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Found 10 from your keywords: subject="Problem solving."
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Innovating :a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problem…
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Perez-Breva, Luis,

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach --…

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9780262336680
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1 online resource (xxv, 396 pages) :illustrations
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The nature of insight
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Sternberg, Robert J.Davidson, Janet E.

"A Bradford book."The Nature of Insight brings together diverse perspectives, including recent theories and discoveries, to examine the nature and origins of insightful thinking, as well as the history of theory and research on the topic and the methods used to study it. There are chapters by the leading experts in this field, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald A. Finke, Howard E. Gruber…

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9780262284370
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1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages) :illustrations
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Street-fighting mathematics The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic P…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with…

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1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) : illustrations
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Street-fighting mathematics The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic P…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with…

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Streetlights and shadows :searching for the keys to adaptive decision making
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Klein, Gary A.

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in prac…

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9780262259019
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1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Cognitive Science in Medicine: Biomedical Modeling
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Evans, David A.Patel, Vimla L.

Cognitive Science in Medicine presents current research that focuses on issues and results in applying techniques from cognitive science to problems in biomedicine. "A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262315791
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1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) :illustrations
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The art of insight in science and engineering :mastering complexity
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262325233
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1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) :illustrations
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Interdisciplinarity in the making :models and methods in frontier science
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Nersessian, Nancy J.,

A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems u…

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9780262372275
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1 online resource (392 pages).
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Design strategy :challenges in wicked problem territory
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Roberts, Nancy Charlotte,

"Problems without apparent solutions plague the contemporary world. Roberts proposes a new "Design Strategy" to approach these wicked problems and lays out its history and evolution, its process, principles, mindsets, skillsets and toolkits that inform and guide design practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262376587
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Street-fighting mathematics :the art of educated guessing and opportunistic p…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with…

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9780262265881
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1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) :illustrations
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