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B077VC6CST M4B@64 kbps English | January 09, 2018 | ASIN: B077VC6CST | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 4m | 341 MB Author: Ann Hulbert | Narrator: Kirsten Potter From the author of the widely praised Raising America - a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of 15 exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book for a time when parents anxiously aspire to raise "super children" and experts worry the nation is wasting the brilliant young minds it needs. Among the children are the math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a Harvard graduate student at age 15 two girls, a poet and a novelist, whose published work stirred debate in the 1920s the movie superstar Shirley Temple and the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler the chess champion Bobby Fischer computer pioneers and autistic "prodigious savants" and musical prodigies, present and past. Off the Charts also tells the surprising inside stories of Lewis Terman's prewar study of high-IQ children and of the postwar talent search begun at Johns Hopkins and discovers what Tiger Mom Amy Chua really has to tell us. But in these moving stories, it is the children who deliver the most important messages.