Creative Insight

In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, David Eagleman’s Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow’s Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha

用科學解開頓悟之謎，營造專屬於你的創意靈光吧！繼《為什麼我們這樣生活、那樣工作》《躲在我腦中的陌生人》《潛意識正在控制你的行為》，神經科學解密思考又一力作！ 「精采又易懂地描繪創意產生和醞釀過程」－諾貝爾經濟學獎得主詹姆斯．海克曼(JamesHeckman)強推 我們經常因腦袋靈光一閃而頓悟：「啊！我想到了！」，這個神奇的頓悟時刻是哪冒出來的？ 早在阿基米德（Archimedes）從浴缸裡跳出來，

Yohji Yamamoto is one of fashion's continual innovators and this stunning book is a fascinating insight into his working approach and relationships with other creative practitioners. This comprehensiv

Offers insight into the mind's psychological drive to pursue new things, sharing advice for "neophiliac" aficionados of new experiences about how to embrace today's dynamic and creative culture while

How does language work? How do we learn to speak? Why do languages change? Why do they have so many quirks? What does language reveal about the mind? Steven Pinker explores the mysteries of language in this original and hugely entertaining book. Pinker uses a deceptively simple phenomenon?regular and irregular verbs?to illuminate an astonishing array of topics: the history of languages, what we can learn from children's grammatical mistakes, the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of language, and some of the major themes in Western philosophy. The key idea?that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules?extends beyond language, offering insight into the nature of thinking. For fans of The Language Instinct and The Stuff of Thought, here is another cornucopia of ideas about language and mind.

Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints. Featuring exquisite reproductions of the prints together with essays on Close's career and in-depth interviews with the artist and his master printmakers, the volume blends words and images to give readers unique insight into the creative process. The text highlights the intensely collaborative nature of Close's project and looks into the challenges posed by the unprecedented huge scale he prefers. Close may labor on a single print for as long as two years, working out aesthetic problems that might involve the retrieval of a centuries-old European meth