Creativity, Inc. is the inside story of Pixar Animation – which created the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles – by Ed Catmull, Pixar president and co-founder (with George Lucas) which also serves as “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” Catmull reveals the creative philosophy and practices that have made Pixar a profitable success story.
Four wonderful essays on tennis by sports writer David Foster Wallace, including an epic tribute to the greatness of Roger Federer.
An extraordinary biography of America’s greatest President.
With precision and clarity, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century provides an elegant solution to the problem of “universals” that has been troubling philosophy since the time of Plato and Aristotle, and in doing so, provides a defense of sense perception, concept formation, logic, and objectivity.
Set in medieval Paris, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (1831) tells the gripping story of the kind, gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the lustful, archdeacon Frollo, and the deformed, bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, who tries to save the woman he loves.
Leon Uris portrays the birth of the nation of Israel, in this “story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.”
Marcus Aurelius ponders his life experiences while eludicating the philosophy of stocism.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin explains how species change through the gradual process of natural selection according to the traits that leave the organism most fit to survive in a given environment.
Young Harry Potter is an orphan living with his relatives who make his life miserable, even forcing him to live in a closet upstairs. All hope seems lost until he discovers, that he like his parents, is a Wizard, and that he has been accepted by the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And so begins the adventures of Harry Potter.
Use the KonMari Method to declutter and organize your environment by keeping those things that “spark joy.”