Elastic : flexible thinking in a constantly changing world (Record no. 49212)
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| fixed length control field | 02762 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780241335192 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 116 |
| Item number | MLO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mlodinow, Leonard |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Elastic : flexible thinking in a constantly changing world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Allen Lane Publishing |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | ix,252p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Introduction 3<br/>The Demands of Change <br/>Rising Above the Nematode <br/>Onward <br/>Part I Confronting change<br/>1 The Joy of Change 15<br/>The Peril and the Promise <br/>The Myth of Change Aversion <br/>Our Exploratory Drive <br/>Personal R&D and the Neophilia Scale<br/>Part II How we think 31<br/>2 What Is Thought? <br/>Peeking Inside the Skull <br/>What Qualifies as Thought <br/>Becoming Mindful <br/>The Laws of Thought <br/>The Non-Algorithmic Elastic Brain<br/>3 Why We Think 48<br/>Desire and Obsession <br/>When Thought Goes Unrewarded <br/>Choice Overload <br/>How Good Feelings Happen <br/>The Rewards of Art <br/>Attention Deficit, Elasticity Surplus <br/>The Pleasure of Finding<br/>Things Out<br/>4 The World Inside Your Brain 72<br/>How Brains Represent the World <br/>How Brains Create Meaning <br/>The Bottom-up Brilliance of Ants <br/>Your Brain's Hierarchy<br/>An Intellectual Adventure<br/>Part Ill Where new ideas come from <br/>5 The Power of Your Point of View 91<br/>A Paradigm Shift in Popcorn <br/>The Structure of Personal Revolutions <br/>Reimagining Our Frames of Thought <br/>The Dog-and-Bone Problem <br/>How Mathematicians Think <br/>The Influence of Culture<br/>6 Thinking When You're Not Thinking 108<br/>Nature's Plan B <br/>The Dark Energy of the Brain <br/>The Symphonies in Idle Minds <br/>Smarts by Association<br/>The Importance of Being Aimless<br/> 7 The Origin of Insight 128<br/> When the Unimaginable Becomes the Self-Evident<br/>Splitting the Brain <br/>The Connection Between Language and Problem-Solving <br/>The Trial of the Hemispheres <br/>The Lessons of CRAP <br/>Deconstructing the Insight<br/>Process<br/>Zen and the Art of Ideas<br/>Part IV Liberating your brain<br/>8 How Thought Freezes Over 153<br/>Building Lives and Candleholders <br/>The Momentum of Thought<br/>When Thought Freezes Over <br/>Destructive Doctrine <br/>Handicapping the Expert Brain <br/>The Benefits of Discord<br/>9 Mental Blocks and Idea Filters 172<br/>When Believing Means Not Seeing <br/>Thinking Outside the Box<br/>Our Idea-Filtering System <br/>Long Live the Sophomoric<br/>10 The Good, the Mad, and the Odd 188<br/>It's a Mad, Mad World <br/>Measuring Doses of Madness <br/>Elastic Personalities, from the Arts to Science <br/>The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Inside<br/>11 Liberation 200<br/>Let's Go Get Stoned <br/>In Wine There Is Truth; Also in Vodka <br/>The Silver Lining of Fatigue <br/>Don't Worry, Be Happy <br/>Where There's a Will <br/>Survival of the Elastic <br/>Acknowledgments 223<br/>Notes 225<br/>Index 241 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 60109 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 19/09/2018 | Astha Book Agency | 559.00 | 2 | 116 MLO | 019238 | 08/04/2024 | 05/02/2024 | 699.00 | 04/05/2018 | Book |