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Author

Gardner, Howard, 1943-

Title Extraordinary minds : portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness / Howard Gardner.

Imprint

New York : BasicBooks, [1998], c1997.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	153.98 G173e 1997	---	Available

Description	xii, 178 p. ; 21 cm.
Series	MasterMinds
	MasterMinds.
Note	Copyright date from p. [4] of cover is c1998.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.
Contents	Toward a science of extraordinariness -- Ordinary development -- Extraordinary development -- Master: the case of Mozart -- Maker: the case of Freud -- Introspector: the case of Woolf -- Influencer: the case of Gandhi -- Varieties of extraordinariness -- Lessons.
Subject	Gifted persons -- Case studies.
	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
	Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
	Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
	Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
ISBN	0465021255 (pbk.)
	9780465021253 (pbk.)