Creative Ability category: 443 books
Art Is a Way of Knowing
A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1995
Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus...
by Benjamin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Did you know that everything that you do is a direct result of using your subconscious mind? You may not be aware of it, but behind the scenes the subconscious is working 24 hours a day recording everything that happens to you. It is also recording responses to given triggers. If you feel fear or...
Banish Your Inner Critic
Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Creativity is essential skill for today’s professionals. It inspires innovative thinking, effective problem solving, and fresh ideas. http://marketeer.kapost.com/content-marketing-hiring-infographic/ According to a survey by FastCompany.com, approximately 60% of CEOs polled cited creativity as the...
by Thomas J Hally
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Currently the Vice President of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) as well as featured writer for the Mensa International Journal, Hally takes an active interest in human intelligence in all its forms and applications.
Hally explores the science behind both human and...
A Theory-based Approach to Art Therapy
Implications for teaching, research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Art therapy literature is often based either on practice in a specific setting, art material or population, or if taking a more theoretical focus, on illustrative case studies. This book provides a theory-based approach to research, teaching, and practicing art therapy, including verbal and arts based...
by Carl E. Seashore
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Standard study by founder of Seashore test. Relationship between physical phenomena of sounds and our perception of them. Music as a medium, physical acoustics, auditory apparatus, sound perception, host of other topics. Includes 88 figures. "The thinking is rigorous and objective." — Music Teacher (London).
by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
What could you accomplish if you new it was impossible to fail?
Anything you do, you do successfully - to make yourself rich, improve your health, have better relationships - all these thing are now possible.
That is exactly what Dorothea Brand uncovered. This classic self-help bestseller,...
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Between Literature and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of...
The Trip to Echo Spring
On Writers and Drinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol...
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now...
by Jacob Bronowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1979
by Ellen J. Langer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindulness, introduced in her influential earlier book, to dramatically enhance the way we learn....
Judgement
10 improvements to decision making.
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
'It seemed like a good idea at the time' is a thought many of us have had, and all of us want to avoid! This book will help you make better decisions - starting today.
Written by an expert in the field, this volume will help you understand how different cognitive systems introduce systematic...
by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
‘God has given the mightiest, most potent form of power to the spirit and as every one of our thoughts is pregnant with the power of the spirit which brought it into being, that power is constantly at work. Knowing this, each one of you has the possibility of becoming a benefactor of mankind; by...