Bøker av Ken Richardson

Tabitha Dillard is like most people seeking that rewarding career, beautiful home, wonderful husband and children. She has that rewarding career and beautiful home. But when it comes to relationships that's another story. Broken from a previous relationship she finds it hard to trust men. Thus, giving up hope of finding a good man. Her friend Destiny Wallace refuses to allow her friend to become an old maid. She has the perfect gentleman for Tabitha. The kind of man you take home to your parents. Richard Barnes, an outstanding DC attorney, and Destiny's partner at the firm. Will Tabitha allow her friend to play match maker? Or will the successful surgeon and ex-fiancé of Richard Barnes allow it? Or will Tabitha have her happily ever after?

Life sciences, Neuroscience, Cognition

Beginning with the premise that there remains a diversity of models of what knowledge and reasoning are and how they develop, this text aims to provide theoretical convergence towards a generally accepted set of principles.

For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the authority of science and a growing belief in bio-determinism, the ordering of the many for the benefit of a few has become more entrenched. Yet scientists are now waking up to the influence of ideology on research and its interpretation. In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Genes, Brains, and Human Potential goes much further: building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, it maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential. Concluding with an upbeat message for human possibilities, this synthesis of diverse perspectives will engender new conversations among students, researchers, and other interested readers.