Bibliograph

Edison's ghosts, the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses, Katie Spalding

Type

Label

Edison's ghosts, the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses, Katie Spalding

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Edison's ghosts

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1378722437

Responsibility statement

Katie Spalding

Sub title

the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses

Summary

As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius -- but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition

Target audience

adult

Classification