Imagination and experimentation can translate your erotic fantasies into sexual realities heightened by newly plumbed passion, as this handsome illustrated guide fully demonstrates in its aim to lead you and your partner to a more rewarding love life. After introducing couples to the secrets of the ancient Japanese, Chinese, Indians, and Arabians in the art of making love, this lucidly written volume offers numerous love games that enable partners to employ age-old but extraordinarily stimulating sexual techniques and to explore new erotic possibilities in their relationships. While these games encourage partners to tantalize and tease each other with props like a camera or a pack of cards, or with anything from food to feathers, the next section -- on role playing -- provides a series of scenarios that turn such childhood pastimes as playing doctor, nurse, boss, or teacher into romps through adult sensuality. Finally, a presentation of eighteen seductive situations shows how you can take passion to your patio, let loose inhibitions in the toolshed, or frolic alfresco. Together, the suggestions and scenarios in Creative Loveplay not only help partners to acknowledge, identify, and communicate to each other their needs and desires, but also provide ample ways to successfully and happily implement exciting variations on this thing called lovemaking.

An Anthology of essays on various aspects of creativity written by 22 professional creativity coaches from the US, Canada, and New Zealand.

This fascinating and highly readable book, illustrated with many drawings by the author, uses semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, Marxist theory, and sociological theory to analyze creativity. It also includes short “inserts” by a communications scholar, a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a semiotician, a humor scholar, and a media scholar offering their perspectives on the subject. The book relates creativity to humor, deals with the way Freud’s and Marx’s ideas can be applied to humor, and discusses many aspects of everyday life such as smart speakers, TikTok, hairstyles, bagels, and personal taste. It argues that creativity is not limited to a small number of people in the arts, but that everyone is, to varying degrees, creative. An unusual feature of the book is that it offers notes from the author’s journal to show his thinking processes in writing the book.

The New Synthesis consists of 1) a new understanding of heritability, 2) a new interpretation and understanding of the broad heritability coefficient, 3) a new understanding of the human instincts, 4) a new understanding of normal and abnormal behavior, 5) a new interpretation and understanding of intellect and free will, 6) a new understanding of the behavior of genuinely identical MZA twins in different genuine free-choice environments, and 7) a new list of the human instincts.

Distinguished clinicians demonstrate how play and creativity have everything to do with the deepest healing, growth, and personal transformation. Through play, as children, we learn the rules and relationships of culture and expand our tolerance of emotions—areas of life "training" that overlap with psychotherapy. Here leading writers illuminate what play and creativity mean for the healing process at any stage of life. Contributors include: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Daniel J. Siegel, Marion Solomon, Aldrich Chan, Allan Schore, Terry Marks-Tarlow, Pat Ogden, Louis Cozolino, Theresa Kestly, Jaak Panksepp, Stuart Brown, Madelyn Eberly, Zoe Galvez, Betsy Crouch, Bonnie Goldstein, and Steve Gross.