1. Interdisciplinary Exploration Guiding Conceptions of Giftedness -- 2. Talent Development, Cultural Diversity and Equity: The Challenge of the Andean Countries -- 3. The Trouble with Conceptions of Giftedness -- 4. Overcoming Structural Challenges Related to Identification and Curricula for Gifted Students in High-Poverty Rural Schools -- 5. Where Does Creativity Come from? What is Creativity? Where is Creativity Going in Giftedness? -- 6. A School-Based Conception of Giftedness: Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities in the Development of Talent in Our Public Schools -- 7. Evolving Complexity Theory (ECT) of Talent Development: A New Vision for Gifted and Talented Education -- 8. What Is Distinctive about Artistically Gifted Children? -- Chapter 9. Equity-Based Gifted and Talented Education to Increase the Recruitment and Retention of Black and Other Underrepresented Students -- 10. Approaches to the Identification and Development of Gifts into Talents in Russia -- 11. Urban Bilingual Gifted Students -- 12. Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Privilege: A Trait-Complex Approach to Talent Development -- 13. Eminent Women Were Once Gifted Girls: How to Transform Gifted Potential into Eminent Talents -- 14. Finnish Conceptions of Giftedness and Talent -- 15. Children with High Intellectual and Creative Potential: Perspectives from a Developmental Psycho-Environmental Approach -- 16. Giftedness, Talent, and Human Evolution: A Framework for Understanding Extreme Behavior -- 17. Smart Contexts for 21st Century Talent Development -- 18. Creative Productive Giftedness in Women: Their Paths to Eminence -- 19. The Three Ring Conception of Giftedness: A Change in Direction from Being Gifted to the Development of Gifted Behaviors -- 20. Relationships Between Talent, Training, Polymathy, and Creativity -- 21. The Fuzzy Conception of Giftedness -- 22.Giftedness, Talent, and Genius: Untangling Conceptual Confusions -- 23. A New Model of Giftedness Emphasizing Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership that Can Make a Positive, Meaningful, and Potentially Enduring Difference to the World -- 24. The Talent Development Megamodel: A Domain-Specific Conceptual Framework based on the Psychology of High Performance -- 25. A Conception of Giftedness as Domain-Specific Learning: A Dynamism Fueled by Persistence and Passion -- 26. Futures Studies and Future Thinking Literacy in Gifted Education: A Multidimensional Instructional-Based Conception -- 27. Giftedness as a Propensity to Use Creativity-generating Intellectual Styles; Li-fang Zhang -- 28. Uniform Points of Agreement in Diverse Viewpoints on Giftedness and Talent.