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The writer of the New York Times Magazine' s popular "Who Made That?" column explains how better ideas enter the world, revealing the fabled "ah-a" moment to be the result of a series of steps anyone can apply to solve the problems we encounter in everyday life.
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An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who
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Inventors are people who come up with new ideas--and then turn those ideas into reality. An invention can also make an existing process faster, less expensive, stronger, or otherwise better. Women have traditionally been underrepresented amongst the ranks of inventors, but that has changed in recent years. Become an inventor is a great option for those who are highly imaginative and creative, like solving problems, and want to make the world a better...
10) Young Tom Edison
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The teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge.
11) The rise of the creative class: and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life
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Gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today -- and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.