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Creative person and the development of creativity

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by Irina Petrova, Irina Leonova, Emanuele Isidori ...

Central to the creative process is fostering specific cognitive and emotional qualities. Open-mindedness, resilience in the face of failure, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation to explore are foundational to creativity. Additionally, our environment plays a pivotal role. Spaces promoting diversity of thought, encouraging risk-taking, and valuing individual expression serve as breeding grounds for ... Read more

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Central to the creative process is fostering specific cognitive and emotional qualities. Open-mindedness, resilience in the face of failure, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation to explore are foundational to creativity. Additionally, our environment plays a pivotal role. Spaces promoting diversity of thought, encouraging risk-taking, and valuing individual expression serve as breeding grounds for
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Discover essential Bulgarian travel phrases through this efficient audio course crafted for adventurous travelers and culture enthusiasts. From exploring Sofia's ancient streets to discovering hidden mountain villages in the Balkans, these focused lessons equip you with exactly what you need to communicate effectively.Each lesson tackles specific real-world situations, delivering ready-to-use ... Read more

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Discover essential Bulgarian travel phrases through this efficient audio course crafted for adventurous travelers and culture enthusiasts. From exploring Sofia's ancient streets to discovering hidden mountain villages in the Balkans, these focused lessons equip you with exactly what you need to communicate effectively.Each lesson tackles specific real-world situations, delivering ready-to-use
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This book argues for the need to rethink governance through the lens of 'resilience as self-governance'. Building on complexity-thinking, it contends that in the context of change and complex life, challenges are most efficiently dealt with, at the source, 'locally', to make 'the global' more responsive and sustainable.Resilience as self-governance is advanced as an overriding framework to explore ... Read more

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This book argues for the need to rethink governance through the lens of 'resilience as self-governance'. Building on complexity-thinking, it contends that in the context of change and complex life, challenges are most efficiently dealt with, at the source, 'locally', to make 'the global' more responsive and sustainable.Resilience as self-governance is advanced as an overriding framework to explore
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening economic conditions and refusing to take measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, has been
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The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

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The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

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Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and
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This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses.- Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of ... Read more

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