Collection: Self-Development

Journey through the realms of pop culture, wordplay, and intellectual intrigue with Vox Pop Culture Crosswords: 80 Puzzles for Curious Minds--the first-ever crossword puzzle book from the crossword wizards at Vox.com! Crossword enthusiasts and pop culture aficionados alike will delight in this crossword book's 80 themed 15×15 crosswords.

With pop culture references ranging from Mario Kart to iCarly, from Master P to Bernie Sanders, puzzlers will uncover the secrets of classic crossword themes, all while exploring the intriguing intersection of journalism and pop culture. Vox Pop Culture Crosswords isn't just a crossword puzzle book; it's a nod to news buffs and a gateway to the world of pop culture for beginners alike. Looking for hip gifts for book lovers or great gifts for news junkies? Nothing beats crossword puzzle books for adults and teens, family and friends! Take a mental health break and give yourself the satisfying gift of cracking some cruciverbal conundrums.

Vox.com, the ultimate destination to find free crossword puzzles online, is now the powerful puzzle partner to Puzzlewright Press! With this Vox crossword book and Vox Mega Book of Mini Crosswords, this power puzzler couple have unlocked a world of wordplay and knowledge. Vox.com's all-star crew of crossword constructors--all of whom have published multiple puzzles in The New York Times and other high-profile venues--include Patrick Blindauer, Juliana Tringali Golden, Adesina O. Koiki, Will Nediger, and Andrew J. Ries.

This guide teaches us how to break the shackles of fear and reveals how we can overcome our own psychological stumbling blocks. Filled with epigrams, lectures, and personal anecdotes, it is a testament of what we can become, if we have faith in the divinity of our true nature as the soul.

Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience

Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity's funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him "the stand-up Consul." How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero's essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience.

As powerful as jokes can be, they are also hugely risky. The line between a witty joke and an offensive one isn't always clear. Cross it and you'll look like a clown, or worse. Here, Cicero and Quintilian explore every aspect of telling jokes--while avoiding costly mistakes. Presenting the sections on humor in Cicero's On the Ideal Orator and Quintilian's The Education of the Orator, complete with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Tell a Joke examines the risks and rewards of humor and analyzes basic types that readers can use to write their own jokes.

Filled with insight, wit, and examples, including more than a few lawyer jokes, How to Tell a Joke will appeal to anyone interested in humor or the art of public speaking.

An African-American Guide To Ethical Non-Monogamy is a how to guide of the various love styles under the ethical non-monogamy umbrella. As an African-American raised in the United States, our outlook and thought processes regarding sex and relationships have been firmly established by society and religion. Sexual stereotypes have been forced upon us, acquiesced by us and passed along from generation to generation via epigenetics and accepted without question.

An African-American Guide To Ethical Non-Monogamy will fill in the gaps of your open mind by answering the many questions on the diverse ways to love and be loved. Discover the differences and benefits of: Open, Swinging, Polygyny, Polyandry, Polyamory and resolve which love style(s) is best for you. We will demonstrate ways to communicate authentically, set boundaries and learn to become responsible for your own emotions. Let us begin.

Amongst many things, Taylor (aka Mariposa) Sparks is a passionate erotic educator and sex goddess, certified in both holistic aromatherapy and human behavior. With over twenty years of experience in the natural skin care/cosmetics industry, Ms. Sparks launched OrganicLoven.com, one of the largest BIPOC owned online intimacy shops.

Ms. Sparks' holistic sexual health/wellness and relationship expertise has contributed to articles in Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Married 2 Medicine, Men's Health, Oprah, Shape, Women's Health magazines as well as being a guest on many national and international podcasts.

For more than 15 years before, she was a highly sought-after corporate trainer with a proficiency in the areas of: Communications, Negotiations, Leadership and Business Management skills, Customer Service and Team Building with a specialty in DISC Personality Assessments.

While traveling around the globe, Taylor has become renowned in the adult travel industry and is a powerful public speaker both nationally and internationally. Coaching couples and singles in both the ethically monogamous and ethically non-monogamous communities.

Personally, she has two adult children, and a 25-year marriage that was both ethically monogamous/ethically non-monogamous (12/13 years respectively) and has identified as ethically non-monogamous for more than 15 years. Taylor lives a plant-based life, socially and environmentally conscious and a strong supporter of all things organic, natural and eco-friendly...including Love.

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice.

The concept of solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes it as "the homesickness we feel while still at home." It's the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf.

This powerful anthology brings together thirty-four writers--educators, journalists, poets, and scientists--to share their emotions in the face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of what we can create.

In this latest addition to the hugely successful CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? series, acclaimed photographer Walter Wick welcomes readers out for some spooky search-and-find fun!

Co-creator of the popular I SPY series, Walter Wick is at it again. Mr. Wick dazzles the senses with spooky scenes that achieve new levels of aesthetic excellence! This book offers readers lots of search and find fun as they peer through pages and pages of brilliant photographic compositions looking for fascinating toys and objects.This highly collectable book is a must.

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new preface from the author.

Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions--both big and small--have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented.

As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression.

In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice--the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice--from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs--has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse.

By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

The author of the bestselling I Used to Have a Plan is back with more balm for the soul, offering advice, inspiration, and solace for everyone who has lost something or someone special.

After losing her mother to cancer, Alessandra Olanow was overwhelmed by the sadness and uncertainty she felt each day--the shifting tide of emotions that everyone who has suffered loss experiences in their own unique way.

In this wise and intimate book, the artist and writer draws insights from her personal loss and also her training as an end-of-life doula to explore the complex, heart-rending process of grief. Olanow chronicles her journey through pain and how she learned to bear a sorrow that will never leave her. In spare but incisive writing and more than 75 full-color drawings, she shares her own struggle with feelings of loss and longing and shows that with time, grief evolves and we relearn the world changed by that loss.

Hello Grief can be read straight through from cover to cover or can be opened to any page: each spread delivers a warm combination of advice, solace, empathy, and a glint of humor that is direct, helpful, comforting, and profound in its truth. Olanow has distilled the experience of grief and the process of healing into a soothing book that will bring comfort to anyone in mourning.

Help kids get through big feelings with mindfulness activities for ages 5 to 7

It's normal for kids to experience feelings so big that they're hard to manage! This book is filled with engaging exercises that show kids how to use mindfulness to work through tough emotions and feel happier fast.

What sets this book apart from other feelings books for children:

• 4 big feelings--Kids will learn how to handle anger, excitement, anxiety, and sadness with helpful mindfulness activities.
• Different ways to find calm--This book offers a mix of peaceful exercises that encourage kids either to move their body or pause and breathe.
• Strategies for kids--Discover beginner-friendly activities with colorful pictures and clear instructions that make it easy for kids ages 5 to 7 to practice mindfulness.

Give little ones the tools they need to manage big feelings with this top choice in emotion books for kids.

The Ultimate Guide to K-Beauty Secrets

The Korean Skincare Bible is much more than a beauty product guide it is a lifestyle, a ritual and a philosophy. This K-bible is the ultimate no-nonsense guide to daily Korean beauty care, in it you will find advice, step-by-step guides and tricks to take care of your skin and make it look great even if you don't know anything about the art of cosmetics or have troublesome skin. It will teach you how to make your own beauty products and give you advice on tried and tested routines. This book will bring you closer to achieving flawless skin and will reveal all the secrets you need to be able to achieve radiant skin, every day.

The Korean Skincare Biblewill become your expert guide to great skin - pure and simple.

Chapters:
1. The history of Korean Beauty
2. The importance of taking care of your skin
3. Korean beauty products
4. The Korean Beauty routine
5. The natural ingredients used in Korean Beauty
6. Natural Beauty
7. K-Beauty don'ts
8. Korean Beauty trends
9. Korean Skincare answers
10. Korean Skincare tips for men
11. Travelling Korean Beauty tips

Explore your inner world and be inspired with The Wellbeing Journal. Developed in partnership with Mind, the mental health charity, each page of this gorgeous journal has been thoughtfully crafted. It includes activities, coloring, drawing prompts, contemplative quotes, and lots of space for you to write about your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Creativity and reflection can have a powerful, positive influence on our lives. Now, with The Wellbeing Journal, you can enjoy practicing these skills every day and wherever you go.

A state of significant plant diversity, California is home to more species than any other. Weather, elevation, and latitude all play parts in the region's floristic dynamism. For the wild edible plant enthusiast, this means a variety of sustaining forages are to be had, however, found in one place, most are not. With Wild Edible Plants of California (Volume 1), the reader has access to a concise publication, instructing not only on the where, but too, the what and when of California's wild edible bounty.

Covering the state's most essential forages, preference has been given to plants that are abundant and/or have more caloric/nutritional/traditional value than other edibles. Well-suited for the backpack, cargo-pocket, or glovebox, the publication's form is a 64-page booklet. Over 160 color photos and a state/county location image for every profile assists the reader in plant identification. Aside from the main focus of how to use and prepare each wild edible, additional sections include medicinal uses (if applicable), cautions, and special notes. A sustenance rank, choice edible part/ season indictor, and general index all serve to increase the publication's usefulness.

Plant List: Agave, Amaranth, Beargrass, Biscuitroot, Bitterroot, Black Nightshade, Blackberry, Bluedicks, Bracken Fern, California Hazel, California Walnut, Cattail, Chia, Chokecherry, Cholla, Currant, Desert Lily, Elder, Fan Palm, Gooseberry, Ground Cherry, Hollygrape, Indian Plum, Indian Rice Grass, Ironwood, Lambsquarters, Madrone, Manzanita, Mariposa Lily, Mesquite, Miner's Lettuce, Mulberry, Nettle, Oak, Paloverde, Panicgrass, Pellitory, Pennywort, Pinyon Pine, Prickly Pear, Raspberry, Redbud, Salal, Salsify, Serviceberry, Thimbleberry, Tuber Starwort, Tule, Western Spring Beauty, Wild Gourd, Wild Grape, Wild Onion, Wild Rose, Wild Strawberry, Wolfberry, Yampa, Yellow Nutsedge, and Yucca.

From the world leader in fascinating facts and amusing true stories comes a book about how to feed, clothe, and protect yourself in the wilderness...and might even make you want to avoid anything resembling the wilderness forever.

For more than 25 years, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didn't know. Now, Uncle John will show you how to do things you didn't know how to do...and probably should never, never, never actually do, unless you're in a survival situation and really, really, really need to do. It's How to Fight a Bear...and Win. A new approach to survival guides and how-to books, this book provides step-by-step instructions for how to make do in any rugged terrain. But if you're expecting "how to start a fire," think again. This isn't the kind of book that will tell you how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together--it will tell you how to make a fire using a car battery. It will also tell you:

• How to swing from a vine like Tarzan
• How to land an airplane in an emergency
• How to fight a bear...and win
• How to perform emergency surgery in the woods
• How to identify what insects you can--and cannot--eat
• And lots, lots more.

"Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems are addictive and not without harm" - World Health Organisation on e-cigarettes

Allen Carr's Easyway is a global phenomenon - a clinically proven and 100% drug-free treatment for nicotine addiction. First used as an internationally renowned and incredibly successful stop-smoking method, this cutting-edge approach now addresses the fastest-growing nicotine delivery system in the world, vaping.

The Easyway method tackles addiction from an entirely different angle. Rather than employing scare-tactics and enforcing painful restrictions on your vaping habits, it unravels the cognitive brainwashing behind your addictive behavior. In this way, it removes the desire to vape altogether without willpower or sacrifice.

Whether you use e-cigarettes, JUUL, tanks or pens, or any kind of mod or pod, this method will work for you. All you have to do is read this book in its entirety, follow all of the instructions and you will be set free from your addiction to nicotine.

- Does not rely on willpower, aids, substitutes, or gimmicks
- Works without unpleasant withdrawal symptoms
- Clinically proven to be AT LEAST as effective as UK health service's Gold Standard Stop Smoking Service.

What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method:

"Allen Carr's international bestseller...has helped countless people quit."
Time Out New York

"I read this book and quit smoking instantly"
Nikki Glaser

"The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle."
Anjelica Huston

"It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction."
Sir Anthony Hopkins

"His skill is in removing the psychological dependence."
The Sunday Times

What if anxiety isn't a disease? What if it's a product of a healthy system, signaling you that it's now time to make some changes? If you could pause your hectic life for a moment to listen to your inner voice, what would it say needs modification?

If there were a guide to assist in systematically evaluating critical aspects of life, one at a time, would you use it? If it contained practical solutions to improve health, mindset, finances, relationships, and habits, where would you want to start?

In this autobiographical guide, Dr. Nate Dallas shares his eye-opening, personal experiment to escape the cultural epidemic of anxiety and entrapment that ensnares so many highly productive people. In his unabashed, down-to-earth style, he presents an entertaining and enlightening journey, challenging you to break away from cultural norms and live the contrarian life you know you deserve. He streamlines complex processes into a practical, systematic prescription designed to elevate your experience.

• Phase 1 - Physiology (sleep, breathing, nutrition, & exercise)
• Phase 2 - Psychology (human needs, pattern breaking, mindset, & meditation)
• Phase 3 - Life Application (recreation, money, work, systems, & relationships)

It's sure to generate a few laughs, while challenging you in meaningful ways. Throughout the process, you will think, see, understand, and feel like never before.

Buckle your seat belt and don't look back. You're going to love this ride!

A welcoming drawing guide for creating beautiful worlds and wondrous wildlife from bestselling artist Johanna Basford

Through her bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna Basford's beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In this lovely and accessible guide, she shares the fun, simple, no-skills-needed secrets to creating your own wondrous realms through fanciful, expressive line drawing.

With step-by-step exercises, inspiring prompts, and still plenty of pages to color, you'll be free to let your creativity run wild. How to Draw Inky Wonderlands invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvelous creatures and landscapes using only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination.