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Notebooks of the Mind

Author : Vera John-Steiner

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 13,83 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

ISBN : 0195108965

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To approach her subject, John-Steiner goes directly to the source, assembling the thoughts of "experienced thinkers" - artists, philosophers, writers, and scientists able to reflect on their own imaginative patterns. More than fifty interviews (with figures ranging from Jessica Mitford to Aaron Copland), along with excerpts from the diaries, letters, and autobiographies of such gifted giants as Leo Tolstoy, Marie Curie, and Diego Rivera, among others, provide illuminating insights into creative activity.



Creative Collaboration

Author : Vera John-Steiner

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 22,56 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0195307704

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What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? This book suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding.



From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain

Author : Minister Faust

Publisher : Del Rey

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,17 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780345466372

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An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field. -Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids They're Earth's mightiest superteam-and dysfunctional as hell. OMNIPOTENT MAN-a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL-aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS-mythology's greatest warrior-but the world might be safer if she had a husband X-MAN-formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen . . . but not formerly enough THE BROTHERFLY-radioactively fly POWER GRRRL-perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line, or sex scandal Having finally defeated all archenemies, the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice are reduced to engaging in toxic office politics that could very well lead to a superpowered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, aka Dr. Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily abled. Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. He's totally original, full of surprises. -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon Samuel Delany, Harlan Ellison, and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. Faust's writing is biting, insightful, and hugely entertaining. -Ernest Dickerson, director



Vygotsky’s Notebooks

Author : Еkaterina Zavershneva

Publisher : Springer

Page : 533 pages

File Size : 35,39 MB

Release : 2018-01-24

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811046255

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This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky’s family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky’s scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled The tragicomedy of strivings (1912), and ending with his last note, entitled Pro domo sua (1934), written shortly before his death. The notes reveal unknown aspects of the eminent psychologist’s personality, show his aspirations and interests, and allow us to gain insights into the development of his thinking and its internal dynamics. Several texts reflect the plans that Vygotsky was unable to realize during his lifetime, such as the creation of a theory of emotions and a theory of consciousness, others reveal Vygotsky’s involvement in activities that were previously unknown, and still others provide outlines of papers and lectures. The notes are presented in chronological order, preceded by brief introductions and accompanied by an extensive set of notes. The result is a book that allows us to obtain a much deeper understanding of Vygotsky’s innovative ideas.



Star Wars: the Jedi Mind

Author : Amy Ratcliffe

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 50,33 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Jedi (Fictitious characters)

ISBN : 9781797205939

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"The philosophical tenets that inform the Jedi Code are focused on peace, knowledge, serenity and harmony, and are applicable not just in the galaxy far, far away, but also in our own galaxy, here and now. This accessible pop culture spin on mindfulness takes lessons from Star Wars-based in character statements and quotations-and briefly illuminates and expands on them (in a few sentences to a paragraph) to illustrate how readers might apply them to their own lives"--



Mind, Maps and Infographics.

Author : Moleskine

Publisher : Moleskine Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,94 MB

Release : 2017-06-28

Category : Design

ISBN : 9788867325726

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The book looks inside great graphic designers and mapmakers' notebooks such as Nicolas Felton, Joost Grootens, Paula Scher, Akkurat Studio and many others, showing how reality become maps and maps a language and how this language helps us to put ideas in order and how maps shape reality. Mind, maps and infographics illustrates the connections between reality and abstraction, which lead to the project of maps and infographics: the sketchbook as a tool of exploration and learning.



The Trouble with Ants

Author : Claudia Mills

Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 11,53 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Ants

ISBN : 0385391617

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"Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora wants to be like her scientist family and publish a professional research paper on her favorite subject: her ant farm!"--



Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks

Author : Oscar Wilde

Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 46,71 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN :

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This, the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Commonplace Book and Notebook, which he kept during his middle twenties at the end of his studies at Oxford, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's achievement in the larger tradition of English critical and aesthetic thought. Containing the records of his education and reading--quotations and paraphrases of other writers, and Wilde's own analytical and descriptive jottings, comments, and fragmentary drafts--these documents reveal how Wilde developed the synthesis of Hegelian idealism and Spencerian evolutionary theory that was to be a mainstay of his major critical and creative works. Not merely the dandy and aesthete of modernist myth, Wilde was also a precocious and widely-read Victorian humanist. In addition, the editors provide an introduction and commentary.



Mind Map Notebook

Author : The Blokehead

Publisher : Blurb

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 12,44 MB

Release : 2015-03-19

Category :

ISBN : 9781320868273

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Book Description

The Mind Map Notebook serves as a quick, easy and fast way to build your ideas and launch creativity in your plans and its execution.



Hitchcock's Notebooks:

Author : Dan Auiler

Publisher : Harper Paperbacks

Page : 576 pages

File Size : 33,43 MB

Release : 2001-04-03

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9780380799459

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From a couple racing across the top of Mount Rushmore to a woman's final shower at an isolated motel, no other filmmaker has given movie fans more unforgettable images or heart-pounding thrills than Alfred Hitchcock. Now you can share in the Master of Suspense's inspiration and development -- his entire creative process -- in Hitchcock's Notebooks. With the complete cooperation of the Hitchcock estate and access to the director's notebooks, journals, and archives, Dan Auiler takes you from the very beginnings of story creation to the master's final touches during post-production and publicity. Actual production notes from Hitchcock's masterpieces join detailed interviews with key production personnel, including writers, actors and actresses, and Hitchcock's personal assistant of more than thirty years. Mirroring the director's working methods to give you the actual feel of his process, and highlighted by nearly nearly one hundred photographs and illustrations, this is the definitive guide into the mind of a cinematic legend.