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Author : Todd Siler
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553379280
Explains how to ignite innate creativity and free thought processes through the discovery of hidden connections among familiar things
Author : Victoria Olwell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204971
In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally. In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.
Author : Francis Galton
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780898755855
Author : Jeff Petrill
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595606856
James Genius is a traveler hiding a secret. While trying to fit into a community that thrives off death, James begins building a new life that quickly turns into a personal hell in futuristic America. A new Civil War brews in America while James simultaneously fights his own internal demons and hallucinations as he attempts to locate the survivors of his hidden family. While the government promises to protect and separate citizens from one another, obsessive political control and suspicious behavior begins to confuse and upset the public. As a result, survival groups start preparing for the collapse of the government while a news organization, The Zoo Trials, tries to explain and solve the country's seemingly inevitable demise. James holds the key to a major change, but in a futile attempt to protect himself, he pretends he doesn't recall his past. Meanwhile, others encourage James to reveal his true self, but he waits for the right moment to fuel his transformation. Only time will tell if James finds the real life he's been desperately seeking and if the citizens of this revolutionary community will pull together and plant the seeds of positive change.
Author : Paul W. Bruno
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441190239
While many studies have chronicled the Romantic legacy of artistic genius, this book uncovers the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's third Critique, alongside the development of his understanding of nature. Paul Bruno addresses a genuine gap in the existing scholarship by exploring the origins of Kant's thought on aesthetic judgment and particularly the artist. The development of the word 'genius' and its intimate association with the artist played itself out in a rich cultural context, a context that is inescapably significant in Western thought. Bruno shows how in many ways we are still interrogating the ways in which a nature governed by physical laws can be reconciled with a spirit of human creativity and freedom. This book leads us to a better understanding of the centrality of understanding the modern artistic enterprise, characterized as it is by creativity, for modern conceptions of the self.
Author : Richard Holt Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090311317
Author : Linda A. Hill,Greg Brandeau,Emily Truelove,Kent Lineback
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422187593
Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there’s only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it—and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a “good” leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the “collective genius” of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don’t create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation is allowed to happen again and again—an environment where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the fabric of your business.
Author : baroness Beatrice Violet Greville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600064253
Author : Jake Morrissey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061873133
“The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography.” —Booklist The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter’s in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today. “Entertaining. . . . Morrissey finely renders the intense rivalry between these two artists.” —Publishers Weekly “With clear prose and splendid touches of drama, history and architecture are both brought wonderfully to life.” —Ross King, New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling “Engrossing.” —Matthew Pearl, of The Dante Club “Genius in the Design reveals the dark side of 17th Century Italy with sparkling anecdotes and you-are-there immediacy” —Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World “Fascinating . . . a scintillating introduction to the Baroque.” —Iain Pears, New York Times bestselling author An Instance of the Fingerpost “Page-turning reading.” —Seattle Times Book Review “Morrissey illuminates the contrast between the celebrated Bernini and the anguished Borromini.” —Boston Globe
Author : Russel Gehrke
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780071736138
Have some thoroughly green evil fun! This wickedly inventive guide explains how to create a variety of practical, environmentally friendly items you can use for yourself or resell for profit. Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius is filled with detailed directions on how to successfully complete each green project and discusses important safety issues. Using easy-to-find components and tools, this do-it-yourself book shows you how to brew up green cleaners, transform all types of paper into building materials, safety rid your home and yard of pests, and much more--all on the cheap! Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius: Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations Covers essential safety measures Reveals the scientific principles behind the projects Removes the frustration factor--all required parts are listed, along with sources Make your own green: Household cleaners Laundry soap Citrus oil extract Pest and weed control solutions Recycled plastic lumber and landscape blocks Recycled asphalt shingle paver bricks and road patch compound Concrete paper mache blocks, garden walls, stepping stones, and structures Solar-powered composter Garden-friendly charcoal And more Each fun, inexpensive, and slightly wicked Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015031226866
Author : Charles August Maude Fennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00098901
Author : Eugène Plon
Publisher : London, R. Bentley and son
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Sculptors
ISBN : PRNC:32101073964494
Author : William M. Thayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049209062
Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman,Ellen Mackay Hutchinson,Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112003498075