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The emerging goddess : the creative process in art, science, and other fields / Albert Rothenberg.

<p>What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime. Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.</p>

xv, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish.

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Development of measures for the study of creativity / by Norman Frederiksen and William C. Ward.

x, 350 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Inventive minds : creativity in technology / edited by Robert J. Weber, David N. Perkins.

<p>Flashes of insight -- the Eureka! moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought -- are behind some of the world's most creative and practical innovations. This book shows how to cultivate more and better flashes of insight by harnessing the science and practice of the seventh sense. Drawing from recent findings in psychology, neuroscience, Asian philosophy, and military strategy, Duggan illustrates the power of the seventh sense to help readers aspire to and achieve more in their personal and professional lives. His examples include Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Starbucks founder Howard Shultz, and executives and students he has taught in his classes. His book presents specific steps in the form of three practical tools to help prepare the mind, see and seize opportunity, and follow through on one's resolution. Based on Duggan's perennially popular Columbia Business School course, this book teaches the mental skills and discipline that power the seventh sense.</p>

The seventh sense : how flashes of insight change your life / William Duggan.

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Catalogue

The emerging goddess : the creative process in art, science, and other fields / Albert Rothenberg.

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish.

Development of measures for the study of creativity / by Norman Frederiksen and William C. Ward.

Inventive minds : creativity in technology / edited by Robert J. Weber, David N. Perkins.

The seventh sense : how flashes of insight change your life / William Duggan.

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Creative thinking

Catalogue

The emerging goddess : the creative process in art, science, and other fields / Albert Rothenberg.

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish.

Development of measures for the study of creativity / by Norman Frederiksen and William C. Ward.

Inventive minds : creativity in technology / edited by Robert J. Weber, David N. Perkins.

The seventh sense : how flashes of insight change your life / William Duggan.

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