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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 381,497 ratings — published 1979
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,649 ratings — published 2000
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,389 ratings — published 1918
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 111,911 ratings — published 1994
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 121,056 ratings — published 2002
Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.18 — 176 ratings — published 2011
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
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avg rating 4.08 — 19,633 ratings — published 2010
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 5 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,533 ratings — published 2009
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 31,064 ratings — published 1976
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,921 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,292 ratings — published 125
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass Teacher)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,845 ratings — published 2011
Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 797 ratings — published 2012
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 236,189 ratings — published 2015
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,272 ratings — published 1966
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8,464 ratings — published 1983
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 340,153 ratings — published 2012
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 51,986 ratings — published 1997
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 11,909 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,068 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 132,413 ratings — published 1993
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as instruction)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,167 ratings — published 1940
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,584 ratings — published 1994
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,395 ratings — published 1999
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 15,714 ratings — published 1985
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 24,515 ratings — published 1943
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,507 ratings — published 1973
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,241 ratings — published 2008
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,994 ratings — published 1961
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,187 ratings — published 2015
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,902 ratings — published 2018
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,160,654 ratings — published 1936
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,277 ratings — published 2007
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.15 — 101,231 ratings — published 2014
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 578,214 ratings — published -500
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 385,632 ratings — published 1937
Learning to Weave (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 373 ratings — published 1995
A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 146 ratings — published 2001
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.00 — 280 ratings — published 2008
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,492 ratings — published 2008
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,642 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,839 ratings — published 1979
Creative Illustration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,274 ratings — published 1947
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 6,604 ratings — published 1956
Fun with a Pencil (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,489 ratings — published 1939
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 119,832 ratings — published 2002
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,139 ratings — published 1993
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,325 ratings — published 2003
Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 115 ratings — published 2001
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 168,549 ratings — published 2001
“Break the cinnamon in half.'
The cinnamon stick was light, curled around itself like a brittle roll of papyrus. Not a stick at all, Lillian remembered as she look closer, but bark, the meeting place between inside and out. It crackled as she broke it, releasing a spiciness, part heat, part sweet, that pricked her eyes and nose, and made her tongue tingle without even tasting it.”
― The School of Essential Ingredients
The cinnamon stick was light, curled around itself like a brittle roll of papyrus. Not a stick at all, Lillian remembered as she look closer, but bark, the meeting place between inside and out. It crackled as she broke it, releasing a spiciness, part heat, part sweet, that pricked her eyes and nose, and made her tongue tingle without even tasting it.”
― The School of Essential Ingredients
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail.”
― Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist
― Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist
