Collection: Self-Development

Sharpen your pencils and learn about American cities, landmarks, history and leaders.

Inspire your children to discover the beauty and joys of the United States of America.

These fun word search puzzles that will improve their vocabulary and enhance their problem-solving skills.

These word search puzzles will get them away from the television as well, improve pattern recognition and working memory.

You can work together with your kid on some of the word search puzzles in this book and create a lifelong bond.

As a kid, I did a lot of crossword and word search puzzles, and I attribute my love for reading to this habit.

This book has 112 word search puzzles on a variety of topics related to the United States: geography, history, states, landmarks, presidents, dates etc. It will not only improve your kids' spelling, but also their general knowledge.

You can even create a contest between your kids on who gets to finish the puzzles first and start a fun competition!

Gift your child this wonderful book and challenge them to grow while having the time of their lives!

Do you want to successfully self-publish in ebook, print or audiobook formats? [Large Print Edition]

There are thousands of new books being published every day, but many self-published books quickly sink to the bottom of the pile.

Many authors are frustrated because there are so many options for self-publishing, and they don't know which one to choose or what will be best for their book.

Others spend thousands of dollars to publish and end up broken-hearted with the result.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

I've spent the last ten years self-publishing bestselling fiction and non-fiction books and in 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author entrepreneur. I've made lots of mistakes along the way, but through the process of self-publishing 27 books, I've learned the most effective way to publish and market your books. In this book, I'll share everything with you.

The book includes:
- What you need to know before you self-publish
- Why self-publishing an ebook is a good idea
- How to format an ebook
- Exclusivity and going direct
- How to self-publish an ebook
- Why self-publish a print book
- Print-on-demand will change your life
- What you need to know before you print
- How to self-publish a print book
- What to do if you want help with the publishing process
- How to self-publish an audiobook
- After self-publishing
- How much does it cost to self-publish?
- How do you get paid when you self-publish?
- Book marketing principles
- How to market fiction
- How to market non-fiction

Plus, links to more useful resources.

If you're ready to successfully self-publish, then download a sample or buy now.

Updated Edition for April 2019. Now includes audiobook self-publishing options. This is the Large Print Edition.

Save the Magaambya! The heroes return to the Magaambya magic academy to find the villain they'd vanquished on a distant planet had set another scheme in motion long ago. Students and teachers have been twisted by evil magic, and the heroes must engage in legendary tests to gain the means to free them. While a monstrous foe thrashes through the Magaambya, it's up to the heroes to save the school from utter destruction!

"Shadows of the Ancients" is a Pathfinder adventure for four 18th-level characters by Saif Ansari. This adventure concludes the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes rise from humble students to influential teachers, and ultimately decide the fate of the Magaambya. This adventure provides guidance to tell stories that are like fables or set in truly unusual adventure locations, and concludes with a look at powerful monsters, magic, and abilities that only the mightiest Magaambyan heroes can claim!

Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activities

Children living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning. They might demonstrate disrespectful or defiant behaviors, act out, or act with aggression. As an educator, you may provide the only stability in their otherwise turbulent world.

Making It Better explains trauma-informed education, an approach that recognizes the impact of traumatic stress on children and its effect on the growing brain, and applies the latest neurological research to teaching methods, disciplinary policies, and interactions to support grieving children.

This book responds to the learning and behavioral needs of children who have experienced traumatic events or toxic stress--such as natural disasters, community violence, or abuse or neglect within the child's familial relations--and includes a collection of activities and strategies to help children heal and feel empowered.

Distressed children need absolute emotional security and an opportunity to engage in healing activities. With your help, children can begin to build resiliency and find renewed hope for the future.

Barbara Oehlberg, MA, is an education and child trauma consultant who has presented for many organizations throughout the country. With a career that has spanned many levels, Barbara has spent more than 30 years making a positive impact on children's lives.

Jumpstart your imagination with spine-tingling craft instruction from TikTok-beloved artist Ashley Voortman. Her whimsical crafts bring a little bit of spooky spirit into the everyday with detailed instructions on out-of-the-ordinary sculpture and painting projects. Make a human heart from old books or sculpt a spider teapot from clay and thrifted china. Craft miniatures for a tiny witch or build a spirit board straight out of your favorite horror movie. Ashley's attention to upcycled materials will have you looking at your empty soy sauce bottles, broken dishware, and crushed matchboxes in a new, ghastly way.

Ashley's oil paint and sculpting expertise ensures that you'll make quality crafts that'll keep you up at night--if you dare. Her playful, quirky tone encourages crafters to accept mistakes and embrace the strange as part of the art-making process. Hone your craft and fill your shelves with homemade oddities with these impressive, otherworldly projects.

28 leading psychologists, therapists, and mental-health healers reflect on the potential--and necessity--of adapting clinical care in response to the climate crisis

With essays from Francis Weller, Bayo Akomolafe, Hāweatea Holly Bryson, and more

As the devastating impacts of the climate crisis become clear, therapists and mental-health workers are increasingly finding it necessary to integrate a response to global environmental collapse into their work with clients. Weather chaos, wildfires, heat waves, the loss of biodiversity, flash floods, and other indicators of extreme global disruption are contributing to "climate anxiety" in many of us--and in the process, exacerbating existing mental-health issues. With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth?

Climate, Psychology, and Change brings together a diverse group of psychologists and mental-health healers calling for a sea change in the field. In this provocative and necessary collection, editor Steffi Bednarek, a psychotherapist specializing in climate psychology, suggests that what is needed is "a regenerative disturbance to the commons of our profession"--an urgent and insistent call to action, but one that is also profoundly hopeful about our potential for positive change.

Within Western paradigms, psychotherapy has been seen as a way to bring a distressed person back within the realm of the "familiar"--but when the "familiar" or the dominant norms of a society are actively contributing to global destruction, we need to fundamentally reconsider this approach. We can no longer think of therapeutic practice as bringing clients back to a baseline "normal"; rather, we need to help others--and ourselves--navigate an unknown future with skill and grace, building resilience for the struggles we can clearly see unfolding before us.

Adopting a holistic and intersectional lens, the essays here address the historical relationships between psychology as a discipline and underlying structures (such as colonialism and capitalism) driving many of our current global crises. Conversations between Indigenous healers and Western psychotherapists reflect on what a decolonization of the field might look like, and how psychologists might reframe and re-vision its essential frameworks and tools.

Other chapters dig into what psychologists have to offer the struggle for social and climate justice, such as using therapeutic tools for responding to trauma; identifying patterns in unhelpful responses to climate emergency (denial; numbness; despair); and fostering the resilience in individuals and communities that is necessary to be able to work toward creative solutions to the complex and intersecting crises we face today.

An initiatory and Nature-based guide to rewilding your soul

- Introduces five Earth Woman Archetypes along with in-depth initiations to help you to unleash your fullest, most authentic, and creative self

- Includes rituals, exercises, meditations, and journal prompts to help you integrate each initiatory stage and embody the ways of a Wild Soul Woman

- Explores how to overcome the core wounding of each Earth Archetype, how the Archetypes can empower you, and how to embody their wisdom

Taking you on a Nature-based journey of transformation and rebirth, Mary Reynolds Thompson reveals how to unleash your full feminine power and discover authenticity, wholeness, creativity, and healing through initiation with ancient Earth Archetypes.

Providing a guided map for rewilding your soul, the author introduces the five archetypes of the Wild Soul Woman's psyche--the untamed, unashamed, and unstoppable aspects of inner feminine power that many women have forgotten or disconnected from. You will undergo five powerful initiations, each centered on ancient Earth wisdom. You will learn from Desert Woman and her Barren Worlds how to let go of what no longer serves you, from Forest Woman and the Dark Womb how to seed new dreams and nurture them in your depths, and from Ocean and River Woman and her Breaking Waters how to ride the flow of your deepest longings. As Mountain Woman you will experience Giving Birth to a vision as you take a stand for your values, and from Grassland Woman you will learn how to support the Nurturing of the New that has emerged within.

Sharing rituals, exercises, meditations, and journal prompts to help you integrate these five initiatory stages, the author also explores each Earth Archetype's Challenge (how to overcome a core wounding), the Shift (how the Archetype empowers you to reach for a fuller, more creative life), and the Way (how to embody its wisdom). She shows how, because both women and the Earth were wounded in similar ways across the ages, restoring your connection with Nature and the wisdom of feminine archetypes can help heal both your soul and the world around you.

Woven throughout with inspiring stories of women from around the world who embody these archetypal energies, as well as exquisite illustrations by Kathleen Brigidina, the book reveals how to awaken your inner feminine wisdom and true power. As you reclaim your voice and your visions, you become an unstoppable force of nature. You liberate your Wild Soul.

Capture your experiences in the American national parks!

For over 150 years, the breathtaking national parks of the USA have protected its most precious habitats and provided adventure and unbelievable scenery for outdoor enthusiasts. Create a keepsake of your travels to any--or all--of the 63 US national parks with this beautiful journal and logbook.

Make the most of every park --Find a detailed entry for each park that includes fun facts, a space to get your stamp, and room to record who you were with, what you saw, and other memorable moments of your visit.

From Acadia to Zion -- The parks are listed alphabetically so it's easy to find the log you're looking for, and there's even an overview of all the parks that's grouped by state for simpler itinerary planning.

Stay inspired -- Look back on past entries to relive the experience and look forward to the blank pages just waiting to be filled by your next national park trip!

Revisit your favorite canyons, rivers, and wildlife anytime with this national parks journal.

The creator of best-selling coloring book series The Beauty of Horror, Alan Robert, brings the iconic creatures of the Universal Classic Monsters films to life in this new coloring book for adults. Add your own artistic touch to Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and more in Universal Monsters: The Official Coloring Book.

Relish in the haunting spirit of classic movie monsters with more than 60 pages of detailed, terrifying illustrations of spine-chilling characters and horrifying moments from the legendary Universal Pictures monster films. Color in frightening scenes of Henry Frankenstein and Fritz horrifying resurrection of The Monster; Imhotep's rise from the dead; Bela's dramatic, harrowing fortunes; and more!

Universal Monsters: The Official Coloring Book features all-new illustrations by Alan Robert, best-selling coloring book artist of the Beauty of Horror coloring book series, inspired by iconic films, from Frankenstein and Count Dracula to The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and more!

BEST-SELLING COLORING BOOK ARTIST: Illustrated by Alan Robert, dubbed "The King of Horror Coloring Books" by Revolver Magazine, and creator of "The World's Creepiest Adult Coloring Book"

60+ COLORING PAGES: Universal Monsters: The Official Coloring Book contains over 60 pages of dozens of terrifying, yet intricate designs--perfect for hours of coloring!

BELOVED CHARACTERS: Featuring ready-to-color, detailed illustrations of Universal Classic Monsters characters, Frankenstein's Monster, the Monster's Bride, Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Phantom, and Gill-man

MEMORABLE MOMENTS: Created by fans for fans, the most celebrated and memorable moments and scares are captured here in captivating art. Gill-Man lifting Kay from the waters! Frankenstein making his monster alive! The Phantom hanging from the chandelier high above the Paris Opera House! They're all here.

OFFICIAL COLORING BOOK: Created in collaboration with Universal Pictures, the studio behind the iconic Universal Classic Monsters films

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Complete your horror coloring book collection with It: The Official Coloring Book and Chucky: The Official Coloring Book, also available

Step into the hidden world of elite warriors--Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Air Force PJs, Marine Raiders, etc.--who are haunted by a unique constellation of injuries, born out of years, even decades, of fighting the Global War on Terror. Operator Syndrome identifies and describes the profound impact that years of extreme sacrifice have had on our military special operators and their loved ones.
Drawing upon his thirty years of experience with clinical trials, historical epidemiology, and neuroscience research--as well as a decade of applied efforts with special operators across all branches of the U.S. military--acclaimed clinical psychologist Chris Frueh, Ph.D., uncovers a pattern of interrelated afflictions: traumatic brain injury, hormonal dysregulation, sleep apnea, chronic pain, depression, anger, insomnia, addiction, existential angst, and more.
Dr. Frueh guides us through the harrowing terrain of Operator Syndrome. He provides a roadmap to understand its multifaceted origins and complex effects on every biological system in the body--as well as the social systems of family, work, and the indifferent society these warriors return to. He explains how modern healthcare systems, especially Veterans Affairs, have too often relied on the PTSD "easy button" and failed a generation of men and women who have carried the brunt of the fight since 9/11.
Frueh shines a bright and empathic light on the silent struggles of a community with a "never quit" mindset. Most importantly, he provides real solutions, lifestyle adaptations, and step-by-step treatment strategies that have worked for hundreds of operators, saving lives and giving hope to families.

Anti-racism work cannot be reduced to a single checklist of "dos" and "don'ts."

As society shifts its perspective on true allyship--moving from being "not racist" to "anti-racist"--White allies are being called upon to actively work toward changing the status quo. However, the vast majority of resources on this topic emphasize educating allies about anti-racism without teaching them how to actually do anti-racism work. This leaves well-meaning allies feeling stuck, frustrated, and afraid of getting it wrong.

Beyond Fragility fills this undeniable gap by providing you with a concrete, step-by-step approach to effective anti-racism allyship. Filled with case examples, guided reflections, and skill-building exercises, this book provides you with the skills to:

- Understand and avoid common mishaps in anti-racist work, such as misunderstanding what racism is, not knowing how to recognize racism, or not having a clear anti-racist identity
- Cope with intense emotions like guilt, fear, hopelessness, and anger that may arise when discussing racism and privilege
- Navigate complex interpersonal interactions, whether it's validating the experiences of BIPOC peers, recovering from a racist misstep, or speaking out against racist comments

Anti-racist allyship is not an innate essence--nor is it something you were born knowing how to do. But with the tools in this book, you can learn new skills that allow you to engage in impactful and sustainable allyship in every space you occupy.

The Place of All Possibility is a paradigm-shifting work that reframes the whole of Torah as a contemporary guidebook for creativity. Drawing from the deep well of Jewish sacred texts, and the radical interpretive strategies of ancient rabbis, The Place of All Possibility provides teachings and tools for those who seek to employ creativity as a force of transformation. Putting spiritual wisdom in conversation with the contemporary disciplines of art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research, this essential book invites us all to rediscover our place in a world of mutual thriving. Packed with practical exercises to inspire your creative practice, The Place of All Possibility is for all people--from any tradition or none--who want to seed a world of imagination, abundance, and joy.

Electricity is the power behind smartphones and thunderstorms and vacuum cleaners. It lights up our homes and cooks our food, but what IS it and where does it come from? Lift the flaps and try some simple experiments to find out.

You'd better not tickle that cow... because it just might moo if you do! Babies and toddlers won't be able to resist touching the soft patches in this delightful novelty book to hear the farm animals come to life. As well as the cow, there's a hen, a pony and a goat to tickle, before all the animals get noisy at the same time in a musical finale that's guaranteed to get everyone dancing!

From forming friendships to learning new skills, join a lively bunch of kids as they discover what school is really about and how to make the most of it. With delightful illustrations, inventive flaps and gentle humor, this book will help boost confidence and calm any back-to-school nerves.

This charming book explains the dos and don'ts for a good night's sleep. Discover what siestas are for, how sea otters sleep and why the dark doesn't need to be scary.