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Creativity/ Problem Solving Resources
 
If you are stuck and cannot make any progress with the problems you are trying to solve, reading one of these books might help to unstick you.

The Art of Problem Solving (Ackoff, 1978)

The Back of the Napkin (Roam, 2008)

Breakthrough Creativity (Levesque, 2001)

The Courage to Create (May, 1994)

Cracking Creativity (Michalko, 2001)

Creating Minds (Gardner, 1993)

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Tharp, 2003)

Creative Problem-Solving (Dombroski, 2000)

The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance (Maisel, 2000)

Creativity - Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996)

Creativity for Life (Maisel, 2007)

Edison on Innovation (Axelrod, 2008)

Elements (Fritz, 2007)

Engineering of Creativity (Savransky, 2000)

Explaining Creativity (Sawyer, 2006)

General Problem Solver (external site)

Getting Unstuck (Browne, 2002)

Heuristic Problem Solving (Simon, Newell, 1958)

How to Be, Do, or Have Anything (Boldt, 2001)

How to Get Ideas (Foster, 2007)

How To Solve It (Polya, 1973)

How to Think Like Einstein (Thorpe, 2000)

How To Solve It: Modern Heuristics (Michalewicz, Fogel, 2004)

Innovate Like Edison (Gelb, Caldicott, 2008)

The Innovation Algorithm (Altshuller, 1999)

The Innovator's Toolkit (Katz, 2009)

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (de Bono, 1970, 1973)

The Path of Least Resistance (Fritz, 1989)

The Power of Thinking Differently (Galindo, 2010)

Problem Solving 101 (Watanabe, 2009)

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving (Fogler, LeBlanc, 1995)

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, second edition (Fogler, LeBlanc, 2007)

A Technique for Producing Ideas (Young, 2003)

Techniques of Problem Solving (Kumar, 2008)

Thinkertoys (Michalko, 2006)

Thinking Creatively (Boulden, 2002)

TRIZ

A Whack on the Side of the Head (von Oech, 2008)

You Unstuck (Gill, 2009)

Your Life as Art (Fritz, 2003)

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