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    £68.49

    This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike.

  • by Vlad Petre Glaveanu
    £46.49 - 58.49

    This interplay, examined throughout the book, should be of interest for researchers and practitioners working on mobility, migration, creativity, innovation, cultural diffusion, life course approaches and, more generally, on the possibilities embedded in mobile lives.

  • by Juan A. Roche Cárcel
    £93.99

    This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary.

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    £90.49

    Serendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant to understanding the positive aspects of our daily lives and even human progress in the arts and sciences.

  • - The Beatles and Beyond
    by Paul Thompson & Phillip McIntyre
    £104.49

    This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician.

  • by Dan Harris
    £114.49

    This book offers a socio-cultural examination of contemporary creativity studies. Drawing on multiple case studies of creative relational and creative ecological empirical research, this book integrates a concern for personal, planetary and geo-political collaboration, as an antidote for 'innovation for innovation's sake'.

  • - Innovative Training Programs for School Settings
     
    £47.99

    This book examines the evidence-based interventions that can be used to promote creative thinking skills for children and adolescents in schools. This book provides practical guidance on how the programmes can be applied in the classroom and discusses potential future directions for research and practice for increasing children's creativity.

  • - A Psychosocial Writer's Workbook
    by Zoe Charalambous
    £46.49 - 62.49

    Based on the potential to shift writer identity through creative writing exercises and the common ground that these share with the stance of the Lacanian analyst, the author provides a set of guidelines, exercises and case studies to trace writing fantasy, evidenced in one's creative writing texts and responses about creative writing.

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    £178.99

    This Handbook brings together an international cast of experts to explore the social nature and context of creativity studies, focusing on methodology as a key component in advancing the social study of creativity.

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    £104.49

    This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world.

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    £83.99

    This book covers topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us insight into creative action as a social, material, and cultural process.

  •  
    £178.99

    This Handbook brings together an international cast of experts to explore the social nature and context of creativity studies, focusing on methodology as a key component in advancing the social study of creativity.

  • - Perspectives from Multiple Domains
     
    £114.49

    This highly interdisciplinary edited collection offers valuable insight into the creative process for scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychology, education, and creative studies, as well as for any other readers interested in the creative process.

  • - In Praise of Detours
     
    £114.49

    This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life ¿ usually edited out of traditional research papers ¿ can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the ¿detours¿, can potentially glean important results.The authors introduce the process of ¿writing-sharing-reading-writing¿ as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which ¿accountable¿ research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields.

  • by Helen Owton
    £53.49

    Chapters explore various aspects of poetic inquiry including poetry as data, turning data into poetry, poetry as literature review and poetry as reflective writing.

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    £75.49

    This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world.

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    £257.49

    This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debates.

  • by Monika E. Reuter
    £47.99

    Introducing the first macro-sociological perspective on the concept of creativity this book includes a review of ten domains which have studied creativity. It also explores the results of a six-year on-going research project comparing students' ideas on creativity with employers' and industry professionals' views.

  • by Marcelo Giglio
    £47.99

    Creative Collaboration in Teaching focuses on the question of how best to facilitate creative collaboration among students in the classroom setting-with a focus on music composition and from the perspective of social-cultural psychology.

  • - In Praise of Detours
     
    £83.99

    This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life - usually edited out of traditional research papers - can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the 'detours', can potentially glean important results.The authors introduce the process of 'writing-sharing-reading-writing' as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which 'accountable' research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields.

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    £83.99

    This book explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy. There is a growing interest in the use of the arts in psychotherapy, in part due to an increasing awareness of the limitations in verbal communication and scepticism towards traditional forms of medical treatment.

  • - Perspectives from Social, Cultural and Political Psychology
     
    £124.49

    It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.

  •  
    £68.49

    This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike.

  • - Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society
    by Ruth Richards
    £32.99 - 104.49

    As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of "process", circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity.

  • - Perspectives from Social, Cultural and Political Psychology
     
    £124.49

    It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.

  •  
    £114.49

    This book explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy. There is a growing interest in the use of the arts in psychotherapy, in part due to an increasing awareness of the limitations in verbal communication and scepticism towards traditional forms of medical treatment.

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