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Neuroscience of creativity /

Table of Contents: “…Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P. …”
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Princess Noire the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Called for and delivered : June 1898-February 1933 -- We knew she was a genius : March 1933-August 1941 -- Miss Mazzy : September 1941-August 1947 -- We have launched, where shall we anchor? …”
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Princess Noire the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Called for and delivered : June 1898-February 1933 -- We knew she was a genius : March 1933-August 1941 -- Miss Mazzy : September 1941-August 1947 -- We have launched, where shall we anchor? …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Classical Seattle : maestros, impresarios, virtuosi, and other music makers / by Bargreen, Melinda, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Stroum : the mover and shaker ; Deborah (Card) Rutter : the power behind the podium ; Sam and Gladys Rubinstein : the key advisors ; Buster and Nancy Alvord : the practical donors ; Jerry and Lenore Hanauer : the imaginative operaphiles ; John and Laurel Nesholm : the activists for the arts ; Charles Simonyi : the genius philanthropist ; Jack and Becky Benaroya : the ultimate benefactors.…”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Classical Seattle : maestros, impresarios, virtuosi, and other music makers / by Bargreen, Melinda, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Stroum : the mover and shaker ; Deborah (Card) Rutter : the power behind the podium ; Sam and Gladys Rubinstein : the key advisors ; Buster and Nancy Alvord : the practical donors ; Jerry and Lenore Hanauer : the imaginative operaphiles ; John and Laurel Nesholm : the activists for the arts ; Charles Simonyi : the genius philanthropist ; Jack and Becky Benaroya : the ultimate benefactors.…”
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This Gaming Life : Travels in Three Cities / by Rossignol, Jim, 1978-

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This Gaming Life : Travels in Three Cities / by Rossignol, Jim, 1978-

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Madness and Creativity / by Ulanov, Ann Belford

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Reality in the Name of God, or, Divine Insistence: An Essay on Creation, Infinity, and the Ontological Implications of Kabbalah / by Horwitz, Noah

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Madness and Creativity / by Ulanov, Ann Belford

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Reality in the Name of God, or, Divine Insistence: An Essay on Creation, Infinity, and the Ontological Implications of Kabbalah / by Horwitz, Noah

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 / by Holcombe, Alec

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 / by Holcombe, Alec

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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga / by Baum, Robert Craig

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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga / by Baum, Robert Craig

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