Collection: Self-Development

A fantastic, single-sided adult coloring book from the bestselling artist behind Fantomorphia, Mythomorphia, Imagimorphia and Animorphia. The perfect stocking stuffer gift for anyone who loves a coloring book challenge!

A coloring book like you've never seen before--perfect for colored pencils, crayons, or markers!

An amazing adult coloring book challenge, featuring the strange and superdetailed images of artist Kerby Rosanes. Kerby works in intricately detailed black-and-white lines to create creatures, characters, patterns, and tiny elements to form massive compositions of mind-boggling complexity. His second single-sided book invites readers to complete the drawings and find hidden treasures and creatures scattered throughout its pages. Find your zen as you bring this beautiful art to life!

Geomorphia is packed full of intricate images of stunning creatures and landscapes morphing and shapeshifting into Kerby's signature, breathtaking scenes. The world that he imagines will excite and transport drawers, as he brings this beautiful fantasyscape and its creatures to life. Geomorphia is an amazing adult coloring book challenge featuring his trademark strange and super-detailed images, and perfect for coloring then posting on the wall or framing.

The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of intensely practical informal lectures. Epictetus directs his students to focus attention on their opinions, anxieties, passions and desires, so that they may never fail to get what they desire. True education lies in learning to distinguish what is our own from what does not belong to us, and in learning to correctly assent or dissent to external impressions. The purpose of his teaching was to make people free and happy.

The Discourses have been influential since they were written by Epictetus' pupil Arrian around 108 AD. Epictetus divides philosophy into three fields of training, which include desire, choice, and assent, with especial application to ethics. He also teaches that the shortcomings of our fellow people are to be met with patience and charity, and we should not allow ourselves to grow indignant over them, for they too are a necessary element in the universal system. Epictetus believed that the ideal human will not be angry with the wrong-doer; he will only pity his erring, and thus become the perfect Stoic.

This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Family time in the kitchen is special. Celebrate all the joyful moments in the kitchen with your little chef with this adorable keepsake cookbook!

Learning to cook is sure to boost kids' confidence in the kitchen, but most importantly, it helps create special memories of your time together! Whether your little chef has never ventured into the kitchen or they're ready to have their own cooking show, these delightful and delicious recipes can be shared with the whole family for generations.

This kid-friendly cookbook includes everything you need to create the moments you'll remember forever:

• More than 45 fun and simple kid-friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts, and more!
• Tips to personalize each recipe to make your time in the kitchen special
• Conversation starters, ideas for making joyful memories together, and even some silly jokes!

Make every day a celebration with My Very First Cookbook!

If you are looking for puzzles that are easy on the eye then Large Print Sudoku Puzzles is the book for you. Provided in a large and easy-to-read size, this collection of over 200 puzzles allows you to work through the challenges at your own pace. Easy, medium, and hard puzzles broken out into sections. Included instructions for completing sudokus and answer key at the end of the book. Satisfying, demanding, and ideal for all sudoku enthusiasts.

Collect more Sudoku, Large-Print puzzle, Crossword, Spot the Difference, and more puzzle books from Brain Busters and Parragon books!

• OVER 200 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy
• UNIQUE CHALLENGES: Designed for the novice, intermediate, to expert these sudoku puzzles will challenge at every level. Sudoku helps improve memory and focus. Work on completing a new puzzle challenge every day!
  
• LARGE PRINT Large print is easy-to-read and giant grids make it simple to enter numbers and complete.
• LAY FLAT Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this sudoku puzzle book can go with you.
• BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for other books including John Deere Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, Picture Puzzles, and More!

What if you found out there was a little, tiny word that could change your frustrations into opportunities? When we tell ourselves "I can't do this," we give up. But if instead, we say, "I can't do this...yet," we're opening ourselves to the possibility of growing through challenges, also called perseverance. Join this author in practicing perseverance, adding "yet" to your vocabulary, and learning the value of continued effort toward the things you love, even when it gets hard.

Core themes in this book:

Adaptability, Bravery, Choice, Curiosity

Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.

Count your gratitudes not your days! An easy way to keep a gratitude journal without the pressure of missing a day. This is a simple and accessible journal with plenty of room to also cultivate creativity while cultivating a grateful heart. Recommended for all ages and gender. What are you grateful for? Contains 105 single pages for 105 gratitudes to be mindful about; designed for anyone who wants to start cultivating a healthy heart. Its neutral design makes for a great gift and a great journal slim enough to take on the road. Got more than 105 gratitudes? Order another one. Also, keep an eye out for more designs to come. Feel free to stay in touch with the author/artist for new designs, comments, suggestions and product updates. Original concept and design by Katrina Loren Exconde. This is her first edition.

The Motivation Manifesto is a poetic and powerful call to reclaim your life and find your own personal freedom from Brendon Burchard - the world's #1 high performance coach and #1 New York Times bestselling author of High Performance Habits.

"It's a triumphant work that transcends the title, lifting the reader from mere motivation into a soaringly purposeful and meaningful life. I love this book." --Paulo Coelho

The Motivation Manifesto is a call to claim our personal power. World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom.

We desire the grand liberties of choice--time freedom, emotional freedom, social freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom.

Only two enemies stand in our way: an external enemy, defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses, and an internal enemy, a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt and fear.

The march to Personal Freedom, Brendon says, can be won only by declaring our intent and independence, stepping into our personal power, and battling through self-doubt and the distractions of the day until full victory is won.

Recalling the revolutionist voices of the past that chose freedom over tyranny, Brendon motivates us to free ourselves from fear and take back our lives once and for all.

In this life-changing personal growth book, Brendon presents his nine declarations for personal power and motivation, drawing on insights from his own personal journey and from the lives of some of history's greatest leaders and thinkers.

Each chapter focuses on one of the nine declarations, offering practical strategies and exercises to help you apply these principles to your life.

Whether you're seeking to overcome self-doubt, boost your confidence, or achieve your goals, The Motivation Manifesto is an invaluable guide to unlocking your full potential.

With its inspiring message and actionable advice, this bestselling book is a must-read for anyone who wants to unleash their inner greatness with the power of determination, resilience, and an empowering mindset.

Ganbatte (gan-ba-tay) is a Japanese philosophy focused on doing the best you can with what you have. Though there is no direct translation, "Keep Going," and "Give it your all," embody the sentiments behind the word. Just as wabi sabi shows the beauty of imperfection in life, ganbatte teaches you how to get past obstacles and be motivated to keep moving forward.

In Ganbatte! author Albert Liebermann provides an inspirational, yet practical guide to becoming more resilient the Japanese way. In 50 short chapters, some deeper and some more playful, Liebermann guides you through ways you can adopt the ganbatte approach to achieve a happier, more fulfilling life--and a happier, more fulfilled self.

These include:

• Separating "difficult" from "impossible"
• Making use of failure
• Cultivating patience
• Working mindfully with a sense of awareness
• Continually improving
• Practicing meditation
• Pushing through a crisis
• Taking the slow route

Sprinkled throughout the book are "Ganbatte Rules"--short, actionable steps you can take to move forward in a part of your life where you may be stuck (whether it's fitness, love or starting a business). A foreword by Hector Garcia, author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, introduces the concept of ganbatte and how he learned of its existence from one of Japan's centenarians.

While many aspects of life are beyond our control, how we deal with setbacks and difficulties is as much of a choice as how we approach everyday tasks. This book helps you tap into your own ability to persevere and encourages you to stay motivated and hopeful in difficult times. If you apply the tenacity and resilience of the Japanese in your daily life, difficult becomes easy, and impossible becomes possible.

Misti B.'s incisive and irreverent meditations offer daily doses of humor, healing, and hope for the tragedies, triumphs, and everyday aggravations that come with codependency.

If You Leave Me, Can I Come with You? proves that we can laugh at ourselves and still take our recovery seriously. Infusing hard-earned wisdom with self-revealing honesty and fearless humor, Misti B. shines a healing light into the confusions and contradictions, as well as the self-defeating thoughts and actions, that codependents and those in Al-Anon frequently face.

Misti's refreshingly original daily meditations tackle issues such as people-pleasing, lack of boundaries, and perfectionism. On this yearlong journey, she shows how these habits don't have to overwhelm us if we work a solid Twelve Step program--and learn to take ourselves lightly. This book delivers the right mix of support, inspiration, and irreverence.

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an appealing and accessible guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history - as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer.

This new edition includes additional styles to illustrate and explain the journey between one style and another; larger images to allow closer investigation of details of dress; examples of lower and working-class, as well as middle-class, clothing; and a completely new chapter covering the 1980s to 2020. The latter demonstrates how the late 20th century and early 21st century firmly left the dress behind as a requirement, but retained it as a perennially popular choice and illustrates how far the traditional boundaries of 'the dress' have been pushed (even including reference to a newly non-binary appreciation of the garment), and the intellectual shifts in the way women's fashion is both inspired and inspires.

With these new additions, How to Read a Dress, revised edition, presents a complete and up-to-date picture of 'the dress' in all its forms, across the centuries, and taking into account different sartorial and social experiences. It is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.

Roger Priddy's Learn and Explore: Touch and Feel Colors introduces young children to their first colors, using beautiful illustrations of everyday objects and touch-and-feel novelties to make the colors stand out on every spread.

The touch-and-feel element allows children to explore with their hands while they learn new words and colors. With 14 pages of fun, the fluffy fur and soft tactiles make Learn and Explore: Touch and Feel Colors the perfect early learning book for children.

Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally for your health and happiness.

Why do we feel shame? Given how painful and destructive shame can be, it's easy to see this emotion as an inner demon that turns our own mind against us. Yet shame is a universal emotion--and it serves an important purpose. "While toxic shame can keep us stuck in a self-defeating vortex," say Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin, "there is a healthy expression of shame designed to protect us, help us change, and actually build our self-esteem."

With Embracing Shame, these expert teachers share an invaluable guide to an emotion so volatile that most of us--including therapists--avoid talking about it. Here this husband and wife team, cofounders of the Center for Healing Shame, examine the dynamics of shame, the reasons it arises, why it causes such harm, and how we can heal its negative effects. Through case studies, creative tools, and body-based practices, they invite you to explore:

- The purpose of shame--How it is meant to protect and guide us, and why it gets distorted into a self-sabotaging emotion
- How shame disguises itself by "binding" to other emotions--and methods for disentangling these complex feelings
- The ways shame forms in childhood, evolves as we grow, is impacted by trauma, and takes residence in the body
- Practical guidance for regulating common shame-based challenges--including the inner critic, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, intimacy in relationships, and much more

While no amount of self-talk, personal success, or therapy can eradicate shame, we can transform shame into the supportive, health-promoting force it was meant to be. Created as a go-to resource for laypersons and healing professionals alike, Embracing Shame offers an achievable path for reclaiming the true potential of this vital emotion to help us grow, connect, and find a new confidence in the way we move through life.

Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle weavers need to know about the craft, from the basics -- how to select a loom, set it up, and get started -- to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results. Begin by exploring a variety of weave structures, including finger-manipulated laces, tapestry, and color play with stripes, plaids, and multicolor yarns. Then move on to more complex designs and irresistible projects, from pillows and curtains to bags, shawls, and even jewelry. Explore warp-face patterning, weft-pile weaving, weaving with fine threads, woven shibori, shadow weave, and the textural effects you can create with different yarns and with wire and conductive thread. Everything you need to know is here, with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to ensure success.

How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, inequality, and discrimination? The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self.

Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. It's what gives people the psychological strength to cope with everyday stress, as well as major setbacks. For many people, stressful events may include job loss, financial problems, illness, natural disasters, medical emergencies, divorce, or the death of a loved one. But if you are queer or gender non-conforming, life stresses may also include discrimination in housing and health care, employment barriers, homelessness, family rejection, physical attacks or threats, and general unfair treatment and oppression--all of which lead to overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. So, how can you gain resilience in a society that is so often toxic and unwelcoming?

In this important workbook, you'll discover how to cultivate the key components of resilience: holding a positive view of yourself and your abilities; knowing your worth and cultivating a strong sense of self-esteem; effectively utilizing resources; being assertive and creating a support community; fostering hope and growth within yourself, and finding the strength to help others. Once you know how to tap into your personal resilience, you'll have an unlimited well you can draw from to navigate everyday challenges.

By learning to challenge internalized negative messages and remove obstacles from your life, you can build the resilience you need to embrace your truest self in an imperfect world.

Following in the footsteps of The Old Farmer's Almanac--that timely yellow book focused on delivering wit and wisdom with a side of fun--The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids is filled with amazing animals, puzzles to ponder, cool comics, grand adventures, and awesome activities.

All-new volume 10 in this best-selling series is packed with hours of entertainment! Get ready for . . .

Awe-inspiring kids on a mission to make the world a better placePlanting a rainbow of vegetablesFrozen wonders and windy weatherFascinating fox factsOut-of-this-world sky watching, from meteor showers to UFOsMindful techniques to soothe a worried mind and calm an anxious bodyDonkey cheese, banana ketchup, and ice cream breadSpies, code names, and invisible inkPlus: monthly Moons, historic happenings, and so much more!

Readers of all ages rave about The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids. Here's what people are saying:

"My daughter absolutely loves this! She hasn't put it down since we purchased it."

"I would recommend it to anyone. Full of fun things for the kids to do, to explore, and to learn about!"

"This publication is a great addition to any child's bookcase."

The ways of magic are revealed in nature...The secrets are written in meandering streams and drifting clouds, whispered by the roaring ocean and cooling breeze, echoed through caves and rocks and forests.

When you draw a heart in the sand, call on the four winds for assistance, or ask the rain to wash away a bad habit, you are practicing earth magic. By working in harmony with nature, we can transform ourselves, our lives, and our world. This tried-and-true guide offers more than one hundred spells, rites, and simple rituals you can perform using the powerful energy of the earth.

Scott Cunningham was a greatly respected teacher and one of the most influential members of the modern Craft movement. A practitioner of elemental magic for twenty years, he wrote more than fifty books, including the seminal Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.