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Aha!: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideasby Rick Benzel, Jordan E. AyanISBN 0517884003 (0-517-88400-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aha!: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas'Book summary:"Aha! is a joyful, upbeat survey of ideas for enhancing creativity. Jordan Ayan's enthusiasm is hard to resist, and every reader will find personally suitable strategies. Aha! is an inspiring yet practical guidebook for freeing the creative spirit."
--Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
"A delightful romp through the rich and complicated field of creativity. Ayan's Aha! is bound to make the reader's thinking more interesting and original."
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ph.d., author of Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience
"The future belongs to those who create it. Jordan Ayan's exceptional book will show you how to create yours by providing the keys to unlock your great ideas."
--Daniel Burrus, author of Technotrends and a leading technology forecaster
Behind every successful venture, there's a great idea. If you haven't found your great idea yet, or if you've always thought you "just weren't the creative type," Jordan Ayan's accessible and entertaining book will give you the confidence to listen to your own creative spirit and to find the breakthrough you've been waiting for. Based on the notion that creativity is a life skill that must be continually cultivated, Ayan offers ten strategies for finding and harnessing inspiration--wherever and whenever it occurs. His mini workshops will show you how travel, reading, the arts, new technology, journaling, and more can form the basic building blocks of a more creative and rewarding life. [via]More editions of Aha!: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas:
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Ariame Belovedby DupereISBN 0312904924 (0-312-90492-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariame Beloved'Book summary:Revised edition of Betty Edwards' drawing instruction book, in large format with colour illustrations. [via]
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perilsby David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN 0884963799 (0-88496-379-9)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils'Book summary:[via]"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentiallystatistically speakingthere aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
-from the IntroductionArt & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves.
This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists - it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alonenow enhanced by internet postinghas placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally.
Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies.
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Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work...
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (And Rewards) of Artmakingby David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN 0961454733 (0-9614547-3-3)
Softcover, Image Continuum Pr
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The Art of Looking Sidewaysby Alan FletcherISBN 0714834491 (0-7148-3449-1)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Looking Sideways'Book summary:Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways is an absolutely extraordinary and inexhaustible "guide to visual awareness", a virtually indescribable concoction of anecdotes, quotes, images and bizarre facts that offers a wonderfully twisted vision of the chaos of modern life. Fletcher is a renowned designer and art director and the joy of The Art of Looking Sideways lies in its beautiful design. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters with titles like "Colour", "Noise", "Chance", "Camouflage" and "Handedness", Fletcher's book, which he describes as "a journey without a destination", is "a collection of shards" that captures the sensory overload of a world that simply contains too much information. In one typical section, entitled "Civilization", the reader encounters six Polish flags designed to represent the world, a photograph of an anthropomorphic hand bag, Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the moon, drawings of Stone Age pebbles, a painting of "Ireland--as seen from Wales" and a dizzying array of quotations and snippets of information, including the wise words of Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Jay and Gandhi's comment, "Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea". Fletcher's mastery of design mixes type, space, fonts, alphabets, colour and layout combined with a "jackdaw" eye for the strange and profound to produce a stunning book that cannot be read, but only experienced. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585421464 (1-58542-146-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Mark Bryan, Julia CameronISBN 0874776945 (0-87477-694-5)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragonby Julia Cameron, Catherine Allen, Mark A. BryanISBN 0688166350 (0-688-16635-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon'Book summary:Adapting their techniques for fostering creativity as a means to spiritual fulfillment for the workplace, the authors of The Artist's Way at Work have shown that people can thrive at their jobs when they take time to nurture their spirit and listen to their thoughts. The book features psychological guidance, anecdotes, and exercises to assist the reader in sorting out the multitude of happenings, commitments, and choices in one's life. Again, these authors of the enormously successful The Artist's Way recommend their fundamental technique of "morning pages"--a kind of free-form journaling--to unravel thoughts and feelings, focus energy, and direct action. The beautiful surprise of this deceivingly simple exercise is that it actually works! It's making the time to do morning pages that's the real battle. But, if you, like so many others, feel swept up by the tidal wave of our fast-paced, noisy culture, then the authors' slow and steady steps toward reclaiming the spiritual self are invaluable. Some of the suggestions and exercises are a bit out of touch with the complex, and often emotionally-charged, political maneuverings of corporate culture, but the aim of cultivating an individual's ingenuity and resourcefulness is effective and expertly structured. Overall, the authors' philosophy boils down to change that begins with a constantly emerging self. With this book's help, you'll not only find how that new self spawns clarity and grace, but how widely their effects can reverberate throughout the workplace. --Karen Karleski [via]
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The Artist's Way Creativity Kitby Julia CameronISBN 0811826368 (0-8118-2636-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way Creativity Kit'Book summary:Like the book on which it is based, The Artist's Way Creativity Kit is an empowering tool for aspiring and working artists alike. The elements within this exquisite box are designed to encourage the establishment of a personal ritual surrounding your creative time. The words of Julia Cameron, author of the best-selling book The Artist's Way, will set you on your way. Inside you will find a contemplative writing journal featuring quotations from creative souls from Shakti Gawain to Leo Tolstoy on the nature of creativity and accompanying questions that allow you apply their wisdom to your life, 75 cards with creative tasks geared toward spontaneity and play, and a packet of sandalwood incense. [via]
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne LamottISBN 0385480016 (0-385-48001-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life'Book summary:Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading. [via]
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The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild Lifeby SarkISBN 0684833778 (0-684-83377-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild Life'Book summary:I wish for this book to catapult you out of bed and smack into the center of one of your dreams, or lure you back to bed, where you will lie helplessly laughing at all your mistakes and frozen moments.
I wish for this book to free the part of your soul that longs to write epic novels, recite Yeats by heart, play a musical instrument by magic, or perform in a play about your life that you create and design. Most of all, I want this book to give you a boost up over the fence that prevents you from moving forward and inward. [via]
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The Case of the Disappearing Elephant: A 3G Mysteryby Edward De BonoISBN 0460067974 (0-460-06797-4)
Hardcover, Dent
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Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideasby James L. AdamsISBN 0738205370 (0-7382-0537-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas'Book summary:Now, twenty-five years after its original publication, Conceptual Blockbusting has never been more relevant, powerful, or fresh. Integrating insights from the worlds of psychology, engineering, management, art, and philosophy, Adams identifies the key blocks (perceptual, emotional, cultural, environmental, intellectual, and expressive) that prevent us from realizing the full potential of our fertile minds. Employing unconventional exercises and other interactive elements, Adams shows individuals, teams, and organizations how to overcome these blocks, embrace alternative ways of thinking about complex problems, and celebrate the joy of creativity. With new examples and contemporary references, Conceptual Blockbusting is guaranteed to introduce a new generation of readers to a world of new possibilities. [via]
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- Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0201100894 (0-201-10089-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0201550865 (0-201-55086-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0393950166 (0-393-95016-6)
Softcover, W.W. Norton - Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0716707578 (0-7167-0757-8)
Softcover - Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0201101491 (0-201-10149-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0716707586 (0-7167-0758-6)
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Softcover, Basic Books
- Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas: ISBN 0201100894 (0-201-10089-4)
Conceptual Blockbusting: A Pleasurable Guide to Better Problem Solvingby James L. AdamsISBN 0913374385 (0-913374-38-5)
Hardcover, San Francisco Book Co
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The Courage to Createby Rollo MayISBN 0393311066 (0-393-31106-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage to Create'Book summary:What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?
In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.
A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives. His insightful book offers us a way through our fears into a fully realized self.
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Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhiby Howard GardnerISBN 0465014542 (0-465-01454-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi'Book summary:Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence, Gardner gives us a path breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor. Using as a point of departure his concept of seven intelligences, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in understanding oneself, Gardner examines seven extraordinary individualsSigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Mahatma Gandhieach an outstanding exemplar of one kind of intelligence. Understanding the nature of their disparate creative breakthroughs not only sheds light on their achievements but also helps to elucidate the modern era the times that formed these creators and which they in turn helped to define. While focusing on the moment of each creators most significant breakthrough, Gardner discovers patterns crucial to our understanding of the creative process. Not surprisingly, Gardner believes that a single variety of creativity is a myth. But he supplies evidence that certain personality configurations and needs characterize creative individuals in our time, and that numerous commonalities color the ways in which ideas are conceived, articulated, and disseminated to the public. He notes, for example, that it almost invariably takes ten years to make the initial creative breakthrough and another ten years for subsequent breakthroughs. Creative people feature unusual combinations of intelligence and personality, and Gardner delineates the indispensable role of the circumstances in which an individual works and the crucial reactions of the surrounding group of informed peers. He finds that an essential element of the creative process is the support of caring individuals who believe in the revolutionary ideas of the creators. And he documents the fact that extraordinary creativity almost always carries with it extraordinary costs in human terms.[via]More editions of Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi:
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The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Lifeby Twyla Tharp, Mark ReiterISBN 0743235274 (0-7432-3527-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Life'Book summary: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... [via]
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The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be the Artist You Truly Areby Danny GregoryISBN 1401307922 (1-4013-0792-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be the Artist You Truly Are'Book summary:When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, Danny now offers readers a program for reconnecting to their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs us in the art of allowing ourselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfection and opening our eyes to the beauty around us. The result is the permission to express ourselves fully and take part in the creative process without fear. Artist or not, readers of all stripes will find inspiration in this unique and beautiful book. [via]
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Inventionby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0060928204 (0-06-092820-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention'Book summary:Drawing on hundreds of interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders to poets and artists, the author uses his famous "flow" theory to explain the creative process. Csikszentmihalyi's objective is to offer readers an understanding of what leads to creative moments so that they can use that knowledge to enrich their own lives. [via]
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Drawing on the Artist Within: A Guide to Innovation, Invention, Imagination and Creativityby Betty EdwardsISBN 0671493868 (0-671-49386-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powersby Betty EdwardsISBN 067163514X (0-671-63514-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers'Book summary:AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW!
Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of creativity.
Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.
Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways.
Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.
You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:
* First insight
* Saturation
* Incubation
* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)
* Verification
Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art. [via]
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770874 (0-87477-087-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'Book summary:Revised edition of Betty Edwards' drawing instruction book, in large format with colour illustrations. [via]
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidenceby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770882 (0-87477-088-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence'Book summary:Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting. [via]
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Hardcover, J P Tarcher - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence: ISBN 0874775132 (0-87477-513-2)
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- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence: ISBN 087477523X (0-87477-523-X)
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Fearless Creating: A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Artby Eric MaiselISBN 0874778050 (0-87477-805-0)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fearless Creating: A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art'Book summary:Besides being a writer himself, Eric Maisel is a therapist with a practice centered around artists, writers and performers and has seen many of the demons that haunt the creative life firsthand. In this inventive workbook, he comes up with many exercises designed to help you blast through your own inertia and fear, to get you back to the typewriter, the easel, or on the stage where you belong. [via]
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experienceby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0060920432 (0-06-092043-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience'Book summary:You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary. [via]
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Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experienceby CsikszentmihalyiISBN 1428800271 (1-4288-0027-1)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780060920432 [via]
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 1594200068 (1-59420-006-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity'Book summary:From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" ("The New Yorker"), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. [via]More editions of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity:
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Free Culture: The Nature And Future Of Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 0143034650 (0-14-303465-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: The Nature And Future Of Creativity'Book summary:[via]Lawrence Lessig, the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and cant do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Artby Stephen NachmanovitchISBN 0874776317 (0-87477-631-7)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art'Book summary:This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated - how we can be liberated - to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice.The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. It brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had. [via]
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Holy Places & Temples of Indiaby John HowleyISBN 0965385809 (0-9653858-0-9)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Geniusby Michael GelbISBN 0385323816 (0-385-32381-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius'Book summary:Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:
- Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
- Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
- Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
- Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
- Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
- Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
- Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."
Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]
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How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Dayby Michael GelbISBN 0440508274 (0-440-50827-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day'Book summary:Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:
- Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
- Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
- Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
- Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
- Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
- Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
- Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."
Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]
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If You Want to Writeby Brenda UelandISBN 0915308940 (0-915308-94-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Want to Write'Book summary:This book so speaks to the contemporary writer that it is nearly impossible to believe that it was originally published in 1938. In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland sets forth not just a philosophy about how to write or how to create, but also about how to live. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland's words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland's simple wisdom. "Everybody," writes Ueland in the opening chapter, "is talented, original, and has something important to say." Finding that something important involves embracing creative idleness ("the imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering"), freeing "what we really think, from what we think we ought to think," and "thumb[ing] your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters." One must think, she says, "of telling a story, not of writing it." And when revising one's writing, she advises, "do not try to think of better words, more gripping words.... It is not yet deeply enough imagined." Finally, "whenever you find yourself writing a single word or phrase or page dutifully and with boredom, then leave it out.... If what you write bores you, it will bore other people." And just because If You Want to Write is passionate, sincere, and even spiritual, do not think it is not also witty. One footnote bluntly declaims, "No doubt my terms would horrify a psychologist but I do not care at all." Elsewhere Ueland titles a chapter "Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing." Amen, sister! [via]
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spiritby Brenda UelandISBN 1555972608 (1-55597-260-8)
Softcover, Graywolf Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit'Book summary:This book so speaks to the contemporary writer that it is nearly impossible to believe that it was originally published in 1938. In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland sets forth not just a philosophy about how to write or how to create, but also about how to live. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland's words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland's simple wisdom. "Everybody," writes Ueland in the opening chapter, "is talented, original, and has something important to say." Finding that something important involves embracing creative idleness ("the imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering"), freeing "what we really think, from what we think we ought to think," and "thumb[ing] your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters." One must think, she says, "of telling a story, not of writing it." And when revising one's writing, she advises, "do not try to think of better words, more gripping words.... It is not yet deeply enough imagined." Finally, "whenever you find yourself writing a single word or phrase or page dutifully and with boredom, then leave it out.... If what you write bores you, it will bore other people." And just because If You Want to Write is passionate, sincere, and even spiritual, do not think it is not also witty. One footnote bluntly declaims, "No doubt my terms would horrify a psychologist but I do not care at all." Elsewhere Ueland titles a chapter "Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing." Amen, sister! [via]
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A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge and Warrior to Be More Creativeby Roger Von OechISBN 0060960248 (0-06-096024-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge and Warrior to Be More Creative'Book summary:When was the last time you had a creative idea? This morning? Last month? Last year? Sometimes you need A Kick in the Seat of the Pants to get your thinking going. This book does just that by taking you on a guided tour through the four roles of the creative process-Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior.
- When it's time to seek out new information, adopt the mindset of an Explorer. Get off the beaten path, poke around in outside areas, and pay attention to unusual patterns.
- When you need to create a new idea, let the Artist in you come out. Ask what-if questions and look for hidden analogies. Break the rules and look at things backwards. Add something and take something away. Ultimately, you'll come up with an original idea.
- When it's time to decide if your idea is worth implementing, see yourself as a Judge. Ask what's wrong and if the timing's right. Question your assumptions and make a decision.
- And when you carry your idea into action, be a Warrior. Put a fire in your belly, eliminate your excuses, and do what's necessary to reach your objective.
Kick provides exercises, stories, tips, and Roger von Oech's proven techniques to help you strengthen each of your own creative roles.
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Lateral Thinkingby Edward De BonoISBN 0140137793 (0-14-013779-3)
Softcover, Intl Center for Creative Thinking
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Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Stepby Edward De BonoISBN 0060903252 (0-06-090325-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lateral Thinking:Creativity Step by Step: Creativity Step by Stepby Edward De BonoISBN 0060110074 (0-06-011007-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Mind Map Bookby Barry Buzan, Tony BuzanISBN 0563363738 (0-563-36373-8)
Hardcover, BBC Books
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The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potentialby Barry Buzan, Tony BuzanISBN 0452273226 (0-452-27322-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty EdwardsISBN 1585421952 (1-58542-195-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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The Penthouse Film Guideby Steven PressfieldISBN 0446690260 (0-446-69026-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Lifeby Julia CameronISBN 1585420093 (1-58542-009-3)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life'Book summary:Writing, for Julia Cameron, is neither solely vocation nor avocation: it is a way of life. It comes first thing in the morning, while the horses are waiting to be fed; it happens at the kitchen counter, while the onions are sautéing; it takes place on "dates" at café tables shared with likeminded friends; it unfurls in the mind as the '65 pickup "bucks over the rutted dirt roads like a stiff-legged bronco." The more than 40 brief personal essays that make up The Right to Write are an unyielding affirmation of the writing life and a denigration of all that gets in the way: busy schedules, procrastination, insecurity, lack of writing space, a day job--you get the point. Cameron's commonsense advice is liberating to anyone who has felt hampered by making a big deal out of writing (this "tends to make writing difficult. Keeping writing casual tends to keep it possible"), by not having the time to write ("Get aggressive. Steal time"), or the like. If you find a spirit that compares writing to revelation, prayer, and Zen pursuits, that might just attribute misguided communication to Mercury retrograde simpatico, then you will find much to embrace here. And you will never, never again dream of waiting for that commitment-free sabbatical in the south of France to get your writing project under way. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Lifeby Richard FloridaISBN 1417632518 (1-4176-3251-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life'Book summary:The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have-with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living-the Creative Class.The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea of change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Their choices have already had a huge economic impact. In the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.[via]More editions of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life:
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Six Thinking Hatsby Edward De BonoISBN 0316178314 (0-316-17831-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Thinking Hats'Book summary:YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats": * WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures * RED HAT: the emotional view * BLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hat * YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive * GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas * BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you-and your business, whether it's a start-up or a major corporation-can use to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life. [via]
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Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management from the Creator of Lateral Thinkingby Edward De BonoISBN 0316177911 (0-316-17791-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratchby Julia CameronISBN 1585423548 (1-58542-354-8)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratch'Book summary:In this landmark book on the creative process, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way reveals the intricate soul work artists must undertake in order to find inspiration.
In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal struggles that all artists face. What can we do when we face our keyboard or canvas with nothing but a cold emptiness? How can we begin to carve out our creation when our vision and drive are clouded by life's uncertainties? In other words, how can we begin the difficult work of being an artist?
Drawing upon her many years of personal experience as both an artist and a teacher, Julia Cameron guides readers to a place where they can find the strength and courage to create. Demonstrating how this involves a process of constant renewal, of starting from the beginning, she writes, "When we are building a life from scratch, we must dig a little. We must be like that hen scratching the soil: 'What goodness is hidden here, just below the surface?' we must ask."
With exercises designed to develop the power to infuse one's art with a deeply informed knowledge of the soul, this book is an essential artist's companion from one of the foremost authorities on the creative process. Julia Cameron's most illuminating book to date, The Sound of Paper provides readers with a spiritual path for creating the best work of their lives. [via]More editions of The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratch:
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Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Selfby SarkISBN 068483376X (0-684-83376-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Self'Book summary:This book is my glowing invitation to you -- to live a rich, succulent life! I explore love, sexuality, romance, money, fat, fear and creativity. It's a little bit like reading my diary -- with permission. Succulence is powerFull! and so are we as women. [via]
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Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity for the 90'sby Michael MichalkoISBN 0898154081 (0-89815-408-1)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Thinkertoys A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniquesby Michael MichalkoISBN 1580087736 (1-58008-773-6)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinkertoys A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques'Book summary:Rethink the Way You Think
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, youll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalkos techniques show you how to look at the same information as everyone else and see something different.
With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems. [via]More editions of Thinkertoys A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques:
Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperamentby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 068483183X (0-684-83183-X)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament'Book summary:The march of science in explaining human nature continues. In Touched With Fire, Jamison marshals a tremendous amount of evidence for the proposition that most artistic geniuses were (and are) manic depressives. This is a book of interest to scientists, psychologists, and artists struggling with the age-old question of whether psychological suffering is an essential component of artistic creativity. Anyone reading this book closely will be forced to conclude that it is. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
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The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heartby Julia CameronISBN 0874778794 (0-87477-879-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart'Book summary: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.[via]More editions of The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart:
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Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585422614 (1-58542-261-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity'Book summary:Renowned singer/songwriter Judy Collins's deeply moving memoir chronicles her journey from pain to survival following the suicide of her son, and offers comfort to those who struggle in suicide's aftermath.
In Sanity and Grace, Collins reveals with unflinching honesty the events leading up to and following the death of her only child, culminating when she picks up the pieces of her shattered heart and gathers the strength to move forward. An elegantly written testimony of a survivor, Collins strives at first just to exist, and then to find solace in the face of grief and untimely loss. With this book, she breaks down the barriers of helplessness and secrecy to openly discuss the aftereffects of suicide, and explains how she found a path to hope and clarity.
Sanity and Grace speaks to all who have endured the sorrow of losing a loved one before their time. In the depths of her suffering Collins found relief by reaching out to others for help and support. Now, she extends her hand to comfort other survivors whose lives have been affected by similar tragedy. This inspirational book will serve as a balm to help soothe and heal those wounded by suicide. [via]More editions of Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity:
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battlesby Steven PressfieldISBN 0446691437 (0-446-69143-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battleby Steven PressfieldISBN 1590710037 (1-59071-003-7)
Hardcover, Rugged Land
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle'Book summary:A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul.[via]
What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor-be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece?
Bestselling novelist Steven Pressfield identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.
The War of Art emphasizes the resolve needed to recognize and overcome the obstacles of ambition and then effectively shows how to reach the highest level of creative discipline. Think of it as tough love . . . for yourself.
Whether an artist, writer or business person, this simple, personal, and no-nonsense book will inspire you to seize the potential of your life.More editions of The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle:
A Whack on the Side of the Headby Roger Von OechISBN 1567314570 (1-56731-457-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovationby Roger Von OechISBN 0446380008 (0-446-38000-8)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creativeby Roger Von OechISBN 0446674559 (0-446-67455-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Futureby Daniel PinkISBN 1594481717 (1-59448-171-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future'Book summary:The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here. [via]
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Lifeby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553347756 (0-553-34775-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life'Book summary:Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life [Paperback] by Goldberg, Natalie [via]
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Writing Down the Bonesby Natalie GoldbergISBN 1590302613 (1-59030-261-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Down the Bones'Book summary:Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment. --Ali Perry-Gallagher [via]
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Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Withinby Natalie GoldbergISBN 1590303164 (1-59030-316-4)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within'Book summary:Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment. --Ali Perry-Gallagher [via]
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Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated - Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within: ISBN 1570622582 (1-57062-258-2)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated - Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within: ISBN 0877733759 (0-87773-375-9)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated - Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within: ISBN 1590303164 (1-59030-316-4)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Seis Sombreros Para Pensar/ Six Hats To think: Una Guia De Pensamiento Para Gente De Accion / a Thinking Guide for People of Actionby Eduard De BonoISBN 9506410615 (950-641-061-5)
Softcover, Granica Adelphi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seis Sombreros Para Pensar/ Six Hats To think: Una Guia De Pensamiento Para Gente De Accion / a Thinking Guide for People of Action'Book summary:En Seis sombreros para pensar de Bono alterna párrafos teóricos en los que expone su teoría con ejemplos, cuya intención es demostrar la eficacia del uso de los sombreros para pensar. Al leer el ensayo se tiene la sensación de que bien podría decir lo mismo en una cuarta parte del espacio que utiliza. Es muy frecuente que de Bono utilice expresiones como «deje de pensar con el sombrero negro» o «valore por un momento esta idea desde el sombrero amarillo». Al leer este tipo de ejemplos uno no sabe si de Bono propone utilizar estas fórmulas en serio o si son metáforas que simbolizan los cambios en el modo de pensar. Desde luego, todo parece indicar que lo propone en serio, lo que sin duda resulta entre artificial e infantil. De Bono dice que al principio resultará utilizar este método, pero que una vez se naturalice saldrá de forma espontánea y el pensador se habrá habituado por completo a este proceso. Francamente, desde el sombrero rojo, permítanme que un servidor lo dude. [via]
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