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A brief and versatile reader about intelligence at an affordable price.

Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores pervasive questions about the concept of intelligence: How do we judge intelligence in people, animals, and even machines? Where do our assumptions about intelligence come from? What does it mean to display genius-level intellect? How do we measure intelligence and is it affected by our identities? Readings by essayists, scientists, journalists, scholars, and inventors take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students.

The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each reflecting Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An editorial board of a dozen compositionists at schools with courses focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. Each reader collects thoughtfully chosen selections sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 pieces—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students from all majors make sustained inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as food, gender, happiness, language, music, science and technology, subcultures, and sustainability to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, with each chapter focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The instructor resource tab of each reader’s catalog page includes instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

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Multiple perspectives on intelligence and how it’s defined. In order to foster student engagement, five chapters, built around central questions about intelligence, offer numerous entry points for inquiry and discussion. A mix of genres, approaches, and levels allow instructors to tailor the book to their classroom, with thought-provoking selections, including these:

"Computer Machinery and Intelligence" by Alan Turing, a description of the origins of the "Turing test" for artificial intelligence.

"A Cultural History of Mansplaining" by Lily Rothman, in which the author provides vital context for a common term.

"What Makes a Prodigy?" by David Zambrick, an exploration of how working memory contributes to child-genius status.

Bedford care and quality in every volume. Each volume in the Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is developed with attention to design, pedagogy, and compelling readings that work in the classroom.

Affordable, and an ideal package option. Each Spotlight Reader offers plenty of material for a composition course while keeping the price low. Package any Spotlight Reader with Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Bedford Spotlight Rhetoric for free, or combine a Spotlight Reader with a Bedford/St. Martins rhetoric or handbook for a significant discount.

Thoughtful support for writers and instructors. A general introduction, chapter introductions, and headnotes provide context, and prompts and assignments offer suggestions for discussion, informal writing, research; ways to connect selections; and assignments for writing. Instructor resources, including sample syllabi and a list of related links and videos, are available at macmillanlearning.com.

An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations

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Look Inside Cover: Intelligence, 1st Edition by Barclay Barrios

Intelligence

Barclay Barrios

Look Inside Cover: Intelligence, 1st Edition by Barclay Barrios

Intelligence

First Edition 2021

Barclay Barrios

Introduction for Students

Chapter 1: How Smart Are Animals?

Frans De Waal, Magic Wells

Jane Goodall, At Long Last I Belong

Dinitia Smith, A Thinking Bird or Just Another Birdbrain?

Philip Sopher, What Animals Teach Us About Measuring Intelligence

Rachel Monroe, The Cat Psychic

Alicia Puglionesi, How Counting Horses and Reading Dogs Convinced Us Animals Could Think

John Horgan, Do Fish Suffer?

Chapter 2: Are the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Worth the Rewards?
Ray Kurzweil, What Is AI, Anyway?

Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Tim Adams, Like Children Playing with a Bomb

Adam Elkus, Meet the Bots

Will Knight, The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Allie Shaw, Alexa, Siri, Sophia: Deconstructing AI’s Subliminal Gender Bias

Cade Metz, Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy – and Pricey – Art

Chapter 3: Is There More Than One Kind of Intelligence?
Howard Gardner, The Idea of Multiple Intelligences

Daniel Goleman, When Smart Is Dumb

Adam Grant, The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence

Robert Sternberg, What Is "Successful" Intelligence?

Russ Alloway and Tracy Alloway, The End of IQ (and the Dawn of Working Memory)

Philip Ball, "Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and Realities

John Mayer, We Need More Tests, Not Fewer

Chapter 4: Does Identity Determine Intelligence?
Malcolm Gladwell, None of the Above

Jennifer Lee, The Truth about Asian Americans’ Success

William Saletan, Stop Talking about Race and IQ

Diane Halpern, Sex Differences in Intelligence

Lily Rothman, A Cultural History of Mansplaining

Mark Joseph Stern, Are Gay People Smarter Than Straight People?

Mike Rose, Blue Collar Brilliance

Chapter 5: What Is Extreme Intelligence?
Claudia Kalb, What Makes a Genius?

Daniel Pink, What Kind of Genius Are You?

Matthew Francis, Cognitive Celebrity

Iriana Aristarkova, Genius and Evil

Emily Atkin, The Sexism of "Genius"

Sam Riches, The Genius Problem

David Z. Hambrick, What Makes a Prodigy?

Sentence Guide for Academic Writers

Index of Authors and Titles

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Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios (PhD, Rutgers University) is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the body, queer theory, and pedagogy. He is past Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is the author of Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers and Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader.

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