Collection: Self-Development

Dog lovers will adore these realistic portraits of a German shepherd, Labrador, beagle, and other popular breeds. Use the simple color guide to complete 46 heartwarming images -- finished thumbnail images on the inside covers offer additional guidance. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Dogs 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.

If you're tired of battling blight on your tomatoes, losing your basil to downy mildew, and watching deer raid your vegetable garden, you'll find all the answers you need right here.

In The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, author and veggie-growing guru Susan Mulvihill of YouTube's Susan's in the Garden is ready to set you up for long-term success in the vegetable garden. In these pages, Susan hands you all the info you need to stand firm against plant diseases, viruses, disorders, stressors, and even animal pests, and to do it without having to turn to harsh synthetic chemical products. All-natural solutions to your worst gardening woes are featured in an organized, problem-by-problem manner that makes this a quick and useful reference for both beginner and expert gardeners. This book is a wonderful companion to Susan's previous book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which covers organic solutions for managing insect pests common in home veggie gardens.

In this book, not only will you discover how to get your plants off to a healthy start, you'll also find out how to properly identify plant pathogens, how to troubleshoot problems like pollination issues and weather-related disorders, and how to prevent ailments such as fruit cracking, leaf roll, and blossom end rot.

In addition, Susan hands you natural solutions to:

• Over 28 bacterial and fungal diseases, including nasties like powdery mildew, potato scab, and leaf spot
• Limit damage from plant-eating animals, including birds, chipmunks, rabbits, groundhogs, gophers, deer, and 8 other critters
• Manage a dozen physiological disorders common to the veggie garden, including bitterness, bolting, and sun scald
• Prevent problems before they occur using the many strategies detailed throughout these pages

Keeping vegetable plants healthy and productive is no easy task. An extensive quick-reference chart is included to help with identification and to direct you to the best possible solutions based on both the symptoms you see and the vegetable those symptoms have appeared on. This truly is THE guide every vegetable gardener has been waiting for!

Puzzle enthusiasts can tune in to fun as they search for words associated with 100 of the most popular TV shows of all time. Includes themes related to comedies, from All in the Family and Cheers to The Big Bang Theory; dramas such as Downton Abbey, This Is Us, and Game of Thrones; procedurals like Blue Bloods, Law & Order, and NCIS; plus Westerns, game shows, prime-time soap operas, Emmy winners, and more. Solutions are provided in the back of the book.

It is time, friend, to change the trajectory of your life! Tiffany Owens's book "Wounded to Warrior," reveals how participating in your own rescue can take you from despair to mountain-top motivation and inspiration. She offers her experience, hope, strength, and victories to help warriors in waiting revolutionize their minds, bodies, habits, and goals. Along with the same tools she used to overcome PTSD, addiction, mental health struggles,

and living from a victim mindset!

A playful, illustrated guide to one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices for young children experiencing stress, difficulty focusing, and difficult emotions

Developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as part of the Plum Village community's practice with children, pebble meditation is a playful and fun activity that parents and educators can do with their children to introduce them to meditation. It is designed to involve children in a hands-on and creative way that touches on their interconnection with nature. Practicing pebble meditation can help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude, and can help children deal with difficult emotions.

A Handful of Quiet is a concrete activity that parents and educators can introduce to children in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting. Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this unique meditation guide helpful. Children can also enjoy doing pebble meditation on their own.

Special Operations Fitness is a 12 week unconventional training program designed by a Harvard educated Strategist and Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel to shred body fat, increase cardio vascular efficiency and muscular strength, teach or reinforce essential self-defense techniques, build confidence, and increase physical and mental performance.

Special Operations Fitness includes:

• Philosophical principles of Elite Fitness
• The 12-week Special Operations Fitness program
• A progress tracking check list
• An exercise demonstration video (on YouTube)
• A self-defense technique demonstration video (on YouTube)
• Detailed descriptions for 12 weeks of dumbbell and body-weight boot-camp style workouts, 6 exhausting self-defense kick-boxing workouts, 2 lung crushing swim workouts, 2 unique biking workouts, 2 flexible cross training workouts, and 6 hikes

FIRST, EAT YOUR FROG is a meticulously referenced book presenting eight lessons (or "pearls") learned by a successful woman in medicine--Dr. Elizabeth Kagan Arleo. Benefits to the reader include improved work-life integration; more easeful relationships at work with colleagues and at home with family; better time management in both spheres; and core tenets for thriving as a professional working mother.

The chapters cover eight key lessons the author has learned in her ongoing journey as a mother of three, practicing physician, and editor-in-chief of Clinical Imaging, including:

1. Eat your frog

2. 168 hours--you have more time that you think

3. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail

4. Remember the pre-meeting meeting

5. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

6. Stop over-apologizing

7. It doesn't hurt to ask politely

8. Have a growth mindset

In FIRST, EAT YOUR FROG, Dr. Arleo gives ample credit to the authors and mentors who inspired the lessons and provides explicit guidance -- and highly entertaining stories -- to help readers move toward less overwhelm and more work-life balance.

Self-care is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions. From A (awareness) to Z (ZZZZ--Sleep), the editors and contributors use a simple A-to-Z framework to outline strategies to help you build a self-care plan with specific goals and ways to reach them realistically. Questions for reflection and additional resource lists help you to dig deeper in your self-care journey. Just as the ABCs are essential building blocks for a young child's learning, you can use the ABCs in The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals to build your way to a happy, healthy, ethical life as a helping professional. Includes a self-care planning form to help you set goals and formulate strategies.

The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals...offers a broad range of concrete suggestions for improving individual self-care that should provide guidance and support to fit a broad range of practitioner needs. The book also includes material in several chapters that notes the important role organizations must take in stress and burnout reduction and support of self-care.
SUE STEINER, Ph.D., MSW, Professor, School of Social Work at California State University, Chico, Co-author, Self-Care in Social Work: A Guide for Practitioners, Supervisors, and Administrators

...a caring and useful resource for helping professionals concerned about burnout, stress, staff turnover, and wellness.... By focusing on insights and reflections and providing resources and strategies, The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook is a practical guide and an empowering book.
DR. BARBARA W. SHANK, Ph.D., MSW, Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, University of St. Thomas, St. Catherine University, Chair, Board of Directors, Council on Social Work Education

As the leader of a large nonprofit organization, the health and well-being of my colleagues is always top of mind for me. The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals is just what an organization like ours needed to promote self-care in a way that makes sense for all of us!
JENNIFER HANCOCK, LCSW, President & CEO, Volunteers of America-Mid-States

Sometimes there is a book that speaks to what you also have tried to put into words that feels truly hand-in-glove. I see The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals as precisely this book.
SARAKAY SMULLENS, MSW, LCSW, author of Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work: A Guidebook for Students and Those in Mental Health and Related Professions

Grise-Owens, Miller, & Eaves' The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals is a much-needed handbook to inspire and guide self-care practice. Its insights are far-ranging, original, practical, and flexible. The short chapter format, focused topics, and fresh tone are both accessible and sure to motivate. Even those who have given a great deal of thought and attention to self-care will find new, exciting, and practicable guidance in its pages.
LISA D. BUTLER, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, School of Social Work, Primary Developer, UBSSW Self-Care Starter Kit

A fantastic follow-up to Brain Games for Clever Kids(R), this book is brimming with travel-themed logic puzzles guaranteed to keep kids entertained on even the longest of journeys.

From airport mazes and round-the-world logic games to capital city conundrums and safari-themed sudoku, there's plenty of exciting puzzles to solve over the school holidays.

Created by bestselling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, author of the chart-topping success Brain Games for Clever Kids.

Other books in the series:
9781780552491 Brain Games for Clever Kids(R)
9781780553078 Wordsearches for Clever Kids(R)
9781780553146 Quiz Book for Clever Kids(R)
9781780553085 Crosswords for Clever Kids(R)
9781780554723 Brain Gaming for Clever Kids(R)
9781780555409 Maths Games for Clever Kids(R)
9781780555621 Times Tables Games for Clever Kids(R)
9781780554730 Word Games for Clever Kids(R)
9781780555935 10-Minute Brain Games for Clever Kids(R)

Clever Kids is a trade mark of Michael O'Mara Books Limited.

Learn the meaning behind the phrase, 'Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement. Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and moves us all forward on a path toward Truth and Reconciliation. If you're a Residential School Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor -- you matter. For the children who didn't make it home -- you matter. The child inside every one of us matters. Every Child Matters.

Medicine Wheel Publishing is committed to sharing diverse voices and perspectives, creating a platform for stories that celebrate Indigenous cultures and inspire understanding and respect among readers of all ages.

Break free from health anxiety with proven strategies and activities

Occasional worries about your health are normal. But too much anxiety--especially if it's unfounded--can get in the way of your peace and happiness. The Health Anxiety Workbook can help. You'll explore where extreme health concerns come from and find tangible ways to keep them from controlling you. With a variety of writing prompts and activities, you'll build the skills to manage stress and intrusive thoughts, and take a more positive view of your health and your body.

• Understand health anxiety--Learn the causes and symptoms of health anxiety so you can identify and manage your thoughts and feelings.
  
• Take a proven approach--Discover simple, proven strategies and exercises based on the latest in cognitive behavioral therapy.
• Find support--See that you're not alone with anecdotes from real people who've recovered from health anxiety using these techniques.

Alleviate overwhelming worries about your health with the simple tools in this evidence-based anxiety workbook.

Slow down, relax, and express your creativity with another fun coloring book for grown-ups in the Color Me Coloring Books series.

This coloring book is for all the people out there who just want to color some animals passing gas. Enjoy hours of stress relief with this silly collection of giraffes, kittens, bunnies, hippos, pandas, elephants, and more of your favorite animals breaking wind. Take advantage of the meditative benefits of coloring and forget your worries as you unleash your inner artist. Color Me Farts includes:

• 50 coloring pages of cuddly animals ripping one
• Designs suitable for all skill levels, with a range of selections for beginners and experienced artists
• One-sided pages so your art doesn't bleed through to the other side
• Anxiety-reducing benefits to help lift your mood and help you practice mindfulness.

Whether you need a calming atmosphere, want to unwind at the end of the day, are trying a new hobby, or just love coloring, there is something here for everyone. You can use colored pencils, markers, gel pens, watercolors, crayons, or whatever tool you want to fill in these designs. Dive into the world of tooting creatures and experience nature in all its glory with Color Me Farts.

Worry happens. Worrying is optional.

We live in an increasingly uncertain world, and if you struggle with worry, you aren't alone. You should also know that there's nothing wrong with worry. Worry happens to all of us--and it can even be helpful at times. But excessive worrying--the kind that keeps us up at night, interferes with our thinking during the day, and hijacks our ability to make decisions--is a big, big problem. The good news is that, while worry is inevitable, worrying is completely optional. This book will show you how to break free from the unhelpful thinking habits that keep you stuck in a loop of rumination and anxiety.

With help from this upbeat guide, you'll learn to build your own customizable, anti-worrying toolbox using skills and strategies from metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). You'll discover the science behind why you worry, and how to put the brakes on unhelpful rumination and anxious thoughts--before they kick your worry and anxiety into high gear.

With this go-to guide, you will:

• Gain a better understanding of worry
• Learn why worry happens
• Know when to draw the line at disruptive worrying
• Challenge perfectionism and accept uncertainty

There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for anxiety and worry, but by assembling an arsenal of tools, skills, and strategies, excessive worry can be managed effectively. This book will help you get started now.

El libro más revelador de César Lozano, donde reafirma el valor de la palabra para enfrentar los retos cotidianos y comparte sus mejores secretos para ayudar a los demás.

Aprende de las pérdidas y retoma el camino

Hay ocasiones en que la vida nos pone en situaciones límite, cuando alivio y claridad parecen muy lejanos. Es entonces cuando nos repiten frases como: "No te preocupes", "Dios te mandó este sufrimiento", o la más perfectamente inútil!: "Échale ganas". Más que darnos paz, esas frases nos irritan y, a veces, no sabemos distinguir si son una burla. Consciente de esto, César Lozano propone hacer a un lado recomendaciones huecas y ofrece las mejores opciones para entender y apoyar a quienes pasan por una situación difícil con un consejo asertivo.

Con numerosas reflexiones que favorecen la empatía y el entendimiento, recomendaciones útiles para aprender a escuchar a los demás, y explicaciones claras sobre qué es la depresión sonriente y cómo evitarla, el autor revela también cómo a partir de la neurociencia entendemos por qué es en vano sólo "echarle ganas" para salir del agujero físico y mental en el que a veces caemos.

Cuando "echarle ganas" no es suficiente propone los mejores consejos para cuando atravesamos una crisis, ayuda a apartarnos del sentimiento de culpa. Con inolvidables lecciones de vida y reflexiones sobre los últimos avances científicos sobre equilibrio emocional, este libro te invita a enfocarte en lo positivo y saludable para que compartas tu felicidad con los seres que amas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

This is César Lozano's most revealing book, where he shares his best secrets to help others, and reaffirms the importance of our thoughts to face daily challenges.

There are moments in life when we find ourselves in extreme situations, when relief and clarity seem so very far away. It is then we hear people repeatedly say things like "Don't worry" or "God has sent you this suffering" or the most absolutely useless of them all: "Hang in there." Rather than helping us be at peace, these phrases irritate us, and sometimes we can't even tell if people are making fun of us or not. Aware of it, César Lozano recommends putting such hollow advice aside and offer better options to understand and help those going through a difficult time, providing assertive guidance.

Along with numerous reflections promoting empathy and understanding, these are useful tips to learn how to listen to other people, as well as some clear explanations on what smiling depression is and how to avoid it. The author will also reveal how, through neuroscience, we can come to understand why just "hanging in there" is futile and not enough to climb out of the mental and physical pit we sometimes fall into.

When "hanging in there" is not enough suggests the best advice for those moments of crisis and helps us avert those feelings of guilt. With some unforgettable life lessons and insights into the latest scientific advancements on emotional balance, this book encourages you to focus on the positive and healthy so you may share your kind of happiness with your loved ones.

Jeopardy!(R), "America's Favorite Quiz Show," and Brain Games have joined together to create a puzzle book like none other. Challenge your general knowledge with the seminal quiz format of Jeopardy! and then work your mental muscle with the hurdles of word search and crossword puzzles.

• Contains 27 crossword puzzles and 40 word search puzzles with 5 Jeopardy! style clues for each puzzle whose correct responses can then be used to solve the puzzle.
• Each puzzle is focused on a favorite Jeopardy! category like World History, U.S. History, Word Origins, State Capitals, and Geography.
• Spiral bound, 160 pages.

"An absolutely fabulous, invaluable read!"
--Dr. James B. Maas, Weiss Presidential Fellow, former professor and chair of psychology, Cornell University

"A wonderful, life-changing book."
--Brian Tracy, international bestselling author of Eat That Frog!

Serious mental decline is not an inevitable part of aging. You can boost your short and long-term brain health and significantly lower the risk of dementia--if the right steps are taken now.

Fifty million people have dementia worldwide, but it doesn't have to be that way. We--not our genes--can control our cognitive destiny. Serious mental decline is not an inevitable part of aging. You can boost your short- and long-term brain health and significantly lower the risk of dementia--if the right steps are taken now.

In The Age-Proof Brain, scientist and popular speaker Dr. Marc Milstein reveals the secrets to improving brain function, which lie in the brain's surprising connection with the rest of the body. Debunking common misinformation, he offers science-driven strategies in an entertaining, motivating, and easy-to-follow guide to:

• Improve memory and productivity
• Increase energy and boost your mood
• Reduce the risk of anxiety and depression
• Form healthy habits to supercharge your brain
• Prevent nongenetic Alzheimer's and dementia

Dr. Milstein arms you with knowledge about common and often overlooked issues that prematurely age the brain (including the surprising truth about what doctors previously got wrong about Alzheimer's and dementia), and shares a seven-day challenge to help you jump-start new brain-healthy habits. Small changes can make a big difference right away.

The Age-Proof Brain will provide the tools you need to ensure that you're living a happier and more fulfilling life--today, tomorrow, and well into your future.