Books for gifted children from Royal Fireworks Press, publishers for the gifted education curriculum.

Thinkers

Thompson’s masterpiece, Thinkers, is a guided tour through a vast array of great works and the minds behind them.

Thinkers provides the inspiration and enthusiasm that will encourage student readers as well as adult readers to learn to think about thinking and the way the mind works.

In each chapter, Thompson discusses an author’s work along with the author, providing quotes from the work and valuable insight into the mind behind the creation.

The contents include 21 essays: 1. Charles Van Doren’s A History of Knowledge; 2. Sir Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation; 3. Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone 4. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time 5. George Eliot’s Middlemarch 6. Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Creators 7. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels 8. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment 9. Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists 10. James Burke’s The Day the Universe Changed 11. A C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy 12. Ellen Foster’s Kaye Gibbons 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 14. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 15. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass 16. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening 17. Eugene O’Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night 18. Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World 19. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar 20. Bill Gates’ The Road Ahead 21. The Narrative of Frederick Douglass.

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