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1) Think like a rocket scientist: simple strategies you can use to make giant leaps in work and life
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We're experiencing a second age of spaceflight, and the renaissance of rocket science is captivating the world. Movies and television shows set in this sphere consistently top the charts, and millions tune in to watch SpaceX launches. Although we glamorize rocket science, we assume that it's beyond comprehension by mere mortals who don't have a special kind of genius baked into their DNA (hence the common saying, "It's not rocket science"). Yet while...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you re in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet!.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious...
5) Square
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Argues that only those companies that are capable of creating radical industry revolutions will prosper in the twenty-first-century economy; explains how business managers and owners can start a revolution in their own companies; and presents a plan for making innovation as common as quality or customer service.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn't about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real...
10) Meet Yasmin!
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
12) The tornado
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For Bell Kirby, school is about sketching and avoiding a bully who happens to be the principal's son, until new student Daelynn arrives and turns everything upside-down.
14) Lola Dutch
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's the beginning of a new day, and Lola Dutch is bursting with creative ideas! Even if her enthusiasm is a 'bit much' for some, with the help of her animal friends she is inspired to make every day amazing!"--
15) What if
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A child who likes to draw and write stories imagines what would happen if there were no pencils, paper, or other tools for being creative.
16) Happy dreamer
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A "dreamer maximus" describes the many ways one can dream, and the importance of being a happy dreamer.
17) The Unwanteds
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The former world chess champion who played, and lost, against Deep Blue, a supercomputer, in 1997 discusses why he thinks humans should embrace the competition between themselves and machine intelligence.
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