Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structure and number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict sucess in education,work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the ...
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Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structure and number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict sucess in education,work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the reductionistic attempts to explain them.New to the highly acclaimed Oxford Psychology Series, Looking Down on Human Intelligence appraises the search for the origins of psychometric intelligence differences in terms of brain function parameters. The book provides an original and thought provoking guide to ancient and modern research on one of the most compelling questions in human psychology.
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Add this copy of The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors and to cart. $62.40, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Reinhold Pub. Corp.
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Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages are clean and intact. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Add this copy of The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors and to cart. $82.00, very good condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Reinhold Publishing Company.
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Very Good. 11 3/8" x 12 1/2" (oblong). 256pp, tan cloth boards, titles in brown on spine. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Text block and plates are clean and unmarked throughout. Numerous tipped-in plates, both black and white and color, make this volume a rich resource. Dust jacket is white with black bands running around top and bottom of jacket. Titles in white and red on spine and white and black on front panel. Jacket has some wear at middle of spine. Large full-color image of a color wheel on front and back panels. Minor shelfwear to upper and lower jacket edges, but jacket is intact with vivid colors.
Chevreul´s book was probably the most influential work on color for impressionist painters and, together with Josef Albers´ is still a landmark on the subject of the interaction of colors.
