Collection: Self-Development

Explore the waves above and the fathoms below in these watery adventures for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

"D&D acolytes are everywhere...Tech workers from Silicon Valley to Brooklyn have long-running campaigns, and the showrunners and the novelist behind 'Game of Thrones' have all been Dungeon Masters."--Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker

Ghosts of Saltmarsh brings classic adventures into fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. This adventure book combines some of the most popular classic adventures from the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons including the classic "U" series, plus some of the best nautical adventures from the history of Dungeon Magazine: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, Danger at Dunwater, Salvage Operation, Isle of the Abbey, The Final Enemy, Tammeraut's Fate, The Styes.

- Ghosts of Salt Marsh includes a variety of seafaring adventures, enough to take characters from level 1 to level 12.

- This supplement introduces the port town of Saltmarsh, the perfect starting point for a nautical campaign.

- Each adventure can be played individually, inserted into your ongoing game or combined into a single epic nautical campaign.

- Dungeon Masters will find rules for ships and sea travel, deck plans for various vessels, an appendix with rules for new and classic monsters, and much more.

- Dungeons & Dragons is the world's greatest roleplaying game. Created in 1974, D&D transformed gaming culture by blending traditional fantasy with miniatures and wargaming.

Humanity is in crisis.

War, poverty, environmental disasters, and more have brought the planet to a tipping point. In our personal lives, many of us carry deep-seated fear, resentment, anger, and even hatred for others and ourselves.

Since ancient times, Toltec shamans have taught that the root of all this discord can be found in the human mind and what they called its addiction to suffering. They have also taught that the time will come when we must choose to either break free from this addiction or pay the ultimate price.

According to Toltec Shaman don Jose Ruiz, that time is now, and the change that is needed can only come from within.

In The Shaman's Path to Freedom, Ruiz will teach you how to find and claim your own personal freedom, one based on unconditional love for yourself and others, and in doing so break your mind's addiction to suffering. By walking this path, you can live a life of peace and harmony within yourself, which is the most important thing you can do to bring about the change that is needed in the world.

Filled with Toltec practices for establishing personal freedom, The Shaman's Path to Freedom is don Jose Ruiz's most personal and radical book yet, guaranteed to thrill both new readers and longtime fans.

Couples that practice gratitude together stay together.

The number one phrase used in successful relationships is "thank you". Grateful couples experience more care, intimacy, and support in their relationships and have relationships that feel better and last longer.

With its unique journal writing prompts, uplifting affirmations, and inspiring quotes, The Couple's Gratitude Journal makes it easy to make "thank you" a habit so you can grow closer together whether you're dating, newly married, or have been together for many years.

Written by bestselling author Dr. Sophia Godkin, The Couple's Gratitude Journal will deepen your connection and improve your relationship by promoting thoughts, feelings, and actions that foster mutual understanding, closeness, and trust through intentional gratitude.

If you're searching for ways to spark closeness and create or sustain a satisfying relationship, you've stumbled upon a solution.

● GROW YOUR CONNECTION

With over 240 unique writing prompts and empowering affirmations, this journal helps you easily reconnect with and express what you appreciate in your partner and your relationship.

● 5 MINUTES AT A TIME

Write in the journal whenever you and your partner have a few minutes to spare. Whether it's one page every night or a page a week, finding gratitude can be easy even in the busiest of lives.

● SMALL ACTIONS, BIG DIFFERENCE

By focusing your intentions and reconnecting with what's good about each other and your relationship, your relationship will blossom into a happier, closer, and more satisfying one.

Just add water and it's like magic! A fun (and mess-free!) painting activity book for kids ages 4-6, Easy and Fun Paint Magic with Water: Unicorns and Friends features 12 whimsical and mystical line art designs of carefree unicorns, from llamas and kitten mermaids to unicorns floating in outer space, flying over rainbows, and more. Using the provided paintbrush, simply wet with water and watch the colors magically appear on each black-and-white illustration as it comes to life! With a stiff cardboard backing to prevent unwanted leaks, parents can rest assured while their children paint and have a blast using water to create stunning works of unicorn art! Each page within this paint book comes with perforated edges so finished artwork can be easily removed and put on display.

What is the cloud? Discover the secrets of the cloud through simple explanations that use lots of pictures and lots of examples.

Why learn about the cloud? It's the future. The cloud is the future of software, the future of computing, and the future of business. If you're not up on the cloud the future will move on without you. Don't miss out.

Not a geek? Don't worry. I wrote this book for you! After reading Explain Cloud Like I'm 10, you willunderstand the cloud. That's a promise.

How do I deliver on that promise? I'll let you in on a little secret: the cloud is not that hard to understand. It's just that nobody has taken the time to explain it properly.

I take the time. I go slow. You'll learn step-by-step; one idea at a time. You'll learn something new no matter if you're a beginner, someone who knows a little and wants to know more, or someone thinking about a career change.

In Explain Cloud Like I'm 10, you'll discover:

• How the cloud got its name. A more interesting story than you might think.
• An intuitive picture based definition of the cloud.
• What it means when someone says a service is in the cloud.
• If stormy weather affects cloud computing.
• How the internet really works. Most people don't know. You will.
• The real genius of cloud computing. Hint: it's not the technology.
• The good, the bad, and the ugly of cloud computing.
• How cloud computing changed how software is made--forever.
• Why Amazon AWS became so popular. Hint: it's not the technology.
• What happens when you press play on Netflix.
• Why Kindle is the perfect example of a cloud service.
• The radically different approaches Apple and Google take to the cloud.
• How Google Maps and Facebook Messenger excel as cloud applications.
• Cloud providers are engaging in a winner-take-all war to addict you to their ecosystems.
• Key ideas like: VM, serverless, container, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, caching, ISP, OpEx, CapEx, network, AMI, EC2, S3, CDN, elastic computing, datacenter, and cloud-native.
• And so much more.

Sound like gobbledygook? Don't worry! It will all make sense.

I've been a programmer and a writer for over 30 years. I've been in cloud computing since the beginning, and I'm here to help you on your journey to understand the cloud. Consider me your guide. I'll be with you every step of the way.

Sound fun? Buy Explain Cloud Like I'm 10 and let's get started learning about the cloud today!

In this terrific adult activity book, you will find a excellent variety of fun activities.

In particular, the book is full of easy puzzles, brain games, writing activities and coloring pages.

Some of the popular puzzles and brain games in this book include:

• Word Searches
• Spot the Odd One Out
• Shadow Finder
• Find the Differences
• Logic Puzzles
• Sudoku
• Crosswords
• Mazes
• Trivia Challenges and more

There are also many coloring pages in this book including:

• Interesting Designs
• People
• Flowers
• Animals
• Classic Items and more

In this activity book, there are also select writing activities. Topics include:

• Favorite Concert
• Dream Vacation
• Beloved Pet
• A Family Mystery
• and More

Altogether, The Fun and Relaxing Adult Activity Book offers hours of entertainment for adults of all ages, from young adults to seniors.

Be inspired by Marjolein Bastin's passion for the natural world in this lovely coloring book.

"I see every day as a new gift full of new discoveries, which I want to share with everyone through my artwork." --Marjolein Bastin

Now you can share the beauty of Marjolein Bastin's nature-inspired art by coloring images based on her artwork. In this unique coloring book, sixty-three paintings featuring an array of nature vignettes that include birds, flowers, deer, butterflies, and more from Marjolien Bastin are presented in color across from the line art of the same image. Take inspiration from Marjolein's beautiful watercolor pallets or create your own colorful interpretation.

Does your DNA have a hidden purpose, and could it be the transformation of consciousness itself? Gene Keys offers a means of unlocking your untapped potential by awakening the sleeping genius inside you.

A SPIRITUAL COMPANION FOR LIFE

Since its first publication, Gene Keys has been hailed as a spiritual classic. It is the hub of a whole interconnected web of online wisdom teachings. Designed to help you decode your Gene Keys Profile (free from genekeys.com/free-profile), the book explains how to transform your specific "shadow patterns" or traumas, into creative gifts. On every page there is a key insight that helps you to see yourself and live your life in a more harmonious way. As you read it, Gene Keys creates the uplifting feeling that humanity is now undergoing a great awakening, culminating in a bright and positive future, very different from the world we see today. A visionary synthesis with many practical applications, logical yet with great poetic subtlety, Gene Keys is a spiritual companion to contemplate over the course of a lifetime.

• 31 Halloween themed coloring pages, including: jack o'lanterns, candy, bats, snazzy skeletons, mummy, trick or treat sign, owl, ghosts, haunted house, spider in a web, witches hat, cats, and more!
• Images vary in style and complexity.
• Perforated, one-sided pages are easy to tear out so you can frame or share.
• Spiral binding allows pages to lay flat while coloring.
• This coloring book is made for grown-ups but all ages can enjoy!

The revolutionary book that showed how mindfulness can be applied to every aspect of our lives

The highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard introduced a unique concept of mindfulness, adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer's theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, social justice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment based on her work (called the Langer Mindfulness Scale). In her introduction to this 25th anniversary edition, Dr. Langer (now known as "the Mother of Mindfulness") outlines some of these exciting applications and suggests those still to come.

Discover planes with bumpy wings, squashy wheels and much more in this exciting addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. Babies love the best-selling That's not my... books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

"Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement."--Paul Stamets

The classic book about ecological gardening--whatever size your garden--with over 250,000 copies sold!

"A great book!"--Men's Journal

Gaia's Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

Many people mistakenly think that "ecological gardening"--which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants--can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easy--even for the beginner--to create a "backyard ecosystem" by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:

• Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
• Catching and conserving water in the landscape
• Providing a rewilded and biodiverse habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
• Growing an edible "forest" that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods

This revised and updated edition also features a chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it's established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that's needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.

Help your child learn to write letters with this amazing wipe-clean book from bestselling children's book author Roger Priddy!

The outlines to complete and activities to do make writing practice simple! The special pen included with Wipe Clean: Letters allows text to be written again and again--simply wipe letters away with a cloth.

Oklahoma native and proud member of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, Summer Lee shares her knitting secrets for creating all shapes and sizes of socks with dots, zigzags, stripes, and a near-neon palette of happy colors.

Sock projects are universally loved by knitters, but popular knitting creator Summer Lee has turned this favorite pastime topsy turvy with designs that feature the most electric colors and wow-patterns ever dreamt up. The Sock Project is a book for every crafter: beginners who want to learn, knitters who want to improve their sock skills, and anyone who wants to fill their knitting needles--and sock drawers--with jazzy colors and new designs.

Build your skills month-by-month with 12 levels of sock knitting. First, start with the humble-but-mighty Basic Sock, then try more complicated patterns for lace socks, cabled socks, socks with Estonian Inlay, and socks done in stranded knitting. You'll be able to sample 18 fresh and zippy patterns, plus new variations on favorite designs! The Sock Project is a joyful Starburst-color explosion for adventurous knitters everywhere.

Includes Color Photographs

There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.

A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action--or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo!

Every child who opens the book will be amazed--and so will every parent.

Celebrating 30 years as a classic in its field and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook is an unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias.

Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren't in control of your life. Tackle the fears that hold you back with this go-to guide. Packed with the most effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, this evidence-based workbook contains the latest clinical research. You'll find an arsenal of tools for quieting worry, ending negative self-talk, and taking charge of your anxious thoughts, including:

• Relaxation and breathing techniques
• New research on exposure therapy for phobias
• Lifestyle, exercise, mindfulness and nutrition tips

Written by a leading expert in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this fully revised and updated seventh edition offers powerful, step-by-step treatment strategies for panic disorders, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), worry, and fear. You will also find new information on relapse prevention after successful treatment, and updates on medication, cannabis derivatives, ketamine, exposure, nutrition, spirituality, the latest research in neurobiology, and more.

Whether you suffer from anxiety and phobias yourself, or are a professional working with this population, this book provides the latest treatment solutions for overcoming the fears that stand in the way of living a meaningful and happy life. This workbook can be used on its own or in conjunction with therapy.