Drug, Set, and Setting

Drug, Set, and Setting

Author: Norman E. Zinberg

Publisher:

Published: 1986-02-01

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9780300036343

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A leading expert on drug use illuminates the factors that permit some people to use such highly addictive and dangerous substances as alcohol, marijuana, psychedelics, and opiates in a controlled fashion. This cogently written work should be of interest to members of the medical community, particularly those who have contact with substance abusers, psychiatrists, sociologists, policymakers, administrators, and interested laypersons...Well worth reading. -- JAMA


Intelligence

Intelligence

Author: Richard Lynn

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780956881182

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Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen argue that intelligence should be adopted as a unifying construct for the social sciences, akin to mass, energy, pressure and the like that unify the physical sciences. They show that differences in intelligence between individuals explain numerous phenomena including educational attainment, earnings, crime and health and extend this to the explanation of differences between groups including socio-economic classes, regions within countries and nations. They develop further their work on national IQs for all countries in the world and show that these contribute significantly to the understanding of numerous phenomena in economics, political science, demography, sociology, criminology, anthropology and epidemiology.


Human Intelligence

Human Intelligence

Author: Earl Hunt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1139495119

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This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological view of a topic in which, too often, writings are dominated by a single theory or social viewpoint. The book discusses the conceptual status of intelligence as a collection of cognitive skills that include, but also go beyond, those skills evaluated by conventional tests; intelligence tests and their analysis; contemporary theories of intelligence; biological and social causes of intelligence; the importance of intelligence in social, industrial, and educational spheres; the role of intelligence in determining success in life, both inside and outside educational settings; and the nature and causes of variations in intelligence across age, gender, and racial and ethnic groups.


Torontonensis, 1958

Torontonensis, 1958

Author: University of Toronto Students' Admi

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781013691904

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