Outsmart the Unexpected : Grow Your Creativity the Edge-of-your-seat Way

from Ikeren

After reading the introduction I thought this book is on how to handle the unexpected events - a very fascinating topic for me. But this book doesn't teach you how to handle the unforeseen events - actually this is a collection of very short stories showing people finding themselves in unanticipa...

from stacejb

This book was a collection of short stories. Each story ends with the characters in situations and asking what they should do. The situations seemed unrealistic, which I suppose is to be expected since you're encouraged to create creative answers. Still, I couldn't really get into it. I think it ...

from chutchi

This book is a great opportunity to work with a teen program on thinking quickly. I thought of several book talks or teen reading programs (that's the librarian in me) where I used this book to engage students in thinking quickly about tense, crazy situations, and how to best get out of a bad sit...

from angelamariasavage

Outsmart the unexpected Book was a very different kind of book. Most stories in the book show how individual choices affect the whole community. It will definitely be a good book to use in groups or classrooms to entice people to work together in finding solutions and to foster a sense of communi...

from KMT01

I received this from Library Thing to read and review. The concept behind this book is an interesting one. However, I think this is a book that will bet be used by groups. I am not convinced that one person, reading this book will really go through the exercise as the author probably hoped. The s...