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The current furor over Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's The Bell Curve (Free Pr., 1994) is but the most recent skirmish in the war over the nature of intelligence and the public policy implications inherent in differing conceptualizations of the problem. Many such issues are covered in this title, heralded by editor Sternberg as "the most comprehensive and definitive compendium of information about human intelligence ever published." Indeed, there is much to admire here. Sternberg has assembled prestigious authors, e.g., Howard Gardner on his own theory of multiple intelligences, Arthur Jensen on race and IQ testing, and Mihaly Csikszent...Log In or Sign Up to Read More