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" Sudden genius? : "
Andrew Robinson
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BL
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711828
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b534017
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| Main Entry
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Robinson, Andrew,1957-
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Sudden genius? : : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs /\ Andrew Robinson
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010
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xxxv, 371 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill., ports. ;; 24 cm
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0199569959 (hbk.)
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: 9780199569953 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-358) and index
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| Contents
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Meetings with remarkable creators -- The science and art of breakthoughs. Ingredients of creativity -- Genius and talent: reality or myth? -- Intelligence is not enough -- Strangers to ourselves -- Blue remembered Wednesdays -- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- Ten breakthroughs in art and science. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper -- Christopher Wren: St Paul's Cathedral -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The marriage of Figaro -- Jean-François Champollion: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Charles Darwin: Evolution by natural selection -- Marie Curie: Discovery of radium -- Albert Einstein: Special relativity -- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway -- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment -- Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali -- Patterns of genius. Family matters -- Professor of the little finger -- Creative science versus artistic creation -- Is there a creative personality? -- Reputation, fame, and genius -- The 'ten-year rule' -- Genius and us
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Leonardo,1452-1519
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Cartier-Bresson, Henri,1908-2004
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Champollion, Jean-François,1790-1832
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Curie, Marie,1867-1934
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Darwin, Charles,1809-1882
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Einstein, Albert,1879-1955
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791
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Ray, Satyajit,1921-1992
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Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941
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Wren, Christopher,1632-1723
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Creative ability
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Gifted persons
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Inspiration
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153.980922
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BF408.R628 2010
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Gradual path to creative breakthroughs
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