Collection: Self-Development

Countless peoples populate the lands of the Age of Lost Omens, fighting for their collective pride, a greater cause, or simply to eke out survival in an untamed and magical world. The Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide dives into the myriad cultures and organizations you can encounter or join in your journey, breathing life into both your character and the many allies and enemies you're bound to meet along the way.

This must-have guidebook for characters of all types introduces three new ancestries to the Second Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game--the regimented and warlike hobgoblin, the plant-like leshy, and the inquisitive lizardfolk--provides 10 new heritages for the game's core ancestries, offers nearly 100 new ancestry feats, and presents 10 new archetypes to allow characters of any class to participate in the world's most notable organizations, from the adventurous Pathfinder Society to the rabble-rousing Firebrands to the magical masters of the Magaambya!

These beautiful tokidoki patterned papers featuring all of your favorite characters will inspire you to create dozens of origami masterpieces. With basic instructions that make it easy to master the craft, you'll be hooked on this popular hobby in no time. In addition to more than 250 sheets of colorful paper in 16 patterns, there are black-and-white patterned papers to color and fold.

Discover the perfect beginning and ending for every knitting project! Detailed instructions for each technique are combined with step-by-step photography to help you create edges that are tighter, looser, stretchier, or lacier. No matter what you're knitting, Leslie Ann Bestor has the cast on and bind off that will give your project the perfect edge.

"A must read for anyone who wants to host a great event. Practical, actionable, and useful."- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"An encouraging, upbeat, and useful call to host parties and make friends. Gray provides innumerable helpful hints and tips for prospective hosts and a new strategy for meeting people and networking. "

-Kirkus Reviews, Best New Books of 2022

You know that well-connected friend who only exists in the movies? The one who throws the best parties and can set up any introduction you need?

Everyone wants to know someone magical like this who brings people together. The secret is: you can be that person. You should be that person. The 2-Hour Cocktail Party will show you how.

Discover a simple formula with step-by-step instructions to host small gatherings. It will help you:

• Meet new people
• Strengthen your existing relationships, and
• Make you the person everyone wants to know.

You'll learn exactly how to host a successful event:

• Which days are best (probably not the ones you think!)
• What to say to the first people who arrive
• How to ensure your invitations get responses
• How to get your guests to mingle with proven scripts
• Exactly how to nicely get people to leave

Plus, get helpful pre-party checklists and a breakdown of activities to encourage new connections.

The 2-Hour Cocktail Party is based on five years of research and thousands of events. It is extremely tactical, practical, and easy to read.

When you learn how to host a successful event, you'll make new friends, boost your career, and leave everyone asking, "When's your next party?"

An exciting interactive title chock-full of kids' favorite pets brings National Geographic Kids signature content to a sticker and activity book format. This book features animals that kids can't get enough of: dogs, cats, lizards, hamsters, bunnies, birds and many more. Packed with mazes, spelling and pattern games, drawing activities, and more, kids are sure to love these pages loaded with fun.

As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities. Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective--as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall's ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community Supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico, where he joins a group of Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long Island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech."Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic"--words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness--Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.

With this entertaining activity book, children start at dot number 1 and work their way to 101 to complete pictures of dozens of cool vehicles. Thirty-eight dot-to-dot puzzles include a fire truck, helicopter, train, space shuttle, monster truck, and other more. Each finished drawing can also be colored! Solutions are included.

Whether you're a beginning knitter or advanced, whether your tastes range from simple knit-purl stitching to fancy Daisy or Moroccan screen, this dictionary of stitch patterns is indispensable!

Young knitters, old knitters, hip knitters, traditional knitters: they all enjoy different styles. But every knitter from age 5 to 95 needs a good dictionary of stitches. 400 Knitting Stitches is a comprehensive guide that invites knitters to experiment with a variety of new stitch combinations. The book is conveniently divided into eight categories: knit-purl, crossed and cables, slipped, lacy, double, twisted, cast-off, and fancy stitches. Making a romantic lacy wrap or a classic cable sweater? Whatever your style, there's a stitch in here for you.

Each of the 400-plus featured stitches is accompanied by easy-to-follow written and charted instructions, as well as a full-color photograph. A section on basic knitting information and techniques at the front of the book makes this volume even more invaluable.

From advanced knitters experimenting with their own designs to beginners looking for clear instruction and explanation, 400 Knitting Stitches is an essential reference for knitters of all kinds.

From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again--in order to truly heal and move on.

Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of people in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation. In this highly anticipated new book, he guides readers on what to do next--how to fully heal from abuse in order to find love and acceptance for the self and others.

Through his close work with--and deep connection to--thousands of survivors of abusive relationships Jackson discovered that most survivors have symptoms of trauma long after the relationship is over. These range from feelings of numbness and emptiness to depression, perfectionism, substance abuse, and many more. But he's also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find love on the other side, and this book shows how. Through a practice of mindfulness, introspection, and exercises using specific tools, readers learn to identify the protective self they've developed - and uncover the core self, so that they can finally move on to live a full and authentic life--to once again feel light, free, and whole, and ready to love again.

This book addresses and provides crucial guidance on topics and conditions like: complex PTSD, Narcissistic abuse, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Codependency, Core wounding, toxic shame, Borderline Personality Disorder, and so many more.

Whole Again offers hope and multiple strategies to anyone who has survived a toxic relationship, as well as anyone suffering the effects of a breakup involving lying, cheating and other forms of abuse--to release old wounds and safely let the love back inside where it belongs.

Grade 3 Geometry and Measurement focuses on the following topics:

Ordinal numbers, read and compare numbers to 1000

Compose and decompose two-dimensional shapes

Group two-dimensional objects and shapes by like properties

Length (inch, foot, yard, centimeter, meter), Weight (pound, gram, kilogram)

Capacity (pint, quart, liter), Time (to five minutes), Temperature (degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit)

Money (coins, bills 1 to 20 dollars)

Find the area of rectangles and squares using a grid

TRUE-HEARTED TAURUS,
LOYAL, HAPPY HOME-MAKER.
DIG THOSE HEELS IN DEEP.

Who are you going to fall in love with next? What job should you really be in? When are you finally going to come into that big money? Why does everyone freak out when Mercury is in retrograde?

In our increasingly turbulent world, many of us are looking to the sky to find guidance in the ancient art of astrology. In Taurus, Stella Andromeda will tell you all you need to know about your astrological life as the bull. Learn how to harness the ancient power of the zodiac and open your mind to what the universe can offer in ways you never would have imagined. With advice that covers everything from self-care to sex, this little book is your key to a very starry future

Contents include: Get to Know Taurus: Lucky color; Taurus careers; How Taurus communicates / The Taurus Deep Dive: Self-care; The Taurus home; Food and cooking; How Taurus wants to be loved / Give Me More: Your birth chart, The Moon effect; Saturn return

To enjoy woodworking, all you need is a few essential tools, a little bit of space, and the desire to make something with your own two hands. The Minimalist Woodworker is about making woodworking clean and simple--from the tools and the workspace to the easy-to-follow instructions. Woodworking is thriving in the hands-on, DIY, maker world we currently live in. Yet, for it's increasing popularity, there are many crafters who don't engage in woodworking because they falsely believe you need a large workshop and a full-blown collection of tools and equipment. The Minimalist Woodworker disproves this myth. It eliminates the fears and excuses as it demystifies the craft. Written by Vic Tesolin, aka the Minimalist Woodworker, a woodworker and woodworking instructor, The Minimalist Woodworker is a stress-free approach for the hobbyist that emphasizes the destination is actually the journey.

Beginning with an understanding of the minimalist mindset, The Minimalist Woodworker quickly details how to make a small space productive and outlines the most efficient tools for a woodworker. Each piece of equipment is explained and instructions on how to use are provided. Techniques for keeping them sharp and maintained are also explained. Once space and tools are covered, seven projects are presented: a saw bench and matching saw horse, a Nicholson-style workbench, a shooting board/bench hook, a shop mallet, and a small hanging cabinet. Each project not only develops woodworking skills, but also outfits the minimalist woodworker's small shop. With step-by-step instruction, photos and illustrations, and an easy-going voice, The Minimalist Woodworker offers a stress-free point of entry into the life-long craft of woodworking.

Slow down and let your imagination take root as you explore a new world of flowers and gardens and bring them to life with color!

Artist Sarah Simon, of @themintgardener, weaves a beautiful floral theme through the pages using her favorite illustrated character, Florence the "Plant Lady." Follow along as the Plant Lady guides you on a creative journey to savor the sweet moments of nature. Wander from scenes of a book nook filled with plants to a hiking trail in the Pacific Northwest and explore gardens filled with everything from sunflowers to artichokes. If you love flowers, plants, and pausing to appreciate the beauty and wonder of the natural world, then you'll enjoy getting creative with The Plant Lady!

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