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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The meaning of things The meaning of things Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey o… OL10550655W
What Are You Optimistic About? What Are You Optimistic About? Robert Shapiro,Lisa Randall,John McCarthy,Andrew Brown,Douglas Rushkoff,Richard Dawkins,Freeman J. Dyson,Jared Diamond,Brian Greene,Martin Rees,Paul J. Steinhardt,Martin Elias Pete Seligman,John Horgan,J. Craig Venter,Alexander Vilenkin,Charles Seife,Geoffrey Miller,Marcelo Gleiser,Michael Shermer,Steven Pinker,Lawrence Maxwell Krauss,Anton Zeilinger,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Daniel C. Dennett,John Brockman,Karl Sabbagh,Clay Shirky,Gino Segrè,Lee Smolin,Carlo Rovelli,Leonard Susskind,Sam Harris,Max Tegmark,Chris Anderson,Jerry Adler,Frank Wilczek The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge … OL2790329W
Creativity Creativity Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the … OL506563W