The field of intelligence is lively on many fronts, and Dr Sternberg has brought together a list of contributors to provide a comprehensive, broad and deeply thematic review of intelligence that will be accessible to both scholar and student.

Preface; Contributors; Part I. The Nature of Intelligence and it Measurement: 1. The concept of intelligence Robert J. Sternberg; 2. History of theories of measurements of intelligence Nathan Brody; 3. Contemporary models of intelligence Janet E. Davidson and C. L. Downing; Part II. Development of Intelligence: 4. Heritability and intelligence Elena L. Grigorenko; 5. Intellectual development in childhood Zhe Chen and Robert S. Siegler; 6. Intellectual development in adulthood Cynthia A. Berg; Part III. Group Analyses of Intelligence: 7. Intelligence and mental retardation Douglas K. Detterman, Lynne Gabriel and Joanne Ruthsatz; 8. Intelligence and giftedness Carolyn Callahan; 9. Group difference in intelligence John Loehlin; Part IV. Biology of Intelligence: 10. Animal intelligence Thomas Zentall; 11. The evolution of intelligence Harry Jerison; 12. The neuropsychology and psychophysiology of intelligence Philip Vernon, John Wickett, P. Gordon Bazana and Robert Stelmack; Part V. Intelligence and Information Processing: 13. Simple information processing and intelligence Ian Deary; 14. Complex information processing and intelligence David Lohman; 15. Artificial intelligence Roger Schank and Brendon Towle; Part VI. Kinds of Intelligence: 16. Social intelligence John Kihlstrom and Nancy Cantor; 17. Practical intelligence Richard K. Wagner; 18. Emotional intelligence John Mayer, Peter Salovey and David Caruso; Part VII. Testing and Teaching Intelligence: 19. Psychometric approaches to the understanding and measurement of intelligence Susan Embretson and Karen McCollam; 20. Tests of intelligence Alan Kaufman; 21. Interpretation of intelligence test scores Mark Daniel; Part VIII. Intelligence, Society, and Culture: 22. Teaching of intelligence Tina Grotzer and David Perkins; 23. Intelligence and education Richard Mayer; 24. Intelligence and public policy Craig Ramey; 25. Intelligence and culture Robert Serpell; Part IX. Intelligence in Relation to Allied Constructs: 26. Intelligence and personality Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews; 27. Intelligence and creativity Robert J. Sternberg and Linda O'Hara; 28. Intelligence and wisdom Robert J. Sternberg; Author index; Subject index.