Age and Achievement (eBook)

Harvey Christian Lehman (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8675-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Certain assumptions about man's creativity in relation to his chronological age have become so widely accepted as fact that the findings of this book will surprise both general reader and specialist and may have far-reaching effects on established patterns of thought in psychology and in education. The book is a statistical evaluation of achievement in relation to age, assembling an incredible amount of factual information on the acres of b superlative achievement in every field from prize-fighting to philosophy.Originally published in 1953.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • adultery • American Bar Association • American Psychological Association • Astronomy • author • Availability • Balkh • Be star • Book • Calculation • Calvinism • candidate • Career • Celestial mechanics • Charlotte Brontë • College of Cardinals • Comedy • Commodity • Common knowledge (logic) • Computation • Consideration • Contemporary authors • Creative Work • cretinism • Dante Gabriel Rossetti • dominion • Economic Growth • Economics • Edition (book) • Edmund Evans • electric current • Elizabeth Gaskell • English literature • enthusiasm • Eponym • erudition • Etiquette • Explanation • fertility • Fiction • Florian Cajori • Frances Burney • Frederick the Great • Georg Cantor • George B. McClellan • George Crabbe • Giambattista Della Porta • Giovanni Bellini • G. (novel) • Goethe's Faust • Grand opera • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Harriet Martineau • Headline • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson • Hugo Grotius • Humphry Davy • Impossibility • income • Income bracket • Indira Gandhi • inference • Invention • Jane Austen • J. M. Barrie • Josiah Royce • Laboratory • Large Numbers • Leonardo da Vinci • Library of Congress • Literary merit • Literature • Longevity • Lord Byron • mathematician • Mathematics • Matthew Lewis (actor) • Men of Mathematics • Michael Faraday • Mirza • Mohammed Arkoun • mortality rate • Mr. • musical composition • Muslim • New API • Nobel prize • Normal distribution • Nostalgia • Novel • nursery rhyme • Nyctalopia • of education • ohio university • oil painting • On First Looking into Chapman's Homer • optician • Oroonoko • percentage • Percentage point • Philosopher • Philosophy • Pippa Passes • Poetry • polar exploration • Political Poetry • Political Science • Politique • polyhedron • presidential nominee • printing • Prose • Psychology • Publication • Pyramus and Thisbe • Quantity • quinine • Regression Analysis • Religion • Respondent • result • Roget's Thesaurus • salary • Science • Scientist • S. (Dorst novel) • secretion • Shirley Temple • Short Story • Sidney L. Pressey • small number • Statistic • Stepwise regression • Superiority (short story) • temporality • Thanatopsis • The New York Times • theory • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • The Physician • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • The Tragedy of Tragedies • The Various • The Wealth of Nations • Thomas Hobbes • Thought • Tom Thumb • treatise • Upper echelon • Ustad • V. • Valerius Cordus • Variable (mathematics) • Variance • Walter Savage Landor • Waqf • Western Asia • William Beckford (politician) • william jennings bryan • women and men • World War II • Writer • Writing • Yale University • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8675-9 / 1400886759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8675-3 / 9781400886753