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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin. Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...
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213 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 16 cm
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In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself--for life. The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it's a loop--so find a daily routine, because today is the only...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than expected. This is a story for anyone, at any age, who has ever had a problem that they wished would go away. It's a story to inspire you to look closely at the problem and to...
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294 pages ; 24 cm
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Messiness adds benefits to our lives, so why do we resist the concept so? Harford uses research from neuroscience, psychology and social science to explain why disorder, confusion, and disarray are actually lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other. He shows that the human inclination for tidiness can mask a deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation.
7) Meditations
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A fantastic voyage awaits. In this audio, Shakti Gawain gently leads us through four exceptional guided meditations. All are carefully designed to help us make positive changes in our lives and to cultivate creativity, intuition, and self-healing. Shakti guides us through each of the following meditations:
* Contacting Your Inner Guide
* Discovering Your Inner Child
* Expressing Your Creative Being
* The Male and Female Within
Prepare...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child's confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens.
9) M train
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M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's...
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x, 446 pages ; 24 cm
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"Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop"--NoveList.
"...Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling...
12) Inkling
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When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
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Tap into your natural ability to create!
* Engaging, proven exercises for developing creativity
* Priceless resource for teachers, artists, actors, everyone
Artist and educator Corita Kent inspired generations of artists, and the truth of her words "We can all talk, we can all write, and if the blocks are removed, we can all draw and paint and make things" still shines through. This revised edition of her classic work Learning by Heart features...
14) Lena's slippers
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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In a time and place of economic hardship and strict teachers, Lena, who wants to dance more than anything else, must devise a creative solution for the recital costume she needs. Includes note about the author's experiences growing up in Romania.
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1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3 cm in a case 22 x 25 cm + 1 USB charging cable + 1 USB power adapter.
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Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using this Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence.
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