Art, Music, Writing & Creativity

A tour de force, showcasing flowers in lush images that highlight the riotous colors and exuberant nature of their subject.

Morning altars are colourful mandalas that combine nature, art, and meditation. Incorporating the natural world into the everyday encourages positive well-being, even with the simplest of the earth’s gifts, such as leaves, flowers, berries, feathers, and stones.

Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, and city scenes, Vincent van Gogh himself believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Like other post-Impressionists, Van Gogh sought to capture the essential character of his models by means of expressive color and brushwork.

More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composers mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope and originality.

Practicing gratitude is easy, and the benefits are huge. In this little book of essential mindfulness and coloring, bestselling author and teacher Cher Kaufmann helps readers to focus on the good and leave the rest behind. She provides hand-drawn inspirational quotes to color.

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pagesof civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness.

The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Are there classic books you know you should read but havent because they seem overwhelming? Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote.