Is imagination a muscle? A hallmark book seeks to teach readers the ways of the creative mind. For its writer, imaginative genius is something any of us can have — if only we train hard enough.
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Glossary
Subversive - Seeking to disrupt a long established system.
Titan - A family of giants in Greek mythology, used today to describe a person or thing that is very strong or important.
Babylonians - An ancient Akkadian-speaking state located in southern Mesopotamia. It was south of present-day Baghdad, Iraq.
Yahweh - The Hebrew word for the self-revealed name of God in the Old Testament.
Hubris - Arrogance. In Greek tragedy, hubris is the key flaw that brings disaster to humans.
Antiquity - The ancient past, especially before the Middle Ages.
Enlightenment - An intellectual movement of the eighteenth Century that ruthlessly criticised religion, traditions and inherited privilege.
Superfluous - Unnecessary, or more than enough.
Descartes - René Descartes was a 17th Century French philosopher, scientist and mathematician.
Egalitarian - Believing that everybody deserves equal rights and opportunities.
Assiduous - Being careful and persevering.