Collection: Self-Development

From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."

Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds. "Old," he writes, "is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows."

But this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ages to explore the way their lives are unfolding. It's not a how-to-do-it book on aging, but a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one's life, refracting new light at every turn.

From beginning to end, the book is laced with humor as well as gravitas -- beautifully enhanced by three free downloadable songs from the gifted singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer, written in response to themes in the book.

Immerse yourself in the heartwarming colors of autumn with 46 rustic vistas and lush farmlands bursting with fall foliage as well as pumpkins, gourds, grazing cows, curious cats, and more. Follow the simple color key filled with glowing oranges, yellows, reds, and other seasonal shades or follow your own artistic instincts. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Autumn Inspirations Color by Number and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

Think like you've got nine brains, feel like you've got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms.

Wisdom begins in wonder: and there is no creature so weird and wonderful as the octopus. Wise, compassionate, strong yet adaptable - and with Houdini-like vanishing tricks - octopuses are the most fascinating creatures on the planet. They provide a masterclass in self-care and there is so much we can learn from them. With the help of Weird Is Beautiful you will discover:

• When to be strong, and when to be flexible
• How to sift through the flotsam and jetsam of your life to find the pearls you should cling to
• How camouflage can be self-care, but when you should let your true colours shine!
• How to multi-task, even when you don't have eight arms
• When to allow the currents of the ocean to sweep you along, and when to stick your tentacles to the rocks and resist
• How to live wild, weird and free

Who said life above water can't sparkle?

A comprehensive guide to quick sketching in watercolor and a new addition to a successful series.

Praise for 5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture

"The techniques and supplies chapters highlight ways to work minimally and shave time from the process, which can be especially helpful when drawing outdoors. Either on its own or as a companion to its series mate, this guide will be a boon to readers who want to engage creatively with their urban environments."
--Library Journal (starred review)

Like the other titles in the series, 5-Minute Watercolor features 60 exercises for new and aspiring artists. This bite-sized approach will help readers to make watercolor painting a part of their everyday lives. Every spread in the book features five expert tips and ideas, as well as examples of amazing 5-minute watercolor sketches to inspire readers.

There are four sections:

• Tools - Tools (the basics); tools (optional extras); paints; papers; palettes; brushes; other ways of applying paint; board; pencils; supplies to do even more; setting up the palette; mixing colors; caring for your tools.
• Techniques - Introducing techniques; washes; wet on wet; dry brush; splatter, blooming and bleeding; pulling in color; tape; masking fluid; lifting, layering and glazing (parts I and II); paper and gravity; warm and cool colors; brush control; light to dark, scumbling.
• Implementing Techniques - What is plein-air?; sketching; light sources; 5-minute exercises; skies; rocks; trees; water; landscapes; cityscapes; seascapes; floral compositions; people and crowds; stones and hair.
• Take It Further - Next level painting; changing up the scenery; capturing movement; mixing charts; color swatches; creating depth; mixed media; experimenting with new materials; time is on your side; moving forward; key elements.

The interest in quick sketching as a relaxing pastime is still strong. Watercolor as a medium is experiencing a great resurgence in popularity, with over 17.1 million hashtags on Instagram for #watercolor and over 1.68 million for #watercolorpainting. Instructive videos are extremely popular on YouTube. Some of the most popular are How to Use Watercolor (22.1 million views), How to Paint a Simple Landscape in 2 Minutes (13 million views) and 5-Minute Beginners' Watercolor Tips (945k views).

See how you can master and create felt landscapes with this beautiful resource for beginners and practicing artists alike.

• Enjoy inspiration from 50 fascinating photos of the artist's original works, together with five step-by-step tutorials for a satisfying introduction to basic landscapes.
• Mattson, who creates entirely dry-felted textiles with a simple handheld tool, shares her one-of-a-kind painterly, impressionistic approach of blending and layering techniques guided by color theory and an understanding of the fibers.
• Learn how wool works as a material, how to make the best use of tools as you work with the dry-felting-only techniques, and the color and composition basics you need for planning successful landscapes in wool.
• The projects include Vibrant Fields, Thunderhead, Moon Shadow, Birch Lake, and Lone Oak.

TIME FOR NONOGRAMS PUZZLES! THE BEST GIFT IDEA FOR NONOGRAMS PICROSS LOVERS!

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This Nonograms Logic Puzzle Book's Features:

• 50 Nonograms puzzles from Medium to Difficult with solutions
• One large puzzle per page with attractive logic art design such as animal, plant, furniture, cute face...
• Included the detailed playing instructions
• 8.5in x 11in
• Suitable for adults and teenagers
• Reduce stress, get fun in free time, keep the brain fresh and young

The Nonograms Puzzle Book is an awesome gift for people who love Nonograms, Logic Puzzles with Grid, puzzles logic, picture cross games, want to discover the hidden images. This Nonograms Book is suitable for adults or teenagers, students or teachers, any people who want to enjoy hours of puzzle solving fun with easy logic puzzles to difficult ones, adult activity book games puzzles and more, and keep the brain young and sharp. Nonograms Puzzle is so much more interesting when you take these challenges with your friends. Make a cool present for Christmas, Halloween, Birthday, Children's Day, Back To School, New Year.

A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness.

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem.

After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book.

By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him.

Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Make the most of your money with this simple step-by-step guide to creating a budget!

Does opening your credit card bill make you anxious? Do you always run out of money before your next paycheck? Do you want help establishing and sticking to a budget? Budgeting for Beginners will help you build the confidence you need to take on short-term and long-term financial problems and goals.

This revised pocket guide includes how to:

• Save and invest money.
• Set up a budget you can stick to.
• Pay off your credit cards in a timely manner.
• Avoid habitual budgeting mistakes.

Along the way, you'll complete a 12-step program for creating a reasonable budget you won't want to break. This will help start you on the road to financial freedom and control!

Mi equipo y yo hemos presentado extensamente a la Dra. Luana Marques tanto en el podcast como en nuestra aplicación. En cada ocasión, a la audiencia le ha encantado. Luana conoce la ansiedad desde adentro y es capaz de guiarte fuera de ella con tacto y compasión. Estoy seguro de que este libro involucrará a los lectores y los ayudará . --Dan Harris, autor bestseller de 10 % más feliz.

Transforma tu ansiedad en fuerza con el método de tres pasos para vivir con valentía de la psicoterapeuta Dra. Luana Marques, profesora en la Universidad de Harvard. Su acercamiento, comprobado por la clínica, inspira a sus pacientes, desde gerentes hasta adolescentes arriesgados, y les transmite las lecciones que aprendió en Brazil mientras crecía en la pobreza.

El movimiento audaz es el método de la Dra. Luana Marques, único, probado y comprobado, para sacarte de tu estancamiento y encontrar el valor para crear una vida llena de autoconfianza y sentido. Luana ubica la ansiedad en la raíz de la evasión, y enseña a superarla y alcanzar tus metas.

La Dra. Luana entiende la ansiedad. Después de décadas de investigación, enseñanza y práctica clínica, se dio cuenta de que las técnicas para salir adelante que aprendió de su madre y de su abuela mientras crecía en la pobreza en Brasil imitaban la terapia CBT probada por la ciencia. Ahora, sintetiza ese conocimiento mediante el desarrollo de un proceso de tres pasos que funciona para todos: desde los adolescentes en crisis hasta los ejecutivos que sufren de agotamiento.

El movimiento audaz brinda ejemplos concretos y ejercicios fundados en la investigación científica y clínica más reciente.

"My team and I have featured Dr. Luana Marques prominently both on our podcast and our app. Each time, the audience has loved it. Luana knows anxiety from the inside and can smoothly and compassionately guide you out of it. I'm quite confident this book will engage readers and help them."--Dan Harris, bestselling author of 10% Happier

Turn your anxiety into strength with Harvard-based psychotherapist Dr. Luana Marques' 3-step method to living boldly--her clinically-proven approach that inspires patients from CEOs to at-risk teens and echoes lessons learned growing up in poverty in Brazil.

Bold Move is Harvard-based psychotherapist Dr. Luana Marques' unique, tried and tested method to get you out of your rut and find the courage to create a more confident and meaningful life. Dr. Luana pinpoints the anxiety at the root of avoidance and shows how you can overcome it and achieve your goals.

Dr. Luana understands anxiety. After decades of research, teaching, and clinical practice, she realized that the coping techniques she learned from her mother and grandmother while growing up in poverty in Brazil mimicked science-based CBT therapy. Now, she has synthesized that knowledge, developing a 3-step path that works for everyone--from teens in crisis to executives experiencing burnout.

Bold Move includes concrete examples and exercises backed by the most recent clinical and scientific research. Dr. Luana's 3-step plan:

Helps you recognize thinking patterns that leave you feeling tense, anxious, and worriedOutlines the many forms that avoidance can take, including seeking comfort from othersExplains the importance of being your own "thought lawyer" Shows you why "just do it" doesn't get it done.Strategizes how you can build on your values to establish boundaries and make room for your dreams.

Peace, Compassion, and Wisdom.

What if you were able to make a real difference in your family, community, and the world, by embodying those qualities in your words and actions?

The Ongo Book 2.0: Everyday Nonviolence is the revised edition of the internationally beloved guide for being nonviolence in the real world. It offers short, simple, and doable practices for readers to incorporate into their daily lives over the course of three months, and a flexible structure that supports couples and groups who wish to practice together. Practices like mindfulness meditation, Nonviolent Communication, gratitude, and forgiveness are explained in clear, ordinary language, with an emphasis on how they can be applied in everyday life situations. From basic body awareness to making boundaries and speaking one's truth, The Ongo Book explores both the practical and the profound - for beginners and experienced practitioners.

With new forewords by Shantum Seth and Lucy Leu, this second edition now offers complete instructions for groups meeting online, new and updated practices, and guidance for continuing Ongo beyond the practices offered in the book.

Travel through the vast multiverse in Rick and Morty: The Official Coloring Book, filled with ready-to-color, interdimensional illustrations of fan-favorite scenes from seasons four, five, and six.

Get strapped in broh! Hop in the Space Cruiser and tag along as we kick up some interdimensional trouble in Rick and Morty: The Official Coloring Book.

Don't be a Morty! Listen to me and let your unhinged creativity run wild! That's right, go ahead and splash your individual mark of creativity all over the pages of this official coloring book. It was made for it! Just look at all the scenes, moments, and characters from seasons four to six waiting for your special touch. It's like you're right there riding shotgun as we hop from dimension to dimension on a never-ending series of impossible adventures.

The best way to really let yourself be alarmingly carefree with these pages is to buy the book! You know, so it's yours and no one can complain if you dump glitter, or glue a bunch of feathers to a page, or like, put really thick oily paint all over it! You can do whatever you want, but you have to buy the book! Okay?! Got it Now don't let me down here. I'm trusting you.

60+ COLORING PAGES: Detailed pages offer hours of coloring fun, featuring iconic scenes from season four, five, and six of Froopyland, Dimension C-137, the Citadel and more!
BELOVED CHARACTERS: Fan-favorite characters like Birdperson, Mr. Poopybutthole, and Squanchy explode off the ready-to-color pages.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Enjoy hours of creative fun and relaxation through coloring.
OFFICIAL RICK AND MORTY COLORING BOOK: Created in collaboration with the studio behind Rick and Morty.
COMPLETE YOUR RICK AND MORTY COLLECTION: The next companion to your Rick and Morty library, Rick and Morty: The Official Coloring Book is a fun addition to Insight Editions' line of Rick and Morty titles, including Rick and Morty: The Official Cookbook, Rick and Morty: Pocket Notebook Collection, and Rick and Morty: Pickle Rick Hardcover Ruled Journal.

Become an all-around puzzler and improve your sudoku, word search, kriss kross. The perfect way of improving your vocabulary, mental agility, and problem-solving skills.

This book includes ♥ sudoku, ♥ word searches, ♥ crosswords, and mind puzzles, perfect for your commute or morning coffee.

* The perfect survival guide to the chess openings
* All openings covered
* Detailed verbal explanations of plans for both sides
* Up-to-date and featuring many tips and recommendations
* Insights into the 'character' of each opening
* Written by one of the world's foremost opening experts

The first moves of a chess game define the nature of the whole struggle, as both players stake their claim to the critical squares and start to develop their plans. It is essential to play purposefully and to avoid falling into traps or reaching a position that you don't understand.

This is not a book that provides masses of variations to memorize. Paul van der Sterren instead offers a wealth of ideas and explanation, together with the basic variations of each and every opening. This knowledge will equip players to succeed in the opening up to good club level, and provide a superb grounding in opening play on which to build a more sophisticated repertoire. The strategies he explains will, unlike ever-changing chess opening theory, remain valid as long as chess is played, and so the time spent studying this book will be rewarded many times over.

Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren has won the Dutch Championship on two occasions, and in 1993 reached the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship. He is an internationally renowned chess writer and editor: he was one of the founding editors of New in Chess, for whose Yearbooks he has contributed more than 150 opening surveys.

Claudia Black's bestselling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household.

In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes every day, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. The rigid survival roles and youthful coping behaviors they take on, such as the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, and the acting-out child can eventually contribute to problems of depression, loneliness, and addiction in adulthood.

Using poignant personal stories, thoughtful explanations, and helpful exercises, Black helps readers gain personal insights and develop new skills that lead to a healthier, happier, more fulfilling life.

While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this newly revised edition of It Will Never Happen to Me, which has sold more than two million copies, broadens concepts to include addictive disorders involving other drugs, money, food, sex, and work.

This entertaining, easy-to-follow, and eminently practical book will equip readers with knotting skills to last a lifetime.

This full-color guide is packed with over 45 knot projects, accompanied by clear step-by-step illustrations. From the clove hitch to the Albright knot, readers will learn an array of loops, hitches and binding knots as well as variations of the most famous examples.

Each project includes practical uses for these knots - such as making a swing seat, a washing line, a dog lead or an arm sling - so that you can introduce them into everyday life.

Features:
- Useful knots for sailing
- Clever knots for camping
- Handy knots for the home
- And other knots that are simply a pleasure to tie!

Discover a time-honoured and rewarding hobby and essential life skill with wide and varied applications. A fantastic gift for readers of all ages from 8+.

• Details each activity along with related history, flora and fauna, and cultural notes
• Includes recommendations for different places to visit around the state to try the activity
• "Nature Notebook" journal prompts to inspire you to record and make the most of your adventures
• "Connect with Nature" ideas for experiential learning

Organized by season, 52 Ways to Nature: Washington features immersive activities to keep you engaged with nature throughout the year. This twist on a Northwest guidebook offers ideas to get you outdoors and encourages you to keep track of those experiences through journal notes.

Discover a geocache in your own neighborhood, drop a crab pot off a dock on Hood Canal, observe the northern lights through Goldendale's hilltop telescope, or experience sledding paradise at Mount Rainier National Park. Newcomers and long-time residents alike will find new ways to revel in the natural world with the inspiring and accessible activities in 52 Ways to Nature: Washington.