Torchlight List: Around The World In 200 Books, The
Around the World in 200 Books
$26.40
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2010
Summary
A professor for over forty years, Jim Flynn found that fewer and fewer of his students were in love with reading. However, they were willing to try if he would give them lists. This book is the definitive list- 200 works so wonderful to read, and so revealing about times and places, that they make learning enjoyable and effortless. The title The Torchlight List is in honour of the author’s ‘uneducated’ Irish family who made him love reading - including an uncle who, while an able seaman…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780958291699 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0958291691 |
| Author: | Jim Flynn |
| Publisher: | Awa Press |
| Imprint: | Awa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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A masterful book that will influence thinking about intelligence for many years to come.”
“A masterful book that will influence thinking about intelligence for many years to come.” –Robert J. Sternberg, “Psyc Critiques” on “What is Intelligence?”
About The Author
Jim Flynn
Jim Flynn is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, an Honorary Doctor of Science, recipient of a Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has been profiled in Scientific American for his research on human intelligence, and is the author of How to Defend Humane Ideals (2000), What is Intelligence? (2007), and Where Have All the Liberals Gone? (2008).
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