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1	Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusio more books like this by Michael Shermer add to wishlist The publisher of Skeptic magazine argues that the search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment often results in the embracing of extraordinary claims and controversial ideas, discussing a variety of pseudoscientific ideas and superstitions that promote spiritual beliefs. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.66! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Creationists: Selected Essays 1993-2006 more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow (Read by) add to wishlist Through the eyes of a great American writer, readers will consider the secrets of literary creativity and whether they're different for science or slapstick comedy. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $6.82! \| first editions \| SVS
3	On Creativity more books like this by David Bohm, Lee Nichol (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of essays by Bohm, which are all directly related to the nature of creativity - primarily the latent creativity in the human mind, but also the creativity in nature and the universe at large as well. A significant portion of the material draws overtly from Bohm's perceptions as a practising scientist - his notions of what ... see all copies from $6.10! new only from $13.28! \| SVS
4	Science, Order and Creativity more books like this by David Bohm, F. David Peat add to wishlist In this thought-provoking new book, David Bohm, one of today's most foremost scientific thinkers, and David Peat, well-known science writer, contend that science has lost its bearings over the last century and become a narrow, abstracted and fragmented way of approaching nature and reality. The authors propose a return to greater creativity and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.37! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences more books like this by Brewster Ghiselin (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. see all copies from $2.92! new only from $24.43! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time more books like this by Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword by) add to wishlist This work presents a down-to-earth and sometimes funny survey of a range of contemporary irrationalisms, and explains their empirical and logical flaws. It tackles a variety of topics including creationism, Holocaust denial, race and IQ, cults and alien abductions, and the author looks at the research behind the claims and discredits the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| first editions
7	Science Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning more books like this by Page Keeley add to wishlist This essential resource provides primary and secondary teachers with 75 user-friendly strategies for using formative assessment to enhance science teaching and learning. The author addresses how to balance opportunity to learn with assessment of learning and describes a rich repertoire of purposeful methods that weave assessment throughout ... see all copies from $24.64! new only from $24.64! \| SVS
8	Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism more books like this by Susan Haack add to wishlist Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of scientism and cynicism, noted philosopher Susan ... see all copies from $5.98! new only from $9.56! \| SVS
9	Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist more books like this by Dean Keith Simonton add to wishlist Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians - and even scientists themselves - have often tried to decipher the basis for creativity in science. Some have attributed creativity to a special logic, the so-called scientific method, whereas others have pointed to the inspirations of genius or to the inevitable workings of the zeitgeist. ... see all copies from $12.70! new only from $24.45! \| SVS
10	A Passion for Science more books like this by Lewis Wolpert (Editor), Alison Richards (Editor) add to wishlist This book comprises of a collection of conversations with Professor Lewis Wolpert, in which scientists from all different fields, ranging from cosmology to psychology, give insights into their lives in the profession. In a series of non-technical accounts, science is revealed as human enterprise with incidents and personal characteristics, such as ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier (P) more books like this by Max F Perutz, Max Perutz add to wishlist In this collection of essays, protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge. see all copies from $7.42! new only from $16.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future more books like this by Professor Helga Nowotny, Mitch Cohen (Translator) add to wishlist Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of untrammeled curiosity; innovation, however, responds to the needs and desires of society. Innovation, argues influential ... see all copies from $22.05! new only from $22.05! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Leonardo Da Vinci in His Own Words more books like this by William Wray add to wishlist This book captures the beauty and genius of Leonardo da Vinci's writings, which are accompanied by his evocative sketches and drawings. Discover the farsightedness and brilliance of the mind that brought us some of the greatest artwork and most incredible inventions from the Mona Lisa to the hot air balloon. The text is concentrated on four themes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Kid Who Named Pluto: And the Stories of Other Extraordinary Young People in Science more books like this by Marc McCutcheon, Jon Cannell (Illustrator) add to wishlist A collection of profiles of children and young adults whose scientific inventions made an impact on the world, including Louis Braille who discovered a way for the blind to read and write. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Why People Believe Weird Things more books like this by Michael Shermer add to wishlist A survey of a range of irrationalisms, with explanations of their empirical and logical flaws. The book describes the differences between science and pseudo-science, and goes on to describe and critique popular contemporary irrationalisms, UFOs, Holocaust denial and Satanic cult conspiracies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Essential David Bohm more books like this by David Bohm, Lee Nichol (Editor) add to wishlist There are few scientists of the twentieth century whose life's work has created more excitement and controversy than that of physicist David Bohm (1917-1992). Exploring the philosophical implication of both physics and consciousness, Bohm's penchant for questioning scientific and social orthodoxy was the expression of a rare and maverick ... see all copies from $12.60! new only from $23.27! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes more books like this by Patrick Langley, Gary L Bradshaw, Herbert A Simon add to wishlist Scientific Discovery examines the nature of scientific research; reviews the arguments for and against a normative theory of discovery; describes the evolution of the BACON programs, which discover quantitative empirical laws and invent new concepts; presents programs that discover laws in qualitative and quantitative data; and ties the results ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.11! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity more books like this by Max F Perutz add to wishlist In this collection of essays, Nobel Prize-winning protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just a few facts but cause for reflection and revelation, as is a painting or poem. This work includes detective stories, tales of conflict and battle, a woman's love affair ... see all copies from $8.58! new only from $23.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art more books like this by Arthur I Miller add to wishlist How can knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? "Insights of Genius" shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible. "Insights of Genius", first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty more books like this by James H Austin add to wishlist This text examines the role of chance in the creative process. The author tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions reached shed light on the creative process in any field. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation more books like this by John J Clement add to wishlist How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the ... see all copies from $62.52! new only from $62.52! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Fortune or Failure: Missed Opportunities and Chance Discoveries more books like this by Alexander Kohn add to wishlist From the author of the successful "False Prophets" this book brings together stories from a wide range of scientific disciplines to provide an account of some of the greatest breakthroughs in science. It offers an examination of the often neglected role of chance in discovery. The book illuminates some of the most famous discoveries from the ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $14.55! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science more books like this by Dean Keith Simonton add to wishlist Simonton develops a theory of scientific genius, using Donald Campbell's 'blind variation and selective retention' model of creativity as his starting point, and expands it into his own 'chance-configuration' theory. He then uses this to account for key aspects of pathbreaking science: the mental processes and behaviors behind the creative act, ... see all copies from $16.75! new only from $29.49! \| first editions
24 view cover	Make Your Mark in Science: Creativity, Presenting, Publishing, and Patents, a Guide for Young Scientists more books like this by Claus Ascheron, Angela Kickuth add to wishlist This excellent guide tells graduate students and other young scientists and engineers everything they need to know to help them work creatively and communicate their achievements in oral presentations and written publications. Also addressing the topics of scientific ethics, electronic publishing, and patents, this concise but comprehensive book ... see all copies from $3.51! new only from $17.32! \| SVS
25 view cover	Science, Order and Creativity Second Edition more books like this by David Bohm, F David Peat add to wishlist In "Science, Order and Creativity", David Bohm and F. David Peat argue that science has lost its way in recent years and needs to go beyond a narrow and fragmented view of nature and embrace a wider holistic view that restores the importance of creativity and communication for all humanity - not just scientists. The result of a close collaboration ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $27.31! \| SVS

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