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BL
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| Record Number
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583005
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b412224
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| Main Entry
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Nisbett, Richard E
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| Title & Author
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Intelligence and how to get it : : why schools and cultures count /\ Richard E. Nisbett
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: W.W. Norton & Co.,, c2009
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x, 304 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780393065053
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: 0393065057
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-282) and index
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| Contents
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Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability -- Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue : What we now know about intelligence and academic achievement -- Appendix A : Infomal definitions of statistical terms -- The case for a purely environmental basis for black/white differences in IQ
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| Abstract
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Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced : the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description
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| Subject
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Intellect
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Schools
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Culture
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