Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-1125-8. Inventive Engineering is an emerging engineering science focused on the conceptual designing processes whereby creative designs are developed. Its core concepts are too often unknown and even surprising, but they are also feasible and can be learned, leading to potentially patentable designs. Inventive engineers...
Virgin Books, 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-0753545041. Graphic artist Anthony Burrill offers a life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving and getting things done. Full of inspiration and ideas as well as his best-loved prints and new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity. If you’re stuck for an idea, have a big...
Virgin Books, 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0753545041. Graphic artist Anthony Burrill offers a life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving, and getting things done. Full of inspiration and ideas as well as his best-loved prints and new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity. If you’re stuck on an idea, have a big...
2d ed. — Corwin Press, 2009. — 193 p. — ISBN: 9781452293240,1452293244. Describes a variety of visual tools, such as brainstorming webs, graphic organizers, conceptual mapping, and thinking maps, that help students develop and improve critical thinking and study skills, creativity, and comprehension; and offers advice on using them in the classroom. Includes examples. Summary...
Greenwich: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1997, 134 p. A scholarly and prgamatic view of creativity and its cultivation. The research spans 50 years, and includes Cropley's own work. The topics are all relevant to education, but not limited to conventional academic concerns. Cropley covers giftedness, educational equality, and play, discussions of creativity and health, "blocks...
ISBN13: 978-0-300-11074-6 (alk. paper), ISBN10: 0-300-11074-X (alk. paper). Gregory J. Feist. Psychology of science and the origin of scientific consciousness. Yale University Press, 2006. 316 p. Language: English. High quality (PDF-original). "Science is like sex. Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not why we are doing it." - Richarg Feynman. "Science is like...
Psychology Press, 2004 — 378 p. At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge-particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. Such...
Princeton University Press. 1954. — 145 p. — ISBN: 0486201074 Thoughtful and articulate study of the origin of ideas. Role of the unconscious in invention; the medium of ideas — do they come to mind in words? in pictures? in mathematical terms? Much more. "It is essential for the mathematician, and the layman will find it good reading.
London: Routledge, 2007. — 417 p. Problem solving is implicit in the very nature of all science, and virtually all scientists are hired, retained, and rewarded for solving problems. Although the need for skilled problem solvers has never been greater, there is a growing disconnect between the need for problem solvers and the educational capacity to prepare them. Learning to...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. - 280 p. This book is about having ideas and — a much longer haul — making them work. David Jones, best known for his Daedalus column, tells a multitude of stories about creators and their creations, including his own fantastical-seeming contributions to mainstream science such as the unrideable bicycle and chemical gardens in...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-0-544-32400-8. A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these — the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-0-544-32400-8. A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these — the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. — 261 p. — (Advances in Mathematics Education) — ISBN10: 331938838X This volume provides readers with a broad view on the variety of issues related to the educational research and practices in the field of Creativity in Mathematics and Mathematical Giftedness. The book explores (a) the relationship between creativity and...
The MIT Press, 2014. — 408 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-52654-8. In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information into a simple picture. Unlike computers, humans depend on insight. Based on the author’s fifteen...
Course Guidebook. — The Teaching Company, 2012. — 228 p. — (The Great Courses ). Professor Biography Course Scope Lecture guides The World of Strategic Thinking The Origins and Relevance of Ancient Strategy The Dawn of Modern Strategic Thinking Modern Principles of Strategic Conflict Geography — Know Your Terrain Grand Strategists and Strategic Intent The Core and the Rise of...
Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2017. — 244 p. This book takes up where L. S. Vygotsky has left off during the last few months of his life, when he renounced much of what he had done before. A month before Vygotsky died, he wrote in his notebook that he felt like Moses who had seen the promised land but was never allowed to set foot on it. The vision Vygotsky laid out during his...
IOP Publishing, 2022. — 415 p. — ISBN: 9780750349659, 0750349654. All scientists and engineers are creative – you wouldn't be a scientist or engineer if you weren't. But can you be even more creative? Do you know how to develop creativity in those who are less confident? And how to build a team culture in which creativity flourishes? If those questions spark interest, then this...
Routlege, 2022. — 360 p. — ISBN: 9781032302331, 103230233X. This book is about the behavior of systems. Systems are important, for we interact with them all the time, and many of the actions we take are influenced by a system – for example, the system of performance measures in an organization influences, often very strongly, how individuals within that organization behave....
Academic Press, 2016. — 194 p. — ISBN13: 978-0128042267. Creative Design Engineering: Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach presents the latest information on a field that has traditionally been primarily concerned with how to make things. However, as technology has advanced, and we have no shortage of things, a new challenge for today’s engineers is what to make. In...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 142 p. This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking. Current science has not agreed on an understanding of what exactly the aim of science actually is, how to understand scientific knowledge, and how such knowledge can be achieved. Furthermore, no science today also explicitly admits the...
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