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  • Domain Specificity of Creativity

    by John Baer ...
    Series series Explorations in Creativity Research
    Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • There's No Such Thing as Creativity

    How Plato and 20th Century Psychology Have Misled Us

    by John Baer ...
    Series series Elements in Creativity and Imagination
    Most people (including creativity researchers) act as if they believe that creativity is not simply a useful category or label but a real thing with its own essence (just as Plato would argue that an ideal triangle has an essence that is shared with all actual triangles). Most people (including creativity researchers) also believe that there is a set of general creativity-relevant skills that can ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Creativity and Divergent Thinking

    A Task-Specific Approach

    by John Baer ...
    Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domain-transcending skills -- including several new studies reported in this book -- the appeal of such general ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Creativity and Humor

    by Sarah R. Luria, John Baer, James C. Kaufman ...
    Series series Explorations in Creativity Research
    Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor. The book's chapters speak to the wide reach of creativity and humor with different topics, such as play, culture, work, education, therapy, and social justice covered. As creativity and humor are individual traits and abilities that have each been studied in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

    by Ronald A. Beghetto, James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to today’s teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students’ creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • On the Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics

    Twenty-five Years of Keystone Reporting

    by John M. Baer ...
    Enjoy a fun look at behind-the-scenes politics and personalities in the history of Harrisburg and the Keystone State.Pennsylvania, first home of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has a tradition of political progress. However, along with the good, the political playground of Pennsylvania has also seen the brazenly bad behavior of its political leaders. For over twenty-five ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will

    Edited by John Baer, James C. Kaufman, Roy F. Baumeister ...
    Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a sense of free will have evolved? These are a few of the questions this book attempts to answer. People generally act as though they ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Introductory Economics

    Concepts, Capitalism, and Controversies

    by John Wilbur Baer ...
    Introductory Economics is written for the curious reader who is trying to follow the often-contradictory economic explanations found in many public controversies. The book uses very few of the mathematical formulas and graphs found in most economic textbooks. The book approaches the science or discipline of economics through concepts frowned in related disciplines. Topics covered are concepts from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, Vlad P. Glăveanu, John Baer ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Creativity is of rising interest to scholars and laypeople alike. Creativity in the arts, however, is very different from creativity in science, business, sports, cooking, or teaching. This book brings together top experts in the field from around the world to discuss creativity across many different domains. Each chapter includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential measures, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences
    This book explores the development of cognitive skills related to reasoning and creativity, two strands that can intertwine to work together at times but may also be at odds. Spontaneity and freedom from constraint, characteristic of the thinking of young children, may be essential to creativity, which has prompted many to question how much we lose as we progress through childhood. Research and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Creativity Across Domains

    Faces of the Muse

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of conceptualizing and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Blow the House Down

    A Novel

    by Robert Baer ...
    Narrated by John Rubinstein ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11.Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect—an Iranian math genius turned terrorist—the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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