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

The Art of Problem Solving (Ackoff)

The Back of the Napkin (Roam, 2008)

Breakthrough Creativity (Levesque)

The Courage to Create (Rollo May)

Cracking Creativity (Michalko)

Creating Minds (Gardner)

Creative Problem-Solving (Dombroski)

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

Edison on Innovation (Axelrod, 2008)

Elements (Fritz, 2007)

Engineering of Creativity (Savransky, 2000)

Explaining Creativity (Sawyer)

Heuristic Problem Solving (Simon, Newell, 1958)

How to Get Ideas (Foster, 2007)

How To Solve It (George Polya)

How to Think Like Einstein (Thorpe, 2000)

How To Solve It: Modern Heuristics (Michalewicz - Fogel)

Innovate Like Edison (Gelb, Caldicott)

The Innovator's Toolkit (Katz, 2009)

The Path of Least Resistance (Fritz, 1989)

Problem Solving 101 (Watanabe, 2009)

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving (Fogler, LeBlanc)

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

A Technique for Producing Ideas (Young)

Techniques of Problem Solving (Kumar, 2008)

Thinkertoys (Michalko)

Thinking Creatively (Boulden)

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

Your Life as Art (Fritz, 2003)

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