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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art

The Most Important Work of Art Is the Life That We Create In The Artisan Soul, Erwin Raphael McManus— author, thought leader, and founder of MOSAIC in Los Angeles—pens a manifesto for human creativity and the beginning of a new renaissance. McManus not only calls us to reclaim our creative essence but reveals how we can craft our lives into a work of art. There are no shortcuts to quality, and McManus celebrates the spiritual process that can help us discover our true selves. McManus demonstrates that we all carry within us the essence of an artist. We all need to create—to be a part of a process that brings to the world something beautiful, good, and true—in order to allow our souls to come to life. It's not only the quality of the ingredients we use to build our lives that matters, but the care we bring to the process itself. Just as with baking artisan bread, it's a process that's crafted over time. And God is the master artisan of our lives. With poignant, inspirational stories and insights from art, life, history, and scripture interspersed throughout, McManus walks readers through the process of crafting a life of beauty and wonder.

The Artisan Soul

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Removing the Barriers to Creativity

"Creative blocks are as old as the written word and a source of guilt and frustration that have afflicted the lives of many of the greatest writers and artists. Yet such mysterious creative silences need not be feared. Rather, argues Victoria Nelson, they should be viewed as a positive element in a writer's or artist's growth, the unconscious mind's signal to readjust the approach to a work in progress. By defining the true nature of this condition and developing an understanding of its varied origins, the author shows writers and artists how to reestablish contact with their creative selves."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

On Writer's Block

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South Carolina

A Journey to Your Creative Heart

In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make The Vein of Gold an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.

The Vein of Gold

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"This is a short book. But I hope it takes you, like me, a long time to read it. The Business of Belief earns the word 'profound'-every sentence should be savored." -Tom Peters

"Is this about marketing, life, spirituality, history, change or sales? Yes. A little book with a big idea." -Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

"This instant classic provides the key to motivating yourself, your friends, your family, your coworkers and your customers. A must read." -Inc. Magazine

In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, Tom Asacker, author of Sandbox Wisdom and A Clear Eye for Branding, pulls back the curtain on the workings of the mind and reveals the hidden logic to motivating behavior, both in ourselves and in others.

Whether you are launching a new brand or marketing campaign, selling products and services, coaching individuals or leading a team, this book will shatter your assumptions about leadership and the art of influence, and give you the invaluable insights required to understand and move others.

The Business of Belief is Tom Asacker's most compelling-and important-book yet. It will fundamentally change the way you think about your work and your life. Use it as your companion and as a guide in this fast-paced world overwhelmed by complexity and choice.

The next big idea in business is BELIEF.#business #business #economics #sales #tomasacker #leadership #creativity #marketing #coaching #entrepreneur #fundraising 

California

How the World's Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe

"This is a short book. But I hope it takes you, like me, a long time to read it. The Business of Belief earns the word 'profound'-every sentence should be savored." -Tom Peters "Is this about marketing, life, spirituality, history, change or sales? Yes. A little book with a big idea." -Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception "This instant classic provides the key to motivating yourself, your friends, your family, your coworkers and your customers. A must read." -Inc. Magazine In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, Tom Asacker, author of Sandbox Wisdom and A Clear Eye for Branding, pulls back the curtain on the workings of the mind and reveals the hidden logic to motivating behavior, both in ourselves and in others. Whether you are launching a new brand or marketing campaign, selling products and services, coaching individuals or leading a team, this book will shatter your assumptions about leadership and the art of influence, and give you the invaluable insights required to understand and move others. The Business of Belief is Tom Asacker's most compelling-and important-book yet. It will fundamentally change the way you think about your work and your life. Use it as your companion and as a guide in this fast-paced world overwhelmed by complexity and choice. The next big idea in business is BELIEF.

The Business of Belief

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Texas

Experiment, Explore, Create

Conscious Creativity: The Workbook is an exciting, interactive journal to help readers connect with their creative impulses.

Conscious Creativity: the Workbook

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

There isn't a business in America that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products, and processes. At many companies, being first with a concept and first to market are critical just to survive. In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, general manager of the Silicon Valley based design firm IDEO, takes readers behind the scenes of this wildly imaginative and energized company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

IDEO doesn't buy into the myth of the lone genius working away in isolation, waiting for great ideas to strike. Kelley believes everyone can be creative, and the goal at his firm is to tap into that wellspring of creativity in order to make innovation a way of life. How does it do that? IDEO fosters an atmosphere conducive to freely expressing ideas, breaking the rules, and freeing people to design their own work environments. IDEO's focus on teamwork generates countless breakthroughs, fueled by the constant give-and-take among people ready to share ideas and reap the benefits of the group process. IDEO has created an intense, quick-turnaround, brainstorm-and-build process dubbed "the Deep Dive."

In entertaining anecdotes, Kelley illustrates some of his firm's own successes (and joyful failures), as well as pioneering efforts at other leading companies. The book reveals how teams research and immerse themselves in every possible aspect of a new product or service, examining it from the perspective of clients, consumers, and other critical audiences.

Kelley takes the reader through the IDEO problem-solving method:

> Carefully observing the behavior or "anthropology" of the people who will be using a product or service

> Brainstorming with high-energy sessions focused on tangible results

> Quickly prototyping ideas and designs at every step of the way

> Cross-pollinating to find solutions from other fields

> Taking risks, and failing your way to success

> Building a "Greenhouse" for innovation

IDEO has won more awards in the last ten years than any other firm of its kind, and a full half-hour Nightline presentation of its creative process received one of the show's highest ratings. The Art of Innovation will provide business leaders with the insights and tools they need to make their companies the leading-edge, top-rated stars of their industries.

The Art of Innovation

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New York

Raising Creative Children

"In The Artist's Way for Parents, Cameron helps parents unleash their children's creativity and sense of wonder." --BookPage

Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents "Better Books for a Better World"--the Gold Award (Best Book of the Year) in the category of Parenting/Family.

According to Cameron, "Every child is creative--and every parent is creative. Your child requires joy, and exercising creativity, both independently and together, makes for a happy and fulfilling family life." Focusing on parents and their children, newborn through age twelve, The Artist's Way for Parents builds on the foundation of The Artist's Way and shares it with the next generation. The spiritual concepts and practical tools in this book will guide parents as they steer their children gently to greater creativity. The Artist's Way for Parents provides an ongoing spiritual toolkit that parents can enter--and reenter--at any pace and at any point in their children's early years. 

The Artist's Way for Parents

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7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life

The Artist's Way meets What Color is Your Parachute? in an innovative approach to reinventing yourself at any stage of life.

Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, and Berthe Morisot are some of the most creative thinkers in history. What do these artists have in common with you? More than you think, if you're looking to tackle a major life transition. The skills these artists used to produce their masterpieces are the same abilities required to make successful shifts-whether it's finding a new career or a new purpose or calling in life.

In Becoming a Life Change Artist, Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan share the groundbreaking approach made popular in their workshops across the country. There are seven key strengths that the most creative minds of history shared, and that anyone rethinking their future can cultivate to change their life effectively-
*Preparing the brain to undertake creative work
*Seeing the world and one's life from new perspectives
*Using context to understand the facets of one's life
*Embracing uncertainty
*Taking risks
*Collaborating
*Applying discipline

* As Mandell and Jordan illuminate, at its heart, making a major life change is a fluid process. But, armed with these seven key skills, anyone can overcome the bumps and obstacles effectively. With targeted exercises throughout, this is a book for all ages and stages-from those looking to transition to a new career to people embarking on retirement. Becoming a Life Change Artist sparks the luminous creativity that lies within each of us.

Becoming a Life Change Artist

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being

Zentangle(R) is an easy-to-learn method of pattern drawing that reduces stress while promoting creativity. This book will introduce readers to the basic theory of Zentangle and provide instructions for drawing over 100 tangle patterns from such Certified Zentangle Teachers as Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, and Marie Browning. This beautiful book is filled with examples of Zentangle drawings as well as other art projects and compelling stories from those who have improved their well-being through Zentangle.

Joy of Zentangle

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Creative Living Beyond Fear

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

Big Magic

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Minnesota

The Complete Guide to Working with Color

Developed by the same team that created Artist's Manual and Art Class, both top-selling art reference books, Artist's Color Manual is the ultimate guide to color for visual artists. Whether they work in oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, colored pencils, or inks, artists of all stripes will find information and ideas flowing from every profusely illustrated page. Renowned art instructor Simon Jennings begins with a basic introduction to color theory, the color wheel, and the art of mixing pigments. The heart of the Artist's Color Manual is a comprehensive guide to mixing and creating each color of the spectrum, from primaries to tricky neutrals, flesh tones, and metallics. Additional chapters focus on techniques, such as mixing media, that create color in both traditional and unexpected ways. Examples of work by accomplished artists and interviews with leading painters suggest creative ideas for color use. With expert instruction, detailed information, and inspiring visuals, Artist's Color Manual is especially helpful for those who are learning to paint, yet speaks with definitive authority to all artists looking to perfect their craft.

Artist's Color Manual

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Your Personal Companion to How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci

In the bestselling tradition of The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal, The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude and The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook comes The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook--the companion volume to Michael Gelb's 1998 Delacorte hardcover bestseller.

Created to structure and motivate the reader's development of the seven da Vincian principles introduced in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook represents the natural extension of Gelb's da Vinci line. As any modern da Vinci student knows, Leonardo's notebook both served as the incubator and repository of his unique genius and provides the foundation of any modern-day student's attempt to emulate that genius on his own. From the very first exercise in the original How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Gelb encourages readers to keep their own personal notebooks in which to hone their da Vincian skills; now he provides that notebook for them, with the added bonus of tips on exercises they'll recognize and new suggestions and assignments that will build on the work they've already done.

Designed to echo the inviting look of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, and structured to help readers focus on each of the seven genius principles, The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook is a companion volume that truly complements and enhances the reader's experience of the original book on which it's based.

The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity

From the world-famous graffiti artist, beloved corporate speaker, and bestselling author of Unthink, a provocative new book on how you can train yourself to become creative in your business and everyday life.

The Spark and the Grind

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New Jersey

Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

The co-host of Project Runway, known for being friendly and approachable, explains how readers can find their true selves and lay the groundwork for success and happiness. By the author of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

Gunn's Golden Rules

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One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird.

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. 

In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. 

Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin... #creativity #guide #hardcover #nonfiction #booktok #habits  #broadway #choreographer #artist #dance

Learn It and Use It for Life

A guide to unlocking creative potential provides exercises, anecdotes, and advice for evaluating one's creative history, finding creative stimulation through activity, and making time for creative change.

The Creative Habit

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Maryland

A Practical Guide for Staying Prolific, Brilliant, and Healthy

From the bestselling author of The Accidental Creativeand Die Emptycomes an inspirational guide that helps spark creative energy--day in and day out.

Even if you don't think of yourself as creative, you'd probably be surprised by how many creative tools you use every day. You solve problems, design, write, invent, or in other words--create. But the pressure we feel to continually create value with our minds can cause tremendous stress and eventually neutralize our ability to be effective in our roles long term.

The Daily Creativeis a daily reader for busy professionals, creative and otherwise, designed to help you gain focus for your day and advance toward your goals.

Each daily reading is:

 * Quick:Takes less than 5 minutes to complete
 * Focused:Centers around a specific theme
 * Inspiring:Includes a quote from great thinkers and creatives throughout history
 * Actionable:Wraps with a daily action to help you achieve results

Combat burnout with this daily toolkit that can help you feel reenergized and ready for innovation!

Daily Creative

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The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.

North Carolina

The Natural History of Innovation

From a coral reef teeming with life to the instant success of YouTube, the author explores what kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas, identifying the seven key principles for generating great notions. By the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You.

Where Good Ideas Come From

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Colorado

Offers essays on the creative process and more than one hundred imaginative exercises that help readers reach new spiritual heights and expand their creativity.

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Transforming Professional and Personal Life

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity and a sense of possibility into all of your endeavors in this bestselling guide from the author of Pathways to Possibility Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.

The Art of Possibility

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Inspirational book to spark creativity. #creativity #inspiration #self-care #relationships #communication #intimacy #sexuality

Dancing with Your Wonder-Full Self

Now with 4 new chapters! This iconic and transformative 25th anniversary edition of the nationally bestselling celebration of joy, creativity, self-love, and female power is updated for new and longtime fans.

Discover the succulent woman within with this colorful guide to embracing creativity, sexuality, fear, and healing from the bestselling artist and writer SARK.

With her signature "gentle and effervescent" (Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way) prose and vibrant illustrations, SARK offers us an accessible guide to living life filled to the brim with joy, hope, and self-love. With four new chapters, Succulent Wild Woman will effortlessly help you grow into your ripe, juicy, best self.

Succulent Wild Woman (25th Anniversary Edition)

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Kentucky

The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

"Coyle spent three years researching the question of what makes a successful group tick, visiting some of the world's most productive groups--including Pixar, Navy SEALs, Zappos, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs. Coyle discovered that high-performing groups ... generate three key messages that enable them to excel: 1. Safety (we are connected), 2. Shared risk (we are vulnerable together), 3. Purpose (we are part of the same story)"--

The Culture Code

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A practical course in career design for those aspiring to live a creative life #creativity #selfhelp 

Wisconsin

Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals.

Creating a Life Worth Living helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as "The Drudge We Do For Dollars" and "Excavating the Future," contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler.

The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.

Erwin Raphael McManus

The Artisan Soul

Victoria Nelson

On Writer's Block

Julia Cameron

The Vein of Gold

Tom Asacker

The Business of Belief

Philippa Stanton

Conscious Creativity: the Workbook

Tom Kelley

The Art of Innovation

Julia Cameron; Emma Lively

The Artist's Way for Parents

Fred Mandell; Kathleen Jordan

Becoming a Life Change Artist

Marie Browning; Suzanne McNeill; Sandy Bartholomew

Joy of Zentangle

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Simon Jennings

Artist's Color Manual

Michael J. Gelb

The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook

Erik Wahl

The Spark and the Grind

Tim Gunn

Gunn's Golden Rules

Twyla Tharp

The Creative Habit

Todd Henry

Daily Creative

Steven Johnson

Where Good Ideas Come From

Julia Cameron

The Vein of Gold

Rosamund Stone Zander; Benjamin Zander

The Art of Possibility

Twyla Tharp

The Creative Habit

Marie Browning, Suzanne McNeill, and Sandy Bartholomew

Joy of Zentangle

SARK

Succulent Wild Woman (25th Anniversary Edition)

Daniel Coyle

The Culture Code

Carol Lloyd

Creating a Life Worth Living