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The Creativity Toolkit: Provoking Creativity in Individuals and Organizations by H. James Harrington. Instill and develop creativity with easy-to-follow framework for original thinking, problem solving and innovation.

The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (CW Vol 15) by Carl Gustav Jung - Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce’s Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures.

The Creative Spirit by Paul Kaufman - illustrated companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series draws on the wisdom of Japanese Zen masters, maverick entrepeneurs, and leading inventors to show how creativity can be cultivated by anyone to improve the quality of their lives.

The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler - affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought and behaviour that dominate their lives.

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler - cutting through the sterile distinction between ‘sciences’ and ‘humanities’ to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton.

Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Aspiring Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians, and Others by Carol Lloyd - is for everyone who realizes the need to approach their personal and career problems in a more creative way.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle - a fresh look at what it means to be a Christian artist and what separates Christian art from that which is supposedly secular.

No More Secondhand Art: Awakening the Artist Within by Peter London - about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being.

No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What’s Right About What’s Wrong by Dawna Markova - imaginative applications of psychiatric and Asian healing concepts.

The Courage to Create by Rollo May - many examples of artists, mathematicians, musicians, and other forms where creative thought can be applied, not a step by step process in how one can apply techniques, but empowers the reader with an attitude.

Thinkertoys- A Handbook of Business Creativity by Michael Michalko. Full of exercises to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving.

Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko - research and analysis of over 100 of history’s greatest thinkers-from Leonardo da Vinci to Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison to Walt Disney – to show readers how creative people think and how to put their secrets to use.

Social Creativity (Perspectives on Creativity) by Montuori, Purser (Editors) - The most powerful part of chaos’ allure is the relevance of chaos theory to human life struggles, yet no earlier book more than alluded to that connection. Briggs and Peat, whose Turbulent Mirror (1990) is one of the best popular books on the science of chaos (Briggs also wrote the lavish Fractals (1992) on chaos art), now gives us a book that introduces the major ideas of chaos and shows how they can be used metaphorically.

The Soul of Creativity: Insights into the Creative Process by Tona Myers (Editor) - inspiring assortment of essays offers personal stories about what creativity means to each of these renowned teachers, artists, and spiritual leaders.

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch - About the whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, and being true to ourselves and our visions; it brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.

Art and the Creative Unconscious: Four Essays (Essays of Erich Neumann; V. 1) - A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist’s inner situation. Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time. An essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the problems explored in the other studies.

The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann - draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole.

The Place of Creation: Six Essays (Essays of Erich Neumann, Vol 3) by Erich Neumann - Third volume of Neumann’s essays on creativity; examples in the work of writers and artists – William Blake, Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Klee, Chagall, Picasso, Trakl – as well as physicists, biologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers.