I second this.

This book is the textbook for my 'Heuristic Problem Solving' course @ NYU this semester. I'm normally not one to touch my textbooks, but over Thanksgiving break I decided to crack it open - suddenly I was 200 pages deep into it.

(Check out what we do in the course at http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall10/G22.2965-001/index.html )