LoMenzo, Angela
Summary: "Writer, makeup artist, and creative director Angela LoMenzo combines stunning photography and powerful real stories to shine a light on the wild and wondrous journeys of twenty-five extraordinary and deeply creative women." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.0925 LOMKleon, Austin.
Summary: A guide to creativity in the digital age, this book presents ten transformative principles to help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors. You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from the author, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company 2012
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Summary: "Asakusa loves to design worlds. Mizusaki loves to animate. Kanamori loves to make money! And at Shibahama High, they call them Eizouken-a three-girl club determined to produce their own spectacular science fiction anime! But with no budget from their school and a leaky warehouse for a studio, Eizouken is going to have to work hard and use their imagination...the one thing they've got plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEEBahcall, Safi
Summary: "'Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things that change the world. It's also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets behind successes everywhere.' --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees What do James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BAHMcAneney, Caitie
Summary: "Getting creative is one way to deal with hard feelings, such as anger or sadness. Kids can get creative in many different ways, such as making art, music, and even dance routines. This helps kids use their energy in a positive way and express how they feel. This book introduces kids to new ideas for getting creative to find their calm. Early readers will benefit from simple, effective language...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 155.4 MCAKizu, Natsuki
Summary: "Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to each other--always brings them back together again. As the band races toward their first live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SuBLime Manga 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GIVKizu, Natsuki
Summary: "Now that Given has an offer to record their debut album, each of the band's members must decide whether to get serious about trying to go pro. Though Ritsuka doesn't have a single doubt in his mind, Mafuyu isn't ready to commit. Frustrated by Mafuyu's indecisiveness, Ritsuka shifts his focus to playing in the band of his former rival Hiragi, but Hiragi is having his own troubles with bandmate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SuBLime
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GIVAlkire, Jessie
Summary: Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Code It! Programming and Keyboards You Can Create Yourself, kids will make a computer key out of a banana and use popular software programs to code music, game characters, and more! Step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips help troubleshoot and use the materials within the makerspace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Millions of Americans are beginning to work and live the way creative people like artists and scientists always have - and as a result our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time, are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living - the Creative Class. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 FLOGovindarajan, Vijay.
Summary: Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world's best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 GOVSaltz, Gail
Summary: "A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.9 SALSnow, Todd.
Summary: Illustrates the different ways children can act and still be creative, from rolling around on the ground in play to making goofy faces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maren Green Pub. 2007
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SNOCleese, 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 CLELehrer, 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 LEHNicolelis, Miguel A. L.
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 NICShenk, Joshua Wolf.
Summary: "Recently writers like Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Johnson, and Clay Shirky have sought to explain creativity as the work of lucky, hardworking people or the result of certain qualities of a particular environment or group of people. Joshua Wolf Shenk shows how such notions, as appealing as they are, miss the essence of creativity, which is generated by people working in pairs. From John Lennon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 SHEVarol, Ozan O.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 VAROtoshi, 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 OTORubin, Rick
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 GURSummary: Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GABGoldstein, David B.
Summary: Helps each reader unleash his or her innate creative skills based on a unique personality type and succeed in every endeavor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.264 KROHartmann, Thom
Summary: Most people do not “grow out” of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For many, their ADHD traits have led to difficulties in school, relationships, and work. But for our hunter-gatherer ancestors these characteristics were necessary for survival. Hunters must be easily distractible, constantly scanning their environment, and unafraid of taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Street Press 2016
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Summary: Offers young Star Wars fans projects and experiments inspired by the Star Wars universe, including instructions on making Jabba slime, Kyber crystals, and an Ewok catapult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018