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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

by Richard Florida

The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental... (more)

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

by Ken Robinson

"This really is a remarkable book. It does for human resources what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for the environment. It makes you wonder why we insist on sustaining an education system that is narrow, partial, entirely inappropriate for the 21st century and deeply destructive of human potential when human beings have so much latent creative ability to offer. A brilliant analysis." Wally Olins, Founder,... (more)

The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning

The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning

by John T. Bruer

Most parents today have accepted the message that the first three years of a baby's life determine whether or not the child will grow into a successful, thinking person. But is this powerful warning true? Do all the doors shut if baby's brain doesn't get just the right amount of stimulation during the first three years of life? Have discoveries from the new brain science really proved that parents are wholly... (more)

Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

by Michael Sims

The critically acclaimed author brings a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s soul to a delightful tour of a single day on Earth Most of us do not give a second thought to the elemental rhythms of daily life. In Apollo’s Fire , Michael Sims sets out to open our eyes—literally—to the miraculous events that lie underneath the oldest story on Earth: the passing of a single day. In a profound and witty narrative... (more)

The When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living

The When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living

by Mark Matousek

How people who have suffered trauma find an upside when they’ve gone to the brink—and back again. Do survivors of life’s greatest trials possess a secret knowledge? Is there an art to survival—a map for crossing the wilderness—or daily life? Why do some people blossom through adversity while others stop growing? Drawing on twenty years’ experience in this field, using stories, parable, and scientific data,... (more)

The Journal of John Woolman

by John Woolman

John Woolman (1720-1772) was the child of Quaker parents, and from his youth was a zealous member of the Society of Friends. His "Journal," published posthumously in 1774, describes his way of life and the spirit in which he did his work.

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