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Creativity is Everything: Rethinking Technology, Schools & Humanity by Sean Thompson

Creativity really is everything.

Want to get more out of life? Embrace creativity.
Want to inspire others? Embrace creativity.
Want to make the world a better place? You guessed it.

In an age where it can feel as though true satisfaction and accomplishment are in short supply, this book has been lovingly crafted to share the insights and experiences of a father, educator and self-proclaimed frustrated-artist-at-heart to inspire and educate through a tale that doesn’t take a long time to share but covers the whole span of human history.

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf)

This is a book written for everyone. You should read it to develop a fuller understanding of this often overlooked (if not outright forgotten and completely misunderstood!) human necessity. You should read it because it’s uplifting, informative and funny. You should read it for the inspiration to get up and find or rekindle your passion. It’s always there, waiting to be picked up, stretched, used and loved.

Why should you read creativity is Everything?

To better understand the role of creativity in life
To get up to speed on how it has evolved throughout history
To learn how you can lead a more satisfying life by engaging your creativity
To share with friends and family to help them do the same

In short, Creativity is Everything, brings you up to speed. It is a lightning fast ride full of exhilarating insights leading to clearer understanding of some of the most important issues surrounding education, creativity and innovation in our digital world and in the schools that help bring forth our future. It is a guidebook to what we could be doing better, based on where we are and how we got here. It answers some fundamental questions about why we need to change while offering some ideas as to how we go about it.

This book will make you think about old things in new ways and encourage you to develop new ideas of your own. It will entertain you along the way. It is a remix. I am just the conductor and arranger of these ideas in a new format.

Get yourself comfortable. We’re going for a ride.

EatingWell Vegetables: The Essential Reference by The Editors of EatingWell

The reference book that combines vegetable love with authoritative knowledge; everything a cook needs to know to buy, store, cook, and enjoy vegetables at their peak

EatingWell magazine is well known as a beacon of knowledge and reliability, helping people create a healthy lifestyle in and out of the kitchen–as well as making that lifestyle enjoyable and attainable. EatingWell Vegetables guides both vegetable lovers and novices through the world of produce, including must-know basics, shopping notes, growing advice, and cooking tips on 100 common and less common vegetables, from arugula to yucca.

Organized alphabetically by vegetable, the book includes information on seasonality and the health benefits of each vegetable, as well as more than 250 recipes with complete nutrition analysis, all tested by the EatingWell Test Kitchen. Each chapter gives core information on preparation, such as how to roast, steam, or sauté each vegetable perfectly. With 200 beautiful color photos of just-picked vegetables, delicious finished dishes, and step-by-step techniques, the book is a guide to the beauty, versatility, and delightful variety of vegetables. 
 

Carthage: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)

Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father’s frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects–a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever.

Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance.

Dark and riveting, Carthage is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness, and asks if it’s ever truly possible to come home again.

The Raw Truth: A Pimp Daughter’s Diary by Venus Opal Reese

From the means streets of Baltimore to Stanford Ph.D., to Black Woman Millionaire, The Raw Truth: A Pimp’s Daughter’s Diary is a relentlessly honest and emotionally intimate account of Dr. Venus Opal Reese’s spiritual healing from a traumatic childhood to salvation and personal power. Inspiring, disturbing, and as “real” as it gets, enter a world very few survive. Ruthlessly authentic, sensually erotic, and viscerally explicit, this story is a road map to guide you, if you’re ready, from socially acceptable acts of self-hate to self-making, self-love, to ultimately self-respect.

When She Returned by Lucinda Berry

One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.

Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult.

Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down–her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before.

While the family tries to help Kate reintegrate into society, they discover truths they’ve been hiding from each other about their own relationships. But they aren’t the only ones with secrets. As the family unravels what happened to Kate, a series of shocking revelations shows that Kate’s return is more sinister than any of them could have imagined.