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A collection of books and resources to encourage creative thinking. We’ve gathered together our essential library of creative inspiration for both business and personal use.


Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity)  Michael Michalko
Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity)  Michael Michalko
£14.99

A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offering techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas.

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Instant Creativity.  Brian Clegg, Paul Birch
Instant Creativity. Brian Clegg, Paul Birch
£9.99

Packed with ideas to help you to tap into your creative energy, this handy book also includes star ratings and ranked lists to help you decide the best way to approach innovation whatever your situation. An inspirational handbook for anyone wanting to break out of the way he or she operates - in an instant!

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Creative Whack Pack. (cards) Roger Von Oech
Creative Whack Pack. (cards) Roger Von Oech
£19.99

An illustrated deck of 64 creative thinking strategies, that will whack you out of habitual thought patterns, and enable you to look at your life and actions in a fresh way.

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Five Star Mind : Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination - Tom Wujec 
Five Star Mind : Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination - Tom Wujec 
£8.99

A great little book, full of inspirational ideas. What more can we say?

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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus  - Roger Von Oech
Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus  - Roger Von Oech
£11.99

In this fascinating book, Roger Von Oech uses 30 of Heraclitus's epigrams as a springboard to innovation. Treating each saying as a creativity exercise, he supplies mental puzzles, amusing anecdotes and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination.

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De Bono's Thinking Course  - Edward De Bono
De Bono's Thinking Course  - Edward De Bono
£7.99

In this newly revised and provocative book, Edward de Bono further develops and demonstrates how the techniques of thinking can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and the use of simple tools, such as the amazingly effective random-word technique for creativity.

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New Thinking for the New Millennium  - Edward de Bono
New Thinking for the New Millennium  - Edward de Bono
£8.99

This book argues that the scientific and technological advances of the last millennium have not been matched by advances in the way we think. The author believes that the emphasis in thinking on what is needs to be changed to what can be if we are to resolve the conflicts of the past.

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Lateral Thinking  - Edward de Bono
Lateral Thinking  - Edward de Bono
£8.99

This book, which is now internationally known and also a bestseller, is a textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated. The author has worked out special techniques for doing this, and the result is a triumph of entertaining education.

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How to make Appointments by Telephone - Allan Pease
How to make Appointments by Telephone - Allan Pease
£55.00

Audio Tapes and Workbook. Increased appointments = increased prospects.

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Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps (hardback)
Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps (hardback)
£17.00

Men and Women live in the same world, but they experience it as if they came from two different worlds. Men like things, Women like people. This book explains how we are different and what to do about it.

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Why Men Lie and Women Cry (hardback)
Why Men Lie and Women Cry (hardback)
£17.00

Allan and Barbara Pease are the world's foremost experts in personal relationships. In their follow-up to Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps, Allan and Barbara use the same combination of startling observation of people's actions toward one another-humour and practical advice to teach the reader more about what Men and Women want from relationships, and how to get it.

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Questions are the Answers (hardback)
Questions are the Answers (hardback)
£15.00

How to get a yes in network marketing, using simple, field tested skills and strategies, you will learn how to build your networking business to a level beyond your wildest dreams.

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Body Language (hardback)
Body Language (hardback)
£15.00

What people say is often different to what they think or feel. Now with Body Language you can learn to read other people's thoughts by their gestures.

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Politically Incorrect Jokes (hardback)
Politically Incorrect Jokes (hardback)
£15.00

A book containing every joke guaranteed to annoy those who like to think of themselves as politically correct. It deliberately sets out to offend "prudes and those who take life too seriously"

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Why women can’t read maps and won’t stop talking (hardback)
Why women can’t read maps and won’t stop talking (hardback)
£17.00

A book of sound advice which tells you how to get on with your partner. Each page has a little truism to help men deal with their partner's little foilbles....

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Why Men Can Only Do One Thing at a Time
Why Men Can Only Do One Thing at a Time
£5.99

Mini Quote Books. A mini quote book. In this humours title, Allan and Barbara Pease highlight the diffrences between Men and Women in the way they think and act. Each page features a snippet of wisdom, bound to produce laughter from even the most cynical soul.

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Talk Language (hardback)
Talk Language (hardback)
£15.00

Sometimes people are so busy communicating they don't listen to each other. "Talk Language" tells you how to understand what people are really saying and why.

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Write Language (hardback)
Write Language (hardback)
£15.00

If you write letters for any reason this book is a MUST HAVE.

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