NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. • A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**“A brilliant, very funny, very revealing autobiography-through-music. Maybe the best book ever writt...

The classic work on creativity and problem-solving techniques that "provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear" ( Times Educational Supplement).The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented classic reveals how to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought—focused on following step-by-step logic in search of a single "correct" solution—to tap the potential of lateral thinking, which leads us to...

Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to maleAt first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastity, the cherubic little girl who appeared on her parents' TV show. In later years, she became famous for coming out on a national stage, working with two major organizations toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights and publ...

People spend a fortune on their bodies, their faces, their hair, their clothes. Cosmetics, plastic surgery, diets, gym membership - everyone's trying to be more attractive. But there's an easier way to become a beautiful person. It doesn't have to be physical. No matter how you look, if you have a mind that's fascinating, creative, exciting - if you're a good thinker - you can be beautiful.And being attractive doesn't necessarily come from being intelligent or highly-educated. It i...

If you want to be the best, focus on your most valuable asset: the power of your creative mindAs competition and the pace of change intensify, companies and individuals need to harness their creativity to stay ahead of the field. Under pressure, people often think they can't be creative; many more are convinced they are not creative at all because they have never been 'arty'. Creative genius Edward de Bono debunks these common notions in this remarkable book. He shows how ...

Drug runners are on the North Beach Peninsula, raising havoc from the tiny unsecured port of Unity on the southern end to the Spartina Point Casino and Resort up north. Bottom Feeders is a "cozy" mystery. It has no graphic violence, no obscene language, and no explicit sex. But what it does have is an amateur sleuth working with the police department in a small coastal town, a quirky cast of characters, and lots of laughs. Bottom Feeders is the first book n the 6-book Sylvia Avery Mystery ...

Why do some people always seem to have new ideas while others of equal intelligence never do? Lateral Thinking is Edward de Bono’s original portrayal of what lateral thinking is, how it works and how to use it to develop your own potential for thinking and problem solving.First published in 1967 as The Use of Lateral Thinking, this classic international bestseller remains as relevant to learning, problem solving and creative thinking today as when it was first pub...

Thirty-nine-year-old Delia Griswald wanted to find a boyfriend before hitting the big 4-0 so she placed a personal ad in a large city newspaper. The best writer quickly become her confidant and pen pal. Unfortunately, that pen pal resided in the state penitentiary. Delia's family disowned her, but she and her pen pal grew closer, month by month—until she learned he was eligible for parole.

A collection of 63 humorous elementary classroom anecdotes, following Josh through his fourth grade year. Written by his teacher.

I was 45 years old and weighed 396 pounds. That is not a typo. Then I turned my life around and lost 252 pounds without gastric bypass, lap band surgery, liquid fasting, diet pills or extreme exercise. I am now 60, and my weight is 144. This is my journey from life-threatening morbid obesity down to a healthy weight, back up through another decade of demoralizing 100-pound relapse, to eventual "right size" weight maintenance. Let me inspire you with my personal story of experience, strengt...

First published in 1967, this remarkable title from one of history’s greatest minds remains a must-read in the world of creative thinking.Based on the tenet that an error can lead to the right decision, de Bono guides the reader through a series of non-mathematical problems and puzzles, all designed to help us analyse our personal style of thinking, work out its strengths and weaknesses, and to consider the potential methods that we never use.There are three courses, each f...

Western thinking is failing because it was not designed to deal with changeIn this provocative masterpiece of creative thinking, Edward de Bono argues for a game-changing new way to think. For thousands of years we have followed the thinking system designed by the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, based on analysis and argument. But if we are to flourish in today’s rapidly changing world we need to free our minds of these ‘boxes’ and embrace a more ...