A dazzling predecessor to Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient and the novel in which the characters of Hana, the orphaned girl, and Caravaggio, the thief, appear for the first time, In the Skin of a Lion is a work of fiction that bristles with intelligence and shimmers with romance as it tests the boundary between history and myth.
Tom Whitehead had never heard of Operation Gold Dust. Why would he? No reason for respected middle-class academic, loving husband and father of two to be aware of an international investigation into internet paedophilia. Until he finds himself at the centre of it. Raided by the police at dawn, and in the full glare of the paparazzi, Tom is hauled away for questioning - about the pornography found on his computer that it was paid for with his credit card and about the overwhelming, conclusive evidence against him. As he is questioned, he discovers that this was no random search, that he has been under investigation for some time. The police acquired his details from the National Criminal Intelligence Service - via the FBI. But why? And how? An innocent man, Tom needs to know urgently why he has been framed. Because there is something sinister going on - something that threatens to strike at everything he holds dear... The book provides good entertainment. It is very well read by Daniel Philpott for ISIS Audiobooks.
The "nature versus nurture" controversy dates back to at least the nineteenth century. How much of a role does genetics or environment play in accounting for reasoning skill and other intellectual aptitudes? At a time when the public school system in the United States is under attack, this debate has taken center stage in arguments about what accounts for differences in academic achievement. Maximizing Intelligence convincingly argues that, while both genetics and environment play a role in a child's intelligence, environmental factors, especially at an early age, are of primary importance.
Most of the contributions to this volume are revised versions of papers presented at two symposia, organised by the editors, at the 4th Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction in Turku, Finland, in 1991. Four of the contributors were specifically invited to submit a paper for this volume, so that the various approaches to intelligence, mind and reasoning are better presented.
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