Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing
Pursuing new ideas is clearly the way to gain business advantage in the new millennium. But it's not enough to simply chase after ideas that have already happened. To truly benefit, individuals and organizations have to foster the new creative impulses around them. "Coolfarming" shows readers how they, like bee keepers, can nurture exciting trends and unleash their creative swarm's output of 'next big ideas.
Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women
This invaluable and very special guide goes straight to the experts: successful women who have made their mark in more than 10 different creative fields. These top designers and artisans offer insights gleaned from years of experience, reveal how they constructed their own creative spaces, and explain how the reader can make practical use of these decorating, organizational, and inspirational techniques as they go about designing their own work areas. Among the pertinent questions they answer: Where did you like to work as a child?
YarnPlay: Colorful Techniques + Projects for the Creative Knitter
Playing with yarn and color adds a whole new dimension to your handknits. Each of these patterns features multiple colors used in unexpected ways to create beautiful effects. Whether you like monochromatic shades or lots and lots of stripes or two bold tones side by side, you're bound to find pieces you'll love to knit for your home, yourself, or for a special friend, baby or family member.
Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking
The standard way of thinking about decisions is backwards, says Ralph Keeney: people focus first on identifying alternatives rather than on articulating values. A problem arises and people react, placing the emphasis on mechanics and fixed choices instead of on the objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning.
180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited
From the editors of The Teacher's Calendar and Chase's Calendar of Events comes an indispensable classroom resource for educators of grades K-8. Here are 180 lesson plan supplements--one for each day of the school year--that will give teachers ready access to an abundance of practical, do-able activities and listings of very helpful resources to enrich lessons and encourage student participation.
Ideas are presented chronologically by month, but are also keyed by subject area (math, science, language arts, etc.) for maximum ease of use.
