Sigmund Freud

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Psychology of Art, Literature, Love, and Religion

On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity—including art, literature, love, dreams, and spirituality. This diverse collection includes "The 'Uncanny,'" "The Moses of Michelangelo," "The Psychology of Love," "The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming," "On War and Death," and "Dreams and Telepathy."

On Creativity and the Unconscious

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Julia Cameron

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

A Journey to Your Creative Heart

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

The Vein of Gold

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#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #creativity #paperback #bodymindspirit #fiction #eatpraylove 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Creative Living Beyond Fear

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

Big Magic

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#hardcover #nonfiction #creativity #art #business #marketing 

Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

The founder of IDEO and his partner and brother, the author of the best-selling The Art of Innovation, outline strategies for tapping innate creative abilities, sharing uplifting stories from their work with forefront companies to outline principles for fostering innovation and problem solving.

Creative Confidence

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Ken Robinson

Lou Aronica

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with anecdotes, observations, and recommendations from professionals on the front line of transformative education, case histories, and groundbreaking research, Creative Schools aims to inspire teachers, parents, and policy makers alike to rethink the real nature and purpose of education.

Creative Schools

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Kelly McGonigal

Idaho

Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress--one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.

You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; stress causes insomnia; stress is bad for you! But what if changing how you think about stress could make you happier, healthier, and better able to reach your goals? Combining exciting new research on resilience and mindset, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, proves that undergoing stress is not bad for you; it is undergoing stress while believing that stress is bad for you that makes it harmful. In fact, stress has many benefits, from giving us greater focus and energy, to strengthening our personal relationships.
 
McGonigal shows readers how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain's natural ability to learn from challenging experiences. Both practical and life-changing, The Upside of Stress is not a guide to getting rid of stress, but a toolkit for getting better at it--by understanding, accepting, and leveraging it to your advantage.

The Upside of Stress

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Janet Sternburg

Vermont

The Writer on Her Work

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Michael Toms

Isabel Allende

New Age thinkers and writers in the field of millennial metaphysics and human potential discuss the nature of creativity. They discuss the roots of creativity, how to use and apply creativity to your life, and the power of creativity to change the way you live.

The Well of Creativity

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Natalie Goldberg

Robert M. Pirsig

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 #writing #youngwritershandbook #handbook #authors #creativity

Utah

LEARN HOW TO WRITE LIKE THE EXPERTS, FROM THE EXPERTS. Practical advice in a perfect package for young aspiring writers. After receiving letters from fans asking for writing advice,accomplished authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter joined together to create this guidebook for young writers. The authors mix inspirational anecdotes with practical guidance on how to find a voice, develop characters and plot, make revisions, and overcome writer’s block. Fun writing prompts will help young writers jump-start their own projects, and encouragement throughout will keep them at work.

Spilling Ink: a Young Writer's Handbook

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Arthur B. Van Gundy

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hard back cover. Will ship once your order is received.

B1

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Techniques and Resources to Unleash the Creativity in Your Organization

Is it possible to "create" creativity? Especially in the workplace, where people are paid to do rather than "dream"? Absolutely. And in a business climate where companies must do more with less money and fewer resources, Idea Power is the one book to consult. It delivers all the information needed, whether you want to solve specific problems, stimulate new ideas, or start a full-fledged creativity training program. Arthur B. VanGundy has helped clients like Hershey Foods, Xerox, Monsanto, and Hallmark become more creative. He's an expert at helping people view problems from different perspectives and generate new solutions. His jargon-free ideas will help you do the same with all employees - not merely those in R&D or new product development. Creativity training requires knowledge about the creative process and the training tools and techniques available to teach it. Until now, that knowledge has been scattered across a wide variety of sources. Idea Power is the first book to put it all in one place; you simply won't find a better combination of concepts, reference materials, and how-to guidelines on: Business creativity. You'll explore issues involved in organizational innovation . . . See how to overcome obstacles such as politics, poor communication, and the "head-in-the-sand" syndrome . . . Discover a problem-solving process that's been tested scientifically and found to be highly effective. Creativity training. You'll learn to facilitate problem-solving groups, with a full chapter of creative thinking exercises . . . Design creativity training courses, with help from sample course outlines, training objectives, and a look at existing programs . . . Conduct and facilitate problem-solving retreats, now the preferred setting among many innovative organizations. Idea generation techniques. You'll discover how to get the creative juices flowing in individuals, small groups, or throughout an entire organization. Resources. You'll survey the full range of creativity enhancers - including films, audiocassettes, books, idea generation aids, and cutting-edge software for individuals and groups - and learn to select the best. With U.S. businesses under increasing pressure to innovate, more than a third of them now train their people to think, act, and solve problems more creatively. The payoffs are increased productivity, teamwork, and profitability. Join the innovators in today's "idea age" by putting Idea Power to work for you.

Idea Power

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Emily K. Neuburger

New Jersey

Fire up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking

Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, award-winning author Emily K. Neuburger highlights the many paths into journaling. Her 60 interactive writing prompts and art how-tos help you to expand your imagination and stimulate your creativity. Every spread invites a new approach to filling a page, from making a visual map of a day-in-my-life to turning random splotches into quirky characters for a playful story. It's the perfect companion to all those blank books and an ideal launchpad to explore creative self-expression and develop an imaginative voice -- for anyone ages 10 to 100!

Teachers' Choice Award Winner
Mom's Choice Awards Winner
Foreword INDIES Gold Award Winner
National Parenting Product Awards Winner

Journal Sparks

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California

The Word Collector

North Carolina

A Creative Memoir

The author of "The Artist's Way" weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life. From her early career as a writer for "Rolling Stone" magazine and marriage to Martin Scorsese to her tortured experiences with alcohol, Cameron reflects on her life.

Floor Sample

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Minnesota

#nonfiction #business #hardcover #disruptive #innovation#creativity

Washington

putting the power of disruptive innovation to work

Disrupt yourself

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Betty Edwards

Glue has dried out at bottom and top of spine. Please see photos.

South Carolina

A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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101 Clever Creations Using Everyday Items

Provides instructions for making projects using inexpensive materials from around the house to craft a milk carton balloon boat, rubber band banjo, and an embroidery hoop tambourine.

Make These Toys

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Rebecca Solnit

A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

The Faraway Nearby

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An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creativity. With the techniques and anecdotes in The Right to Write, readers learn to make writing a natural, intensely personal part of life. Cameron's instruction and examples include the details of the writing processes she uses to create her own bestselling books. She makes writing a playful and realistic as well as a reflective event. Anyone jumping into the writing life for the first time and those already living it will discover the art of writing is never the same after reading The Right to Write.

The Right to Write

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Harris Harris III

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New York

The Difference Between Limiting Your Life and Living Your Dream

In The Wonder Switch, professional illusionist Harris III draws from brain science and his expertise as a magician turned storyteller to take us on a journey back to magic--not the stuff of sleight of hand that he performs on stage, but real magic: love, hope, joy, belonging, meaning, and purpose--which transforms every facet of our work and lives.

The Wonder Switch

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A playful, practical guide to daily creativity prompts loosely based on the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

A Daily Dose of Winder

The Awe-Manac

Questlove

Ohio

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire * PopSugar * The Huffington Post *  Buzzfeed * Publishers Weekly

A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove--inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life

Questlove--musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore--shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life. 

In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he's heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers and fans on how to consider creativity and where to find it. He addresses many topics--what it means to be creative, how to find a mentor and serve as an apprentice, the wisdom of maintaining a creative network, coping with critics and the foibles of success, and the specific pitfalls of contemporary culture--all in the service of guiding admirers who have followed his career and newcomers not yet acquainted with his story. 

Whether discussing his own life or channeling the lessons he's learned from forefathers such as George Clinton, collaborators like D'Angelo, or like-minded artists including Ava DuVernay, David Byrne, Björk, and others, Questlove speaks with the candor and enthusiasm that fans have come to expect. Creative Quest is many things--above all, a wise and wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity.

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On Creativity and the Unconscious

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The Vein of Gold

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The Well of Creativity

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