Sparks of genius : the thirteen thinking tools of the world's most creative people by Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott

Sparks of genius : the thirteen thinking tools of the world's most creative people
by Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott

(#0818TR5)

Paperback Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001
Description: viii, 401 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm
Dewey: 153.3; Audience: Adult

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From Follett

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-373) and index. Discusses common misunderstandings about the nature of creative thinking, considering the barriers most modern educational systems raise to creative thinking; and identifies the thirteen thinking tools of some of the twentieth century's greatest minds.

From the Publisher

Creativity isn't born, it's cultivated--this innovative guide distills the work of extraordinary artists and thinkers to show you how.

All the imagination needs to be fruitful is exercise. Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein identify the thinking tools employed by history's greatest creative minds--from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf--so that anyone with the right mix of inspiration and drive can set their own genius in motion. With engaging narratives and ample illustrations, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools as diverse as observing, imaging, recognizing patterns, modeling, playing, and more to provide "a clever, detailed and demanding fitness program for the creative mind" (Kirkus Reviews).

Product Details
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Publication Date: August 9, 2001
  • Format: Paperback
  • Edition: First Mariner Books edition 2001.
  • Dewey: 153.3
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: viii, 401 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
  • Tracings: Root-Bernstein, Michele, author.
  • ISBN-10: 0-618-12745-3
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-618-12745-0
  • Follett Number: 0818TR5
  • Audience: Adult