The creative spark : how imagination made humans exceptional / Agustín Fuentes.

By:

Fuentes, Agustín, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC, 2017Description: viii, 340 pages : black and white illustrations, charts, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9781101983942 (hc)
1101983949 (hc)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

153.3

LOC classification:

BD 450 F954c 2017

Contents:

Overture: Trumpeting creativity and a new synthesis -- Part one. Sticks and stones: the first creativity -- Creative primates -- The last hominin standing -- Part two. What's for dinner?: how humans got creative -- Let's make a knife -- Killing and eating, etc. -- The beauty of standing in line -- Food security accomplished -- Part three. War and sex: how humans shaped a world -- Creating war (and peace) -- Creative sex -- Part four. The great works: how humans made the universe -- Religious foundations -- Artistic flights -- Scientific architecture -- Coda: The beat of your creative life.

Summary: Overturns widely held misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself and asserts that creativity is what has made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth. --Publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	BD 450 F954c 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000117970

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overture: Trumpeting creativity and a new synthesis --
Part one. Sticks and stones: the first creativity --
Creative primates --
The last hominin standing --
Part two. What's for dinner?: how humans got creative --
Let's make a knife --
Killing and eating, etc. --
The beauty of standing in line --
Food security accomplished --
Part three. War and sex: how humans shaped a world --
Creating war (and peace) --
Creative sex --
Part four. The great works: how humans made the universe --
Religious foundations --
Artistic flights --
Scientific architecture --
Coda: The beat of your creative life.

Overturns widely held misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself and asserts that creativity is what has made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth. --Publisher.

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