creative ability

The things Ned speaks of become reality, until a knowing art teacher solves his problem with paper and paints.

Mud Pie Annie is a spunky little girl with an exceptional talent for cooking with flair, creating her concoctions with mud, dirt, and a lot of pride and care.

Analyzes four major challenges the United States is facing--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and excessive energy consumption--and explains why these problems need to be corrected now in order to sustain the American dream and protect America's place as a world power in the future.

A study of creativity, focusing on the lives of individuals from a range of human intelligences who were active between 1885 and 1935, including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, Pablo Picasso, and Igor Stravinsky.

An introduction to using various art forms to express creativity.

Although his past accomplishments have convinced everyone else he is headed for college and greatness, seventeen-year-old Stan just wants to work at Happy Video, live in his parents' basement, write a movie script--and convince someone there really is a madman after him.

Presents advice on becoming more innovative and creative in a business setting, arguing that creativity is not inherent only in the stereotypical "creative types," such as authors or painters.

Examines the stories of four teams working to win the X Prize Foundation's 2007 challenge of building a car that could go one hundred miles on only a gallon of gas, or of a gallon's energy equivalent in electric or alternative fuels. Explores the trials and failures of each of the four teams as well as the relative success of their finished products, which often looked nothing like cars at all, and yet worked.

Although his past accomplishments have convinced everyone else he is headed for college and greatness, seventeen-year-old Stan just wants to work at Happy Video, live in his parents' basement, write a movie script--and convince someone there really is a madman after him.

The things Ned speaks of become reality, until a knowing art teacher solves his problem with paper and paints.