A story of time travel. While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space
The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap - consciously and deliberately - to past or future, possible or impossible, abstract or concrete scenarios and situations. In this book, Radu Bogdan examines t…
"Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well a…
"Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well a…
The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginitiveness, and criticism of the arts ... The first half explains the role imaginitiveness plays in criticism. To do this, Grant answers three questions that are of interest in their own right. First, what are the aims of cri…
'The Critical Imagination' explores metaphor, imaginativeness and criticism of the arts. James Grant critically examines the idea that art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. He explains the role imaginativeness plays in criticism, and goes on to…
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, "Very Good Lives" offers J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questio…
Despite more than half a century of psychological research on creativity we are still far from a clear understanding of the creative process, its antecedents and consequences and, most of all, the ways in which we can effectively support creativity. This is primarily due to a na…
Timothy Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from conventional moral theory. He asks 'how are we to know what to do?', and answers 'by developing our moral imaginations' - a key part of human excellence, which plays many roles in o…
"An interpretation of the philosophy of J.G. Fichte. Examines the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination"--Provided by publisher.
Rushdie opererer også i denne fortælling i et univers, der spænder fra 1001 Nats eventyr til de moderne mytologier inden for genrer som science fiction og fantasy. Romanen beretter om samspil og spændinger mellem den arabiske mytologis djinner og mennesket frem og tilbage i tide…
