The goal of this handbook is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. The book contains twenty-two chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The volume is divided into six parts. The introduction sets out the major themes and reviews the history of thinking about creativity. Subsequent parts deal with methods, origins, self and environment, special topics and conclusions. All educated readers with an interest in creative thinking will find this volume to be accessible and engrossing.
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"His volume serves well as a handbook, containing chapters that are appropriately thorough and self-contained. Sternberg has put together and original, useful book that will be valuable in upper-division undergraduate collections and above." Choice
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The Handbook of Creativity provides a comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review of t he entire field of creativity. Twenty-two chapters introduce the field and deal with methods in studying creativity, origins of creativity, the self and environment in creativity, special topics in creativity, and conclusions. Each of the essays are written to be accessible to all educated readers.
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Thick and plentiful - worth it but not easy,
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Sternberg's Handbook has an almost mythical reputation amongst the Creative Studies Students at Buffalo State College. While there are shortcomings to the Handbook, areas where key authors or subjects are missing (it is written from the behavioral scientist point of view, and there are other, equally valid viewpoints in creative studies), each chapter will have plenty of food for thought.
And, guaranteed, you will have the time to digest this food for thought, as each and every chapter requires slow and careful reading. If the writing were to be any denser, it would tear free from the pages and sink to the very center of the Earth! Yet, there is so much information that, in the end, the knowledge derived is more than worth the work needed to get at it. One last note: This is a handbook for those interested in the deep research on creativity. It is NOT suitable a "first book" for anyone starting out to learn about creativity!
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A wide ranging book, great advanced level introduction,
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Just reading the table of contents of this book will expand the ways you thought creativity could be studied. This is a cery broad book that gives representation to most of the approaches to studying creativity that have proven fruitful at all to date. Includes chapters on case study, historio-metrical, psychometrical, experimental, and many more research paradigms in creativity. Because the book is so wide ranging I'd say it's best as an intriduction for a college or graduate student interested in either perhaps entering this field of research, or one who is simply interested in a highly comprehensive and somewhat technical overview of inquiry into human creativity. Since it includes two chapters on the history of thought on creativity, it is even more comprehensive than one may expect!
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Not for getting informed but to understand the subject!,
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Dr.Sternberg's book on the evolution process of creativity research is a splendit source for anybody who deals with social sciences, a must for organizational behaviorists and a very satisfactory piece of reading for general reader. The book does not give mere descriptions on the scope of creativity but it provides great amount of knowledge on the evolutionary process of creativity research from ancient times up to today! Furthermore, the subject of creativity has been examined both from theoretical and methodological perspective in such a creative manner which gives a very good knowledge about the major approaches, the outcomes of the previous researchs, main obstacles in the course of investigation, and finally the probable studies for further research on the creativity. Consequently, the reader finds a good chance not only to have a detailed theoretical and practical information on the subject but also to learn the main approaches of outstanding social scientists towards the subject and not mentioning about the meticoulisly prepared bibliography. I am amazed with the intensity of Dr.Sternberg's study the language of which is clear enough those of us whose Mother tongue is not English (like me!).
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New York, Ness York, Chicago Press, San Francisco, United States, Nobel Prize, Press Sternberg, Psychological Reports, York Guilford, American Psychological Association, Oxford University Press, Press Perkins, Charles Darwin, Gifted Child Quarterly, Adjective Check List, American Psychologist, Englewood Cliffs, Francis Galton, George Stephenson, Howard Gardner, Remote Associates Test, Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Abler Runco, Adam Smith, Boston Little New!
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