Collection: Self-Development

52 Weeks of Scarves is a contemporary collection of 52 patterns for scarves, shawls, wraps, cowls and collars, from Nordic knitting experts Laine.

Nothing brings more comfort than a hand-knitted scarf - from a light wrap for cool shoulders on summer evenings or spring mornings, to a beautiful shawl as the centerpiece of fall outfits, or a cozy collar to be layered under winter coats. Whether you're creating a shawl for yourself or a cowl for a loved one, there's care in every stitch. Knitting is more than just knit, knit, purl. It is a feeling.

This stunning book contains a beautiful scarf pattern for every week of the year. The 52 projects have been contributed by leading knitwear designers from across the world and showcase an exceptionally wide range of yarns, techniques and difficulty levels, including two crochet designs. Comprehensive patterns are supported by extra material on the Laine website, and stunning photography and styling evokes the inspiring Nordic lifestyle and slow living.

The follow up to the bestselling 52 Weeks of Socks, 52 Weeks of Scarves is destined to become another knitting classic - a book to return to again and again, not just for weeks but for years to come.

Previously published in hardback as 52 Weeks of Shawls.

A guide to how Dungeons & Dragons was played before Dungeons & Dragons!

Greg Svenson's, The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg. An Official BLACKMOOR(TM) Setting

The Most Unique RPG Module ever published.

In 1971, Greg Svenson and his friends took part in the very first dungeon adventure game, Blackmoor, created by their friend, Dave Arneson (D&D Co-Creator).

The large group of players descended into Blackmoor Dungeon in search of a wizard and his cohort, an evil Balrog. Greg was the only player to survive this momentous first game session, earning the title: The Great Svenni. As his game persona, Greg would go on to become the most celebrated character in the history of Blackmoor and RPGs.

Then, in the summer of 1973, as Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax worked to complete the manuscript for Dungeons & Dragons, Greg was given a play-test copy of this novel new game. He used these rules to create his own adventure dungeon, The Dungeons of Tonisborg.

One day, Greg loaned his maps to a friend to make copies. An unexpected disaster struck: the maps, stowed in an old magazine, were thrown away. All ten original map levels of Greg's epic mega-dungeon were thought lost forever. This lost map set came to be known as The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg among the "Blackmoor Bunch."

Thirty-five years later, during the making of the documentary film, Secrets of Blackmoor, a mysterious set of photocopied dungeon maps was unearthed. D. H. Boggs emailed copies to Greg Svenson, who instantly recognized his own handwriting, declaring that these old photocopies were indeed copies of his original Tonisborg Dungeon.

Now published with extensive background information, The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg is not like any RPG Game Module you've ever encountered before.

Step back into time with this stand-alone book, presenting the second oldest mega-dungeon created in the Twin Cities during the early development of RPGs.

It's a history of RPG dungeons.

It's a guide to the secret art of the Dungeon Master - from the people who invented it.

It's a rediscovered ten-level mega-dungeon filled with monsters and hidden treasures.

It is an entire RPG, complete with old-school rules for creating player personas, outfitting equipment, adventuring, extensive charts for generating treasures, a spellbook, and a compendium of mythical creatures. (Or you can use your own favorite rules)

Everything you need to play is in this one volume! Guide your players through a deep dive into the dungeon as you learn RPG History, Philosophy, and Traditional Game Methods to improve your gaming sessions. Immerse yourself and your friends into a fantastic world of adventure with this historic mega-dungeon using original game rules derived from rare manuscripts from times past. The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg - The Seminal Guidebook to Traditional Role Playing!

Includes:

• Reproductions of the original drawings of all ten levels of Tonisborg Dungeon, complete with the original dungeon keys and stocking lists.
• Updated maps and keys have been beautifully reconstructed from the originals for ease of play.
• Greg Svenson reveals how the dungeon came about and why it's a bridge between past and present.
• Extensive play guidelines teach you how to make Tonisborg rise again as a real-life experience for you and your players.
• A set of historically accurate game rules are included that are ideal for developing an original style adventure campaign - or use your own preferred rules.

Additional Tonisborg resources available at www.tfott.com

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work.

"What an asshole!"

How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers:

• Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good
• Illuminating case histories from major organizations
• A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out
  

The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.

We may not realize it, but negative feelings can be as toxic to our health as physical poisons, wearing on us and causing depression, illness, and burnout. In this updated edition of her classic How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, shaman and psychologist Sandra Ingerman reveals the secrets of the ancient alchemists and offers strategies for processing harmful thoughts and emotions and turning spiritual lead into gold. Her methods are simple...but they can change you, others, and the world.

A new adult coloring book from bestselling artist Millie Marotta featuring her most-loved illustrations of animals from around the world.

Millie Marotta's Animal Adventures is a bindup that brings together Millie's favorite illustrations from her three most recent coloring books for adults: Island Escape, Secrets of the Sea, and Woodland Wild, along with five new illustrations created especially for this book. Featuring 109 illustrations, the book invites colorists to indulge their creativity and bring these adventurous animals to life--from the homely hedgehog and the otherworldly leafy sea dragon, to the Antarctic penguin and the tropical tree frog.

Featuring some of the greatest hits from other Millie Marotta animal coloring books along with exclusive new art, Millie Marotta's Animal Adventures is sure to please any coloring enthusiast. The intricate, detailed lines of Millie's signature art style make this the perfect coloring book for adults, teenagers, or anyone else looking for a coloring book for relaxation.

Author and spiritual wellness guide Maia Toll turns the insight and wisdom that birthed The Illustrated Crystallary and The Illustrated Herbiary -- her best-selling volume on the mystical power of plants -- to the mysteries of the animal kingdom. She profiles the mystical, meaningful traits of 36 powerful animals and explores how those traits can guide our intentions, inform our actions, and offer wisdom and insight. Spring Peeper's ability to reemerge from frozen hibernation can inspire us to reinvent ourselves. Katydid's five eyes can lend clarity of vision when we need to see the bigger picture. A deck of 36 oracle cards beautifully illustrated by Kate O'Hara, plus suggested rituals, readings, and reflections, guide readers in cultivating and accessing each animal's special energy.

Also available: The Illustrated Bestiary Collectible Box Set and The Illustrated Herbiary Collectible Box Set.

Make exquisite papers right in your own kitchen. With a few pieces of basic equipment and a small harvest of backyard weeds, you can easily create stunningly original handcrafted papers. Helen Heibert's illustrated step-by-step instructions show you how easy it is to blend and shape a variety of organic fibers into professional stationery, specialty books, and personalized gifts. You'll soon be creatively integrating plant stalks, bark, flower petals, pine needles, and more to add unique colors and textures to your paper creations.

For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen sink in an apartment -- making vermicomposting a great option for city dwellers and anyone who doesn't want or can't have an outdoor compost pile. The fully revised 35th anniversary edition features the original's same friendly tone, with up-to-date information on the entire process, from building or purchasing a bin (readily available at garden supply stores) to maintaining the worms and harvesting the finished compost.

A user-friendly introduction to understanding auras

If you're interested in learning about auras--colored energy fields that surround people, animals, plants, crystals, and even places--this handy, accessible book is a wonderful starting point. Cassandra Eason explains a variety of techniques for sensing, seeing, and interpreting the aura--your own, those of both individuals and groups, and those of your pets--and how you can cleanse, heal, strengthen, and protect the aura.

With this introductory guide, you can learn how to identify and interpret auras, discover what their different colors mean, and heal and cleanse your own and others' auras. In addition, renowned author Cassandra Eason provides a range of spiritually enhancing hands-on exercises to try.

Find your aura with this entry in the popular LITTLE BIT OF series!

What do you get if you combine cross stitch with Pokémon? Only the best craft book ever!

Pokémon Cross Stitch provides full color charts for you to stitch 20 different Pokémon in a wide range of poses-with over 50 patterns to choose from. It's a varied selection, with plenty of interesting colors and shapes to ensure hours of cross stitching fun.

The Pokémon will be instantly recognizable to fans of the phenomenally popular Japanese game and TV series. In all their colorful and wonderful shapes, these designs are as true to the craft of cross stitch as they are to the Pokémon universe and are fun to stitch with the minimum of tools and materials.

All Pokémon trainers need to train-themselves and their Pokémon. The same is true with cross stitch. To help in your training, the book starts with a how-to guide to understanding cross stitch charts, then explains and demonstrates the simple techniques needed to stitch the Pokémon. It addresses the tools and materials you'll need, and then how to put everything together to make and display the perfect cross stitched Pokémon.

Author Maria Diaz is one of the world's best-loved cross stitch designers, and has used all her skill and experience to bring Pokémon to life in cross stitch for stitcher's everywhere to enjoy.

Officially licensed by The Pokémon Company International. (c) 2023 Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK

Tax Lien and Tax Deed Investing, The Proven Techniques was written to encourage those who may have heard of this technique to learn more to become an educated investor. With a little bit of knowledge, some examples of transactions and seeing how it was done could just be what the reader needs to take a chance and some risk to make a bit of money.

With giving a clear and concise image of what actually tax lien and tax deed investing is and how to carefully navigate the process, the reader will be given a chance to make amazing profits. With tax lien and tax deed investing, you have the opportunity to make up to 36% interest each year. When most people find a letter from the tax collector in their mailbox, it usually is a bill, but for the tax lien investor, it will be check after check made payable to them. To even add a bonus, if the tax lien was purchased inside their self-directed Roth IRA, all profits would be exempt from income taxes.

With every state holding a tax lien auction or tax deed auction, we show the reader how to win a property and pay pennies on the dollar. Imagine attending an auction, and you end up the winning bidder and now are the proud owner of that beautiful home and you only paid 15% of the value. What if you paid 50% of the value and now you have a home you can live in with 50% of the value as profits? Now many of you reading may not have the cash and are afraid this is only for the rich people. Well put that thought aside because the first deal I got into, I found an investor to put up all the money.

These 31 charming summer scenes will delight colorists yearning for sunshine every day of the year! Detailed original designs include seascapes, gardens in bloom, and idyllic farm vistas as well as romantic picnics, sunsets, and a wedding on the beach. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Summer Scenes 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.

Should I stay married for my kids? Does this count as abuse? Why am I so unhappy? What does a healthy relationship even look like?

When you're ready for honest answers to these and other questions, The D Word shows you how to dig deep and find them--and then move forward into a better, brighter future.

A template for confident decision-making and lasting growth and change--whether readers choose to stay in a marriage or leave it.

"For those who feel powerless and lost in broken marriages, Anthony shines a light." --Publishers Weekly

From the host of the critically acclaimed The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast comes a book that provides the clarity, peace, and answers women need to make empowered decisions about their marriages, break unhealthy patterns, and build the life they truly want.

Every year, close to a million women struggle to decide whether to divorce their partners. Some are in relationships they know to be unsalvageable, yet they're terrified that divorce will hurt their kids. Others feel guilt-ridden and confused over their unhappiness with a spouse who seems, to the outside world at least, to be perfectly fine. And then there are those in between, restless and aware of problems that may or may not be fixable, with no idea how to tell the difference.

The D Word is the definitive yet accessible guide for everyone who wants to take control of their lives, either by ending or repairing their marriage. Written in Kate Anthony's signature straight-talking, empowering style, The D Word is more than a practical handbook for those considering divorce. It also reveals how cultural and societal influences negatively affect our relationships and expectations, stacking the odds against women.

Ready for your next coloring adventure? Celebrate the magic of travel without leaving the comforts of home! This color-by-number book features 46 stunning scenes of breathtaking natural wonders, including lush tropical islands, mountaintop vistas, picturesque landscapes, dazzling seascapes, and more. A small version of each illustration is shown in full color on the inside covers, and it's easy to duplicate these beautiful images with the help of lightly printed numbers that correspond to a simple color key. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display of your finished art.

*Gold Medal Winner in the Sexuality / Relationships Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards*

* Honorary Mention in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Women's Issues Category *

Girls with Asperger's Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, and even once symptoms have been recognised, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females of any age can often mask difficulties, deficits, challenges, and loneliness.

This is a must-have handbook written by an Aspergirl for Aspergirls, young and old. Rudy Simone guides you through every aspect of both personal and professional life, from early recollections of blame, guilt, and savant skills, to friendships, romance and marriage. Employment, career, rituals and routines are also covered, along with depression, meltdowns and being misunderstood. Including the reflections of over thirty-five women diagnosed as on the spectrum, as well as some partners and parents, Rudy identifies recurring struggles and areas where Aspergirls need validation, information and advice. As they recount their stories, anecdotes, and wisdom, she highlights how differences between males and females on the spectrum are mostly a matter of perception, rejecting negative views of Aspergirls and empowering them to lead happy and fulfilled lives.

This book will be essential reading for females of any age diagnosed with AS, and those who think they might be on the spectrum. It will also be of interest to partners and loved ones of Aspergirls, and anybody interested either professionally or academically in Asperger's Syndrome.