This sumptuously illustrated volume is based on the PBS "Creative Spirit" television series, praised by the "Washington Post" as "thought-provoking and delightful" and hailed by the "New York Times" as "an example of creativity at work." This engaging book has a powerful mesage: creativity can be cultivated by anyone - by children and adults, by companies, by whole communities. How can you liberate the creative spirit within you and use it to improve the quality of your life? This book takes you inside the creative process to the realms of intuition and "flow" - where our efforts perfectly match the task at hand. It offers a series of practical exercises to strengthen your creativity and shake loose hidebound habits of thought. And it takes you around the world for inspirational stories of the creative spirit in action.
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Based on a television series produced for PBS, this lively exploration of creativity includes exercises and practices meant to encourage its liberation. A BOMC alternate in cloth and a QPB main selection. Illustrations.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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YA-- This companion to the 1992 PBS series examines the nature of creativity, its manifestation in children and in the workplace, and its use in solving problems. The content is focused and authoritative, with many applications. The importance of intuition, thinking skills, risk taking, problem solving, and teamwork is stressed. Appropriate exercises encourage readers to discover their own creative spirit, but they are interspersed in sidebars throughout the book and are distracting as the text is often continued many pages later. However, overall, the suitable mix of readable text and varied, colorful illustrations make this an inviting work. Teachers and parents will find it especially useful, but the illustrations, sidebars, and quotations will draw students' interest.
- Rebecca H. Carmichael, W. T. Woodson H.S., Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Rebecca H. Carmichael, W. T. Woodson H.S., Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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For those who were as disappointed of "How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci" as I was: This may be the one!
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Based on a PBS Special, I have given this book as gift to several of my supervisors as I left to go on to greater things with the hopes that it would inspire them to make the workplace a great place to be.
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