Imagination. Bridge Stories
Author: Krzysztof Martens
Publisher: Krzysztof Martens
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9955941596
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Author: Krzysztof Martens
Publisher: Krzysztof Martens
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9955941596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 1472244532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTroll Bridge, a tale from the mind of Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, has been beautifully adapted for the first time by Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Colleen Doran. This striking graphic novel will delight fans of Alan Moore, Dave McKean and beyond. Young Jack's world is full of ghosts and ghouls, but one monster - a ravenous and hideous troll - haunts him long into manhood. As the beast sups upon a lifetime of Jack's fear and regret, Jack must find the courage within himself to face the fiend once and for all.
Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Volo
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780786851386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn urgent cry for help from Elyon sends the Guardians of the Veil back across the Veil to Meridian. There, they find the young girl struggling to bridge the gap between her past life and her new role in Meridian.
Author: Rowan Gibson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1118740246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver wonder where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss? Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not some mystical art that’s forbidden to mere mortals. The Four Lenses of Innovation thoroughly debunks this pervasive myth by delivering what we’ve long been hoping for: the news that innovation is systematic, it’s methodical, and we can all achieve it. By asking how the world’s top innovators—Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and many others—came up with their game-changing ideas, bestselling author Rowan Gibson identifies four key business perspectives that will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation and growth: Challenging Orthodoxies—What if the dominant conventions in your field, market, or industry are outdated, unnecessary, or just plain wrong? Harnessing Trends—Where are the shifts and discontinuities that will, now and in the future, provide the energy you need for a major leap forward? Leveraging Resources—How can you arrange existing skills and assets into new combinations that add up to more than the sum of their parts? Understanding Needs—What are the unmet needs and frustrations that everyone else is simply ignoring? Other books promise the keys to innovation—this one delivers them. With a unique full-color design, thought-provoking examples, and features like the 8-Step Model for Building a Breakthrough, The Four Lenses of Innovation will teach you how to reverse-engineer creative genius and make radical business innovation an everyday reality inside your organization. “Rowan Gibson has done a superb job of ‘unpacking’ what it takes to innovate.” —Philip Kotler, S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University “Can you develop an innovative mind? Yes, you can. And this book is the manual.” —John and Doris Naisbitt, authors of China’s Megatrends and The Global Game Change “An excellent piece of work for practitioners and organizations who seek to have innovation as part of their DNA.” —Camille Mirshokrai, Managing Director of Leadership Development, and Partner at Accenture “Rowan Gibson’s The Four Lenses of Innovation will inspire you to think big, look afresh at the challenges you face, and take bold action to change the world.” —Robert B. Tucker, author of Driving Growth Through Innovation
Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1317069617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, their identities, their environments and their relations: the imagination. How do anthropologists use imagination in coming to know their research subjects? How might they, and how should they, use their imagination? And how do research subjects themselves understand, describe, justify and limit their use of the imagination? Presenting a range of case studies from a variety of locations including the UK, US, Africa, East Asia and South America, this collection offers a comparative exploration of how imagination has been conceptualized and understood in a range of analytical traditions, with regard to issues of both methodology and ethnomethodology. With emphasis not on abstraction but on imagination as activity, technique and subject situated in the middle of lives, Reflections on Imagination sheds new light on imagination as a universal capacity and practice - something to which human beings attend whenever they make sense of their environments and situate their life-projects in these environments - the means by which worlds come to be.
Author: Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1493441914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener."--Publishers Weekly Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By analyzing the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism, she unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices to consider what is Christian rather than merely cultural. The result is a clearer path forward for evangelicals amid their current identity crisis--and insight for others who want a deeper understanding of what the term "evangelical" means today. Brought to life with color illustrations, images, and paintings, this book explores ideas including conversion, domesticity, empire, sentimentality, and more. In the end, it goes beyond evangelicalism to show us how we might be influenced by images, stories, and metaphors in ways we cannot always see.
Author: J. Rainsnow
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-11-26
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 059525909X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA missing cheerio triggers a debate on the nature of the universe. A scientist encounters his childhood playmate, a fairy who he can no longer believe in. A psychic discovers a terrorist plot and gets more than she bargained for. A lost love is reincarnated-or is she? Two lovers ride on a unicorn. A proud alien, the last of his kind, is hunted down on a rugged mining planet. A futuristic social worker falls in love with a girl from the slums. A delegation of earthlings struggles to arrive on time to a wedding in the "city of winged men." A museum holding the greatest treasures of human history is safeguarded by an atomic bomb. A man sacrifices himself for a beautiful woman he met just once. A small child, desperate to believe in fairy tales, decides to put their power to the test. An inner voice calls us back to the greatness we left behind. In this imaginative, insightful, and heartfelt collection of short stories, J Rainsnow, author of the Rainsnow Books, writes for our minds, our souls, and our hearts, combining the sharp edge of real life with the spirit of fantasy, and the New Age.
Author: Stephen T. Asma
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-06-21
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 022622533X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An ambitious and exciting book about creativity . . . chart[s] new territory.” —Science Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases—all on the fly. Or a comedy troupe riffing on cues from the audience until the whole room erupts with laughter; a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google; or the Einsteins of the world code-cracking the mysteries of nature. Maybe it’s simply a child playing with her toys. What do all of these activities share? With wisdom, humor, and joy, philosopher Stephen T. Asma answers that question: imagination. And from there he takes us on an extraordinary tour of the human creative spirit. Guided by neuroscience, animal behavior, evolution, philosophy, and psychology, Asma burrows deep into the human psyche to look at the enigmatic, powerful engine that is our improvisational creativity—the source, he argues, of our remarkable imaginational capacity. How, he asks, can a story evoke a whole world inside us? How are we able to rehearse a skill, a speech, or even an entire scenario simply by thinking about it? How does creativity go beyond experience and help us make something completely new? And how does our moral imagination help us sculpt a better society? As he shows, we live in a world that is only partly happening in reality. Huge swaths of our cognitive experiences are made up by “what-ifs,” “almosts,” and “maybes,” an imagined terrain that churns out one of the most overlooked but necessary resources for our flourishing: possibilities. Considering everything from how imagination works in our physical bodies to the ways we make images, from the mechanics of language and our ability to tell stories to the creative composition of self-consciousness, Asma expands our personal and day-to-day forms of imagination into a grand scale: as one of the decisive evolutionary forces that has guided human development from the Paleolithic era to today. The result is an inspiring look at the rich relationships among improvisation, imagination, and culture, and a privileged glimpse into the unique nature of our evolved minds.
Author: Howard F. Stein
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780761837459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInsight and Imagination explores the primacy of the self in organizational research, consulting, and management / leadership. Contesting the radical dichotomy between "objective" and "subjective" understanding, and the devaluation of the latter, Professor Howard F. Stein argues that the imagination of the observer, informed by his or her unconscious, can lead to a greater understanding of the psychological reality of the workplace and in turn to better informed problem solving. Insight emerges from the disciplined use of the imagination rather than its repudiation. The book brings countertransference to center stage as a tool for understanding the emotional experience of organizational life and for formulating interventions. One often neglected use of the imagination is the capacity to not have to know beforehand what one needs to learn--what poet John Keats called "negative capability." Insight and Imagination proposes the use of the humanities as a means of expanding and deepening one's access to the inner life of organizations. The author draws from the art created by others and from his own poetry written and often used during an organizational consultation. Among the specific contexts discussed in this book are the experience of organizational downsizing; helping organizations to grieve after change and loss; recognizing "red herrings" in organizational decision making; the language of organizational change; recognizing hidden agendas in meetings; and reflective practice in organizational life.
Author: J.E. Foughner
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1646203828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis adventure will take you from my humble beginnings, to what I believe to be God’s greatest gift, a young child, born with the unrestrained pursuit for knowledge and truth. The journey begins with our mutual discovery of the ability to create original and wondrous fairy tale stories, without the benefit of a typical storybook or any other reference except our own vision and resourceful imagination. In this book, you will be introduced to new characters like Captain Cloud, Cloud Leader, Sparkle, Little Puff, and the rest of the IMAGINE THAT gang. These characters will light the spark of imagination in you and your child so you can create your own adventures, just like my daughter and I did. Along the way, I will explain the processes that will help you open up the infinite possibilities of your own stories. Believe me when I tell you there is nothing more precious and special than hearing a child create their own worlds of fantastic and magical characters! Enjoy!