Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Inexpensive and crafty home decor! Have it all in this great book. Cool ideas and easy steps to creating amazing objects for your home!

Easy Does It

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#hardcover #nonfiction #ideaflow #business #jeremyutley #perryklebahn #design #creative #leadership #selfhelp

Oregon

The Only Business Metric That Matters

"Teams succeed to the degree that there is a free flow of ideas. Read this book to learn how to bring out the best in others--and in yourself." -- Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The Four and Post Corona

Ideaflow: the number of ideas you or your team can generate in a set amount of time

We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how they're born. Innovation doesn't come from a sprint or a hackathon--it's a result of maximizing ideaflow.
 
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn of Stanford's renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the "d.school") offer a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself or with your team, and quickly determining which are worthy. Drawing upon their combined decades of experience leading Stanford's premier Launchpad accelerator and advising some of the world's most innovative organizations, like Microsoft, Michelin, Keller Williams Realty, and Hyatt, they'll teach you how to:
 
* Overcome dangerous thinking traps
* Find inspiration in unexpected places
* Trick your own brain to be more creative
* Design and deploy affordable experiments
* Fill your innovation pipeline
* Unleash your own creative potential, as well as the potential of others
 
Perhaps you have experienced low ideaflow. Have you been in that quiet conference room, with a half-filled whiteboard, and an unmet business target?. With the proven system in this book, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders will learn how to tap into surprising and valuable ideas on demand and fill the creative pipeline with breakthrough ideas.

Ideaflow

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This is days of fun Two Activity Books to keep your Little ones Busy and Creative and Artistic. Two thick paperback books held  by a hard cover sleeve box. #childrens #hardcover #artistic#creative

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Indiana

Children's Activity Box Set

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Creative Writing Prompts

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#paperback #likenew #hollywood #creative #writer #entertainment
Looks new and unread.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

... and a Few Hard Truths about Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club





Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman, Murphy Brown, NCIS, The Muppets, and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which she created and executive produced.  



In 2009, Scovell gave up her behind-the-scenes status when the David Letterman sex scandal broke. Only the second woman ever to write for his show, Scovell used the moment to publicly call out the lack of gender diversity in late-night TV writers' rooms. "One of the boys" came out hard for "all of the girls." Her criticisms fueled a cultural debate. Two years later, Scovell was collaborating with Sheryl Sandberg on speeches and later on Lean In, which resulted in a worldwide movement.

Now Scovell is opening up with this fun, honest, and often shocking account. Scovell knows what it's like to put words in the mouths of President Barack Obama, Mark Harmon, Candice Bergen, Bob Newhart, Conan O'Brien, Alyssa Milano, and Kermit the Frog, among many others. Through her eyes, you'll sit in the Simpson writers' room... stand on the Oscar red carpet... pin a tail on Miss Piggy...bond with Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy... and experience a Stephen King-like encounter with Stephen King.

Just the Funny Parts is a fast-paced account of a nerdy girl from New England who fought her way to the top of the highly-competitive, male-dominated entertainment field. The book delivers invaluable insights into the creative process and tricks for navigating a difficult workplace. It's part memoir, part how-to, and part survival story. Or, as Scovell puts it, "It's like Unbroken, but funnier and with slightly less torture."

 

Just the Funny Parts *LIKE NEW*

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Sandra McIver presents 18 designs based on the innovative one piece, one seam circular constructions she calls a swirl.

Knit, Swirl!

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50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns

Most of the stitch dictionaries on knitters' shelves are remixes of familiar stitch patterns already published elsewhere. Not so for Lynne Barr's groundbreaking book Reversible Knitting. Not only is every one of the 50 stitch patterns completely new and never before seen, but each is also reversible--for a total of 100 different looks!
Reversible stitch patterns can be used to create projects where either side can be worn facing outward, or where two sides of the piece are visible simultaneously (such as a scarf or a garment with collar or cuffs that that can be worn up or down). In addition to stitch patterns, the book features 20 such projects--from accessories like scarves, hats, and socks to sweaters and dresses--designed by the author and by 12 top knitwear designers including STC authors Véronik Avery, Norah Gaughan, and Teva Durham. Rounding out the book are in-depth instructions for the specialized techniques required for reversilbe work.

Reversible Knitting

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Missouri

Part One A Handful of Men

The Cutting Edge

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Making One of a Kind Creatures from Socks

Stray Sock Sewing

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#paperback #poetry #journal #blank #poems #creative Never been used.

Michigan

Write the poem

#nonfiction #paperback #writing #writers #art #reference #handbook #guide #creative

Kansas

Introducing students to the major elements of fiction writing this text helps to develop critical standards for judging literary works. It uses 41 short stories and three novellas by classic and contemporary practitioners to demonstrate techniques and suggest criteria for judgment. The book is organized by elements of fiction: plot; character; theme; point of view; and so on. It also includes an appendix to guide students through the thinking and structuring processes of writing clearly and persuasively about literature.

Perrine's Story and Structure

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#paperback #selfhelp #bodymindspirit #nonfiction #exploring #adventure #art #creative #selfdiscovery 

Portable Life Museum

From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to. Through this series of beautifully hand-illustrated interactive prompts, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world in ways they never even imagined.

How to Be an Explorer of the World

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Connecticut

Virtual Reality Runway

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#paperback #WoodCarving #DIY #Crafts #Holly #Art #Fun #Creative box 100

Texas

Techniques and Projects for the First-Time Carver

This book is the perfect place to start learning an enjoyable hobby that lasts a lifetime. With just a few simple tools and a piece of wood, you'll be on your way to creating wonderful keepsakes and handcarved gifts. Woodworker and author offers advice about wood, woodcarving supplies, and tools and then walks you step-by-step through a range of fabulous projects: *Snowman ornament *Wooden whistle *Arrowhead and eagle head * Musical frog *A 5-minute wizard *A stylized grizzly bear *And more! Each project takes only a few hours to complete. Designed to build basic woodcarving skills, each lesson teaches you something new and raises your confidence as you learn to transfer patterns, use carving tools, and finish wood. Both beginner woodcarvers and those with more experience will find information and projects to excite in this full-color book.

Woodcarving, Revised and Expanded

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#paperback #youngadult #ya #mermaids #art #creative

Minnesota

As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.

A Blue So Dark

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#148. Signed by author copy #paperback #success #creative #humorous  #creativity #healing #trauma #manifesto

Idaho

A Manifesto for Creatives

The world wants its soul back...

In this book, author Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era.

"The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don't care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it. The only failure now is pulling back from that quest because of fear."

Expanding upon his short original "Blessed Are the Weird" piece that became a viral phenomenon, he traces the roots of soulful artistry and creation to ancient times and back again to reveal the insistent, eternal quest of our true natures that demands something real--as if our very existence depends upon it.

This book is a call to creatives (and those who want to be) with the clear message that it has never been more critical to heed the call of soul than it is during this exciting, dangerous new renaissance epoch on Planet Earth.

Heartfelt and sometimes humorous, it lights a signal fire for all who feel out of place in the modern world and invites them to claim their heritage as members in an ancient lineage--those tenders of soul and beauty who have always kept the flame alive for humanity.

This is a book for everyone who wants to lead a deep, true, and passionate life and leave the world better for having passed this way.

Blessed Are the Weird. Your time has come to define the new normal.

Blessed Are the Weird

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#paperback #creativity #selfhelp #nonfiction #idea #creative 

Utah

Stand Out with a Better Story

The path to success is littered with great ideas poorly marketed. Don't let yours be one of them.

"A little book with a very big message. Your idea is worth a great story, well told."
SETH GODIN- Author of All Marketers Tell Stories


Make Your Idea Matter is a call to action for entrepreneurs, emerging brands and anyone with a great idea, who knows that to stand out in today's noisy world they need to tell a better story.

It is full of bite-sized business and brand storytelling ideas originally sparked on Bernadette Jiwa's award-winning business blog TheStoryofTelling.com.

Use this book as both inspiration and guide to help you tell the best stories you can tell about your business, your ideas and the work that matters to you.

You don't have to start on page one and work your way through, or even read it from front to back. Each topic stands on its own so dip in and out. Reawaken a thought or an idea you've already had. Spark new ones. Discover different ways of thinking about your business, what you do and how you tell your story. Then go make your idea matter.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MAKE YOUR IDEA MATTER

"Every story you tell is a choice, and the choices you make matter. For best results make the choice to read this book."
CHRIS GUILLEBEAU- Author of The $100 Startup


"Make Your Idea Matter' is a book that's easy to get into and hard to escape. Full of valuable, original, engaging content.Bernadette Jiwa has been likened to 'a female Seth Godin' and I have to agree."
ROBERT GERRISH- Director of Flying Solo,Australia's Micro Business Community


"The most brilliant people I have known have the rare ability to distill complexity to an essence. This is what Bernadette Jiwa does for entrepreneurs in Make Your Idea Matter."
MARK SCHAEFER- Author of Return on Influence & The Tao of Twitter


"If I discover one useful insight in a business book, I consider the time well spent. This surprising little book delivers them in spades!"
TOM ASACKER - Author of A Clear Eye for Branding


"Now is your time to make a difference, your time to be the best at what you love doing, your time to use your skills to enrich not only your own life, but the lives of each and every individual you do business with.
More and more small businesses are taking impressive leads in their industries, making giant multinationals look cumbersome and unfriendly in comparison. You can do the same, and the first thing on your "to do" list should be to read this book.
Bernadette has written a fantastic collection of stories to inspire, to provoke, to make you think, to generate ideas, and to bring your business to the next level.It doesn't matter if your idea has been done before, because as Bernadette rightly points out, it hasn't been done by you."
DAVID AIREY - Author of Logo Design Love


Make Your Idea Matter

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New Jersey

Recognize and Stimulate Your Child's Natural Talent

A noted child development expert advises parents on how to help their child make the most of his or her natural talents and abilities. The book speaks mainly to parents of kids between the critical ages of two and six--the years when a child's innate aptitudes and talents start to blossom. Dr. Einon opens this book with an explanation of creativity, pointing out signs for moms and dads to look for. She discusses ways to provide an optimal environment for children gifted with especially creative aptitudes, and she gives attention to details that include the child's relations with siblings, gender differences, and problems that the creative child might encounter at home and in school. Activities to foster a child's creativity are recommended, with suggestions for carrying them out. They include drawing and painting, music, dance, playacting, dressing up in costumes, reading, storytelling, encouraging humor, mastering numbers, and developing orderly thinking habits and social skills. The book is heavily illustrated in full color and features helpful "age-by-stage" development charts.

Creative Child

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Great coloring book. A couple pages missing. Oversize sheets 11 x 14, great for crayons pencils paint or markers. For ages three and above.￼. #coloring #fun #pastime #Learning #melissaanddoug #creative

Pennsylvania

Art, music, drama/theater

Jumbo Multi Theme Coloring Pad

Melissa and Doug

#paperback #journal #nonfiction #unused #teen #fun #creative #katepeterson

Florida

You're Weird-Prop-Five Below

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#hardcover #activity #art #children #nature #creative #classroom #projects #kids

Georgia

365 Rainy Day Activities

This book is in great condition with clean and crisp pages =).  The cover is also in great shape with minor shelf wear. #hardcover #nonfiction #creative 

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently. 

Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes-- like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration - to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people:

Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently

With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives. 

Wired to Create

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#hardcover #artbooks #handlettering #howtobooks #creative #hobby 

An Interactive Guide to the Art of Drawing Letters

Hand-lettering has taken the creative world by storm! Learn the basics of drawing letters and words with this fun, accessible, and interactive book!

 * Learn five major hand-lettering styles, then transform your writing into art.
 * Practice pages allow you space to master each letter in every style.
 * Sections demonstrate how to embellish your letters, mix different styles for emphasis and flare, add decorative effects like shading, and combine text and illustration.
 * Easy-to-follow tutorials and sections to trace, color, or complete make hand-lettering approachable for anyone.
 * Project ideas demonstrate ways to brighten everyday items, create striking art, and add a meaningful touch to gifts through hand-lettering.
 * Full-color illustrations and photos throughout.
 * 160 pages.
 * 7-1/2 inches wide by 9-1/2 high.
 * By popular Florida-based illustrator and designer Megan Wells.

Hand-Lettering

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A brand new coloring book, not colored in. About half an inch thick, pretty good size!

Leisure Arts Staff

Easy Does It

Jeremy Utley; Perry Klebahn; David Kelley (Foreword by)

Ideaflow

Activity Box

Children's Activity Box Set

Piccadilly Enterprises Inc. Staff (Designed by)

Creative Writing Prompts

Nell Scovell; Sheryl Sandberg (Foreword by)

Just the Funny Parts *LIKE NEW*

Sandra McIver

Knit, Swirl!

Lynne Barr; Thayer Allyson Gowdy (Photographer)

Reversible Knitting

Dave Duncan

The Cutting Edge

Dan Ta; Daniel

Stray Sock Sewing

Unknown

Write the poem

Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp

Perrine's Story and Structure

Keri Smith

How to Be an Explorer of the World

M&G Partners LLP dba Fashion Angels Enterprises (Designed by)

Virtual Reality Runway

Everett Ellenwood

Woodcarving, Revised and Expanded

Holly Schindler

A Blue So Dark

Jacob Nordby

Blessed Are the Weird

Bernadette Jiwa

Make Your Idea Matter

Dorothy Einon

Creative Child

Melissa and Doug

Melissa and Doug

Kate Peterson

You're Weird-Prop-Five Below

Dempsey Parr

365 Rainy Day Activities

Scott Barry Kaufman; Carolyn Gregoire

Wired to Create

Megan Wells; Inc. Peter Pauper Press (Created by)

Hand-Lettering

Marty noble

Art nouveau designs

Just the Funny Parts LIKE NEW