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Nature's Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential
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Hardcover
from Basic Books (October 1, 1986)
9780465048618 | details & prices | List price $19.95
About: Looks at the development of six child prodigies, considers the factors that brought out their talents, and describes what prodigies teach us about the human potential for creativity
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Teachers College Pr (September 1, 1991)
9780807731437 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $18.95
About: Through portraits of the lives of child prodigies and their families, Feldman illuminates the delicate balance of forces he calls "coincidence", a "general process of development" characterized by the melding of developmental and environmental forces that is revealed with particular clarity in the case of the child prodigy.