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Gifted persons

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• Persons

• Gifted persons -- Fiction
• Gifted persons -- Juvenile fiction
• Gifted children

• Geniuses
• Gifted adults
• Prodigies (Persons)
• Talented persons
• Intellectual giftedness

• The Janitor (c2007), by Adam Decker (HTML and audio with commentary at adamdecker.com)
• Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (c1935), by Olaf Stapledon (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Hampdenshire Wonder (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911), by J. D. Beresford
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Gutta-Percha-Willie, the Working Genius, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)

• A Memoir of Zerah Colburn, Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: G. and C. Merriam, 1833), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar: An Illustrated Biography (Chicago: Laird and Lee, c1900), by Henry Olerich
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (HTML at ed.gov)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002), by National Research Council Center for Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Memoir of Zerah Colburn, Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: G. and C. Merriam, 1833), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Place of the Person in Social Life, ed. by Paul Peachey, John Kromkowski, and George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• Artists Past and Present: Random Studies (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve Great Artists (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900), by William Howe Downes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characters of Virtues and Vices, by Joseph Hall (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wonders of the Little World: or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson et al., 1806), by Nathaniel Wanley, ed. by William Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Katrina Smith Korfmacher (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Bolsheviki and the American Workers (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bolsheviki and the Constituent Assembly (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1920) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso, Briefly Summarised by His Daughter (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Gina Lombroso, contrib. by Cesare Lombroso (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imprisonment (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Behavior of Crowds: A Psychological Study (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1920), by Everett Dean Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, by Gustave Le Bon (HTML at Virginia)
• Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1913), by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Masse und Publikum: Eine Methodologische und Soziologische Untersuchung (dissertation in German; Bern: Buchdruckerei Lack und Grunau, 1904), by Robert Ezra Park
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by William V. Spanos (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online (New York: Data and Society Research Institute, 2018), by Whitney Phillips (PDF with commentary at datasociety.net)

• The Hermits (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heroes in Peace (William Penn lecture #6; Philadelphia: W. H. Jenkins, 1920), by John Haynes Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Hero in Man, by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, by Otto Rank, trans. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Small Town (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Granville Hicks, contrib. by Warren F. Broderick and Ron Powers (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Free Innovation (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Eric von Hippel (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Great Inventors and Their Inventions (1918), by Frank P. Bachman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018), by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger (PDF at renewconsultants.com)

• Three Famous Mystics (Philadelphia: David McKay Co., ca. 1940), by Arthur Edward Waite and William P. Swainson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stranger: A Study in Social Relationships (New York: Columbia University Press; London: P.S. King and Son, 1934), by Margaret Mary Wood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Human Longevity: Recording the Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year of the Decease of 1712 Persons Who Attained a Century, and Upwards, From A.D. 66 to 1799 (Salisbury, UK: J. Easton; London: J. White, 1799), by James Easton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Psychology for Peace Activists (electronic edition, 1995), by David Adams (HTML at culture-of-peace.info)

• A Description of the Two Albinos of Europe (One Twenty-One, the Other Twenty-Four Years of Age), Extracted From M. Sassure's Journey to the Alps in the Year 1785, and Now Published in the Encylopaedia Britannica (Liverpool: Printed by T. Johnson, 1790), by Horace Bénédict de Saussure (page images at NIH)

• Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship (c2008), ed. by Charles R. Hale (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• The Past Didn't Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements (2007), by April Rosenblum (PDF with commentary at aprilrosenblum.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.