The Creativity Code

A new addition to the series that Serena Williams calls "a fun way to inspire children's imagination and creativity!" Discover the wonders of fine art with this enchanting read-aloud bedtime book featuring some of the world's iconic paintings! Nurture your child's creativity as they get ready for bed by reading gentle rhymes accompanied by delightfully curated artworks illustrating the night sky, sleeping animals, and more in this perfect book to end the day. In this collection, your child will journey from sunset to moonrise through artworks by Mary Cassatt, Gustav Klimt, Katsushika Hokusai, and many others. Describe the serene skies in Claude Monet's Stacks of Wheat, imagine the gentle snores of George Stubbs's Sleeping Leopard, and say goodnight to the tranquil moon in Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy. With a calming rhyming scheme and peaceful colors, Bedtime with Art will inspire your budding art lovers' imagination and dreams as they get ready to drift to sleep. . . .

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Through the sweeping, extraordinary story of his own and his father's lives, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years.Ai Weiwei's sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping to design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium. But his political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities, which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011. Here, for the first time, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his own life story and that of his father, whose own creativity was stifled.Once an intimate of Mao Zedong, Ai Weiwei's father was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as 'Little Siberia', where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labour cleaning public toil

Why do people make decisions based on their own perspective without considering alternative points of view? Do differences of opinion enhance or obstruct critical thinking? Is it wise to seek out people who disagree with you and listen to their objections to your conclusions? Focusing on the theory, research, and application of constructive controversy, this book analyses the nature of disagreement among members of decision-making groups, project teams, academic study groups, and other groups that are involved in solving problems. Johnson demonstrates that this theory is one of the most effective methods of enhancing creativity and innovation, decision making, teaching, and political discourse. The book includes entertaining and intriguing examples of how constructive controversy has been used in a variety of historical periods to advance creativity, achieve innovations, and guide democracies. It will be welcomed by students in the fields of social psychology, management/business studi

Why do people make decisions based on their own perspective without considering alternative points of view? Do differences of opinion enhance or obstruct critical thinking? Is it wise to seek out people who disagree with you and listen to their objections to your conclusions? Focusing on the theory, research, and application of constructive controversy, this book analyses the nature of disagreement among members of decision-making groups, project teams, academic study groups, and other groups that are involved in solving problems. Johnson demonstrates that this theory is one of the most effective methods of enhancing creativity and innovation, decision making, teaching, and political discourse. The book includes entertaining and intriguing examples of how constructive controversy has been used in a variety of historical periods to advance creativity, achieve innovations, and guide democracies. It will be welcomed by students in the fields of social psychology, management/business studi

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