Collection: Self-Development

The art of Japanese-style rope bondage has become increasingly popular in recent years both for its beautiful visual aspect, and for the intimacy it creates between tying partners.

This detailed reference book of fundamental suspension techniques will help you understand both the ties and the body that is tied. Its easy-to- use structure encourages you to think creatively and adapt everything to your own needs. It emphasises learning for both riggers and models by explaining rope from both perspectives.

Begin adding gravity to your rope play sessions with the range of simple partial suspensions - whilst building up the tools to learn the more challenging full suspensions.

The process of suspension is broken down into its core components, such as:
- Anatomy and body mechanics within ropes.
- An in-depth look at the takate kote.
- A variety of other suspension harnesses.
- Line management techniques.

It also gives detailed background information on:
- Communication and negotiation.
- Safety.
- Your equipment, and how to maintain it.
- Assessing hardpoints.

"One of the most interesting and useful books ever written on networking."--Adam Grant

Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about "networking." Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work life, and even your global impact. Are you an Expansionist, a Broker, or a Convener? The answer matters more than you think. . . .

Yale professor Marissa King shows how anyone can build more meaningful and productive relationships based on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and network analytics. Conventional wisdom says it's the size of your network that matters, but social science research has proven there is more to it. King explains that the quality and structure of our relationships has the greatest impact on our personal and professional lives. As she illustrates, there are three basic types of networks, so readers can see the role they are already playing: Expansionist, Broker, or Convener. This network decoder enables readers to own their network style and modify it for better alignment with their life plans and values.

High-quality connections in your social network strongly predict cognitive functioning, emotional resilience, and satisfaction at work. A well-structured network is likely to boost the quality of your ideas, as well as your pay. Beyond the office, social connections are the lifeblood of our health and happiness. The compiled results from dozens of previous studies found that our social relationships have an effect on our likelihood of dying prematurely--equivalent to obesity or smoking.

Rich stories of Expansionists like Vernon Jordan, Brokers like Yo-Yo Ma, and Conveners like Anna Wintour, as well as personal experiences from King's own world of connections, inform this warm, engaging, revelatory investigation into some of the most consequential decisions we can make about the trajectory of our lives.

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'"

In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.

Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.

This origami paper pack contains 100 high-quality origami sheets printed with 8 different beautiful bird designs and patterns.

These traditional Japanese patterns were chosen to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. There's enough paper here to assemble amazing modular origami sculptures, distribute to students for a class project, or put to a multitude of other creative uses.

This origami paper pack includes:

• 100 sheets of high-quality origami paper
• 8 repeating bird patterns
• Double-sided color
• 6x6 inch (15cm) squares
• Instructions for 6 easy origami projects

New York Times bestseller - This groundbreaking book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice.

Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life.

An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation's effectiveness, this book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle "Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows." Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can literally help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in your life.

Whether you have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, Aware is a hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of stress and the everyday challenges life throws your way.

Dinosaurs come to life--with your help! The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and IDW Publishing present a fascinating new coloring book that provides a beautiful and informative tour through the prehistoric world of dinosaurs.

With this exquisitely designed coloring book, dinosaur lovers of all ages can explore millions of years of animal wonders, guided by experts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the artistic wizardry of Rachel Curtis (The Princess Bride: A Storybook to Color). These lush pen and ink illustrations invite you to step into captivating scenes featuring the herbivorous Stegosaurus, the sea-dwelling Hesperornis, the giant sauropod Camarasaurus, the mighty Tyrannosaurus, and many more. Fans of dinosaurs, coloring books, and natural history will find an enchanting world to unlock with their own creativity.

Each page of Dinosaurs: A Smithsonian Coloring Book not only stands alone as a work of art, but is also accompanied by brief and fascinating insights from the museum's Paleontology experts about each dinosaur and its world, ensuring that time spent coloring is also time spent learning.

This book's deluxe ivory paper allows for a variety of artistic media like pen, pencil, or even watercolor, to ensure your creative vision comes to life just the way you want--and lasts for years to come.

This fun collection challenges you to use all parts of your brain!

• More than 120 puzzles test a wide array of cognitive skills, including language puzzles, memory puzzles, number-based puzzles, and visual mind stretchers.
• Along with puzzles, read about how the brain works, the brain's plasticity, what your brain needs in terms of sleep, exercise, and food, how memory works, and memory tips and mnemonics.
• Build your verbal skills with rebuses, anagrams, analogies, word ladders, and crosswords.
• Be perceptive in spotting optical illusions and small differences between two pictures.
• Use logic to solve mastermind, logidoku, and sequence puzzles.
• Read text or view a picture and then turn to the next page to test your memory.
• An answer key is found at the back.
• Spiral bound, 160 pages.

Through the Wormhole!

After Steve and Zombie accidentally launch a prototype display rocket and get sucked through a wormhole, they are happy to land safely back in the Overworld.

However, nothing is like its supposed to be.

Zombie's dad is organized, his mom is scatterbrained (without the brain), Zombie is allowed to stay up all day, and the humans are scaring the mobs!

Could they be in...a parallel universe?!

And, will they ever get home, or will this alternate reality be just too much fun to leave?

Jump in and Find Out!

Stitch Up Your Newest Cuddle Companions

Crochet the cutest, cuddliest, coziest creatures of the forest with this beginner-friendly guide to amigurumi animals from Sarah Zimmerman, bestselling author of Crochet Cute Critters and creator of Repeat Crafter Me. These 26 simple patterns will transport you to a whimsical world of woodland animals begging to be snuggled and squeezed. Each endearing pattern requires only the simplest stitches, straightforward assembly and widely-accessible yarn so you can stitch up your squishiest new companion in record time.

From forest floor friends and treetop dwellers to riverside animals and nocturnal critters, there's a pattern for every cherished creature of the woods. Sweeten your space with a smiling green Frog, or liven up your nest with a lovable Owl. Create a not-so-rascally Raccoon, a friendly Fox or a darling Deer to invite playful cheer into your everyday. Why not complete the whole collection by crocheting them all! Even if you're new to crochet, these easiest-ever patterns are guaranteed to bring you boundless joy.

This fully-illustrated New York Times bestseller categorizes an astonishing 2,100 yoga poses through photographs and descriptions for optimal benefit including adaptations for all levels of expertise and ages.

A thoughtful, inspiring, meticulously-crafted guide to the practice of yoga, 2,100 Asanas will explore hundreds of familiar poses along with modified versions designed to bring more healthful options to yogis of all experience and ability.
Organized into eight sections for the major types of poses -- standing, seated, core, quadruped, inversions, prone, supine and backbends -- and each section gently progresses from easy to more challenging. Each pose is accompanied by the name of the pose in English and Sanskrit, the Drishti point (eye gaze), the chakras affected and primary benefits.

Sex has been used to sell nearly everything in our modern culture, but almost no attention has been given to the personal importance of it in all of our lives, and most of us really know very little about it. Sex can and should be a major part of life for all adults and for all seniors thorough their golden years. In early chapters, the author challenges you to use the mirror of critical examination of yourself and your partner to identify areas of relationship and sexual technique weaknesses. In chapters VII and VIII, he is shockingly candid with very detailed specifics of sexual facts and techniques including little known topics such as first encounter sexual imprinting, micro body movements, female ejaculation, A-spot, G-spot, U-spot and other erogenous zones, the magic sexual frequency of .8 Hertz, hip scooping, why erectile dysfunction doesnt matter, anatomical variations, sexual fantasies, types of orgasms, effective sexual positions, sexual aids, and specific directions about how to make yourself sexual royalty. In SEX AFTER SEVENTY the author discusses specifics about the importance of understanding ourselves to get past false information that we have been subjected to our entire lives from well-meaning and not so well-meaning influences. He urges us to think for ourselves.

Makes it easy for you to learn how, with truly simple instructions for Basic Mittens.

Help your child cultivate mindfulness and an attitude of gratitude to build their confidence with this gorgeous and empowering journal.

This wonderful self exploration journal has over 100 days of unique kindness challenges, memory-making challenges, and reflective journal prompts to help kids ages 8-12 and even young women foster a personal growth mindset and explore their deepest feelings for a lifetime of thankful and happy hearts!

***Now includes a 7-minute guided meditation for girls audio!***

Practicing gratitude daily is an amazing habit to start, which is why we created an engaging, yet minimalist format filled with adorable coloring pages and thought-provoking mindfulness exercises .

But don't take our word for it - Research shows that journaling about what you are grateful for can increase your long-term happiness!

A child with a growth mindset:

- Is excited to take on new challenges

- Loves learning new things

- Values improvement over perfection

Why You'll Love this Book

• Careful Selection of Beautiful and Empowering Affirmations and Motivational Quotes - To Promote Mindfulness and Positivity
• Contains 100+ Pages of High-Quality Paper - A Perfect 7.5 x 9.25" Page Size
• Boost Happiness - Helps Kids Let Go of Stress, Manage Their Emotions, Calm Their Mind, and Become More Confident
• Fun Coloring Pages - For Doodling and Letting Their Inner Artist Shine
• Makes a Heartfelt Present - For Birthdays, Christmas, Easter and More
• Tons of Interactive Exercises - To Help Kids Confront Their Feelings
• Growth Mindset Read Alouds - An Excellent Way to Think of Failing and Challenges as a Way to Grow
• Premium glossy cover - Cover is Full Color Print. Interior Pages are Black and White So We Can Offer a Great Price

If you've struggled to find a high-quality, unique gratitude journal in books where each page is NOT the same, look no further - This gratitude journal notebook age 8-12 old has just what you're looking for and more!

So what are you waiting for? Help your child confidently begin each day with a thankful heart and on the right note.

Don't forget to grab a copy for a friend and share in the journey together!

"Outstandingly good ... It may be the single most insightful book about climbing ever written." Paul Sagar, Climber, writer, thinker

What do Zen masters, sixteenth-century Samurai, and the world's elite climbers have in common?

They have perfected the of awareness, of being in the moment, of trusting the process.

Climbing is a sport of perception, and our successes and failures are matters of mind as much as body.

Written by philosopher, essayist, and lifelong climber Francis Sanzaro, The Zen of Climbing explores the fundamentals of successful climbing, delving into sports psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and Taoism. Awareness, he argues, is the alchemy of climbing, allowing us to merge mental and physical attributes in one embodied whole.

This compact volume puts the climber's mind at the forefront of practice.

"George helped me understand the art of mindfulness. To be neither distracted or focused, rigid or flexible, passive or aggressive. I learned just to be." --Kobe Bryant

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford is sharing his own story and the strategies that have made these athletes into stars in The Mindful Athlete: The Secret to Pure Performance. His proven, gentle but groundbreaking mindfulness techniques can transform the performance of anyone with a goal, be they an Olympian, weekend warrior, executive, hacker, or artist.

When Michael Jordan left the Chicago Bulls to play baseball in 1993, the team was in crisis. Coach Phil Jackson, a long-time mindfulness practitioner, contacted Dr. Kabat-Zinn to find someone who could teach mindfulness techniques to the struggling team--someone who would have credibility and could speak the language of his players. Kabat-Zinn led Jackson to Mumford and their partnership began. Mumford has worked with Jackson and each of the eleven teams he coached to become NBA champions. His roster of champion clients has since blossomed way beyond basketball to include corporate executives, Olympians, and athletes in many different sports.

With a charismatic teaching style that combines techniques of engaged mindfulness with lessons from popular culture icons such as Yoda, Indiana Jones, and Bruce Lee, Mumford tells illuminating stories about his larger than life clients. His writing is down-to-earth and easy to understand and apply. The Mindful Athlete is an engrossing story and an invaluable resource for anyone looking to elevate their game, no matter what the pursuit, and includes a foreword by Phil Jackson.

"Self-consciousness is when you're focused on how you're doing instead of what you're doing. We have to learn how to push and challenge ourselves, but not in an insensitive way. Honing your performance really comes down to being comfortable with being uncomfortable."--George Mumford

Empower children and adolescents to cope with trauma and build resiliencyWritten by expert clinicians, the activities in this workbook support a foundation of social-emotional language, an increase in consistency and routine, regulation of tough emotions, and the formation of connections with others.Inside you will find 116 easy-to-use, solution-focused activities and worksheets developed with a trauma-informed lens that promote skills such as: *Building a sense of safety in your environment*Fostering trust and positive regard*Establishing healthy coping skills*Promoting problem-solving pathways*Developing personal empowerment, confidence and wellnes