Tabor, Corey R.
Summary: Ladies and gentlebugs, presenting the duke of the dandelion patch, champion of truth and justice, the one, the only--Sir Ladybug! Sir Ladybug never shies away from a quest, even when he'd rather be playing a video game or baking a cake. So when a caterpillar needs rescuing from a "monster" (a hungry chickadee), Sir Ladybug and his trusty friends--his herald, a roly-poly named Pell, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TABContents: Disc 1: The creative person: practice and passion -- Lateral thinking is a survival skill -- Creative styles: adaptors and innovators -- Combining opposites: diverge, then converge -- Principles for unleashing your imagination -- Principles for converging on the best ideas -- disc 2: Stages of the creative process, and you -- Clarifying the challenge -- Clarify even more: webbing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2014
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Cleese, John
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 CLETullet, Hervé
Summary: The author meditates on the search for an idea, and the wonderful feeling when the right idea comes along, unleashing the creative process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE TULLehrer, Jonah.
Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Lehrer ("How We Decide") introduces readers to musicians, graphic artists, poets, and bartenders to show how they can use science to be more imaginative and make their cities, their companies, and their culture more creative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 LEHPressfield, Steven.
Summary: "In this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. The War of Art is an inspirational, funny, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Irish Entertainment 2012
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Summary: This book(let) provides an introduction to the concepts of mind maps, a tool which can take your research skills to new levels you never imagined were possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 AronsGrazer, Brian
Summary: "From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television shows--from 24 to A Beautiful Mind. For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly "curiosity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.8 GRAJakes, T. D.
Summary: "For most of our lives, we are encouraged to trudge along the well-worn paths of those who have come before us. We learn the rules-- in our families, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our churches-- and most of the messages we receive tell us that following the rules will allow us to arrive at the lives we desire. But when change becomes not only desirable but also urgently necessary, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 JAKKerr, Iain
Summary: "Innovating Emergent Futures lays out a ground-breaking radically new method for innovation, invention, design, and creativity. Prototyped globally over the last decade, and built on 20+ years of cutting-edge field research, testing, and development--it has been used to transformatively engage the most vexing challenges of the 21st century, develop alternative business models, and new fields of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emergent Futures Lab Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KERHerman, Amy
Summary: "An art historian and lawyer who uses works of art to teach us how to hone our perceptions and visual intelligence, presents a paradigm-shattering twist on problem solving that helps us find solutions to the problems we face every day. As technology has become essential to our daily lives, our reliance on the internet and our electronic devices has exploded, short-circuiting our brains and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperwave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist placing the human brain at the center of humanity's universe. Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8233 NICOtoshi, Kathryn
Summary: Little hands can do so many wonderful things: plant ideas; lift spirits; stretch imaginations. This colorful concept book rouses children to use their hands for the good and reach for their dreams.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OTOWorley, Peter
Summary: This book is a collection of practical lesson and activity plans to use in the primary classroom that will get children thinking philosophically and creatively around different curriculum areas. The sessions- called thought adventures- use thought experiments, stories and poems to get children discussing and understanding topics more deeply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.8 WORSummary: "It's time to get a little wild! These just-for-fun games including Yumsters, Ninja Blitz, and Candy Bash are a great way for kids to unwind, relieve stress, challenge their skills, and play against their highest scores."--Container.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: Sir Ladybug--the duke of the dandelion patch, champion of truth and justice--is on a new quest! He and his herald, Pell, and his trusty squire, Sterling, will have to be extra-clever to outwit the mean Queen Bee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TABCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TABMichalko, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 MICOgle, Richard.
Contents: Outing the mind -- Spaces to think with : reason, imagination, and the discovery of DNA -- Genius, imagination, and the nature of mind -- The fools on the hill : tipping points and the microcomputer revolution -- Darwinian networks, or why the fit get fitter -- The mathematical ecology of creativity -- Sex and the single doll : Barbie, Ruth Handler, and the navigation problem -- Think different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 OGLGrant, Adam M.
Summary: ""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world." --Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.3 GRATharp, Twyla.
Summary: Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part of your life: In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. In The Creative Habit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 THAGordon, Barry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.1 GordoCsikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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Summary: A comprehensive playbook for applied design thinking in business and management, complete with concepts and toolkits As many companies have lost confidence in the traditional ways of running a business, design thinking has entered the mix. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MOOPressfield, Steven.
Summary: Turning pro is free, but it's not easy. When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. Turning pro is free, but it demands sacrifice. The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Irish Entertainment 2012