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Author: Howard Gardner

*Creating Minds: an Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi* uses seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the internal patterns, and the environments and circumstances, that drive the creative process.

First publish date: 1993

Authors: Howard Gardner

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