Does your Family Make You Smarter?

Does your Family Make You Smarter?
Author: James R. Flynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1316594815

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals over the last 65 years, and shows that family environment can confer a significant advantage or disadvantage to your level of intelligence. Wading into the nature vs. nurture debate, Flynn banishes the pessimistic notion that by the age of seventeen, people's cognitive abilities are solely determined by their genes. He argues that intelligence is also influenced by human autonomy - genetics and family notwithstanding, we all have the capacity to choose to enhance our cognitive performance. He concludes by reconciling this new understanding of individual differences with his earlier research on intergenerational trends (the 'Flynn effect') culminating in a general theory of intelligence.

Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries: v.1-5. October 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 29, 30, November 4, 5, and 6, 1959

Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries: v.1-5. October 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 29, 30, November 4, 5, and 6, 1959
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1890
Release: 1960
Genre: Antitrust law
ISBN:

Committee Serial No. 14. pt. 1/v.1: Examines the ocean freight industry antitrust law exemptions on an individual case basis to determine levels of domestic noncompetitive shipping activities caused by the dual rate system used for conference and nonconference carriers. Includes submitted correspondence and statistics on shipping companies' operations (p. 186-1014). Hearing was held in NYC; pt. 1/v.2: Continuation of hearings on antitrust law exemptions in the ocean freight industry. Includes submitted correspondence and statistics on shipping companies' operation; pt. 1/v.4: Continuation of hearings examining monopoly within federally regulated industries. Focuses on the ocean freight industry and the need for additional regulation of federally chartered steamship conference rates and independent shippers rates. Includes numerous statistical insertions on shipping company operations; pt. 1/v.5: Continuation of hearings on purported shipping industry monopolistic practices; pt. 2/v.1: Continuation of hearings on antitrust problems in the ocean freight industry; pt. 2/v.2: Continuation of hearings on monopoly problems in the ocean freight shipping industry; pt. 3/v.1: Committee Serial No. 10. Continuation of investigation into allegations of antitrust violations by the ocean freight industry through use of secret gentlemen's agreements, discriminatory anticompetitive practices, and violations of conference agreements; pt. 3/v.2: Continuation of investigation into ocean freight shipping industry anticompetitive practices.

Clear by Fire

Clear by Fire
Author: Joshua Hood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150113616X

Hunted by his former comrades and labeled a traitor after he refuses to murder an innocent Afghan family, Mason Kane works to unravel a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the highest levels of the government.