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Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A practical career guide for creatively inclined job seekers of all ages. This new edition has been revised to reflect the freedom offered by the new work order, delve more deeply into freelancing as a career, explore social media as it relates to creative job searches, provide new success stories, bring all salary information up to date, and add new job descriptions to the directory of more than 280 creative occupations"--
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This thought-provoking, compact designer's guide from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka, the d.school) helps you learn to lean into the discomfort of turning creative thought into intentional design"--
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's easy for kids to get dejected and believe they're not as smart as the people around them. Maybe they got a low grade on their math test last week, or maybe they have a difficult time making new friends, but what kids may not realize is that math skills and people skills are just two types of smarts. There are actually eight types of smarts: word smarts, music smarts, number smarts, picture smarts, body smarts, people smarts, self smarts, and...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Monty Python comic master shares lighthearted advice on how anyone can learn the skill of creativity, drawing on personal experience to explain how to get into the right frame of mind, develop worthwhile ideas, and overcome blocks.
Author
Publisher
DK, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A clear explanation of what the imagination is and the opportunities that come from the use of it. What is imagination? Most of us think of it as playing pretend or what happens when we’re dreaming, but imagination takes us to worlds and galaxies beyond that. Imagination helps us travel between time, space, and reality. It gives us the power to dream up the world in our own vision and encourages us to think of not just what is, but what could...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years--
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises {u2014} cleverly combined with fascinating infographics and other visuals {u2014} to jump-start creative thinking.
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage reveals why our potential is not limited by what we on our own can achieve; rather, our success is amplified by the successes of those around us. He offers five strategies for exponentially raising our achievement and performance by helping others--colleagues, teams, and employees--be better. For decades, we have thought about potential as being a constellation of individual traits: your creativity,...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Outlines a ten-week program for tapping personal creativity to improve all aspects of life, covering a range of areas from achieving balance and creating conducive workspaces to managing finances and giving back to one's community.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Offers a guide to inventive cooking without recipes, but presents instructions on how to season classic dishes, how to reinvent classic dishes from a new perspective, and Einstein's secret of genius-combinatory play.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to parenting, sometimes you have to trust your gut. With her first book, It's OK Not to Share, Heather Shumaker overturned all the conventional rules of parenting with her "renegade rules" for raising competent and compassionate kids. In It's Ok To Go Up the Slide, Shumaker takes on new hot-button issues with renegade rules such as: - Recess Is A Right - It's Ok Not To Kiss Grandma - Ban Homework in Elementary School - Safety Second...
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