IJAHP News and Events: Petrillo/Italian translation of “Creative thinking, problem solving and decision making” International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 548 Vol. 8 Issue 3 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i3.454 ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF “CREATIVE THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING” BY THOMAS SAATY Antonella Petrillo Parthenope University of Naples Department of Mechanical Engineering Italy a.petrillo@unicas.it This book is the Italian translation of “Creative Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making” by Professor Thomas Saaty, originally published in 2001 by RWS Publications. The title of the Italian translation published in November 2016 is “Pensiero Creativo, Problem Solving e Decision Making” and was a collaborative effort of Fabio De Felice, Thomas L. Saaty and Antonella Petrillo and published by Aracne Publisher. We are very grateful to Professor Thomas L. Saaty who gave us the opportunity to work with him on this project. For us it was an inestimable honor, and we are very proud of this recognition. The fundamental premise of this book is that creativity can be taught and learned quite effectively; which might come as a surprise. It may also come as a surprise that intelligence (or the lack of it) does not restrict creativity. The book explores this second premise which has been validated in practice. In fact, creativity only requires enough intelligence to enable one to think a little and to collect one’s ideas in a purposeful manner. One may not be very intelligent, yet be a creative genius. For example, Beethoven was an undeniable genius at music but a sad case at arithmetic. This book is intended to be both challenging and entertaining. It is designed to help readers feel more comfortable with the topic, and more confident of their own creative abilities. It aims to inspire readers to try the presented exercises in creativity, and invites them to laugh, scowl and disagree, and most of all, to explore what may, at first seem like unfamiliar territory. Each of us possesses immense resources, and this book provides an opening to allow them to come forth. http://www.intechopen.com/books/editor/applications-and-theory-of-analytic-hierarchy-process-decision-making-for-strategic-decisions IJAHP News and Events: Petrillo/Italian translation of “Creative thinking, problem solving and decision making” International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 549 Vol. 8 Issue 3 2016 ISSN 1936-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v8i3.454 Link http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854 897472 “Pensiero Creativo, Problem Solving e Decision Making” Translation by Fabio De Felice, Thomas L. Saaty and Antonella Petrillo, ISBN 978-88-548-9747-2, Print ISBN 978-953-51-2560-0, 364 pages http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854897472 http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854897472 http://www.intechopen.com/books/editor/applications-and-theory-of-analytic-hierarchy-process-decision-making-for-strategic-decisions http://www.intechopen.com/books/editor/applications-and-theory-of-analytic-hierarchy-process-decision-making-for-strategic-decisions