Forks, Phonographs, and Hot Air Balloons: A Field Guide to Inventive Thinking

Using everyday objects most of us take for granted--from forks and Velcro to safety pins and doorknobs--noted cognitive psychologist Robert Weber takes a fascinating look at how our world of inventions came into being, and how the mind's problem-solving abilities gave them the forms they have...

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Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology 1st Edition

Is invention really "99 percent" perspiration and "one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well equipped to address this question...

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The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, Spirit

The Created Self takes readers to as-yet-unexplored regions in the modern psyche’s preoccupation with self-invention... Using the insights of William James and evolutionary psychology as a springboard, Robert Weber explores the nature and meaning of our shifting selves...

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Poems from the Rainbow's Bow

Come to see imagination untamed and running loose in the wild, beautiful, tragic forests of the human heart and mind. Poems from the Rainbow's Bow offers compelling and provocative openings for a poetry book club discussion, or for any gathering...

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