... Read more

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