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

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.

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.

Professional report, GRE Board

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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.

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.

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

Oxford library of psychology

xvi, 611 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.

The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff.

Contrary imaginations : a psychological study of the English schoolboy / Liam Hudson.

"What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion sheds new light on the links between creativity and innovation, distinguishing between the generation of novel behaviour and ideas on the one hand, and the implementation of these novelties on the other. The authors then turn to the role of play in the development of the child and to parallels between play, humour and dreaming, along with the altered states of consciousness generated by some psychoactive drugs. A final chapter looks forward to future research and to what remains to be discovered in this fascinating and important field"--

Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation / Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin.

Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it's a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google, or the Einsteins of the world code-cracking the mysteries of nature. Maybe it's simply a child playing with her toys. What do all of these activities share? With wisdom, humor, and joy, philosopher Stephen T. Asma answers that question in this book: imagination. And from there he takes us on an extraordinary tour of the human creative spirit. Guided by neuroscience, animal behavior, evolution, philosophy, and psychology, Asma burrows deep into the human psyche to look right at the enigmatic but powerful engine that is our improvisational creativity the source, he argues, of our remarkable imaginational capacity. How is it, he asks, that a story can evoke a whole world inside of us? How are we able to rehearse a skill, a speech, or even an entire scenario simply by thinking about it? How does creativity go beyond experience and help us make something completely new? And how does our moral imagination help us sculpt a better society? As he shows, we live in a world that is only partly happening in reality. Huge swaths of our cognitive experiences are made up by "what-ifs," "almosts," and "maybes," an imagined terrain that churns out one of the most overlooked but necessary resources for our flourishing: possibilities.

327 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

The evolution of imagination / Stephen T. Asma.

xiv, 355 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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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.

The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff.

Contrary imaginations : a psychological study of the English schoolboy / Liam Hudson.

Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation / Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin.

The evolution of imagination / Stephen T. Asma.

Imagery in scientific thought : creating twentieth century physics / Arthur I. Miller.

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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.

The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought : mind-wandering, creativity, and dreaming / edited by Kieran C.R. Fox, Kalina Christoff.

Contrary imaginations : a psychological study of the English schoolboy / Liam Hudson.

Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation / Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin.

The evolution of imagination / Stephen T. Asma.

Imagery in scientific thought : creating twentieth century physics / Arthur I. Miller.

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