 | The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Ray Ph.D.
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.31 This is the book which started the "cultural creatives" movement ... which says of its members that they make up 25% of the US population.
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 | The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $2.75 This book is the definitive placebo pill for your creativity: it gives people who are marginally creative an artistic-sounding label by which to brand themselves.
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 | Necktie for a Two-Headed Tadpole: a Modern-Day Alchemy Book by Jason Murk
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 This is the book that tells you that you can't read about corporate creativity in any book! If you brand yourself as a cultural creative, then you should think twice and read this book.
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 | Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel
Buy new: $14.04 / Used from: $0.01 Avoid any book on creativity written for businessmen; I include this book in this list so you know what kind of book to avoid!
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 | Creative Sparks: An Index of 150+ Concepts, Images and Exercises to Ignite Your Design Ingenuity by Jim Krause
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $2.20 As with any book on creativity geared towards post-dotcom design-school dropouts, you have to sometimes know when to skip a couple chapters. This book is no exception.
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 | Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho, Insights for a New Way of Living.) by Osho
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.49 Osho is aen elliptical genius who never quite comes out and says what he wants to say -- this, by the way, is what makes him such a genius.
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 | A Kick in the Seat of the Pants by Roger Von Oech
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01 This is the book on creativity that your mom or dad once read. Its lessons are still useful, even if the pants are a bit faded in the crotch.
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 | The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon by Mark Bryan
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $1.00 There's no such thing as spiritual fulfillment in the workplace, even though this book says otherwise.
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 | Your Life As Art by Robert Fritz
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $18.00 A bit dreamy and drifty, but it somehow manages to offer practical advice.
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 | The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $9.23 Twyla Tharp is a (strange) genius, even if this book comes off sounding at times like a management book.
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 | Creative License, The: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.12 Give yourelf permission to buy this book!
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