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Inspiration for Great Songwriting: for pop, rock & roll, jazz, blues, broadway, and country songwriters: A Cheat Sheet Book about Creativity with Form, Lyrics, Music, and More

You are a songwriter, and you need to unlock those great songs inside of you

Yes, this book is designed entirely to share those secrets that will inspire you to write that great song that’s you know you can! And once the creativity really starts flowing, we’ll create great habits and write even more, each and every day. Get down to writing the music and the lyrics you know that you can because “writer’s block” is a fantasy. You just need inspiration…

The Magic of Lyrics & Music

This book discusses creativity with the lyrics, creativity with the music, and creativity with the forms of your songs, with a number of actionable suggestions and creative exercises to get the juices flowing. There’s also a brief discussion about good habits for songwriters to be more productive (or eventually become a professional), and a list of resource organizations and websites from performing rights to promotion. If you want to develop as a songwriter, possibly even with the goal of going pro, then these are topics you need to think about: The Songwriter’s Process Creativity with Form Creativity with Lyrics Creativity with Music Professional? Rights, Royalties, and Piracy Pro Songwriter Habits Songwriter Resource Page and more…

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Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists

Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world’s greatest artists – exclusively researched for this new book

Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, collectors, and armchair enthusiasts. As painters, sculptors, photographers, and other visual artists see and experience the world through a unique lens, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists shows that their life lessons, private revelations, and frank, often irreverent, opinions can guide us all.

This unique and carefully curated book, packed with totally original research, is a go-to resource for revealing thoughts and personal advice on subjects as diverse as beauty, colour, light, sex, chance, discipline, money troubles, originality, fear of failure, danger of success, the creative process, and more ? all messages transmitted from the artistic trenches.

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Art of Seduction: An Indispensible Primer on the Ultimate Form of Power

Robert Greene’s previous best seller, The 48 Laws of Power, distilled 3,000 years of scheming into a guide People praised as “beguiling… literate… fascinating” and Kirkus denounced as “an anti-Book of Virtues.”

In Art of Seduction, Greene returns with a new instruction audiobook on the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power because seduction isn’t really about sex. It’s about manipulating other people’s greatest weakness: their desire for pleasure.

Synthesizing the work of thinkers including Freud, Diderot, Nietzsche, and Einstein, reporting the enticing strategies of characters throughout history, The Art of Seduction is a comprehensive guide to getting what we want any way we can.

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Tai Chi Reflections: A Set of 48 Self-Empowerment Cards Based on the Body Language of the Tai Chi Form

TAI CHI REFLECTIONS: Empowerment through the Body Language
of the Tai Chi Form is both authored and illustrated by Richard Crookes,
the illustrator of the award-winning Angels of Atlantis Oracle Cards.

In this beautifully illustrated set of 48 cards, the reader will gain access to
the inner calm and personal empowerment that is inherent in the ancient wisdom of Tai Chi practice through engaging with the body language of each posture.

This deck is not intended to be an instructional system for learning the Tai
Chi exercise, rather it is an inspirational tool for reflection and empowerment.
It will encourage the seeking out of further Tai Chi instruction for inner
and outer health.

Richard has assembled a power team to aid in the creation of these images:
Tammasak Pungpontien, Tai Chi Master,
Somporn Crookes, Tai Chi Therapy Consultant
Courtney Violet Bentley, Fitness coach and writer on Empowerment for
women.
Kit Johnson, Photographer and Reiki Master.

Through the collective wisdom and sensitivity of the team, coupled with
his lifelong experience of creating powerful and beautiful imagery, Richard
has created with this deck of cards a unique and simple key to the gateway
of the ancient knowledge of this beautiful and mysterious martial art.