The Imagination Challenge
The Imagination Challenge

Author: Alexander Manu

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2006-12-22

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0132705044

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Companies constantly present technological developments-new materials, new mechanisms, and new ways to enhance existing products and services. Yet these seldom lead to truly new ideas. Why? Humans are all born with creative instincts, but in the interest of efficient and predictable productivity, institutions such as schools and businesses routinely hinder those impulses. The most innovative products and services, author Alexander Manu argues, arise out of the behaviors of play--the ability to imagine, without limits, the question "What if...?" Manu's engaging and inspiring book offers companies a wealth of practical advice and tactics to unleash their full creative potential and break ahead of the crowd. Manu's provocative, insightful applied methodologies for creating new business opportunities and transformative innovations gain resonance from real-world scenarios and conversations with leading innovators such as MIT's Mitchel Resnick. Readers will learn strategies to: Open their companies' eyes to unseen opportunities Spark the imagination and trigger the potential of product innovation teams Turn inspired ideas into successful products and services. Imagination Challenge is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.

The Imagination Gap
The Imagination Gap

Author: Brian Reich

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1787143066

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The Imagination Gap helps leaders in every sector apply their imagination effectively to explore new, creative approaches to survive and thrive. Examples from a range of industries and settings, from Broadway to Silicon Valley, with simple steps and exercises, help you stop thinking the way you "should" and start making extraordinary things happen.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination
The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination

Author: Anna Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 1108659292

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The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined – what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

Security on the Web
Security on the Web

Author: Marvin Zelkowitz

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0123855101

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This is volume 74 of "Advances in Computers", subtitled "Recent Advances in Software Development". This series, which began in 1960, is the oldest continuously published series of books that has chronicled the ever changing landscape of information technology. Each year three volumes are published, each presenting five to seven chapters describing the latest technology in the use of computers today. In this current volume, we present six chapters that give an update on some of the major issues affecting the development of software today. The six chapters in this volume can be divided into two general categories. The first three deal with the increasing importance of security in the software we write and provide insights into how to increase that security. The three latter chapters look at software development as a whole and provide guidelines in how best to make certain decisions on a project-level basis.

BRAVO Principal!
BRAVO Principal!

Author: Sandra Harris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1317529731

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It is only through effective leadership actions that principals can become outstanding leaders. By building relationships that value all stakeholders—including teachers, students, parents, and community members—your actions will lead to a thriving school. This book provides you with the tools for emphasizing shared purpose, caring, integrity, and honesty so you can Build Relationships with Actions that Value Others. In this updated edition, you’ll find out how to: Establish trusting relationship based on mutual support, respect, and empowerment. Demonstrate cultural responsiveness by embracing diversity and integrating multicultural awareness throughout the curriculum. Employ creative concern-solving strategies and address conflicts with students, parents, and staff. Develop a learning culture to nurture student and teacher achievement. Each chapter concludes with a set of review questions to help you to reflect, evaluate, and improve upon your leadership skills. Filled with suggestions for actions that you can apply today, this book shows you how to become a BRAVO Principal!

English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma
English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma

Author: Lindsay Tandy

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 965

ISBN-13: 151046302X

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Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate® Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Language and Literature course. - Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with in-depth coverage of the key concepts underpinning the new course structure and content - Investigate the three areas of exploration in detail and engage with global issues to help students become flexible, critical readers - Provide a variety of texts with a breadth of reading material and forms from a diverse pool of authors - Engaging activities are provided to test understanding of each topic and develop skills - guiding answers are available to check your responses - Identify opportunities to make connections across the syllabus, with explicit reference to TOK, EE and CAS

Baroque Science
Baroque Science

Author: Ofer Gal

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-07-21

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 022621298X

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Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.

Creative Challenges
Creative Challenges

Author: Tim Lowson

Publisher: Ready-Ed Publications

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1925611515

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Edward de Bono has long been recognised as a ‘guru’ in the area of lateral thinking. It is his contention that the mental activity of ‘creative thinking’ is not just the product of a high level of intelligence. Indeed, as thinking can be seen as a skill, the end result can be affected considerably by the amount of practice that the ‘thinker’ has been exposed to before undertaking the given task. The activities in Creative Challenges have been designed to stretch your students’ understanding and thinking skills. This activity book follows the basic principles of de Bono and Dalton in concentrating on eight processes or skills which foster an increased ability to think creatively and divergently. These include: Cognitive abilities – Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration; and Affective abilities – Curiosity – Complexity, Risk Taking and lmagination.

Theatre and Encounter
Theatre and Encounter

Author: Roger Grainger

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2014-01-08

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1490717285

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The book examines the various ways in which theatre responds to our psychological needs. It begins with how we present our own personal drama and goes on to look at theatre as the means by which we give events personal and corporate significance. Theatre enables us to overcome our reluctance to face psychological pain and so helps us towards healing, concentrating on its balance of protection and exposureits principal contribution to health and its significance for human relationship.