Collection: Self-Development

Put on your roller skates and relive the 1980s in this fantabulous activity book for adults and teens.

This retro twist on the seek-and-find book features 20 radical scenes of life in the eighties. Explore burger joints, video rental stores, and high school lunch tables, keeping an eye out for fanny packs, cassette players, and other fun hidden objects along the way. Delightfully detailed illustrations offer hours of entertainment, turning a nostalgic childhood activity into a perfect way to unwind after work or chill out with friends.

EIGHTIES NOSTALGIA: This is a perfect gift for adults who lived through the eighties and young people who are fascinated by retro aesthetics. Anyone who's obsessed with the worlds of Stranger Things, Freaks and Geeks, and The Goldbergs will have endless fun poring over this activity book, which is full of clever references to the era.

WHERE'S WALDO REIMAGINED: Revisit a classic childhood activity with a sophisticated twist. This modern update features 20 gorgeous, immersive, highly detailed scenes, woven together by a light narrative. It's a book you'll return to over and over, to admire the art and enjoy the retro atmosphere.

ANALOG ACTIVITY: When you need a screen break and want to unplug, this book provides hours of fun as an individual activity or with a group of friends! Throw an eighties-themed party and work together on this seek-and-find for a totally tubular time.

Perfect for:

• Activity book and puzzle fans
• Fans of eighties aesthetics
• Adults nostalgic for their youth and young people captivated by retro trends
• Logic and brain game enthusiasts
• Anyone looking for a fun group activity to share with family or friends
• Fans of Sally Nixon and Houseplants and Hot Sauce
• Illustration lovers

Create a new story that will lead the way to change

The stories you tell yourself and the ones others tell you influence the way you see yourself and the world. Using this Narrative Therapy workbook, you'll learn to examine those stories and rewrite them to reflect the life you want to live.

• An empowering tool--Learn about Narrative Therapy, its origins, and how your narratives can shape who you are.
• Flip your story--Match your narrative to who and what you want to be with a wide range of strategies, exercises, and practices.
• Inspire positive change--Build your new stories through reflective prompts and uplifting affirmations. The pen is in your hand, and you can write the next chapter!

Enhance your sense of self-worth and take control of your own story with Narrative Therapy.

Creatively mend and customize your old clothes to revitalize your outfits and save the planet

Bring new life to your old clothes and fabrics with this fun, easy-to-follow guide to modern mending.

Across the globe, we send tonnes of clothing to landfill each year. In fact, clothing consumption in the UK and US are one of the highest in the world. But the good news is that mending is trending, and it's never been easier to repair and reinvent your favourite clothes.

Inspired by the slow fashion movement that's taking the sewing world by storm, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald has created a comprehensive guide to mending your own clothes in a way that combines creativity and sustainability. In Modern Mending, she demystifies mending and shares step-by-step instructions for a range of techniques, including stitching, darning, patching, needle felting and machine darning.

So next time you tear your favourite jeans or find a hole in your jumper, think twice before throwing them away. With Modern Mending, you'll gain the skills and confidence needed to rebel against fast fashion now and for years to come.

Take your knits to the next level with this essential guide to the brioche stitch from a world-renowned expert. In her groundbreaking knitting book, world-renowned brioche knitting expert Nancy Marchant works brioche - a versatile European stitch that creates a luxurious, reversible ribbed fabric - in two colors, forming graceful, undulating textures with increases and decreases. She explains everything from how to hold the yarn and cast on (offering multiple options) to creating the basic fabric and reading two-color charts. The stitch library presents 75 all-new brioche knitting patterns, and there are an additional 12 in luscious shawl and scarf projects. Perfect for anyone looking for knitting books and patterns that teach new knitting techniques, Knitting Fresh Brioche is the ultimate guide to this trendy stitch. Whether it's your first time knitting brioche or you're in search of additional brioche knitting pattern books, this comprehensive volume has everything you need to make beautiful and colorful brioche knits.

Riddles are ancient...

...and have been creating brilliant thinkers for thousands of years.

Who's ready for clever entertainment?

Updated September 2021 with Fun Illustrations

300+ brain-teasing riddles creatively designed to not only get your kids laughing and exploring their goofy side, but also to promote functional problem solving.

Their eyes will light up with each solution.

The laughter and quality time will stick with you both.

Playing around with riddles will expand your child's reasoning skills while also encouraging their love for learning. You may find the metal exercising pleasing, too. Who said learning can't be both educational and fun at the same time?

Playing and learning can go together.

They'll wear this book out, flipping through the pages, and challenging their brother, sisters, aunts and uncles, and everyone else in the family to figure them out.

Everyone loves a good riddle. You'll adore this book, because these aren't the same old riddles that are in all the other books.

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Get started and learn the basics with this pocket-sized, no-nonsense guide to knitting!

From best-selling author and crafting queen Claire Gelder, this gorgeous mini guide is packed full of knitting know-how, practical illustrations and three simple projects.

Perfect for complete beginners, this book breaks down everything you need to know about knitting:

• how to read a ball band

• how to get tension correct

• how to choose needles and yarns

• how to cast on and how to read abbreviations and knitting patterns

The book is structured as a simple 3-step course that will help you progress from bronze to gold as your skills and confidence grow. Start with the basic stitches and simple joining, build up a few more stitches for your collection, then finally add in some simple shaping and some pompoms. Before you know it you'll be knitting a garter stitch scarf, herringbone stitch blanket and a loop stitch cushion.

Filled with affirmations, this wonderful book is a perfect introduction to knitting for a complete beginner.

In September of 2017, a category 4 hurricane named Irma slammed into the Florida Keys and Key West. Eleven thousand people lost their homes in that devastating storm. Life would never be the same for so many after Irma, and that included the life of a bulldog puppy named Ace. In this book Ace tells you, in his own words, all about how that awful storm changed his life. And how love, strength and kindness can overcome the worst days of our lives. This is the story of Ace the Face.

The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration with "the insights he's gleaned over his long, productive life" (Booklist) in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays.

Long before Gene Roddenberry put him on a starship to explore the galaxy, long before he actually did venture to space, William Shatner was gripped by his own quest for knowledge and meaning. Though his eventful life has been nothing short of extraordinary, Shatner is still never so thrilled as when he experiences something that inspires him to simply say, "Wow."

Within these affecting, entertaining, and informative essays, he demonstrates that astonishing possibilities and true wonder are all around us. By revealing stories of his life--some delightful, others tragic--Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives. "A refreshingly self-aware portrait of a man determined to live every moment to the fullest" (Publishers Weekly), Boldly Go is an unputdownable celebration of all that our miraculous universe holds for us.

Fundamental frameworks for emotional intelligence and how to apply them every day.

According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It is now one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion processes, performance evaluations, and professional development courses. And it's not innate--it's a skill that all of us can improve.

With this double volume you'll get HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence and the HBR Guide to Emotional Intelligence. That's 10 definitive HBR articles on emotional intelligence by Goleman and other leaders in the field, curated by our editors--paired with smart, focused advice from HBR experts about how to implement those ideas in your daily work life.

With Everyday Emotional Intelligence, you'll learn how to:

• Recognize your own EQ strengths and weaknesses
• Regulate your emotions in tough situations
• Manage difficult people
• Build the social awareness of your team
• Motivate yourself through ups and downs
• Write forceful emails people won't misinterpret
• Make better, less emotionally biased decisions
• Help an employee develop emotional intelligence
• Handle specific situations like crying at work and tense communications across different cultures

The Why and How of Woodworking reflects the growing appreciation for the handmade, a movement toward simplifying and uncluttering. There is a growing understanding of the need to fill our lives with meaningful and useful objects. How can woodworkers answer that call? Mike Pekovich explains how to make work that is worth the time and effort it takes to make it, work that makes a difference, and work that will add to the quality of our lives.

• Explains the basics of woodworking, from choosing lumber with care, cutting joinery accurately, and preparing and finishing the surfaces.
• A simple approach to building boxes and furniture that are built to last.
• Includes information on designing and building cabinets, boxes, chests, casework, and tables.

In this classic guide, acclaimed sewer and writer Adele P. Margolis offers expert advice for the home sewer who wants to take his or her skills to the next level and not only "make clothes," but to tailor one's creations to fit in that way that off-the-rack almost never can.

Fashions change, but tailoring remains a timeless skill. From beginning to finished product, this essential primer covers every step you need to know to create successful and custom-fitted fashion.

Featuring 340 drawings, Margolis' must-have guide includes both classic and contemporary tailoring--from pinning, cutting and marking to installing zippers, button holes and pockets.

Within, you will learn to make suits, coats and ensembles that are well-constructed and expensive-looking, but affordable and approachable enough to make at home. One of the most valuable references of its kind, The Complete Book of Tailoring belongs deserves a spot on every sewing table.

"Drawing is Magic is like a workbook created by Willy Wonka . . . [John] Hendrix is so entertaining and encouraging in his instructions that budding artists of any age will want to take the book to a nearby corner, pull out a favorite pen and start sketching." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A sketchbook is an essential tool for the growth of any aspiring artist, but its blank pages can be daunting to even the most motivated. Obsessed with perfection, many wind up treating their sketchbooks more like portfolios than playgrounds.

In Drawing Is Magic, author John Hendrix teaches aspiring and advanced artists to find their unique visual voices and become creative daredevils. Through his freeing, offbeat exercises, drawers learn a sophisticated philosophy of creative thinking--in a way that is totally accessible and fun.

This Diary is a tool to help teens become happier and more certain about themselves by learning to express gratitude regularly.

It's important to start the day with a joyful sense. It's easy and simple with this gratitude journal. This Gratitude Journal is very simple and intended to only take five minutes each day.

Benefit from this daily habit - gain momentum and emotional resilience that will help you blast through high school and on to your best life.

This Journal will help:

❇️INSPIRED - Be inspired by historical figures, athletes, artists, business leaders, and others.

❇️THANKFUL - Taking the time to consider what you are thankful for will help your brain to concentrate on all the positives in your life so you can be more emotionally resilient during stressful times.

❇️FOCUSED - Determine the one most important thing you need to do each day so you can be laser-focused on that one task.

❇️CREATIVE - Interesting writing prompts to help you get creative and think differently

Details:

✔Large format 8.5"x11.0" (22x28cm) pages

✔High quality 60lb (90gsm) paper stock

✔Premium gloss-finish cover design

2021 Is the year of perfect visions!

Step-by-step practices for cultivating spiritual awakening, from a renowned spiritual psychologist who has studied the phenomenon in hundreds of people and experienced it himself

Steve Taylor has devoted his life to investigating spiritual awakening. In his books The Leap and Extraordinary Awakenings, he discussed case histories of dozens of people who experienced profound shifts in consciousness. The Adventure draws on this groundbreaking research, together with Taylor's own awakening experiences, to offer guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices for catalyzing spiritual transformation, as well as lyric poems and inspirational stories.

The Adventure outlines how to:

- recognize and cultivate the eight defining characteristics of wakefulness, including presence, acceptance, gratitude, and disidentification from the ego
- expand awareness and quiet the mind through meditations and practical exercises
- transcend our normal "sleep" state and the "thought mind" to move toward increasing heights and depths of spiritual awakening
- use the challenges of everyday life -- of home, workplace, and relationships -- as doorways to enlightenment

This Learn to Write Brain Quest workbook teaches children how to trace and draw the basic strokes and shapes they need for writing success in kindergarten and beyond.

In Brain Quest Learn to Write: Pen Control, Tracing, Shapes, and More, children ages 3 and up practice pen control while learning the strokes, lines, and shapes that are important precursors to writing letters and numbers. Learning shapes is also key to math skills like categorization, geometry, and spatial awareness. Each workbook page includes engaging illustrations, multiple practice exercises, and fun activities that give children ample opportunity to master the content and experience the joy of learning.