Collection: Self-Development

World-renowned neuroscientist and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life has developed an "absolute game-changer" (Conscious Conversations podcast) for managing unwarranted anxiety and turning it into a powerful asset.We are living in the age of anxiety, a situation that often makes us feel as if we are locked into an endless cycle of stress, sleeplessness, and worry. But what if we had a way to leverage our anxiety to help us solve problems and fortify our well-being? What if, instead of seeing anxiety as a curse, we could recognize it for the unique gift that it is? As a neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki has discovered a paradigm-shifting truth about anxiety: yes, it is uncomfortable, but it is also essential for our survival. In fact, anxiety is a key component of our ability to live optimally. Every emotion we experience has an evolutionary purpose, and anxiety is designed to draw our attention to a number of negative emotions. If we simply approach anxiety as something to avoid, get rid of, or dampen, we actually miss an opportunity to not only manage the symptoms of anxiety better but also discover ways to improve our lives. Listening to our worries from a place of curiosity, instead of fear, can actually guide us onto a path that leads to joy. "Suzuki draws on decades of neuroscience, including her own research, and leavens her learning with a little personal storytelling to create a practical, science-backed guidebook for those seeking such a transformation" (The Wall Street Journal).

First published in 1998, Following Through shines a spotlight into the black hole in inner space where good intentions disappear. It reveals the startling reason why we so often fail to make the life-improving changes we truly intend to make. Although we typically blame ourselves for poor follow through -- we beat ourselves up for lacking motivation, willpower, self-discipline -- Levinson and Greider argue that the real culprit is the mixed-up way the human mind designed. The mind, they insist, simply isn't hard-wired for follow-through. And as much as we -- individuals, society, and especially the self-improvement industry -- like to pretend otherwise, good intentions do not automatically drive our behavior. And expecting ourselves to automatically do whatever we intend to do only leads to disappointment, frustration and failure. Fortunately, Following Through won't leave you discouraged. Instead, it will show you why facing the truth about the mind's faulty wiring is a key to achieving greater success in virtually every area of life. Following Through will teach you bold new strategies for consistently turning good intentions into life-improving action. Note for readers of previous editions: This edition of Following Through is redesigned but does not include new content.

Roger Priddy's See Touch Feel: Thanksgiving is a fun first sensory book, specially designed for very young children.

The tactile pages encourage children to explore, touch, and feel, making this a fantastic book for stimulating their senses. With colorful artwork created from handprints and footprints, this book is perfect for introducing children to Thanksgiving.

Following on from See, Touch, Feel and See, Touch, Feel: Create, this is an ideal gift for babies.

Christmas trees, reindeer, snowmen and more are featured in this holiday inspired Puzzlemania activity collection for kids ages 6 and up. Decked out with a wide variety of Highlights' best puzzles and games, this 144-page activity book will have kids even more excited to celebrate the season, while keeping their minds engaged with expertly crafted activities.

This collection is packed with activities including mazes, number puzzles, wordplay, brainteasers, matching -- even Christmas Hidden Pictures puzzles. With more than 100 activities delightfully designed around presents, snowflakes, reindeer, elves, and more, this activity book is a perfect Christmas gift for kids or solution to winter-break boredom for the whole family.

Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new challenges and builds their "elf-esteem." Like all Highlights products, Puzzlemania Christmas Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing in order to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

Level up your Game Master skills with these fun, interactive prompts and activities to help your worldbuilding from RPG expert James D'Amato.

Make your next campaign truly unique with the help of this interactive guide to world building!

From RPG expert James D'Amato comes a fun new guide that teaches beginner and experienced gamers alike how to build and create their own game elements for customizing existing adventures or creating new stories from scratch. The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide includes dozens of activities for a wide range of genres from fantasy and sci-fi to horror and x-punk. This lively and interactive book helps Game Masters create dynamic destinations, powerful items, shadowy organizations, compelling villains, and more.

Make the most of your gaming experience with these unique and personalized ideas for your gaming group's next adventures!

Explore the lands of Eberron in this campaign sourcebook for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

This book provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play Dungeons & Dragons in Eberron--a war-torn world filled with magic-fueled technology, airships and lightning trains, where noir-inspired mystery meets swashbuckling adventure. Will Eberron enter a prosperous new age or will the shadow of war descend once again?

- Dive straight into your pulp adventures with easy-to-use locations, complete with maps of floating castles, skyscrapers, and more.

- Explore Sharn, a city of skyscrapers, airships, and noirish intrigue and a crossroads for the world's war-ravaged peoples.

- Include a campaign for characters venturing into the Mournland, a mist-cloaked, corpse-littered land twisted by magic.

- Meld magic and invention to craft objects of wonder as an artificer--the first official class to be released for fifth edition D&D since the Player's Handbook.

- Flesh out your characters with a new D&D game element called a group patron--a background for your whole party.

- Explore 16 new race/subrace options including dragonmarks, which magically transform certain members of the races in the Player's Handbook.

- Confront horrific monsters born from the world's devastating wars.

Walk with prehistoric beasts as you color them to life! This Dinosaurs Coloring Book is perfect for kids with a fascination for the earth's original inhabitants. Filled with 40 designs of Tyrannosaurus rexes, Stegosauruses, Brontosauruses, Triceratopses, and so many other iconic dinosaurs, let your creativity roam and roar with each line art design! Also included are super cool fun facts for each dinosaur illustration for an awesome learning experience as you color! Each design is printed on a single side of high-quality, extra-thick paper with perforated edges for easy removal and display.

Navigate the world of autism with this friendly, full-color guide for those interested in learning more about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), getting an early diagnosis, and recognizing how being autistic can impact a person's life.

In this first-ever creative guide, author and illustrator Chanelle Moriah offers an interactive tool for both diagnosed and undiagnosed autistics to explain or make sense of their experiences. It also offers non-autistic people the chance to learn more about autism from someone who is autistic.

Packed with full-color illustrations, sensory elements, and spaces for reflection, this book is designed to be personalized to the individual's experience. I Am Autistic helps people feel less alone in their autism and brings knowledge to an often-misunderstood condition.

The family recovery classic, Addict in the Family, has been revised and updated to offer parents and other family members even greater support when faced with the reality of a loved one's addiction. Solid, actionable advice and information about what helps and what doesn't--and how to care for themselves--make this an indispensable guide.

For families of addicts, fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one's addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. The emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded by the belief that they somehow caused or contributed to their loved one's addiction--or that they could have done something to prevent it.

Addict in the Family is a book about the pain of addiction, but more importantly it is a book of comfort, understanding, and hope for anyone struggling with a loved one's addiction. As the compelling personal stories reveal, family members do not cause their loved one's addiction--nor can they control or cure it. What family members can do is find support, set boundaries, detach with love, and eventually discover how to enjoy life more fully. This book helps them do just that--whether the loved one achieves recovery or not.

The nation's newspaper, USA TODAY, presents a new collection of 200 crossword puzzles.

The Journal of the American Medical Association finds that cognitive puzzles such as crosswords "can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body." This cranium compendium features 200 brain-boosting crosswords from The Nation's Newspaper, USA TODAY.

Puzzlesmiths of all skill levels will enjoy this ultimate puzzling challenge offering hours of enlightening entertainment and brain-bolstering fun from America's trusted news--and gaming--authority, USA TODAY. Keep your brain in shape with USA TODAY Crossword 2.

If you're interested in growing dahlias, you will find everything you need in these pages. Connie Thompson has 30 years of experience in everything dahlias, from growing to showing to selling her tubers. After years of educating others through her Facebook pages, she has now brought her wealth of knowledge together in this easy-to-follow guide. Connie's Dahlias will help newer growers find their way with these wonderful flowers.

For every climate zone, she teaches readers how to get flower beds ready, buy the right dahlia tubers, successfully plant them, and get them through their first summer. Learn how to make cuttings to increase your stock, deal with pests, and even join a Dahlia Society to gain expert help for all your many questions. Find your way to floral success with Connie at your side.

An indispensable reference for beginner and experienced coin collectors alike, with detailed examples and 350+ illustrations to help you identify rare and valuable coins in your pocket change.

In the authors' own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change.

More than 350 close-up illustrations, key identifying details and current market values help you decipher the difference between proper and error issues and varying types of coins. In addition, this unique must-have how-to also includes:

- Coverage of Lincoln Memorial Cents, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters, John F. Kennedy Half Dollars, State Quarters
- Expert insight and advice about tools of the trade, preserving coins, buying and selling error-variety coins
- Terms and definitions associated with error coins

Whether it's a Jefferson Presidential dollar missing edge lettering, that's worth $2,000 - $10,000 plus or a Lincoln cent with trail marks that make it an error worth $1 - $3 there are hidden treasures to be found in your pocket change, if you know what to look for.

The breakthrough resource for fruit and vegetable growers at every scale who want to go 'beyond organic' and build higher soil quality and fertility using fewer inputs through a unique ecosystem-balancing approach

"Atthowe's book takes ecological farming to the next level. It is packed with useful, field-tested, innovative techniques for farming more gently without sacrificing productivity. . . This is the future of farming. I highly recommend this book."--Ben Hartman, author of The Lean Farm

The Ecological Farm is the go-to guide for ecological growing, with a unique focus on reduced tillage, minimizing farm and garden inputs, and pest control.

Reflecting the wisdom that farmer, consultant, and educator Helen Atthowe and her late husband, Carl Rosato, gained during decades of farming experience, this book guides readers on how to reduce or eliminate the use of outside inputs of fertilizer or pesticides--even those that are commonly used on certified organic orchards and market gardens. In clear language and with color photographs, charts, and graphs throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of managing the details of an entire growing system over the full life of the enterprise.

Based on advances in scientific research in ecological food production, farmers, homesteaders, permaculturists, and gardeners alike will learn methods to:

• design a farm system that maintains a growing root in the soil year-round to feed the microbial community instead of just crops.
• strengthen the "immune system" of a farm or garden
• supply crop needs using only on-farm inputs such as cover crops and living mulch
• maximize the presence of beneficial insects and microbes that support healthy crop development
• minimize ecological impact in dealing with insect pest and disease problems

The Ecological Farm also features a crop-by-crop guide to growing more than 25 of the most popular and profitable vegetables and fruits, including specific management advice for dealing with pests and diseases.

The Ecological Farm makes complex, sometimes messy, ecological concepts and practices understandable to all growers, and makes healthy farming--in which nature is invited to participate--possible.

"[This book] will guide all of us as we learn to farm in harmony with an ecosystem and to become obedient to the whole rather than being distracted by the urge to tinker with the parts."

--Wes Jackson, cofounder and president emeritus, The Land Institute

Learn about the true spirit of gratitude with this Thanksgiving book for kids 3-5

Teach kids about coming together with loved ones to give thanks! I Am Thankful is an adorable, rhyming storybook that follows three different families as they celebrate the holiday with their own traditions, acts of kindness, and ways of giving back.

Kids will learn how to be thankful for the people and world around them as they delight in the sweet illustrations that show diverse families and exciting Thanksgiving adventures. This heartfelt, poetic story will show young ones the meaning of giving and sharing.

This toddler Thanksgiving book features:

• A holiday adventure--Enjoy a narrative, rhyming story with 50 pages of Thanksgiving fun!
• Your own thankfulness practice--Discover a short section in the back including activities and crafts designed to foster more thankfulness.
• An inclusive story--Learn the true meaning of community with a diverse cast of characters and a universally welcoming story.

If you are looking for Thanksgiving books for kids, I Am Thankful is a warm, fun story for all.

Dear Artist is Jaiya John's mystic Love letter to artists and to all souls, to enrich your creative life. A full-blooded, sensual, intimate honoring and celebration of the divine spark of creativity in you. Jaiya's letter reads like a private sharing from an old friend, offering an affectionate voice of purpose and clarity.

You may be startled by how deeply your tender heart feels seen, listened to, honored, affirmed. Find in these pages tide pools of poetry and passion. Wade into any rejuvenating page and soak your weariness.

Jaiya traces back to your beginning in life, to touch with Loving medicine those points in your journey that harmed or nourished your river of soulful expression. These offerings will help you dissolve your barriers, transcend your fears, and transform your challenges into a composted kind of peace.

The passages also activate the collective, communal, interdependent nature of creative expression. For your art is not only about you. It is also about your ancestral place and duty in this sacred web of life. Art is how Life Loves itself.

Dear Artist is concerned with resuscitating the human soul, helping us remember our sacred ways of being together and honoring the beauty of this world. It is a revival for artists, activists, revolutionaries, healers, students, teachers, and anyone who yearns to ignite the embers of their passion.

Jaiya's Love letter reintroduces you to your original soul condition: vivacious, awestruck, unimpeded, fully alive. If you hunger to find and liberate your truest voice, to free your tears of grace, to express what your ancestors could not, Dear Artist serves a feast for you. If you thirst in the desert of your disillusion, Dear Artist is a well water, bright and clear and plenty. This is no art instruction manual. These words will have you naked, making Love, making art.

An anthology of seventeen mystery-themed adventures for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries ̶--each one a doorway to adventure. Dare you cross that threshold?

- 17 mystery-themed D&D adventures, each tied to a book discovered in the famed library fortress of Candlekeep
- Easy to run as stand-alone mini adventures or to drop into your home campaign
- Adventures span play from levels 1 to 16
- Includes a full poster map of Candlekeep, plus detailed descriptions of the various locations, characters, and creatures that reside within it
- Introduces a variety of Dungeons & Dragons monsters, items, and non-player characters (NPCs)

Candlekeep Mysteries is a collection of seventeen short, stand-alone D&D adventures designed for characters of levels 1-16. Each adventure begins with the discovery of a book, and each book is the key to a door behind which danger and glory await. These adventures can be run as one-shot games, plugged into an existing Forgotten Realms campaign, or adapted for other campaign settings. This book also includes a poster map of the library fortress and detailed descriptions of Candlekeep and its inhabitants.