Rules of the Red Rubber Ball
by Kevin Carroll
$14.95

With simple-but-delightful storytelling, Carroll channels his childhood passion for sport and play into a universally appealing blueprint for life. Drawing wisdom from the Philadelphia ball fields of his youth, where he spent hour upon hour sharpening his body and his mind, he teaches readers how to achieve maximum human potential through the power of play and creativity. Finding your own red rubber ball and chasing it to your heart's content, he argues, is the surest route to peace, prosperity and happiness. Over the years as an athletic trainer and public speaker, Carroll has transformed his philosophy into seven simple rules that any successful leader will endorse: 1) Commit to it, 2) Seek out encouragers, 3) Work out your creative muscle, 4) Prepare to shine, 5) Speak up, 6) Expect the unexpected, and 7) Maximize the day. But Carroll's formula for success is not the real value of this book. His ability to inspire people is. Give him five minutes of your time and you will look at life in a whole new way. We guarantee it.

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Applied Imagination
by Alex F. Osborn
$25.95

This book is a reprint of the third revised edition of Alex F. Osborn's classic text in creative problem solving. In Applied Imagination, Dr. Osborn speaks of the importance of imagination in all areas of life. It is possible to approach your creative potential through exposure to and exercise of the principles and techniques presented in this book.

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Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness
by Dr. Dorothy A. Sisk and Dr. E. Paul Torrance
$24.95

Concerning the river of life, there are two ways to approach it, one is to sit on the bank, clinging to the side and watch the river as it passes by. The other is to jump in, navigate your own way down the river and enjoy an invigorating journey! Developing your higher consciousness and using your inner-knowing will point the way toward greater fulfillment in your life.

In Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness, you will have an opportunity to examine what Sisk and Torrance call Spiritual Pathfinders, individuals who shaped their own lives and the lives of others to "make a difference", and learn about the characteristics of spiritual intelligence. You will learn how to tap into your intuition and visualization, as powerful means of using your inner knowing. Whatever we teach or do, ultimately we teach who we are.

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Creativity Assessment: Readings and Resources
Edited by Dr. Gerard J. Puccio and Dr. Mary C. Murdock
$65.00

This book brings together a comprehensive and systematic review of the all-important topic, creativity assessment. It includes many significant journal articles that have been published on the topic in recent years. Its scope is purposefully broad and its resources and bibliography are truly impressive. Creativity Assessment: Readings and Resources is an invaluable and not-to-be missed resource for students, researchers and practitioners of creativity.

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Essential Elements to Business Success: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Creativity
Edited by George T. Solomon, D.B.A. and Bruce G. Whiting, D.B.A.
$18.00

The contributors to this book are well-respected and knowledgeable individuals in their respective fields. All have made contributions that may help us better understand the integral nature of the creativity-entrepreneurship relationship. Each paper was selected in an attempt to forge a useful balance by focusing on an important aspect of one of these two phenomena.

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Making the Creative Leap Beyond
Dr. E. Paul Torrance & Dr. H. Tammy Safter
$26.95

Making the Creative Leap Beyond is more than a revised edition of The Search for Satori and Creativity. This book has been "reconceptualized" and new material has been added to make it a richer, more comprehensive and more motivating source material for teachers and any individual who strives to maintain the "child-like" spirit in his/her creative work and lifestyle.

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Thinking Up Magic Video Series
Zepcom Corporation & The Creative Education Foundation
$39.95 each

"An Interview with Sid Parnes" hosted by Gregg Fraley
This video presents a unique combination of the CPS process, a personal interview with Sid, and a trip down memory lane with photos and visuals from CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) in the early days.

"Roger Firestien Speaks!"
This video introduces creative principles to groups. Dr. Firestien, author of Leading on the Creative Edge, shares methods, concepts, and ideas for improving organizational and personal effectiveness through creativity. His fast paced delivery and sense of humor entertains as he educates.

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Gifted and Talented Children in the Classroom
by E. Paul Torrance and Dorothy S. Sisk
$24.95

World renowned leaders in gifted education, Dr. E. Paul Torrance and Dr. Dorothy S. Sisk team up in Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom to share their wealth of experience. The authors believe "that it is time to devise concepts and procedures which will engage the gifted and non-gifted in such a way that all children may attain their highest potential." In Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom this is precisely what they attempt to do.

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Brain Storm Alone
by Maggie Dugan and Rich Reis
$19.95

Brainstorm Alone, the Creative Problem Solving Tape gives you an opportunity to use the Osborn-Parnes CPS model, in its entirety, quickly, and on your own. Two guided programs, one for professional challenges and one for more personal issues, prompt and lead you through the CPS process, step by step. In about 35 minutes, you will end up with a long list of new ideas, a clear-cut solution and a solid action plan to bring your idea to life, all by yourself!

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Optimize The Magic of Your Mind
by Sidney J. Parnes
$20.00

This highly readable, hands-on book provides the most theory-based, researched, and field-tested program for creativity enhancement available today. Literally hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the world have been exposed to these teachings through workshops, institutional courses, and other programs.

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Growing Up Creative
by Teresa M. Amabile
$14.95

Here is a myth shattering look at the most important and misunderstood aspect of a child's development: Creativity. Based on almost 15 years of research with hundreds of children, Growing Up Creative answers the questions parents and teachers ask most frequently: What is Creativity? How is it different from talent or intelligence? And why is it so important? Growing Up Creative is filled with dozens of concrete, hands-on exercises and techniques that can help a parent or teacher keep creativity alive at home and at school .

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Mystic in the Marketplace
by William F. Sturner
$16.95

A stunning psychological analysis of our capacity for spiritual living. This landmark study, fifteen years in preparation, has all the vitality, immediacy and good humor that have long characterized Sturner's workshops on the Spiritual Journey. This tour de force brilliantly integrates graphic models of spiritual development, penetrating analyses of the religious impulse, and practical exercises that combine imaging, body sculpturing and music. It will assuredly awaken your instinctive desire to both emulate the divine and cultivate your capacity to live as a mystic in the marketplace.

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Impact: Transforming Your Organization
by William F. Sturner
$19.95

The best management theories -- continuous improvement, total quality control and now, reengineering -- tell us it is imperative that our organizations become more efficient and effective. Some models even help us understand what specifically needs to change. The brilliance of Impact is that it does not stop with advice but goes to a new plateau of organized action. In ten clear and achievable steps, William Sturner -- an innovative manager turned consultant -- literally shows us how to achieve such dramatic results.

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Source Book for Creative Problem Solving
Edited by Sidney J. Parnes
$44.95

Source Book for Creative Problem Solving provides the most comprehensive compilation of valuable information available on creative problem-solving -- sectioned, head-noted and indexed for ease of reference. Source Book for Creative Problem-Solving is a "mini-encyclopedia" for trainers, teachers, practitioners, managers, parents, scholars, students and their libraries. It contains the most diverse, relevant and representative selection available of articles from half a century of effort in creativity development.

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Visionizing
By Sidney J. Parnes
$29.95 for the book

This book is designed for those interested in encouraging and nurturing creative awareness, attitudes and accomplishments in themselves and others. It blends expanded imagery and analogy processes with the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process. It also features and integrates researched and time-tested instructional materials from earlier publications. Visionizing makes explicit and expands the "opportunity-finding" processes which are largely implicit in general CPS programs -- what is termed in the Osborn-Parnes model, "sensitivity to objectives or messes." It greatly expands upon "the front end of the CPS process." This second edition summarizes significant new enrichments the author has been making in Creative Problem Solving in recent years. It also explains CPS's relationship to Visionizing. The foreword and short preface provide insight into how the past 50 years of research and development enabled the constant growth and revisions of the CPS program. The material in Part II is presented unchanged from the original edition, as much as it shows exactly how the original courses were presented and modified as more was learned over the decades. The following sections contain much insight into what research and development has taught us about constantly inventing better models, methods and techniques for deliberate development of creativity/innovation:
1. How the material was developed
2. Special Supplement to Session 7
3. Appendix A - Correlated Extending Sessions

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Implementing Innovative Solutions
by Gordon S. Bonner
$10.00

After many years of study and practice in creative problem solving (CPS) methodologies, Gordon Bonner has applied CPS very successfully in his own management consulting work and in scores of training programs for industrial groups. Implementing Innovative Solutions is an outgrowth of Bonner's work, and has been used productively with hundreds of his trainees and clients. This work provides a condensed summary of practical exercises and guidesheets to help anyone develop and implement creative solutions to challenges and problems.

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Breaking the Barriers to Everyday Creativity
by Noland VanDemark
$19.95

The author's experiences over the past forty years have repeatedly shown that many of the losses in creative potential can be avoided, overcome, or at least diminished. Dr. VanDemark alerts everyone to become aware of these forces, and then understand and avoid them, or at least deal with them in a manner which is less harmful to creative efforts. Breaking Barriers to Everyday Creativity brings together and integrates a wealth of materials into a useful working pattern based on the broad experiences and time tested efforts of the author.

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The Creative Process
Edited by Angelo M. Biondi
$4.95

The creative process is generally used by people who have been encouraged to apply their natural talent for imagination or by those who have had instruction and practice in forcing hidden capabilities into operation. If many more people could be induced to utilize their privilege of creating, confidence rather than unhappiness would result. The selections in this book are to acquaint the reader with an understanding of what is entailed in the creative process and an effective five-step creative problem solving method from which to utilize.

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