A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION. BUT AS AN EDUCATOR I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TOOLS THAT HE USES TO MEASURE THE DIFFERENCE INTELLIGENCES - AS WELL AS MORE MATERIAL ON HOW TO USE THIS IN THE CLASSROOM - GUESS I WILL HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER OF HIS BOOKS FOR THIS... ONE DAY.
The book is a very good synthesis of Sternberg's work about intelligence, creativity and wisdom (a good option for someone who is not yet familiar with it) but it provides nothing but a combination of the previous contributions of the author. Its emphasis on the broadening of the concept of intelligence is not new in Sternberg's work. The main issue of the book is neither the relationships between the concepts, as I was expecting judging by the title, nor the new levels of analysis and explanation that could have emerged from those relationships. In the last chapter I felt really disappointed because it finished even before I thought it had started...