The Creativity Reader

Author : Vlad Petre Glaveanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190841713

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The Creativity Reader by Vlad Petre Glaveanu Pdf

The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once retrospective and prospective: it revisits old ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring primary sources interpreted through the lenses of leading contemporary scholars, The Creativity Reader testifies to the incredible richness of this field of study, helps us understand its current developments, and anticipates its future directions. The texts included here, many of them little known or forgotten, are part of the living history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it.

Author : Vlad Petre Glaveanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190841706

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The Creativity Reader by Vlad Petre Glaveanu Pdf

The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once retrospective and prospective: it revisits old ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring primary sources interpreted through the lenses of leading contemporary scholars, The Creativity Reader testifies to the incredible richness of this field of study, helps us understand its current developments, and anticipates its future directions. The texts included here, many of them little known or forgotten, are part of the living history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it.

Author : Colby Sharp
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316507783

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The Creativity Project by Colby Sharp Pdf

Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share. The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and stories by some of our most celebrated children book creators. A section of extra story starters by every contributor provides fresh inspiration for readers to create works of their own. Here is an innovative book that offers something for every kind of reader and creator! With contributions by Sherman Alexie, Tom Angleberger, Jessixa Bagley, Tracey Baptiste, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Peter Brown, Lauren Castillo, Kate DiCamillo, Margarita Engle, Deborah Freedman, Adam Gidwitz, Chris Grabenstein, Jennifer L. Holm, Victoria Jamieson, Travis Jonker, Jess Keating, Laurie Keller, Jarret J. Krosoczka, Kirby Larson, Minh Lê, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Daniel Nayeri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debbie Ohi, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Dav Pilkey, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Dan Santat, Gary Schmidt, John Schu, Colby Sharp, Bob Shea, Liesl Shurtliff, Lemony Snicket, Laurel Snyder, Javaka Steptoe, Mariko Tamaki, Linda Urban, Frank Viva, and Kat Yeh.

Author : Colin Beardon,Lone Malmborg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9026519397

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Digital Creativity by Colin Beardon,Lone Malmborg Pdf

Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.

Author : Ryan van Cleave
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 0190279923

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Creativity by Ryan van Cleave Pdf

Developed for courses in first-year writing, Creativity: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and analytical strategies required to participate effectively in discussions about creativity by covering the major theories, modern research, and current issues in the field. Topics include: -Cognitive mechanisms and creativity -Creativity, personality, and motivation -Family and social influences on creativity -Child prodigies -International perspectives -Creativity and innovation in the workplace -Marginalization of creative people due to race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomics -Creativity and mental health -Creativity and aging Creativity: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief, single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.

Author : Jessie L. Kwak
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781621064107

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From Chaos to Creativity by Jessie L. Kwak Pdf

Art and writing can be the most fulfilling part of our lives. But it's often difficult to make space for it in our day-to-day existence, especially if we're not at the point yet where creating it is our job. Sometimes we have so many ideas it’s difficult to keep them all organized, much less maintaining a creative schedule or dedicated workspace. With all the clutter overwhelming your scattered brain (not to mention your desk), it's all too easy to fall into procrastination and disarray. From Chaos to Creativity is a series of glowing beacon. Jessie L. Kwak has written a Getting Things Done for artists and writers, drawing on her experience as a professional copywriter with a novel-writing habit, and from interviews with other authors, artists, musicians, and designers, to teach you how to focus on the good ideas, manage your project, make time in your life, and execute your passions to completion. Make great art by channeling your chaotic creative force into productive power and let the world see what you're capable of!

Author : Ed Catmull,Amy Wallace
Publisher : Random House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593594650

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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition) by Ed Catmull,Amy Wallace Pdf

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

Author : Luke Reynolds
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807753057

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A Call to Creativity by Luke Reynolds Pdf

In this age of standardization, many English teachers are unsure about how to incorporate creative writing and thinking into their classroom. In a fresh new voice, Luke Reynolds emphasizes that "creativity in our lives as teachers and in the lives of our students is one of our most vital needs in the 21st century." Based on his own journey as an English teacher, A Call to Creativity is a practical guide that shows teachers how they can encourage and support students' creativity in the English/language arts classroom. The book offers both the inspiration and practical steps teachers need to engage their students through a variety of hands-on projects and worksheets that can be used immediately to insert creativity into any standards-based curriculum.

Author : Nicola Ulibarri,Amanda E. Cravens,Anja Svetina Nabergoj,Adam Royalty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108484220

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Creativity in Research by Nicola Ulibarri,Amanda E. Cravens,Anja Svetina Nabergoj,Adam Royalty Pdf

Provides concrete guidance, grounded in scientific literature, for researchers to build creative confidence in their work.

Author : C. Diane Ealy
Publisher : Beyond Words Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1885223064

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The Woman's Book of Creativity by C. Diane Ealy Pdf

Describes the holistic creative practice while explaining how it can particularly benefit women, describes how female creative processes differ from those of men, and offers exercises on developing and focusing creativity. Original. Tour. IP.

Author : Bryan Collins
Publisher : Bryan Collins
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Power of Creativity (Book 1) by Bryan Collins Pdf

Author : Vlad Glăveanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192580870

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Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glăveanu Pdf

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From the painted caves in Lascaux and the invention of the first tools to modern day advertising campaigns and inventors' labs, creativity has a long past but a short history. The word 'creativity' emerged in the English language in the 19th century and only become popular from the mid-20th century. This Very Short Introduction explores the history, theory, and practice of creativity from a psychological perspective. Vlad Glăveanu considers the nature and development of the creative process, and analyzes the reasons why we produce creative work. Offering a sociocultural reading of this phenomenon, he discusses how we can understand creative people and their creations within the social, material, and historical context that made them possible. In doing so, he demonstrates how we can address the meaning and value of creativity beyond its contribution to economic growth and personal well-being. Finally Glăveanu focuses on the future of creativity and creativity research, reflecting on technological development, the evolution of society and, ultimately, on our place in a world populated by creative beings, ideas, and encounters. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Felicia Day
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982115746

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Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day Pdf

An instant New York Times bestseller In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions. Including Felicia’s personal stories and hard-won wisdom, Embrace Your Weird offers: —Entertaining and revelatory exercises that empower you to be fearless, so you can rediscover the things that bring you joy, and crack your imagination wide open —Unique techniques to vanquish enemies of creativity like: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism, and jealousy —Tips to cultivate a creative community —Space to explore and get your neurons firing Whether you enjoy writing, baking, painting, podcasting, playing music, or have yet to uncover your favorite creative outlet, Embrace Your Weird will help you unlock the power of self-expression. Get motivated. Get creative. Get weird.

Author : Scott Jeffrey
Publisher : Creative Crayon Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780971481558

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Creativity Revealed by Scott Jeffrey Pdf

Why do some people seem more creative than others? How do brilliant minds gain key card access to unexplained depths of power and illumination while others struggle simply to choose a tie? Studies have demonstrated that creativity isnt necessarily linked with intelligence, yet our most profound philosophers and academic minds have yet to crack the creative genius code. Until now. The most current research into the nature of consciousnessour sense of existencehas shed new insight into and sparked provocative discussion on the origins of creative genius and the ideal conditions for channeling heightened creativity.

Author : Marshall E Gass,Sarah J Gass
Publisher : Buuks
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9389604230

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Keys to Contemplation by Marshall E Gass,Sarah J Gass Pdf

After five decades of practice in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, a father takes his daughter through a similar spiritual regeneration. They soon discover that society has changed in the years and the world is now, more aware of spiritual integration than it ever was. Step by step they contemplate on this journey and through reading and recording find major religions are taking their own journeys to mainstream practitioners. This fast-paced modern living needs a calm, collected response to keep stress levels down and improve daily living. You are invited to take this journey too. Join the authors, Marshall and Sarah, as they lead you gently through the way. Take the first step. Stay to the end.