Bringing the history of cosmology--from the Babylonians to Newton--to life in a masterly synthesis, Koestler shows how the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in ...

Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of ...

?There is no single definition of creativity. It is as wide-ranging as the people who seek it: writers, painters, musicians, actors — indeed anyone who desires a richer, more ...

A letter-by-letter look at the Greek alphabet portrays diverse aspects of ancient Greek culture and identifies its contribution to modern English

The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist ...

Analyzes the thought processes of creative individuals, suggests a model for intellectual development, and discusses different modes of thinking