A guide to self-improvement, happiness, and creativity outlines practical steps for identifying personal talents, merging one's passions with inherent abilities, and transforming interests into income.

Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.--

Graphic designer Rilla Alexander presents a new project that explores the creative process - and that age old problem of procrastination.

Each morning Maya and her sister collect seashells, scrub them to a sparkle, and string them together, but when Alita throws away shells she deems too ugly, Maya, remembering words of her grandmother, turns the clunky shells into a helpful and beautiful wind chime.

Eighteen-year-old Laila Piedra is a biracial aspiring author whose creative writing teacher always told her she has a special talent, so when he suddenly dies and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval and is led to believe she must choose between perfection and sanity, but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may...

"A new novel from the author of Walking On the Ceiling, about a woman coming undone"-- A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes. She rents an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art. The student is increasingly aware of Agnes's...

David W. Galenson is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books, including Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art. When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation,...

En Seis personajes en busca de un autor, Pirandello escribe sobre personajes que necesitan un autor para darles vida. Este libro podría tener como título Un pensamiento en busca de un pensador. Podemos considerar al psicoanálisis como un proceso de transformación en pensamiento onírico. Las transformaciones psicoanalíticas suponen un camino que va desde un lenguaje de sustitución, rutinario, en donde no se dice nada nuevo a un lenguaje de logro,...

A child, struggling with what to write about, is swept up in a whirlwind of words, pictures, and ideas, until she finds herself caught in a downpour of her own creativity. Includes writing prompts and glossary.

A young girl unleashes her inner spark and expresses her creativity and uniqueness during Carnival's lively atmosphere.