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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

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 #anxietydisorders #selfhelp #psychology #creativity #cognitivepsychology

Texas

The Power of Imagery for Personal Enrichment

From internationally renowned psychologist Dr. Arnold Lazarus, this book presents simple yet powerful imagery techniques that can help you greatly enhance your quality of life--by harnessing the power of your own mind. Dr. Lazarus draws on decades of research and clinical experience to provide new insights into common psychological problems and practical guidance for overcoming them. Whether used on their own or in conjunction with therapy, the easy-to-learn procedures described in this book have helped countless people:

*Manage fear, anxiety, anger, and depression
*Break free of bad habits, such as smoking and overeating
*Build more pleasurable relationships
*Improve work performance and creativity
*Communicate better and feel more confident
*Overcome tension headaches, insomnia, and more


In the Mind's Eye

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#hardcover #rhettandlink #curiosity #creativity #tomfoolery #fieldguide #humor #funny #comedy #YouTube 
From the YouTube superstars and creators of Good Mythical Morning comes the ultimate guide to living a “Mythical” life, featuring stories and photos from their lifelong friendship, as well as awesomely illustrated guides, charts, and activities aimed at laughing more, learning more, and never taking yourself too seriously.
 
Thanks for reading this description. You’re obviously a curious person, which means you’ve already taken your first step towards achieving Mythicality. Lucky for you, opening this book is even more rewarding than reading about it online. Within its pages, you'll discover twenty ways to fill your life with curiosity, creativity, and tomfoolery, including Eat Something That Scares You, Make a Bold Hair Choice, Say “I Love You” Like It’s Never Been Said, and more. Along the way, you’ll also find:

• Embarrassing stories and photos we'll probably regret sharing
• Character Building: The Board Game
• An important message from the year 2075
• A quiz to help you determine if you should get a dog
• A eulogy you can read at any funeral
• Grownup merit badges to earn
• Contributions from Mythical Beasts, and much more

If you decide to read this book, be warned—there is a high likelihood of increased Mythicality in your life, which means you may soon find yourself laughing more, learning more, and not taking yourself too seriously. This mentality has been known to spread easily to friends and loved ones.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery

Rhett and Link's Book of Mythicality

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#hardcover #fun #creativity #thinking #greatstory

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

In this lighthearted, funny follow-up to the previous Snowmen bestsellers, our young narrator dreams of a non-melting snowman friend who joins him for all of the year's events. They ride a roller coaster together, dive into a swimming pool in the summer, watch the Fourth of July fireworks, and trick-or-treat on Halloween.

It's hilarious, happy wish fulfillment that kids will adore. As Kirkus said of the first book, "It would be difficult not to fall in love with this rollicking flight of imagination."



Snowmen All Year

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

Are you a high potential charting your course within your current organization, a leader trying to jumpstart innovative thinking in your company? Or are you ready to do something new? Consider this simple yet powerful idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different - they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist. An expert in driving innovation via personal disruption, Whitney Johnson, will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you: if you want to be successful in unexpected ways, follow your own disruptive path. Dare to innovate. Dream big dreams. Do something astonishing. Disrupt yourself. In this book, you will learn how to apply these frameworks to building a business, career - and you. We are living in an era of accelerating disruption - those who can manage the S-curve waves of learning and maxing out will have a competitive advantage. But this is a skill set that needs to be learned. Disrupt Yourself will help people cope with the unpredictability of disruption, and use it to their competitive advantage.

Disrupt Yourself

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Minnesota

A Novel

A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

Asymmetry

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Florida

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California

Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality, and Creativity

This volume uses knitting as a metaphor to discuss the unity of all life and the spirituality involved in all endeavours carried out with mindfulness.

Zen and the Art of Knitting

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#paperback #general #fiction #creativity #shortstories

#paperback #coloring #relax #starwars #art #creativity 

Arts of Coloring

Star Wars

#hardcover #business #attitude #creativity

Alabama

Making "All Day, Every Day Creativity" Your Organization's Secret Weapon

"How can your organization get and keep a competitive advantage in today's super-competitive markets? By constantly developing practices, processes, products, and services that are both new and profitable. Clay Carr calls this ongoing form of innovation "constant creativity" And companies that have it won't just lead the pack - they'll leave their competitors in the dust" "The Competitive Power of Constant Creativity is the first book to link creativity to everyday business processes and results, including technology applications, product development, marketing, hiring, and people management. More than an "ideas" book, this success manual provides you with clear, step-by-step guidance on ways to generate workable solutions to new challenges - not just once in a while, but continuously." "Carr defines the seven qualities of a creative organization and provides an original model for becoming a creative system from top to bottom - not just in isolated pockets. You'll learn ten key attributes that foster organizational flexibility (and thus, creativity) and discover how to handle diversity and conflict constructively to support change." "Transforming an organization into a constantly creative one is not without its challenges - and The Competitive Power of Constant Creativity is quick to help you tackle them. It offers suggestions on how to combine technology and creativity and how to operate creatively without sacrificing efficiency. On the people side, it explores issues of leadership, teamwork, and the learning organization. In addition, the book supplies valuable tips for managing human resources, including ways to recruit and keep creative employees." "Individual creativity is not enough to secure competitive excellence in any company these days. But an organizationwide effort to be constantly creative in all processes and practices can give your company the boost it needs to be better, faster, cheaper, and more customer-oriented than the competition. It's the only secret weapon you'll ever need."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Competitive Power of Constant Creativity

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Indiana

Creative Living Beyond Fear

Explores attitudes, approaches, and habits needed to live a creative life.

Big Magic

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#nonfiction #selfhelp #creativity #bodymindspirit #hardcover #writing #psychology #inspirational #memoir #art

North Carolina

c1989, Wholesome ideas for families. Clean copy.

 #paperback #crafts #children #games #projects #activities #families #creativity #family #fun

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Creative Ideas, Activities, Games, and Projects

Creative ideas, activities, games, and projects for children ages 3-15.

⭐ Prime Time Together . . . with Kids

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#hardcover #Inventions #History #JamesDyson #InVentures #Biographies #Creativity #Genius #Amazing #Educational #Homeschooling￼ box 28 Please note: there is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from our shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, and travel costs. Our prices are extremely low and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. 😊

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Lucidly written and generously illustrated in color, this volume of scientific history by award-winning inventor James Dyson details the greatest achievements of the human imagination since early hominids invented stone tools about 250,000 years ago. Through thousands of years and vital inventions more -- the canoe, the wheel, ink and papyrus, language, maps, currency, law -- the primitive hunter-gatherer of the Stone Age would evolve into the literate citizen of ancient Rome at the time of Christ, as the opening chapter of this fascinating chronicle shows. Succeeding chapters follow human technological advances up to the seventeenth century and then in the age of industrial power, the age of electricity, the atomic age, and the postwar world of the microchip and the genome.Not only does Dyson survey the history of human inventions, he also explores the circumstances and impulses that underlie them. While necessity often proves to be the mother of invention, frustration and serendipity, too, can prod genius. Frustration over the countless ships and lives lost at sea led to John Harrison's invention of extraordinarily accurate clock

A History of Great Inventions

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#hardcover #selfhelp #creativity #bodymindspirit #eatpraylove 

Maryland

Nice, clean copy. See pics 📸

Packed with exciting and imaginative craft projects specially created for 7-11 year olds.

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Get Crafty

Cards and Wrappings

This book is in excellent condition.

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Recipes, Projects and Gift Ideas to Make Your Christmas Festive and Fun!

Gooseberry Patch Christmas

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#hardcover #nonfiction #creativity #psychology #science #business #art #selfhelp #writing #neuroscience 

How Creativity Works

Imagine

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Virginia

#friendships #crafts #recipes #stories #creativity #correspondence #letters #relationships #photography #exlibrary. Ex-library book in excellent condition.

An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.

Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade ago, they began their first year-long project together, posting a photo from each of their mornings on their blog, 3191 Miles Apart, named for the distance between their homes in Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. 3191 Miles Apart quickly acquired a worldwide following of readers drawn in by the delicate intimacy of their shared experiences.

A Year Between Friends celebrates their most recent project together - a visual representation of 2015, month-by-month, side-by-side, but miles apart. In addition to 400 photographs recording their daily inspirations and creative undertakings and a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Molly Wizenberg, this unique collaboration expands on their prior work with over 25 handmade crafts and seasonal recipes, notes on simple living, and personal stories that follow the tide of a year filled with new life, change, and loss. It is an intimate joint portrait revealed through photographic snippets - mending a sweater, making a mobile from a cherished collection, creating fabric dyes from natural materials, baking scones - that defies distance through the celebration of shared moments of calmness, warmth, and family.

Both aspirational and down-to-earth, A Year Between Friends is an inspiring visual love letter to friendship and creativity, a timeless reminder to appreciate life one day at a time, to slow down, to cherish simplicity, and to make the extra effort to do things with care and with the people we love.

Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart

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Oklahoma

Improving Your Creativity on the Job

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Tennessee

Turn Your Passion into a Fulfilling and Financially Rewarding Lifestyle

Anna Sabino is an artist, but certainly not a starving one. She wasn't born into a wealthy family, didn't inherit money from a distant relative, and doesn't have a rich husband. But she made it as an entrepreneur, as a single woman, and most importantly, as an artist.

In Your Creative Career, she shows her fellow artists and creatives how to build a business that reflects their talent and true calling while generating serious cash. Whether the goal is to build an empire and be financially free, create a lifestyle business, or just to have more time, Your Creative Career guides you through every aspect of creative entrepreneurship.

If you want to start your creative career, transition into it, or give it a boost, this book is a must read that features:

 * Proven systems and strategies to create ideally priced products that keep selling.
   
 * The importance of going through all the steps of making it from idea inception and execution to branding and distribution.
   
 * The importance of transitioning from artistic solitude to collaborative, creative entrepreneurship.
   
 * The most effective marketing and PR methods adjusted to the new reality of short attention spans and information overload.

Jacob Nordby

Blessed Are the Weird

Arnold A. Lazarus

In the Mind's Eye

Rhett McLaughlin; Link Neal

Rhett and Link's Book of Mythicality

Caralyn Buehner; Mark Buehner (Illustrator)

Snowmen All Year

Whitney Johnson

Disrupt Yourself

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

Bernadette Murphy

Zen and the Art of Knitting

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

Disney

Star Wars

Clay Carr

The Competitive Power of Constant Creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Donna Erickson; David LaRochelle (Illustrator)

⭐ Prime Time Together . . . with Kids

James Dyson

A History of Great Inventions

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Vivienne Bolton

Cards and Wrappings

Gooseberry Patch; Oxmoor House Editors (Prepared for Publication by)

Gooseberry Patch Christmas

Jonah Lehrer

Imagine

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

Maria Alexandra Vettese; Stephanie Congdon Barnes; Molly Wizenberg (Footnotes by)

Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart

Morgan, John S.

Improving Your Creativity on the Job

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Anna Sabino

Your Creative Career