Kotkin, Joel. The City: A Global History. Oxford: Phoenix, 2006.
Kroeber, A. L. Configurations of Culture Growth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944.
Landry, Charles. The Creative City: A Toolkit For Urban Innovators. London: Earthscan Publications, 2000.
Landucci, Luca. A Florentine Diary, 1450 to 1516. Florence: Arno Press, 1969.
Lau, Sing et. al., eds. Creativity: When East Meets West. Singapore: World Scientific, 2004.
Levey, Michael: Florence: A Portrait. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Lopez, Robert S. "Hard Times and Investment in Culture," in The Renaissance: Six Essays. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953.
Lubart, Todd I., and Robert J. Sternberg. Defying The Crowd: Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Lucas-Dubreton, Jean. Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
McCarthy, Mary. The Stones of Florence. New York: Harcourt, 1963.
McClelland, David C. The Achieving Society. New York: The Free Press, 1967.
McMahon, Darrin. Divine Fury: A History of Genius. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Mitra, Peary Chand. A Biographical Sketch of David Hare. Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., 1877.
Morris, Edmund. Beethoven: The Universal Composer. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Mote, F. W. Imperial China 900–1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, 1961.
Murray, Charles. Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Murray, Penelope, ed. Genius: History of an Idea. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991.
Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities (Vol. 1). New York: Vintage, 1996.
Nicholl, Charles. Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Nuland, Sherwin B. Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Ochse, R. Before the Gates of Excellence. The Determinants of Creative Genius. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1989.
Parsons, Nicholas T. Vienna: A Cultural and Literary History. Oxford: Signal Books, 2008.
Paulus, Paul B., and Bernard A. Nijstad, eds. Group Creativity: Innovation Through Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Plumb, J. H. The Italian Renaissance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Rao, Arun. A History of Silicon Valley: The Greatest Creation of Wealth in the History of the Planet. Palo Alto, CA: Omniware Group, 2013.
Repcheck, Jack. The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Richards, Ruth, ed. Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007.
Roberts, Royston M. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
