Author : Janet Blaylock
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2008-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1435723643
This is a collection of mini-mysteries that I wrote for young adults to adults to read and solve.
Author : Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698191250
Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently. Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes— like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration – to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity – and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives.
Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1979-10-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547770723
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142411949
No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the book fair. Cam Jansen, her friends, and their parents are at school for a book fair. Everyone's favorite mystery writer, Jim E. Winter, is also there, signing books. During the signing, Danny's parents discover their car is missing. Was it stolen? Jim E. Winter thinks he can solve the mystery, but so does supersleuth Cam. Who will solve it first? The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades.
Author : Janet Blaylock
Publisher : Janet Blaylock
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2009-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 055704703X
This book is Libby, The Spy. Libby comes alive and talks to her friends, the other books, in the school library. She helps the librarian watch the children who come in to check out books. The main message of the book is to show children how to take care of their books.
Author : Shortcut Edition
Publisher : Shortcut Edition
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. *As you read this summary, you will discover the top ten traits that characterize the most creative minds. *You will also discover that : creative minds are inhabited by paradoxes, essential to creativity; sensitivity, marginality, strong intuition or intellectual flexibility are among the common traits found in most creative people; an individual's brain reveals as many clues about his or her creative abilities as a psychological test, because the two approaches are complementary. *Open-minded, tolerant, sensitive, adventurous, atypical, etc., are all traits that characterize creative people. What is most surprising in all this is the complexity and disorder that reign in their minds and the many contradictions that compose them. Creativity has many facets and to understand them, we must first study the brain; creative people have a great facility to activate and deactivate certain neural networks, which they use to create. However, don't worry, creativity can also be learned! *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Author : Rick Walton
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781593691080
Contains twenty mystery stories for readers to solve. The solutions can be found by lifting the flaps on the back pages of the book.
Author : Barbara Kipfer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1426219075
"Let your imagination run wild! Whatever your passion, this exquisite book invites you to dive in and harness the creativity within. Filled with glorious illustrations, these colorful pages overflow with whimsical ideas, helpful tips, inspiring quotes, and endless encouragement to help you find a life of fulfillment through the power of ingenuity." --pg 4 of cover.
Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9780415314527
This second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.
Author : Tom Bissell
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524749168
From the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and “one of America's best and most interesting writers" (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark—unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises—writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.
