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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 381,455 ratings — published 1979
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 320,617 ratings — published 2000
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,386 ratings — published 1918
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 111,906 ratings — published 1994
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 121,036 ratings — published 2002
Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators (Paperback)
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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 — 19,624 ratings — published 2010
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
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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 — 31,062 ratings — published 1976
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,352 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,285 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 — 236,156 ratings — published 2015
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,269 ratings — published 1966
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8,461 ratings — published 1983
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 340,108 ratings — published 2012
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 51,977 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 — 11,908 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,067 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 132,399 ratings — published 1993
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,166 ratings — published 1940
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 9,581 ratings — published 1994
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10,394 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 — 24,508 ratings — published 1943
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,510 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 — 2,993 ratings — published 1961
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,167 ratings — published 2015
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 13,898 ratings — published 2018
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,160,497 ratings — published 1936
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,276 ratings — published 2007
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 101,197 ratings — published 2014
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 578,108 ratings — published -500
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 385,584 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)
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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 4.22 — 3,491 ratings — published 2008
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,641 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as instruction)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,838 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 — 6,603 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 — 119,810 ratings — published 2002
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,140 ratings — published 1993
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 34,320 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 — 168,536 ratings — published 2001
“The same acting-out, the same loss of distance and the same fall into the real threatens thought too, as soon as it crosses the demarcation line which is that of its impossible exchange with truth, as soon as it comes to act out truth.
Thought must at all costs keep itself from reality, from the real projection of ideas and their translation into acts.
The Overman and the Eternal Return are, in this way, visions and they have the sovereignty of a hypothesis. If we try to turn them into acts or faits accomplis, they become monstrous and ridiculous.
The same goes for less visionary perspectives, such as biogenetic experimentation on the human species: as a hypothesis, this opens up all kinds of metaphysical and anthropological questions. But if we move from potential mutation to real projection (as Peter Sloterdijk does in his Menschenpark project), we lose all philosophical distance; and thought, in mingling with the real course of things, offers merely a false alternative to the operation of the system.
Thought must refrain from instructing, or being instructed by, a future reality, for, in that game, it will always fall into the trap of a system that holds the monopoly of reality.
And this is not a philosophical choice. It is, for thought, a life-and-death question.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
Thought must at all costs keep itself from reality, from the real projection of ideas and their translation into acts.
The Overman and the Eternal Return are, in this way, visions and they have the sovereignty of a hypothesis. If we try to turn them into acts or faits accomplis, they become monstrous and ridiculous.
The same goes for less visionary perspectives, such as biogenetic experimentation on the human species: as a hypothesis, this opens up all kinds of metaphysical and anthropological questions. But if we move from potential mutation to real projection (as Peter Sloterdijk does in his Menschenpark project), we lose all philosophical distance; and thought, in mingling with the real course of things, offers merely a false alternative to the operation of the system.
Thought must refrain from instructing, or being instructed by, a future reality, for, in that game, it will always fall into the trap of a system that holds the monopoly of reality.
And this is not a philosophical choice. It is, for thought, a life-and-death question.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.”
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