The Creativity Code

This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition. Its main focus is on the knowledge-enhancing virtues of abduction and

Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing the inform

Leading the Historical Enterprise: Strategic Creativity, Planning, and Advocacy for the Digital Age presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, histo

Leading the Historical Enterprise: Strategic Creativity, Planning, and Advocacy for the Digital Age presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, histo

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die?so some fear?at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musician

Swingin’ in the Iron Cage explores the fundamental tension at the core of jazz culture. To learn how to play jazz means pitting creative agency and improvisation against the rational institutionalizat

Organic Creativity in the Classroom demonstrates an approach to teaching creatively-teaching to intuition-that is written by experienced, award-winning classroom teachers. Instead of focusing on diver

Any traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How has Beijing opera — a highly stylized theatre with breath-taking acrobatics and martial arts, fabulous c

Any traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How has Beijing opera — a highly stylized theatre with breath-taking acrobatics and martial arts, fabulous c

Kwall (intellectual property law, DePaul U.) argues that US intellectual property law should be shaped in response to all relevant forces motivating creativity, not just economic reward, and that the

On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity?including art, literature, love, dreams, and spirituality. This diverse collection incl

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as “a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture

There is a reason artists tend to feel a sense of the sacred in their work. It's the same reason those on the path of spiritual formation find that creative exercises lead them into a deeper, more aut

In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women composers and librettists gained access to concer

The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique.In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanish

The fourth volume in the series "Kontext Architektur" examines the architectural-theoretical relevance of the concept of "code" from various perspectives. The goal

This book describes the fundamentals of the use of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes within the framework of the McEliece cryptosystem. In the first part, different design techniqu

A unique take on the classic crossword, this collection of word puzzles presents the added excitement of “cracking the code” for a certain letters that appear in the crossword puzzle. When the code is

Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is

Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is

Go back in time with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots - and the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day... 1940.Britain is at war with Nazi Germany. Eleven-year-old Eric spends his days at the place that makes him most happy: London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves: Gertrude the gorilla.With bombs falling all over London, Eric must rescue Gertrude. Together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot...Join David Walliams on this action-packed, laugh-out-loud adventure for all the family!

The only DP Biology resource developed with the IB to accurately match the new 2014 syllabus for both SL and HL, this new Online Course Book gives you unparallelled support for the new concept-based a

Ever wish you could study on the run, in the car, or while you are running errands? Now you can with the audio version of the popular Surgical Recall! With rapid-fire questions and answers in downlo

From the highly acclaimed International Code Commentary series comes an electronic resource that puts the entire content of the 2012 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE COMMENTARY at your fingertips. This val

A Unique Visual Guide to the 2009 International Building CodeUpdated to reflect the changes in the International Code Council 2009 International Building Code, this illustrated guide makes it easy to

Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers!When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing techno