Author : Gianfranco Baruchello
Publisher : Documentext
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781620540282
Taking the farm he operates outside Rome as his starting point, Baruchello -- one of the outstanding poly-artists to emerge from Italy in the 1960s -- explores the spaces and forces that surround and nurture imagination and perception. "How to Imagine" began as a series of conversations between the authors, which accounts for the captivating and personal tone, fired by the wit of a natural raconteur, and filled with lively and unexpected revelations.
Author : Steven Kotler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0544456211
A selection of Kotler's previously published writings, updated, on pivotal and controversial advances in science and technology.--
Author : Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 034553669X
A manual for building a faster brain and a better you! The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?” Praise for The Little Book of Talent “The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit “It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence
Author : Jonah Lehrer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 9781847677877
"New York Times" bestselling author Jonah Lehrer introduces us to musicians, graphic artists, poets, and bartenders to show us how we can use science to be more imaginative and make our cities, our companies, and our culture more creative.
Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804171645
A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. “A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature—he considers himself first and foremost as a reader—into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.
Author : Jonah Lehrer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781847677860
How do you measure the imagination? How do you quantify an epiphany? In Jonah Lehrer's book, we go in search of the epiphany. Shattering the myth of creative 'types', Lehrer shows how new research is deepening our understanding of the human imagination.
Author : Kfir Luzzatto, Ph.D., Dip. Hyp.
Publisher : PINE TEN, LLC
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1938212878
No matter how happy you are, you deserve to be happier. Your happiness depends on the image of your world that you have built in your mind, and a wrong perception of your place in it will make you less happy. Luckily, you have the innate ability to reset many damaging cognitions using simple and enjoyable methods. Those tools, which rely on the power of your imagination, are readily available to you. The author has a long romance with the mind-body connection and the use it makes of our imagination, as a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, as an inventor, and as a fiction writer. That broad background has prompted him to help many others by demystifying self-help methods that produce results. His popular book HOW TO REVERSE YOUR DIABETES, empowers Type 2 diabetes patients to fight their condition, while THINK AWAY YOUR HAY FEVER highlights the power that your mind has, to stop allergies. In HOW TO IMAGINE, the author details practical strategies, which employ your imagination to clean up wrong cognitions and memories, and create a better, happier life in a simple and readily accessible way.
Author : Bart Vivian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442445467
Add some wonder to daily routines with this vividly illustrated, inspirational picture book featuring a new cover and trim size. “If you can imagine things aren't quite what they seem, and dream of possibilities that only you can dream of, then anything can happen....” So begins this inspiring, poetic book, a celebration of the wonder and innocence of childhood. In a playful back-and-forth, Imagine asks you to envision everyday events as wondrous and magical occurrences. The ordinary scenes of childhood are illustrated in luxurious black-and-white, while the magical settings are in full, vibrant color. With just a twist of the imagination, a little girl looking at a toy dancer becomes a prima ballerina, a boy crossing a log becomes a tightrope walker, and a simple tree house becomes a grand castle. Endless possibilities and creative explorations await. You only have to Imagine.
Author : Rex E. Jung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108340806
Historically, the brain bases of creativity have been of great interest to scholars and the public alike. However, recent technological innovations in the neurosciences, coupled with theoretical and methodological advances in creativity assessment, have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic. The chapters discuss creativity's relationship with intelligence, motivation, psychopathology and pharmacology, as well as the contributions of general psychological processes to creativity, such as attention, memory, imagination, and language. This book also includes specific and novel approaches to understanding creativity involving musicians, polymaths, animal models, and psychedelic experiences. The chapters are meant to give the reader a solid grasp of the diversity of approaches currently at play in this active and rapidly growing field of inquiry.
Author : Rob Gonsalves
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481449745
Rob Gonsalves—master of magical realism—presents another mesmerizing picture book in his Imagine a… series, that will “stimulate wonder and imagination” (Booklist, starred review). Imagine a world where the sky becomes the Earth; where a waterfall freefalls to become dancing women; where you can cut mountains out of curtains, and ships sail into the sky. This amazing world is what Rob Gonsalves has created. His vision inspires and astounds—and he wants to share that vision with you. With stunning illustrations that stretch the limits of the imagination, this fourth installment in the Imagine a… series explores a world that is boundless and beautiful, inviting you to imagine a world of possibilities—to imagine this world.
