Collection: Self-Development

"This is one of the most practical, down-to-earth, dirt-under-the-fingernails, comprehensive explanations of all things homesteading and small farming. Whether you're just dreaming or an old hand, Ben Falk's longer experience horizon is invaluable."--Joel Salatin, cofounder, Polyface Farm; author of Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal

Informed by twenty years of successful land management and the professional design experience of his pioneering firm Whole Systems Design, LLC, author Ben Falk updates his classic text and delivers the definitive twenty-first century systems thinking manual in self-reliance--sure to empower readers to prioritize projects, make positive lifestyle decisions, and take strategic steps toward a regenerative future.

In The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition Falk describes how he has transformed a degraded hillside in the frigid Vermont climate into a thriving, biodiverse Eden that now provides year-round abundance for his family and community.

First published in 2013, The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a comprehensive how-to guide for building durable and productive land-based systems through the reciprocal interplay of humans and the natural world. In the ten years since he first published this seminal work, Falk has deepened his wisdom in harnessing nature-based solutions for increasingly challenging times, including addressing severe climate disruptions like drought and flood conditions.

The book covers every strategy Falk and his team have tested on the Whole Systems Research Farms over the past two decades and includes detailed information on earthworks, gravity-fed water systems, soil fertility management, growing nutrient-dense food and medicine, fuelwood production, agroforestry, managed grazing, and much more.

Complete with full-color photography and detailed design drawings, The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition includes new information on:

• Designing greenhouses and microclimates
• Reinvigorating human health and embodying a vigorous lifestyle
• Raising children on a homestead
• Creating failure-proof and resilient energy systems
• Focusing on permaculture beekeeping
• Cultivating proven cold climate plants
• Overcoming analysis paralysis and mastering the art of knowing where to start and when to take strategic risks
• And much, much more!

In an age that feels defined by disconnection, disease, and decline, The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition offers a roadmap to conquering uncertainty, maximizing efficiency, and creating a bountiful, manageable landscape that will endure.

"Essential reading for the serious prepper as well as for everyone interested in creating a more resilient lifestyle."--Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener

"This intelligent, challenging book, rooted somewhere between back-to-the-land idealism and radical survivalism, sees resilience as both planting and building for the use of future generations, but also as preparing food, water, shelter, and the human body and psyche for the onset of any imaginable extreme emergency. . . . The result is a comprehensive, open-ended, theoretical and practical system for a post-carbon-dependent life."--Publishers Weekly (starred review of first edition)

Adults and children are irresistibly drawn to Julia Rothman's best-selling illustrated guide to the natural world, Nature Anatomy, with its colorful drawings that awaken curiosity -- and invite imitation.

With this companion volume, Rothman leads fans deeper into nature observation with her specially designed record pages for tracking daily nature sightings throughout the seasons. Her step-by-step technique tutorials for drawing a flower, a dragonfly, a robin, and much more, along with blank sketchbook pages, will inspire nature lovers and art enthusiasts of all ages to take up their own colored pencils or favorite pens and create their own unique Nature Anatomy Notebook.

Also available in Julia Rothman's Anatomy series: Ocean Anatomy, Farm Anatomy, and Food Anatomy.

Build a stronger relationship in just 8 weeks

All relationships face challenges sometimes. No matter how much you love each other or how long you've been together, learning how to work through conflict is an ongoing process. This workbook shows you how to do it more effectively and respectfully, so you can create a healthy foundation of communication and enjoy each other even more.

What sets this book apart from other couples therapy workbooks:

• A guided format--Stay motivated with weekly advice and activities that are simple to do and easy to understand, on a manageable 8-week timeline.
• A holistic approach--Focus on a different theme each week: communication, intimacy, conflict, money matters, social styles, relationship patterns, values, and love languages.
• Proven strategies--Find tips and techniques written by an expert and rooted in real therapy treatments to repair and strengthen your relationship.

Pick up this couple's workbook today and create a better future together.

Doors can be more than just entrances! They offer guests a warm welcome and provide protection against the elements and unwanted visitors. They can hide unsightly messes, and they can also say something about the character and creativity of the people who own them. Whether you are starting from scratch or replacing a door in an existing building, you should look at a door as an important design element with many exciting possibilities.

In this fantastic, comprehensive guide, you'll find everything you need to know to make attractive, functional, and sturdy doors, including:

• Help in choosing the right design to meet your needs
• Illustrated installation instructions
• Pattern and material lists for more than 50 different doors: batten doors, layered doors, edge-joined doors, frame-and-panel doors, screen doors, French doors, and more
• Techniques for building, doweling, clamping and gluing, making moldings and decorated features, using a spindle shaper, and finishing
• Maintenance and repair tips

With the expert guidance and ideas contained here, you can add beauty, charm, and style to your home with personalized doors. Doormaking: A Do-It-Yourself Guide is a treasure even to the occasional door maker, as it provides timeless design tips that are valuable to amateur and professional builders and hobbyists alike.

John Birchard, while living in California, was inspired by the fine woodcraft of James Krenov and established a woodworking school that is still ongoing at the College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. Author of numerous how-to books and articles and producer of many videos, Birchard works primarily as a commercial photographer and still lives in the house he built in 1978. He is also the author of Make Your Own Handcrafted Doors & Windows.

Readers interested in related titles from John Birchard will also want to see: Make Your Own Handcrafted Doors & Windows (ISBN: 1626548781).

Pediatrician Dr. Betty Choi invites kids ages 8 and up to explore the marvels of the human body with lively hands-on projects and activities, including shaping bones from salt dough, creating a moving model of the eyes, crafting a 3d skin model, making a blow-up model of how a bicep muscle contracts, tracing capillary action, and even setting up a working model of the urinary system to show how pee is produced.

Packed with colorful diagrams of how each major body system works, fun facts, and easy tests that kids can use to learn about and evaluate their own body functions--from touch sensitivity to colorblindness, taste perception, lung capacity and more--The Human Body Learning Lab makes biology more exciting and engaging than ever.

New and experienced weavers alike are always on the lookout for new weave-structure patterns. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multishaft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the techniques, accompanied by step-by-step photography.

The book is arranged by structure or type of weave, from variations on plain weave to doubleweave. With traditional patterns from around the world, bands, and fabrics woven on two double heddles, The Weaver's Idea Book brings together a variety of ways to create exquisite cloth. Weaving tips and tricks help weavers at all levels achieve their textile dreams. In addition to pattern drafts, Jane offers project ideas that guide the reader through creating functional woven projects, from wearables to home decor.

Weaving, especially on rigid-heddle looms, is enjoying a resurgence, and contemporary weavers are in need of a book to bridge the divide between basic books and complex text designed for advanced weavers with sophisticated tools. Celebrating the immense potential for creativity possible with the simplest of tools, The Weaver's Idea Book opens new avenues for exploration on both the rigid-heddle and multishaft looms.

A shamanic ritual with the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet to bring about alchemical transformation at the deepest levels of your being

- Details how to work with Sekhmet to transform your negative behavior patterns and character flaws into creative impulses and higher energies

- Leads you through guided visualizations, illustrated with photographs, to Sekhmet's chapel at the Temple of Karnak and through her shamanic ritual of transformation

- Includes initiations, rites of passage, and transmissions from Sekhmet to release your fears and anger and rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit

Sekhmet is the lioness goddess of the Egyptian Pantheon, a fierce protector of truth, balance, and the Cosmic order of Ma'at. Known and feared as the goddess of war and destruction, she also represents the transformative power of kundalini energy, or sekhem, and is the main goddess to harness this power for healing. As "She Who Comes in Times of Chaos," she takes offerings of fear, rage, and weakness and transforms them into alchemical gold, the universal medicine for physical, emotional, and soul healing.

In this book you are guided through a shamanic ritual of alchemical transformation and initiation with Sekhmet, working with this powerful goddess to release your most deeply rooted negative behavior patterns and be reborn into a more purified state of consciousness. Using intensive self-examination exercises to help you prepare to meet the goddess, the author leads you through a guided visualization, illustrated with photographs, to an ancient statue of Sekhmet in her chapel at the Temple of Karnak. There, you will be shamanistically devoured by the goddess, directly experiencing the alchemical process of transformation in the belly of Sekhmet until you are rebirthed as a fully realized adult child of the goddess. You will experience how your offering of pain, fear, rage, and self-sabotage is digested, absorbed, and assimilated by Sekhmet while you are initiated into the alchemy of total transformation. The initiations, rites of passage, and transmissions from Sekhmet included in the journey restructure the most important aspects of your body, mind, spirit, and soul.

This journey of shamanic death, illumination, and rebirth in the belly of Sekhmet provides an opportunity to heal on all levels and allows you to release your rage, anger, and fear as you transform the energies that maintained them into creative and constructive solutions that benefit yourself, your community, and the planet.

From the editors of the New York Times bestselling World Almanac and Book of Facts comes an exciting, challenging collection of never-before-published crossword puzzles to delight and engage every puzzle enthusiast.

For more than 150 years, The World Almanac has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home--and a frequent tool for stumped puzzle solvers. New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz calls The World Almanac his "#1 reference work for facts." And now The World Almanac has created its very own, all-new book of 200 original crossword puzzles. With perforated pages to make on-the-go solving a breeze, The World Almanac Book of Crosswords is designed to be enjoyed by everyone from beginning puzzle solvers to longtime crossword devotees. Whether you work in ink or need a pencil and eraser, The World Almanac Book of Crosswords will provide hours of puzzle-solving fun!

In the popular "Little Bit of" series: a fresh, accessible introduction to the practice of Reiki.

The Japanese art of Reiki can reduce stress, aid relaxation, enhance energy, and promote healing. Expert teacher Valerie Oula introduces you to this profoundly beneficial hands-on practice, providing a history of Reiki and an overview of how it works. She includes exercises and meditations to help you tune into reiki energy and shows you where to go to experience a session and what to do to become a Reiki practitioner.

Looking for something challenging but not impossible, something to bump up your kakuro technique? These medium-hard "green" puzzles are just right for honing intermediate skills.

A Mud-and-Lasers Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Modular Mechs and the Pilots that crew them. Created in partnership with Massif Press, Dark Horse Books presents LANCER.

15,000 years into the future, humanity has survived near collapse and since expanded ever wider into the frontiers of space, organized by UNION, the central hegemon of the populated galaxy. At Union's heart, the dream of human utopia has been realized; but Lancer is set at the trembling edges of the expansion where resistance to the ideals of the utopia grow.

As a lancer, you pilot a mech as unique as yourself. You are, by training, luck, circumstance, or work, one of the best. In this era near the golden age, you have one question to answer above all: who do you fight for?

Lancer features a deep, story-rich setting for players to engage with. Every choice they make, every ordnance they mount, every weapon they wield -- all of it has lore attached, just waiting for a story to develop.

Learn the art of modern calligraphy & hand lettering with this comprehensive workbook, filled with multiple lettering styles and tips!

Every creative person appreciates hand lettering as an artwork in and of itself.

The beautiful strokes give a sense of satisfaction that everyone wants to emulate... if given the tools!

Good thing there's "The Lettering Workbook for Absolute Beginners" by Ricca's Garden!

If you're a beginner who's absolutely determined to learn the art of hand lettering but don't know where to start, this workbook is for you!

In this comprehensive hand lettering workbook, beginners like you will:

• Learn multiple lettering styles, terms, and phrases used in the lettering world easily
• Draw embellishments and design your own artworks using easy-to-understand instructions
• Download ALL the practice pages you need from the workbook to refine your technique and come out a better hand-letterer - for FREE
• Engage in a 12-day challenge to get into the habit of lettering and get inspired to create your own designs

And so much more!

Grab a Copy Today!

If you're ready to experience more pathways to self-acceptance, let this collection support your journey.

How can you bring peace to the inner wars that are in the way of having the life you want? For more than 30 years now, Ann Weiser Cornell has been exploring, teaching, and writing about the mysteries of emotional process, including:

• The paradox of how we become more whole by acknowledging our parts
• How the most despised places in us contain our greatest treasure
• How the body's felt sense, held in a compassionate state of Presence, is the key to change

Now her key writings have been brought together in one place, freshly edited for this volume, with four new articles offering Ann's leading-edge work.

All are accessible both to the seeker of personal change and to the professional who wants to be more effective in working with others.

What you'll gain from this book:

• Clear, specific examples of what an inner relationship can look like as a conversation between you, as a compassionate Presence, and a "something in you" that needs your attention/acknowledgment.
• An understanding of how some aspects of your experience get exiled and why it's so important to invite them back in again.
• An inside look at the "third way" that is so essential to Focusing - a way where you are neither identifying with nor dissociating from your emotional experiences.

Translations are available in Spanish & German. Contact the publisher for more information.

Return to the era of Mesozoic monsters with this fascinating coloring book collection of ancient reptiles. For this unique volume, the former staff artist of the American Museum of Natural History has rendered in accurate detail 37 different prehistoric creatures in their natural habitats -- stalking prey along the shores of a tropical lake, circling the skies high above lush forests of exotic vegetation and grazing in primeval marshlands. Twenty dramatic double-page and five single-page illustrations arranged in chronological order vividly display the evolution of the dinosaurs from the early reptilian Euparkeria to such giants of the dinosaurs' last days as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
Young and old alike can share in the excitement of bringing color to such formidable specimens as Tyrannosaurus; the equally aggressive Allosaurus; the spike-thumbed Iguanodon, a large, plant-eating biped; the bony-plated Ankylosaurus; and, of course, the familiar Brontosaurus, also known as Apatosaurus, a plant-eating lizard that weighed up to 30 tons and grew to a length of 70 feet.
An excellent educational tool for teachers, this coloring book offers hours of absorbing entertainment to students, dinosaur buffs, natural-history enthusiasts and colorists of all ages. Informative captions for each illustration provide intriguing details about the ancient animals depicted in this reptilian review.

Go to Class: How to Succeed at College is the perfect gift for the college-bound student. The book is full of engaging tips about how to thrive at college. Go to Class provides authentic insider secrets from an experienced higher education professional.

Internationally renowned motivational teacher and popular theologian Caroline Myss has created a transcendent work of unique insight and revelation in Entering the Castle. A highly original inner path to self-knowledge, the Castle is also the road to spir