Collection: Self-Development

An awe-inspiring guide that weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard. This book has been crafted for beginner gardeners and large scale permaculturists alike . It is a step-by-step manual starting from your landscaping ideas and ending with seeds and trees confidently planted. However, this is more than just a guide to landscaping, it is a motivational read. Throughout The Regenerative Landscaper, Erik addresses climate change, species extinction, and ecological collapse with encouragement that each of us can indeed become stewards of the land. We can do this by installing healthy ecosystems in our own yards. His words offer hope and tangible action, inspiring his readers to restore planetary health one garden at a time.The Regenerative Landscaper gives a collection of case studies, step-by-step processes, prevention and mitigation methods, and regenerative land management techniques to steward your land. If you are looking for an easy-to-read manual on designing and implementing your permaculture haven, The Regenerative Landscaper is it.

Following the original runaway-hit, The Ultimate Reading Challenge, comes this beautiful portfolio that deepens and expands a child's love of reading with 15 unique challenges and cool prizes!

A reading challenge just for kids! Each pocket inside this portfolio presents young readers with a bookish challenge. Once a challenge is completed, it's time to open the pocket to claim an awesome prize!

While many reading challenges and programs are met by reading speed or quantity of books read, the challenges presented in The Ultimate Reading Challenge for Kids! are carefully designed to expand any young reader's experience with reading and create opportunities for accomplishment and success.

The perfect gift for both bookworms and reluctant readers, The Ultimate Reading Challenge for Kids! encourages young readers to connect with books in new and creative ways.

Challenges include:
- Read a book based on a true story.
- Watch a movie based on a book.
- Read outside.
- Read a book out loud. You could read to a sibling, parent, grandparent, or pet.
- Create a reading nook: Be creative! Closets, corners, and trees all make for great nooks.
And more!

Prizes include:
- A hologram bookmark
- Puffy stickers
- A rad keychain
- Bookplates
And more!

Discover the joy of embroidery with wool!

In this fresh collection of botanical-inspired motifs, artist and author Yumiko Higuchi combines wool thread with cotton floss for a modern twist on embroidery.

Wool creates fluffy, three-dimensional embroidery with a soft, warm texture. Because of its voluminous nature, wool thread stitches up quickly, allowing you to create bold embroidery designs with ease.

This title includes 24 stunning motifs featuring mushrooms, dandelions, poppies, pansies, butterflies, birds, and more, all stitched in vibrant, eye-catching colors.

You'll also find instructions for simple projects that are perfect for showcasing your wool embroidery, such as pouches, trivets, pillows, tote bags, and headbands, as well as inspiring ideas for embellishing ready-made goods like scarves, hats, and sweaters.

Welcome to the wonderful world of wool!

Let yourself be captivated by the age-old art of Oriental mandalas, and enjoy yourself by coloring their forms and details and creating your very own multicolored collection.
These powerful symbolic figures of Hindu and Buddhist tradition will stimulate you to think and meditate, and coloring them will release your positive energy and imagination. Experience the pleasure and relaxation, delve into the colors, and create a world all your own that evokes the most ancient traditions of the East.

With First Steps Workbooks, toddlers practice motor control skills and develop spatial reasoning and problem-solving abilities. Children can take the first step in their education by stickering, pasting, cutting, coloring, and folding with our colorful and fun exercises.

Stickering and pasting are not just for fun, they're the building blocks for your child's motor control skills. In this book, children place stickers of fascinating animals onto colorful nature backgrounds to make lively wildlife scenes. Children will develop fine motor control and spatial reasoning skills by completing these fun animal art projects.

We perform ceremonies to mark important events and celebrate holidays--yet our modern approach to ceremony only scratches the surface of its true potential. With The Book of Ceremony, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman presents a rich and practical resource for creating ceremonies filled with joy, purpose, and magic. "We are hungry to connect with more than what we experience with our ordinary senses in the material world," writes Sandra. "By performing ceremonies, you will find yourself stepping into a beautiful and creative power you might never have imagined."

Weaving shamanic teachings together with stories, examples, and guiding insights, The Book of Ceremony explores:

- The elements of a powerful ceremony--including setting strong intentions, choosing your space, preparing ceremonial items, and dealing gracefully with the unexpected
- Stepping into the sacred--key practices for leaving behind your everyday concerns and creating a space where magic can happen
- Guidance for working alone, in community, and across distances with virtual ceremonies
- Invoking spiritual allies--the power of working with the elements, the natural world, ancestor spirits, and the creative energy of the divine
- Sacred transitions--including ceremonies for weddings, births, rites of passage to adulthood, funerals, honorable closure, and new beginnings
- Ceremonies for energetic balance--healing and blessing, resolving sacred contracts, getting rid of limiting beliefs, creating Prayer Trees, and more
- Life as a ceremony--how to infuse your entire life with ceremonial practice, from planting a garden to revitalizing your home or office to helping heal our planet

The Book of Ceremony is more than a "how-to" guide--it will inspire you to create original ceremonies tailored to your own needs and the needs of your community. When you invoke the sacred power of ceremony, you tap into one of the oldest and most effective tools for transforming both yourself and the world. As Sandra writes, "If you perform one powerful and successful ceremony for yourself, the principle of oneness ensures that all of life heals and evolves."

The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention. There is also a special chapter for fathers as well as a chapter on "protective parenting" to help anxious parents enjoy their precious living children. Doctors, nurses, relatives, friends, and other support persons can gain special insight. Most importantly, parents facing the death of a baby will find necessary support in this gentle guide.

When it comes to working with dysregulated children, sometimes the biggest behaviors come in the smallest containers.

From tantrums and defiance to self-injury and withdrawal, even the most skilled professionals find themselves focused on extinguishing the troubling behavior rather than stepping back to ask: What is the underlying emotional need?

In Big Behaviors in Small Containers, you'll find 131 practical, fun, and ready-to-use play therapy interventions that shift the paradigm around problematic behaviors to allow for therapeutic growth and healing. Based on TraumaPlay(R), a treatment approach that prioritizes attachment,

co-regulation, and the science of the stress response system, the interventions inside will help kids:

- Develop a sense of safety and security

- Expand their window of tolerance

- Cope adaptively with anger, anxiety, and other strong emotions

- Enhance their emotional literacy

- Strengthen social skills and self-esteem

- Challenge and overcome unhelpful thoughts

- Develop a coherent narrative around trauma and other difficult experiences

- And more!

Whether you're a therapist, teacher, doctor, caregiver, or trusted grown-up in a child's life, the tools inside will allow you to become the co-regulating, nurturing, and consistent presence that your "small container" needs to remain grounded in the face of stress, big feelings, and difficult situations.

Dive into the vibrant world of anime with our Anime Manga Girls Coloring Book. This exquisite coloring book offers over 30 unique manga characters, ready to be brought to life with your creativity. Each character is intricately designed to provide hours of coloring fun and serve as a unique piece of art once completed.

This coloring book is perfect for all ages and skill levels, providing a great way to relax, unwind, and tap into your artistic side. The high-quality, single-sided pages prevent bleed-through, ensuring each artwork remains pristine.

The Anime Manga Girls Coloring Book makes an ideal gift for animation fans, manga enthusiasts, or anyone who enjoys creative activities. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting your coloring journey, this book is a perfect way to explore the enchanting realm of anime.

This Coloring Book feature:

• 30 unique coloring pages, no repeat
• Single-sided print to prevent bleed through
• Especially Suitable Stress Relieving
• A perfect coloring book for all ages
• Large-sized 8.5 x 11-inch pages

Take time for relaxation and unwind with this gorgeous and simple-to-see EASY LARGE PRINT ADULT COLORING BOOK from the Pippa Page Collection.

Gorgeous yet simple stress relieving designs with bold lines including pretty patterns, flowers, animals, mandalas, nature and garden scenes. The calming illustrations offer seniors, beginners and anyone who enjoys less intricate coloring the opportunity to sit back and connect with color and art.

Reasons To Enjoy This Book:

- Simple Beautiful Images. Every page in our collection has been carefully selected and comes within a marked frame making it simple to color, complete and reconnect with art.

- Relaxation. Our books are especially created with relaxation and enjoyment in mind. Each stress-relieving design has been lovingly crafted to enable you to create a beautiful piece of artwork.

- No Bleed-Through. Our books are all printed on single sided pages to ensure no bleed through so that you can color with confidence.

- Coloring For All Ages. We make sure our books contain a wide range of levels to suit all skills and ages.

Have you ever felt like your day-to-day life is one big 'to-do' list? There's the daily juggle of work, an energy-sapping commute, the demands of family life or running a busy household. And then there are life's crucial turning points: relaunching a career, moving house, finding love. Between all that noise, it can be hard to make and maintain friendships.

The Little Book of Friendship offers guidance for when the scales of life are tipped and a moment of companionship is needed. Packed full of wise words from some of the world's best-known figures - from ancient philosophers and celebrated writers to modern-day figures - this book will help you to prioritize your friendships and truly value your loved ones, even when times are tough.

'No road is too long in the company of a good friend.'
- Japanese proverb 'Friendship is essentially a partnership.'
- Aristotle"

Small, embroidered "paintings" can have all the detail, form, and beauty of a larger piece--except they're much quicker to stitch! These fresh and appealing designs all capture the pretty, romantic images typical of the Victorian and post-Victorian eras. All the projects--which include traditional portraits, birds, and flowers--have detailed thread diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions teach the basic stitches.

A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first African American Chess Grandmaster.

At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.

In Move by Move, Ashley guides readers through the essential lessons that chess has taught him about life, using both personal examples from his rise from an immigrant kid playing matches in Brooklyn parks to the most rarified levels of competition, as well as insights and anecdotes from fellow notable chess players. In short chapters with practical takeaways, this book reaches from the fundamental to the counterintuitive on subjects ranging from self-knowledge to strategic thinking to the importance of failure. This little book of wisdom is the perfect gift for graduates, chess enthusiasts, and anyone interested in understanding how lessons from the most famous and long-lasting game of strategy can help you reach your personal and professional goals.

NOT JUST FOR CHESS PLAYERS: Chess is timeless. This book is perfect for anyone who plays chess, is chess-aspirational, or just has positive associations with the game. For the reader seeking a motivational book with actionable takeaways, Maurice Ashley offers the perfect authoritative yet accessible volume.

AUTHORITATIVE, EXPERT AUTHOR:  Maurice Ashley made history as the first African American Grandmaster in the annals of the game and translates his love of chess to others as a three-time national championship coach, ESPN commentator, NBC National Chess Championships commentator,  iPhone app designer, puzzle inventor, and motivational speaker.

GIFTABLE PACKAGE:   This small, jacketed hardcover is elegant and classic, like the game itself. An outstanding gift book for graduation, Father's Day, birthday, retirement, and more, Move by Move also makes a great add-on gift to a chess set or a standalone present for beginner chess players and experts alike.

Perfect for:

• Readers of self-help, personal growth, and popular business books
• Anyone seeking guidance on applying strategic thinking to their daily lives
• Chess players and fans of the game
• People who loved The Queen's Gambit and want to learn more about chess
• Gift for grads and anyone else who may enjoy or benefit from inspirational books

Revision of a classic!

Over 200 essential stitches for embroidery in a new and up-to-date edition of the original and immensely successful stitch bible, by bestselling author and needlework designer Betty Barnden.

A new and up-to-date edition of the immensely successful stitch bible, by bestselling needlework designer and author Betty Barnden.
Trends in embroidery styles come and go, but the basic stitches and techniques remain the same. In this essential directory, hand sewers will have a collection of over 200 stitches at their fingertips - from basic chain worked into fabric through to Florentine work on a canvas. Each one is explained with written step-by-step instructions and how-to techniques to get you started, and are accompanied by clear artwork and a photo of the finished stitch.

Follow the diagrams and instructions in this beautifully illustrated and jam-packed book to discover the wonderful variety of effects that can be created with just a needle and thread, and discover - or rediscover - the sensuous, tactile, wearable art of embroidery.

Learn to identify New York trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment.

With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of trees that don't grow in New York. Learn about 118 species found in the state, organized by leaf type and attachment. Just look at a tree's leaves, then go to the correct section to learn what it is. Fact-filled information contains the particulars that you want to know, while full-page photographs provide the visual detail needed for accurate identification.

Book Features

• 118 species: Every native tree plus common non-natives
• Easy to use: Thumb tabs show leaf type and attachment
• Compare feature: Decide between look-alikes
• Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts
• Professional photos: Crisp, stunning full-page images

This new edition includes updated photographs; expanded information; a Quick Compare section for leaves, needles, and silhouettes; and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Trees of New York Field Guide for your next outing--to help ensure that you positively identify the trees that you see.

Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.

Our brain is a muscle. Like our bodies, it needs exercise. In the last few hundred years, we have stopped training our memories and we have lost the ability to memorize large amounts of information-something our ancestors could do with ease.

After discovering that the true purpose of monuments like Easter Island and Stonehenge were to act as memory palaces, Kelly takes this knowledge and introduces us to the best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages to methods used by today's memory athletes. A memory champion herself, Kelly tests all these methods and demonstrate the extraordinary capacity of our brains at any age.

For anyone who needs to memorize a speech or a script, learn anatomy or a foreign language, or prepare for an exam, Memory Craft offers proven techniques and simple strategies for anyone who has trouble remembering names or dates, or for older people who want to keep their minds agile. In addition to getting in touch with our own human and anthropological foundations, Memory Craft shows how all things mnemonic can be playful, creative, and fun.