From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.

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Provides the only comprehensive analysis of the key issues in relation to mental capacity in 52 jurisdictions, delivered by renowned experts in the field.

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This book brings together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy to offer an international, comparative view of the changing political landscape.

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This timely book, authored by internationally recognized teachers and researchers in the field, also reflects the resurgence of interest in the dentitions of non-mammalian vertebrates as experimental systems to help understand genetic ...

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With its companion volume, this book provides a complete survey of the teeth of vertebrates. It is the ideal resource for students and researchers in zoology, biology, anthropology, archaeology and dentistry.