#hardcover #ya #creativity #hapiness #success

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

A persuasive guide for those who want to achieve their full potential in every area of life and to perfect the body and mind by reaching beyond their limits and setting goals of unlimited growth

The Sky's the Limit

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#paperback #biography #creativity #writers #artists #philosophy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Nine Tormented Lives

Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the source of his or her fantastical symptoms.

The Hypochondriacs is a book about fear and hope, illness and imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent hypochondriacs--James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol--Brian Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and the body's ideas.

The Hypochondriacs

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Kansas

A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity

A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists — into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results. Empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to meet creative challenges posed by the marketplace Turns the mystery of creativity into a simple-to-use process Shows how creativity can be used for everything from innovative, game-shifting breakthroughs to incremental advances and daily improvements to business processes Offers dozens of practical exercises, thought-starters, workouts to grow "creative muscles," and case studies Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today's shifting marketplace. • #4 New York Times Best Seller (Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous) • #8 New York Times Best Seller (Hardcover Business) • #2 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Business) • #9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) • #9 Washington Post Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) • #1 USA Today Best Seller (Money) • #10 Entertainment Weekly Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) • #10 Publishers Weekly Bestseller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

Disciplined Dreaming

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

How Creativity Works

Imagine

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Pennsylvania

Creative Living Beyond Fear

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

Big Magic

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Offers an inspiring array of creative projects that can be made for next to nothing. Easy step-by-step instructions to make containers of all sizes, benches and stools, ponds and bird baths, pavers and stepping stones, and even a barbecue. #Birdbaths #ponds #gardening #containers #creativity #plants #gardendesign￼ #Design #Concrete￼

Easy and Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features and More

Concrete Garden Projects

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Easy, step-by-step instructions and inspiring photos guide girls from start to finishBags, pillows, room accessories, gifts, games, hats, and clothing keep girls creating cool craftsProjects for special areas in any girl's life'her room, pet, friends, family, and herself'that are personalized self expressionsTips on techniques to try, including tie-dye, beading, painting, simple sewing, and stenciling, offer variety

Crafts for Girls Only

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Kentucky

Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg's word-of-mouth hit has sold well over half a million copies. Goldberg, who has conducted writing workshops for both beginners and professionals all over the United States, sees writing as a practice that helps us comprehend the value of our lives. With insight, humor, and practicality, she inspires writers and would-be writers alike to take the leap into writing creatively and well.

Writing Down the Bones

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

An Awesometastic Story Collection

Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge!

Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share.

The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and stories by some of our most celebrated children book creators. A section of extra story starters by every contributor provides fresh inspiration for readers to create works of their own. Here is an innovative book that offers something for every kind of reader and creator!

The Creativity Project

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Great condition! Corners are a tiny bent from use. Beautiful illustrations and great info ☺️ #paperback #montessori #nonfiction #parenting #toddlers #children #practicalparenting #creativity #growth 

Missouri

A parent's guide to building independence, creativity, and confidence in their children using Montessori learning techniques, written by Montessori president Tim Seldin.

An international bestseller, How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way adapts Montessori teachings for easy use at home. Packed with Montessori-based preschool activities and educational games that build confidence and independence through active learning, this authoritative illustrated guide helps raise self-reliant and creative children. Celebrate physical and intellectual milestones from birth to age six with activity checklists, and encourage development through proven child-centered teaching methods.

This edition has been updated to include information about the neuroscience of child development and shares advice about screen time in the digital age, coparenting, other family changes, and gentle discipline methods.

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way shows parents how to bring the teachings of Montessori into their home to create a safe, nurturing environment for their children with clear and concise instructions.

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

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New York

A Daily Creative Companion

A lively and offbeat interactive creativity journal, based on a popular blog. Things are what you make of them. Every day is a chance to create something new for yourself. Put down your phone and pick up a pencil. Give yourself some space. The Internet will still be there. Start with one page at a time, and you'll be surprised at just how much you can create. Each of the 365 prompts in the book will encourage you to draw, write, list, reflect, and share. This book is your new best friend. Let's get started!

1 Page at a Time

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Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom

Suggests activities to develop creativity, and tells how to live creatively free and develop a more positive and open outlook on life

Inspiration Sandwich

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Usborne Build your own Aliens sticker book

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Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Nevada

Great Ted Talks Book Bundle PLUS Journal

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California

Learn how to embrace and live a creative life by using the advice and inspirations described in this book. #nonfiction #hardcover #creativity #selfhelp 

Wisconsin

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Idaho

A Guide to Creative Photography

This is an invaluable study guide for schools and colleges offering photography courses. It provides support and guidance to staff and students with a structured approach to photography based on the principles of Art and Design.

This new edition not only provides an explanation of fundamental photographic techniques but also offers a series of sequential study exercises. The student can therefore adopt an independent learning approach, which can be monitored closely through tutorials. Each study exercise will help build design skills, and teach the student to research, plan and execute work in a systematic manner. A comprehensive list of aims, objectives and resources are detailed so that both staff and students are clear at the outset what they are expected to achieve and where to look for further information. If you are a student or lecturer on GCSE, GNVQ, A Level or BTEC Photography, Art and Design or Media courses then you will find this book of immense value.


Photography Foundations for Art and Design

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Washington

build your routine, find your focus, and sharpen your creative mind

Manage your day-to-day

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Massachusetts

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Iowa

(in 10 Simple Steps)

You want to leave a mark, not a blemish. Be a hero, not a spectator. You want to be interesting. (Who doesn’t?) But sometimes it takes a nudge, a wake-up call, an intervention!—and a little help. This is where Jessica Hagy comes in. A writer and illustrator of great economy, charm, and insight, she’s created How to Be Interesting, a uniquely inspirational how-to that combines fresh and pithy lessons with deceptively simple diagrams and charts. Ms. Hagy started on Forbes.com, where she’s a weekly blogger, by creating a “How to Be Interesting” post that went viral, attracting 1.4 million viewers so far, with tens of thousands of them liking, linking, and tweeting the article. Now she’s deeply explored the ideas that resonated with so many readers to create this small and quirky book with a large and universal message. It’s a book about exploring: Talk to strangers. About taking chances: Expose yourself to ridicule, to risk, to wild ideas. About being childlike, not childish: Remember how amazing the world was before you learned to be cynical. About being open: Never take in the welcome mat. About breaking routine: Take daily vaca- tions . . . if only for a few minutes. About taking ownership: Whatever you’re doing, enjoy it, embrace it, master it as well as you can. And about growing a pair: If you’re not courageous, you’re going to be hanging around the water cooler, talking about the guy that actually is.

How to Be Interesting

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Florida

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Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society.

The Gift

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Maine

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library Journal Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

Creativity, Inc

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Wayne Dyer

The Sky's the Limit

Brian Dillon

The Hypochondriacs

Josh Linkner

Disciplined Dreaming

Jonah Lehrer

Imagine

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Malin Nilsson

Concrete Garden Projects

Better Homes and Gardens Editors (Editor); Carol Dahlstrom (Editor)

Crafts for Girls Only

Natalie Goldberg; Robert M. Pirsig (Introduction by)

Writing Down the Bones

Colby Sharp (Editor)

The Creativity Project

Tim Seldin; Vanessa Davies (Photographer)

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

Adam J. Kurtz

1 Page at a Time

Sark; Sark

Inspiration Sandwich

Usborne

Usborne Build your own Aliens sticker book

Ted Talk

Great Ted Talks Book Bundle PLUS Journal

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Mark Galer

Photography Foundations for Art and Design

Jocelyn K. Glei, Scott Belsky

Manage your day-to-day

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Jessica Hagy

How to Be Interesting

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Lewis Hyde

The Gift

Ed Catmull; Amy Wallace

Creativity, Inc

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic