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How To Have A Beautiful Mindby Edward De Bono
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 12.34People spend a fortune on their bodies, their faces, their hair, their clothes. Cosmetics, plastic surgery, diets, gym membership - everyone's trying to be more attractive. But there's an easier way to become a beautiful person. It doesn't have to be physical. No matter how you look, if you have a mind that's fascinating, creative, exciting - if you're a good thinker - you can be beautiful. And being attractive doesn't necessarily come from being intelligent or highly-educated. It isn't about having a great personality. It's about using your imagination and expanding your creativity. And it's when talking with people that we make the greatest impact. A person may be physically beautiful, but when speaking to others a dull or ugly or uncreative... more...
Think!by Michael R. LeGault
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 11.99This isn't the time to Blink. It's time to THINK! -- before it's too late. Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of Americans. Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfillment and growing... more...
The Creative Habitby Twyla Tharp
Simon & Schuster 2003; US$ 12.99Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part of your life: In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. In The Creative Habit, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative impulses you follow -- whether you are a painter, composer, writer, director, choreographer, or, for that matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see the world anew.... more...
How to be a Brilliant Thinkerby Paul Sloane
Kogan Page 2010; US$ 17.95How to be a Brilliant Thinker will show the reader how to find better ways to solve problems, conceive great ideas, retrain their brains, get out of the rut of conventional thinking and develop powerful thinking techniques. more...
Think!by Edward De Bono
Ebury Publishing 2009; US$ 17.83The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem . And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. Our minds function like trying to drive a car using only one wheel. There's nothing wrong with that one wheel - conventional thinking - but we could all get a lot further if we used all four... De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think. If... more...
A Technique for Producing Ideasby James Young
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 6.95A McGraw-Hill Advertising Classic A Technique for Producing Ideas reveals a simple, sensible idea-generation methodology that has stood the test of time. First presented to students in 1939, published in 1965, and now reissued for a new generation of advertising professionals and others looking to jump-start their creative juices, this powerful guide details a five-step process for gathering information, stimulating imagination, and recombining old elements into dramatic new ideas. more...
Cracking Creativityby Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press 2011; US$ 12.99In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you. To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques into the modern home and workplace. The follow-up to the popular THINKERTOYS, which sold over 80,000 copies. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Out of Our Mindsby Ken Robinson
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 27.95"It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way andyou lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the otherway and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realizeour true creative potential—in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities—we need to think differently about ourselves and to actdifferently towards each other. We must learn to be creative." — Ken Robinson PRAISE FOR OUT OF OUR MINDS "Ken Robinson writes brilliantly about the different ways in which creativity is undervalued and ignored . . . especially in our educational systems." — John Cleese "Out of Our... more...
Instant Brainpowerby Brian Clegg
Kogan Page 1999; US$ 9.75The old adage is wrong, it isn't who you know but what you know that matters. Nowadays knowledge and its creative use are the keys to success. How effective are you at building a store of knowledge and making use of it? Could your memory be better? Do you want to be more creative? This workout for the mind will help you to hone your mental skills and increase your mental agility. more...
30 Minutes ... To Brainstorm Great Ideasby Alan Barker
Kogan Page 1997; US$ 3.95Are you stuck for inspiration? Have you run out of steam creatively? Coming up with new, inventive ideas is the key to the growth of any organisation, and this helpful guide is packed with tips on how to do it. more...