Author : Carolyn Abraham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1840465492
Possessing Genius
Carolyn Abraham
Possessing Genius
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The Genius of Democracy
Victoria Olwell
Author : Victoria Olwell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204971
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In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally. In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.
Possessing Genius
Carolyn Abraham
Author : Carolyn Abraham
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140293685
Possessing Genius by Carolyn Abraham Pdf
April 18, 1955, was an auspicious day for Thomas Stoltz Harvey. As chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital, he had been called to do an autopsy on a corpse seven hours old. It was a routine procedure with one significant difference: This was the cadaver of Albert Einstein. Harvey saw, in Einstein's corpse, a chance to do something "noble,"to contribute in some way to the annals of science. So before he stitched the body shut, Thomas Harvey removed the brain of the twentieth century's greatest intellectual hero. He took it without permission, but struck a deal with Einstein's family to keep it, becoming the custodian of this remarkable relic—preserving it for posterity and the scientists he deemed worthy to study it. He promised to guard the brain from souvenir hunters and publicity seekers and vowed that any information about it would appear only in serious scientific journals. He had no idea that the power of Einstein's celebrity would engulf the rest of his life. Possessing Genius tells the story of a man obsessed by his conviction that a collection of brain tissue might some day solve the mystery of genius. Painstakingly researched, it includes never-before-published correspondence between Harvey and the executor of Einstein's estate that sheds new light on how the brain fell into one man's hands. It dramatically evokes the shift from scientists' morbid curiosity about an amazing specimen to the serious questions and hypotheses inspired by the existence of the organ, including the widely touted work on Einstein's brain by Canadian neuropsychologist Sandra Witelson. Possessing Genius won the Canadian Science Writers' Association's 2001 Science in Society Book Award and has been nominated for the 2002 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.
Instant Genius: Smart Mouths
The Knowledge Commons
Author : The Knowledge Commons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781607106845
Instant Genius: Smart Mouths by The Knowledge Commons Pdf
The smartest and funniest quotations of all time, artfully arranged into witty—and surprising—categories. Every page will entertain, educate, and delight. Uncle John’s dedicated team of quotationeers have scoured the worlds of entertainment, history, literature, politics, sports, and more to bring you this unique collection of utterances that bear repeating. From silly to profound, from Aristotle to Mr. T, you’ll discover insights on such topics as love, sex, conspiracies, boredom, cheese, juggling, and the true meaning of belly-button lint. Here are but a few of the thousands of morsels awaiting you: “Weaseling out of things is good. It’s what separates us from the other animals . . . except the weasel.” —Homer Simpson “All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” —Gordie Howe “In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it’s a fact.” —Marlene Dietrich “With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and sixty.” —Jack Nicholson “It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘as pretty as an airport’ appear.” —Douglas Adams “If it’s called USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? Bam! Busted!” —Stephen Colbert “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” —Phyllis Diller
Criminal Genius
James C. Oleson
Author : James C. Oleson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520282421
Criminal Genius by James C. Oleson Pdf
"This study provides some of the first empirical information about the self-reported crimes of adults with genius-level IQ scores. The study combines quantitative data about 72 different offenses with qualitative data from 44 follow-up interviews to describe nine different types of offending: violent crime, property crime, sex crime, drug crime, white-collar crime, professional misconduct, vehicular crime, justice system crime, and miscellaneous crime"--Provided by publisher.
The Edinburgh Review
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000066660118
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The Illustrated Magazine
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Literature
ISBN : OXFORD:555031374
The Illustrated Magazine by Anonim Pdf
Possessing Genius
Carolyn Abraham
Author : Carolyn Abraham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Brain
ISBN : OCLC:1330620671
Possessing Genius by Carolyn Abraham Pdf
Documents the journey of Einstein's brain in the hands of pathologist Thomas Harvey, who in an attempt to preserve history unleashed controversy as researchers examined the remains, determined to find the physical source of intelligence.
The Twentieth Century
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UGA:32108056880340
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The Nineteenth Century
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:590997916
The Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf
The Nineteenth Century and After
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11392496
The Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf
Nineteenth Century
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020228507
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The British Quarterly Review
Henry Allon
Author : Henry Allon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : PRNC:32101045231832
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The Universal Class-Book: a New Series of Reading-lessons ... for Every Day in the Year,.
Samuel MAUNDER
Author : Samuel MAUNDER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020487284
The Universal Class-Book: a New Series of Reading-lessons ... for Every Day in the Year,. by Samuel MAUNDER Pdf
Ingenuity in the Making
Richard J. Oosterhoff,José Ramón Marcaida,Alexander Marr
Author : Richard J. Oosterhoff,José Ramón Marcaida,Alexander Marr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822988465
Ingenuity in the Making by Richard J. Oosterhoff,José Ramón Marcaida,Alexander Marr Pdf
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.