The Arts and the Creation of Mind by Elliot W. Eisner, Ph.D., Yale University Press, 2004. Explores the theory that arts programs give students the ability to develop complex, subtle aspects of the mind. 0300105118
       
A Whole New Mind - Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink, Riverhead Trade, 2006. Argues that right-brain qualities - a sense of design, inventiveness, empathy and big-picture thinking - will dominate the needs of future economies.