Howard E. Gardner, Author Basic Books $21.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-465-08630-6
Based on interviews with military specialists, this impressive study examines the widening schism between nuclear rhetoric on the one hand, and operational war plans on the other, addressing the failure of successive American administrations to...
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Howard E. Gardner, Author Basic Books $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-465-08895-9
The failings of schools have been discussed and analyzed from a dazzling array of perspectives. In this study, the author, a professor at the Harvard School of Education and a practitioner of cognitive science based on a theory of multiple...
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Howard E. Gardner, Author Basic Books $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-465-01821-5
A follow-up to Gardner's Frames of Mind (which is being reissued simultaneously), this collection of mostly academic essays should appeal mainly to education observers concerned with Gardner's innovative theory of multiple intelligences. The theory...
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Howard E. Gardner, Author Basic Books $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-465-01455-2
In this boldly ambitious study, Gardner ( Frames of Mind ) profiles seven creative giants. Creativity, he argues, is not an all-purpose trait but instead involves distinct intelligences, as exemplified by Picasso's visual-spatial skills or by Gandhi'
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Howard E. Gardner, Author, Emma Laskin, With Basic Books $27.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-08279-7
In a novel analysis of leadership, writing with Project Zero staff member Laskin, Harvard education professor Gardner defines a leader as one who successfully imparts a central message or story to a receptive audience. In their framework, Eleanor...
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