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Life after genius Life after genius M. Ann Jacoby Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on th… OL11903314W
Postcards from the Brain Museum Postcards from the Brain Museum Brian Burrell What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? For hundreds of years, scientists have been fascinated by this question. In *Postcards fr… OL14837W
The rise of Iron Man The rise of Iron Man Michael Teitelbaum Discover how a genius became the super hero Iron Man, and learn about some of his best battles. Incredible imagery from Marvel's famous comic books helps guide readers through the story of Tony Star… OL15047009W
Bounce Bounce Matthew Syed Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black?What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common?Is it good to praise a child's intellig… OL15177848W
American nerd American nerd Benjamin Nugent An engaging study of the nerd in American popular culture and throughout history discussed in such contexts as the rise of online gaming, the science fiction club, ethnicity, Asperger's syndrome, aut… OL16025252W
Eureka Eureka Cris Ramsay Even the brightest of Eureka's residents can't read someone else's mind. Then Global Dynamics develops the Brain Box: a device capable of capturing and storing human thoughts. When the Box starts mes… OL16629536W
Nobody's baby but mine Nobody's baby but mine Susan Elizabeth Phillips "Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darling desperately wants a baby. But finding a father wont be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she determine… OL17683271W
Nobody's baby but mine Nobody's baby but mine Susan Elizabeth Phillips Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's dete… OL17715W
Spark Spark Julie Burstein How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? How is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing… OL17784376W
A doubter's almanac A doubter's almanac Ethan Canin "Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to purs… OL17903213W
Human exceptionality Human exceptionality Michael L. Hardman,M. Winston Egan,Clifford J. Drew xxiv, 504 pages : 28 cm OL1864540W
The fracking king The fracking king Browning, James (Environmentalist) "The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth--a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy--who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in … OL19665138W
The boy who escaped paradise The boy who escaped paradise Yi, Chŏng-myŏng (Novelist) An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols written in blood near the corpse. Ahn Gil­mo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas,… OL20043081W
Generation Zero Volume 1 Generation Zero Volume 1 Fred Van Lente,Francis Portela 1 volume (unpaged) : 26 cm OL21312179W
In the mind's eye In the mind's eye West, Thomas G. This book is recognized as a classic in its field. It still stands alone as a compelling argument against popular myths of conventional intelligence and for the importance of visual thinking and visu… OL2674211W
Mental Floss Mental Floss Mangesh Hattikudur,Editors Of Mental Floss,John Green,Will Pearson Friends? Romans? Countrymen? You never know whom you'll have to impress at your next corporate shindig or keg party. Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch… OL276049W
Knee holes Knee holes Jerome Brooks Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors program, fifteen-year-old Hope becomes spokesman for the gifted students when trouble appears to be simmering between that teacher and another … OL4100459W
A Dark Sacrifice A Dark Sacrifice Madeline Howard More than a century has passed since the mighty struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction, and more than forty years since the Empress Ouriana became the Divine Inc… OL5733701W
The Hidden Stars The Hidden Stars Madeline Howard More than a century ago, the cataclysmic struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction -- leveling great cities and reducing grand palaces to dust. From the vast gravey… OL5733702W
New ideas about new ideas New ideas about new ideas Shira P. White,G. Patton Wright "In New Ideas About New Ideas, Shira White offers a fresh, lively, and inspiring perspective on innovation. What makes some people and organizations more creative that others? How do they channel the… OL8412187W
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