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Moleskine Inspiration and Process in Architecture, El Equipo Mazzanti

El Equipo de Mazzanti has its headquarters in Colombia where it has been operating for over 25 years, promoting architecture with a strong social value. This approach, attentive to collective transformations, analyses of the context and of the people involved, is expressed in a number of large-scale public works such as libraries, schools, congress centres, sports centres, parks and infrastructures. Its architects introduce innovative methodologies into the design process, inspiring action, events and relationships capable of developing new architectural models and forms as in the case of the Parque Biblioteca Espana or the Jardin Infantil Timayui that achieved important recognitions and awards.

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How to Write a Book: An 11-Step Process to Build Habits, Stop Procrastinating, Fuel Self-Motivation, Quiet Your Inner Critic, Bust Through Writer’s Block, & Let Your Creative Juices Flow (Short Read)

Have you thought about writing a book? Do you just not know where to begin? Do you get writer’s block just thinking about writing a book? Best-selling non-fiction author David Kadavy shares his simple process for writing a book. Build confidence, ditch your inner critic, and finally write your book with simple habits you can start today. You can read this short read (~7,000 words) in under an hour, so it won’t get in the way of the one thing standing between you and your book: Action! Download today and make the book you’ve dreamed of a reality.

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Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process

A stunning guide to finding creative inspiration and how it can illuminate your life, your work, and your art—from Stephen King, Junot Díaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and many more acclaimed writers

What inspires you? That’s the simple, but profound question posed to forty-six renowned authors in LIGHT THE DARK. Each writer begins with a favorite passage from a novel, a song, a poem—something that gets them started and keeps them going with the creative work they love. From there, incredible lessons and stories of life-changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking books into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled Hosseini learn that nothing he creates will ever be truly finished. Or how a college reading assignment taught Junot Díaz that great art can be a healing conversation, and an unexpected poet led Elizabeth Gilbert to embrace an unyielding optimism, even in the face of darkness. LIGHT THE DARK collects the best of The Atlantic’s much-acclaimed “By Heart” series edited by Joe Fassler and adds brand new pieces, each one paired with a striking illustration. Here is a guide to creative living and writing in the vein of Daily Rituals, Bird by Bird, and Big Magic for anyone who wants to learn how great writers find inspiration—and how to find some of your own.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: Elizabeth Gilbert, Junot Díaz, Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Mary Gaitskill, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Angela Flournoy, Jonathan Franzen, Yiyun Li, Leslie Jamison, Claire Messud,  Edwidge Danticat, David Mitchell, Khaled Hosseini, Ayana Mathis, Kathryn Harrison, Azar Nafisi,  Hanya Yanagihara, Jane Smiley, Nell Zink, Emma Donoghue, Jeff Tweedy, Eileen Myles, Maggie Shipstead, Sherman Alexie, Andre Dubus III, Billy Collins, Lev Grossman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Charles Simic, Jim Shepard,  T.C. Boyle, Tom Perrotta, Viet Than Nguyen, William Gibson, Mark Haddon, Ethan Canin, Jessie Ball, Jim Crace, and Walter Mosley.

“As [these authors] reveal what inspires them, they, in turn, inspire the reader, all while celebrating the beauty and purpose of art.” -Booklist

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Daniel Libeskind: Inspiration And Process In Architecture

Influenced by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, and literature, the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind chooses drawing to put his ideas and thoughts into practice, stating that architectural drawing is in itself a creative work. Drawings which constitute “architectural explorations” – from Micromegas to Chamber Works and Sonnets in Babylon – are presented in this book along with those on “real” architecture, documenting the creative process of prestigious projects such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the World Trade Center redevelopment in New York.

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James Stirling: Inspiration And Process In Architecture

Drawing on original documentation – sketches, photographs and the iconic axonometrics – the book explores the creative process of James Stirling: from the early inspirations of Liverpool’s docks to his devotion to Le Corbusier, acknowledging the fundamental role of the partnerships with James Gowan and Michael Wilford. Described by his mentor Colin Rowe as an architectural connoisseur, Stirling analyses the past through relentless observational skills and elaborates it as a source of creativity and as a context to respect. The most eccentric British architect leaves a legacy that is not confined to history alone, but it continues to be paradigmatic for generations of architects to come.

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The Mind Gate Process Of Empowerment: Experience the Awesome Power of Your Subconscious Mind

This book will change your life by giving you the tools to harness the awesome power of the subconscious mind! This is not just some self-hypnosis book about how to improve your golf game or your sex life but is a practical, hard-hitting, no-nonsense process to tap into the power that creates the planets and solar systems. Every bad experience you have ever had has been the result of choices you made subconsciously, but were never aware of it or were rarely aware of it. Dr. Mitchell Mays guides you step-by-step into the control room of your subconscious mind and then hands you the keys to the most awesome reality-creating machine known to man-the law of attraction! The Mind Gate Process of Empowerment is a breakthrough in transformation technology. “Dr. Mays’ riveting stories illustrate how slipping into unwanted trance states can generate overwhelming and unwanted consequences. Through the simple, yet effective Mind Gate Process he invites the reader to awaken from the pervasive trance of anxiety, disempowerment and fear into a state of personal power, health, and abundance”. -Donna Hamilton, Ph.D., M.F.T., Co-founder New Vistas International “This is the kind of book you’ll want to give to all your friends and family-or anyone that you want to see break free from their limiting beliefs and expectations”. -Kari Boss, entrepreneur Learn the secrets that lie just beyond The Mind Gate.

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House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration

A standard-bearer of American design since 1993, House Industries answers the burning question, “Where do you find inspiration?” with this illustrative collection of helpful lessons, stories, and case studies that demonstrate how to transform obsessive curiosity into personally satisfying and successful work. Presented in House’s honest, authentic, and often irreverent style, and covering topics ranging from fonts and fashion to ceramics and space technology, this beautifully useful 400–page volume offers a personal perspective on the origin of ideas for creative people in any field. Most important, this book shows that there’s no sense in waiting for inspiration because inspiration is already waiting for you.