You’ve been told how to think “out of the box,” and even been told to throw the box away, but really, isn’t it time someone taught you how to create your own box in the first place? The Imagineering Workout: Exercises to Shape your Creative Muscles, will do just that, with interactive, ingenious, and practical [More About This Book]
Me, You, Us
Welcome to Me, You, Us—the book to fill out together! This is a creative space for you to share with your friends or a loved one. Just flip to a random page and use the prompts to jot down whatever silly thoughts or sweet memories pop into your brain. Write fortune cookies to each other! [More About This Book]
Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists
Creative block presents the most crippling—and unfortunately universal—challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international artists working in different mediums and mines their insights on how to conquer self-doubt, stay motivated, [More About This Book]
The Complete Artist’s Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
For the millions of readers who have experienced the rich rewards of following any or all of Julia Cameron’s three twelve-week programs for creative recovery, here is a gorgeous cloth-bound edition that includes The Artist’s Way, Walking in This World, and Finding Water. In her introduction, Cameron reflects on the artist’s journey and provides deep [More About This Book]
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives?consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly.As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in [More About This Book]
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind
Take Your First Step Toward True Evolution Ever wonder why you repeat the same negative thoughts in your head? Why you keep coming back for more from hurtful family members, friends, or significant others? Why you keep falling into the same detrimental habits or limiting attitudes?even when you know that they are going to make [More About This Book]
Make Good Art
In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. [More About This Book]
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be the Artist You Truly Are
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 [More About This Book]
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
In Seth Godin’s most inspiring book, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. [More About This Book]
Secret New York: Color Your Way to Calm
A coloring book that will relax and inspire–all the while transporting you to the wonderful world of New York City. Get your pens out, open this book, and discover a New York like you’ve never seen before. Gaze up in awe at the towering buildings and make your way through the bustling streets as you [More About This Book]
Q&A a Day for College: 4-Year Journal
With this one-sentence daily journal, students can create a four-year time capsule of their college experience in the easiest way possible.Q&A a Day for College is the perfect journal for one of the most fast-paced and introspective periods of a person’s life. So much changes along the path from freshman year to graduation. Wouldn’t it [More About This Book]
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)
Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce between [More About This Book]
SoulCollage Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community
SoulCollage® is an accessible collage process with practical applications that has a growing international community. It’s easy to learn and it’s inexpensive. Best of all, it inspires individual creativity and encourages good communication in families and groups. SoulCollage® is adaptable to many contexts and groups. Anyone can enjoy the multi-leveled, creative process. All you need [More About This Book]
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
#1 New York Times Business Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller#1 Washington Post bestseller From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising–and surprisingly useful–new book that explores the power of selling in our lives. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in [More About This Book]
Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as “the best book on memoir out there.” It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial [More About This Book]
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly‘s best books of 2008 (religion category) It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture. [More About This Book]
The Artist’s Way Starter Kit
The Artist’s Way Starter Kit includes Cameron’s two most important Artist’s Way tools-The Artist’s Way and The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal-bound together for a bargain price. This attractive package-shrink-wrapped and with a bellyband-will inspire anyone contemplating beginning the Artist’s Way program to plunge right into this life-changing twelve-week program! The Artist’s Way is the [More About This Book]
Coloring Mandalas 2 (Vol 2)
Coloring the circular designs known as mandalas is a creative activity that brings relaxation, healing, and self-understanding. Susanne Fincher’s first such coloring book, Coloring Mandalas, presented designs organized according to a scheme of twelve archetypal stages that represents a cycle of personal growth. This sequel focuses on a single one of these stages, “Crystallization,” which [More About This Book]
Wreck This Journal (4 Volume Set)
With this bundle, collect all four editions of Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal, including the classic black, as well as three special limited edition covers: duct-tape, red mesh, and paper bag. In these updated editions, Wreck This Journal asks readers to muster up their best mistake and mess-making abilities and to fill the pages of [More About This Book]
No Excuses Art Journaling: Making Time for Creativity
Kiss those excuses goodbye!“I don’t have time.” “I don’t know what to journal about.” “I can’t keep the momentum going.”Sound familiar? What are your excuses for not spending time with your art journal? Get ready to cast those excuses aside because Gina Rossi Armfield’sNo Excuses Art Journaling offers a no-fail approach to art journaling.Using a [More About This Book]
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
In this “unexpected delight,”* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker’s methods as an artist, [More About This Book]
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind.One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The [More About This Book]
HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations
50 questions for insane conversations by Chuck Klosterman. 52 pages. $ 6.98
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Genius is made, not born. And human beings are gifted with an almost unlimited potential for learning and creativity. Now you can uncover your own hidden abilities, sharpen your senses, and liberate your unique intelligence—by following the example of the greatest genius of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. Acclaimed author Michael J. Gelb, who has [More About This Book]
