I analyzed their various claims about sex differences in hearing, vision, language, math, stress responses, and "learning styles" in my book and a long peer-reviewed paper.
But like Mr Davies's other works, "Vanished Kingdoms" gives full rein to his historical imagination and enthusiasms, imparting a powerful sense of places lost in time.
Based on his works and his own words, this article sketches out his methods for harnessing oral history and further explains how they can be used in oral history of science research.
It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, most beautiful work on education ever written.