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• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 1993

Drawing on hundreds of examples, this study of human ingenuity argues that all inventions are the result of the same basic principles rather than random inspiration. The author, a cognitive

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 04 February 1993

How do inventions take shape? How did the inventors of the sewing needle, the hammer, or the wheel find their ideas? Are these creations the result of random events, or

• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 09 October 2012

Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 21,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 September 2014

The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diners experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 1999

"The phonograph and the typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 November 2013

In this provocative book, acclaimed psychologists Thomas Ward, Ronald Finke, and Steven Smith eloquently portray the fascinating processes of the creative mind at work, and hand us the invaluable tools

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 1992

Is invention really "99 percent" perspiration and "one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well equipped to address this question: contemporary inventors of

• Publisher : Psychology Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 05 March 2014

Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 1995

Since the turn of the century, the idea that intellectual capacity is fixed has been generally accepted. But increasingly, psychologists, educators, and others have come to challenge this premise. Outsmarting

• Publisher : Author's Choice Publishing
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 1998

A reminder that some of the most important factors in healing are not high-tech marvels but ordinary factors such as love, compassion, friendship, and hope.