The Creative Connection

"Creative Living" was born of the author’s desire to stay balanced and at peace at all times. She began writing this book in the hope of finding ways to manage her inner world of thoughts and emotions

From a comedian and host of hit TED podcast,How to Be a Better Human, a hilarious and enlightening guide to laughing your way into a fuller life“Warning: this book may cause repeated smiling. It’s a delightful read about how we can bring more levity into our lives.”—Adam Grant, author ofHidden PotentialandThink AgainIn his days as an exhausted fifth grade teacher, Chris Duffy taught the funniest person he’s ever met: eleven-year-old Gary. Gary was the school newspaper’s official food critic, blasting cafeteria pizza for looking like cardboard and opining that the baked beans weren’t “beany” enough. These days, Duffy is a professional comedy writer and the host of a podcast with millions of listeners, but he’s never forgotten the transformative joy of laughing with Gary during a bleak Boston winter. InHumor Me,he shares a road map for how to cultivate and strengthen a sense of humor in a challenging world.Duffy embarks on a journey that takes him from comedy clubs to emergency rooms to

Creative Colour for Cake Decorating Learn how to choose and use colours creatively in your cake decorating projects with 10 amazing cake designs from Lindy Smith, author of the international bestseller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Discover how to adapt cake designs to your own colour schemes, how to take colour inspiration from objects and environments around you to create your own unique palettes, and how to use the food paste colours available to best effect on stunning decorated cakes. Includes 10 colour-themed chapters each with an amazing cake decorating design and additional cupcake or cookie projects in alternative colourways, to show how selecting different colours can dramatically change the feel of your design. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover every stage of cake design, from baking cakes and mixing colours to sugar modeling and adding finishing touches – perfect for both beginner and experienced cake decorators alike! Featuring a fully comprehen

Insanity-free solutions for a beautiful, meaningful wedding that reflects your taste (and your budget), from the creator of APracticalWedding.com

This work details the physical and psychological descent into methamphetamine addiction, using interviews with addicts to illustrate, and describes paths to recovery.

Based on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-PaigeA's thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too

This book discusses the key ideas and pedagogical interventions behind research with young children, aged 4-10, while developing two new software applications for improvising and composing. MIROR Impr

Creative, engaging, thought-provoking prompts for every day of the school year! More than 300 ways to motivate even your most reluctant writers. Topics include feelings, ethics, "imagineering," quota

The ideal book for urban gardeners, indoor gardeners, and vegetable gardeners, Container Gardening Complete is a thorough visual guide that will get you growing quickly!Whether you are growing vegetab

A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killersEverybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own bes

Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from b

Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from b

The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome and more. Here, po

Paint the seasons in your favorite colors with RedAgape’s wonderful crochet designs! Designer RedAgape’s unique sense for color palettes and original crochet designing is married in this e

*Financial Times Business Book of the Month* ‘Fascinating.’ Forbes Safe thinking is everywhere. It defines our everyday routines, work habits and ideas. There’s just one problem with it: in a world of

Make your mark and explore hours of exercises using everyone's favorite marker- anywhere!Now in an all-new format, the creative technique exercises from Sharpie Art Workshop by designer, artist, and a

Colorists can make the grade with 31 chalkboard-style designs printed on a realistic, black background. Each illustration features an inspiring saying, from "Dream Big" and "

Behind every successful venture, there's a great idea. If you haven't found your great idea yet, or if you've always thought you "just weren't the creative type," Jordan Ayan's accessible and enterta

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium’s leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One pro

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium’s leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One pro

Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a three-part book on the non-toxic process of making ink-on-paper intaglio prints from continuous-tone p

Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a three-part book on the non-toxic process of making ink-on-paper intaglio prints from continuous-tone p

Making Peg Dolls is Margaret Bloom’s first book and it introduces us to her magical world of peg dolls. Coming from the waldorf handcraft tradition, these peg dolls are made from natural materials and

How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 is a practical and activity-based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry in the primary classroom. Designed to help build writing,

In the world of texts and email, more and more schools are replacing handwriting curriculum with computer-based lessons, and children have a harder time using a pen or pencil than a keyboard or touchs

Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei It's easy to romanticize artists, but they are actually some of the most practical, busines

Created in the spirit of her funny and functional Work It! 17-Month Desk Jotter Calendar, Every Day Is Epic is a 365-day guided journal full of Mary Kate McDevitt’s witty illustrated prompts that enc

This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist's inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all, this salve for creatives introduces ten truths they must face in order to defeat se

If there’s no stability in the corporate world, why not do what you love? Creative Girl shows women how to turn their talents into a money-making career…smartly. Whether readers are just

Write your legend, draw your destiny, and take flight!The legend starts with you!Do you love to draw or write? Do you have your very own dragon stories to tell? In this official Wings of Fire journal,

Everyone has said it: if I only had more xxx, I could get this project completed (or make more money; start my business; write a novel; record a song). But instead of focusing on the project, we proc

Learning God’s Word Is Fun for Everyone! Don’t watch the kids’ eyes cloud over by setting a Bible in front of them. Instead, give kids ages four to eighty-four a game, c