Collection: Self-Development

Build the career you want--on your terms.

"Where do you see yourself in five years?" If this question makes you nauseous, you're not alone. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our career--and whether we even want a capital-C "career"--can be daunting and exhausting. Fortunately, there are concrete steps you can take to build a career that fits your interests, needs, and passions.

Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer questions like:

• Should I choose to follow my passion, or focus on the paycheck?
• How can I know if a job is really right for me?
• What are my values, and how can they help me figure out what I want?
• Are there ways to make the most of the skills and experience I already have?
• What does it even mean to build a career?
• And how can I move on if I realize I'm on the wrong path?

This book will help you define the career that fits you, so you can align your passions and values with your daily work.

Rise faster with quick reads, essential advice, and relatable stories.

It's not easy to figure out work when you're still exploring who you are and what you want in life. How do you translate your interests, skills, and education into a career you love while also navigating a new work environment?

The Work Smart series explores topics that matter to you: being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues, maintaining your mental health, and more. Each title includes chapter takeaways and dozens of resources so that you can go beyond the book to engage in the media you learn from best. Work Smart series books are your go-to guides to step into and move forward successfully in your professional world.

Strengthen your fifth grader's logic skills with this unique collection of over 100 engaging and educational illustrated problems!

Whether you're a teacher or parent, finding the perfect summer bridge book to build your child's resilience and improve their mindset has never been easier! Created especially for 10-year-old kids, Brain Games for 10 Year Olds is packed to the brim with a variety of captivating activities and brain-teasers, including:

Sudoku puzzles Mazes Picture codes And so much more!

Written by an internationally bestselling puzzle author, Brain Games for 10 Year Olds is the fantastic mix of zany entertainment and mind-bending games to keep your child engaged and delighted as they challenge their minds and learn new skills.

A new collection from
world-renowned textile artist Kaffe Fassett. Kaffe Fassett's Brilliant
Little Patchwork
Collection features 20 projects to quilt and stitch using all-new fabrics. The
collection includes: -
Easy patchwork
projects to quilt and stitch.-
The celebrated, bold,
and colorful Kaffe Fassett fabrics.-
Over 200 gorgeous,
vivid photographs throughout.

20 fun,
quick-to-stitch accessory projects. These little quilting projects are easy to make and stitch
up fast (unlike full-size quilts). They can be fashioned over a weekend or a
few cozy afternoons as Kaffe walks readers through each project step by step. Each simple project is infused with all the color and
pizazz of Kaffe's larger works, mixing and matching bold colors and patterns
with ease in projects like aprons, tablecloths, kimonos, cushions, and mini
quilts. Quilters of all abilities will find this inspiring collection a welcome addition to their library.

Unleash your imagination, creating worlds and stories beyond measure with the new Pathfinder GM Core for Pathfinder Second Edition! This comprehensive 336-page softcover rulebook gives Game Masters everything they need to craft thrilling tales of adventure, from a single-night's dungeon delve to complex epics spanning years. Within these pages you'll find clear guidelines for creating new hazards and monsters, tools to design challenging, balanced encounters, and rules for rewarding characters for the dastardly challenges you array before them! Pathfinder GM Core also contains a dragon's hoard of magic items and treasure to entice and reward your players, from simple healing potions to magic weapons and armor and legendary artifacts, including dozens of brand-new items!

Pathfinder GM Core is the second core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Pathfinder GM Core includes:
- The rules needed to run a game of Pathfinder, including guidelines for creating challenging encounters, determining success, and giving out rewards.
- Advice aimed at making you an incredible Game Master, along with tools to ensure you and everyone else at your table has a safe and enjoyable experience.
- Guidelines to help you create your own content, from campaigns and adventures to hazards and monsters.
- Rules subsystems to help you handle a wide array of game situations, including rules for chases, duels, research, infiltration, and more!
- A guide to the world of Lost Omens, with a look at several important regions, an examination of the peoples and cultures of the world, and a glimpse into what lies beyond the veil of the universe!
- Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including improvements to staves and talismans and all-new apex magic items!
- Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

In Granny Square Chic, you'll learn the essential techniques and basic patterns for making a granny square that can be repeated and fashioned into 15 fabulous garments and accessories. Best of all, if you want to sub in your favorite granny square or a variety of different designs, it's just as easily done. Featured projects are fashion-led garments that you'll will want to make and wear including sweaters and cardigans, tank top, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls. Learn how to join squares in different ways, select colors, and create fabulous combinations. This guide is perfect for beginners with step-by-step instructions to making the basic granny square, half-granny square and diagonal half, as well as how to change colors while crocheting. The patterns begin with simple designs, progressing on to slightly more advanced techniques. Start crocheting now or build your skills with this must-have crochet book.

Author Sarah Thomas goes all in with this must-have quilting guide. Rainbow Quilt Color Method isn't just a collection of 15 beautiful quilts to make, but it's also a course study on how to confidently choose fabric for multi-color and monotone designs. Sarah shares her approach to selecting a harmonious palate that achieves design strength through color placement. She then goes on to explain how she uses color saturation and color value to make the same quilt with alternate coloration. For example, her rainbow version of her "Twinkle" pattern takes on a patriotic feel when it's made with reds, creams, and blues. Filled with techniques that, in many cases, let the consumers choose their own preferences to achieve their own results, it also includes instruction for basic patchwork, curves, English and foundation paper piecing, plus appliqué options if paper piecing isn't your cup of tea. Quilt patterns include "Blast Off," "Double Dip," " Eden," "Fan Dancer," "Pergola," "Soft Serve," and more! Improve your own quilting skills by learning from a master!

Amigurumi, the Japanese art of crocheting stuffed yarn pieces, is incredibly popular. Many of the designs, by nature, are adorable, but imagine if your time spent crocheting and the art you produce could also be considered functional, even loveable. Amigurumi Loveys and Blankets author, Ariana Wimsett, takes the adorableness of amigurumi animals and adds it to loveys and blankets to create a sweet security blanket. The book opens with an insightful introduction on crochet basics, and then includes 18 adorable crochet patterns like a giraffe, bear, dragon, bunny and so much more. The author has even created one pattern specifically for this book. Give a gift of homemade love this year and for years to come. Little ones will latch onto these huggable companions and never let them go.

With 144 pages of Highlights magazine's fan-favorite puzzle, kids ages 6 and up (and grown-ups!) can solve, color, and laugh their way through some snack-tacular scenes with hilariously adorable food characters.

The iconic Highlights Hidden Pictures puzzle books have sold more than 4 million copies and delighted millions of children (and grown-ups) with puzzle fun. Puzzlers can solve and color these classic black-and-white scenes while developing essential life skills such as problem-solving, creativity, and flexible thinking.

Needle felting is a process that uses barbed needles to mash wool fibers together forming a denser material into an endless range of shapes and forms, a great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures. The Complete Starter Guide to Needle Felting: Enchanted Forest by artist and author Claudia Lenart features 20 step-by-step beginner needle crafting projects including birds, fairies, unicorns, and many other woodland friends. Learn what needles to use, how to dye custom colors, how to blend colors and shapes, and the materials needed to begin the fulfilling art of needle felting. Claudia's felted artwork has been featured in two children's books and in national commercials.

This coloring book is filled with whimsical art based on beautiful flowers and plants.

• Includes 31 easy-to-see images to color.
• 8 x 10 inch perforated pages allow easy tear out to frame or share.
• Thicker paper helps prevent marker or pen from bleeding through to the next page.
• Spiral binding allows pages to lie flat while coloring.
• This coloring book is made for grown-ups but all ages can enjoy!

Join millions of adults around the world who are rediscovering the simple relaxation and joy of coloring!

Get inspired with powerful and motivational quotes for teens

It's tough to be a teen, but a little bit of daily inspiration can transform their mindset and unlock their full potential. This book for teens is packed full of more than 100 empowering quotes from notable figures that will boost their confidence and offer a dose of positivity for every day.

What sets this book apart:

• Made for teens--Explore quotes that relate to being a teenager, including topics like identity and plans for the future.
• Engaging activities--Sprinkled in between the quotes, teens will find activity suggestions like taking a mindful walk or making a list of their strengths.
• Written by a therapist--This collection of inspirational quotes and advice was created by a licensed therapist with more than 20 years of experience helping teens achieve their goals and dreams.

Help teens feel more brave, confident, and passionate with words of support and encouragement.

This book fills a critical niche that has long been overlooked. It specifically focuses on somatic practices to decrease stress and improve heart health. It will combine science, time-tested somatic mindfulness techniques, and patient stories to provide hope and help.

Relájate y aléjate del estrés del día a día!

Los libros para colorear ya no son solo cosa de niños. Hoy en día, nuestras vidas son cada vez más ajetreadas y complicadas. El auge de las nuevas tecnologías nos lleva a recibir oleadas de correos electrónicos y notificaciones de las redes sociales. Esta constante estimulación de expectativas, obligaciones y estrés nos deja agotados y nos aleja de las alegrías del presente. Por lo tanto, encontrar un momento de calma puede ser todo un desafío.
No obstante, recientemente, se ha descubierto que colorear es una maravillosa actividad para aquellos que desean relajarse, aliviar el estrés y alejar de la mente los pensamientos abrumadores.

La creciente popularidad de los libros de colorear para adultos demuestra su simplicidad positiva, ya que son una forma que está muy de moda de encontrase a sí mismo y tomarse un respiro de la agitada vida moderna!

Canaliza el estrés y la ansiedad a través de la realización artística. Escápate al mundo de la inspiración, tanto si eres un principiante como un experto, y disfruta de la alegría de colorear. No hay instrucciones, ni tampoco es cuestión de hacerlo bien o mal. De hecho, ni siquiera se necesitan materiales artísticos caros. Así que, colorea como desees para crear piezas únicas y exquisitas. Colorear puede ser beneficioso para aquellos a quienes les resulte difícil descubrir al artista que llevan dentro si solo tienen delante una hoja en blanco.

Desconéctate de todo y disfruta de un momento para colorear. Este libro te garantiza horas de entretenimiento y relajación mental. Tómate tu tiempo, colorea y deja volar tu imaginación!
Estas increíbles e intrincadas ilustraciones estarán listas para que les agregues tu toque personal.

Características:

• 50 bonitos y relajantes diseños creados para aumentar y estimular tu imaginación y desarrollar una creatividad sin límites.
• Distintos niveles de detalle, de fácil a difícil (para distintos ojos). Elige una imagen según tu estado de ánimo y comienza un relajante camino.
• Impreso en papel de alta calidad de 8.5 x 11 pulgadas (21.59 x 27.94 cm). Dispondrás de mucho espacio para dar rienda suelta a tu creatividad y centrarte en los detalles.
• Cada dibujo se imprime con el lado inverso en blanco. Cuando finalices, obtendrás una pieza de arte única, perfecta para enmarcar y exponer.
• Perfectos para decorar con lápices de colores, bolígrafos de gel, rotuladores, plumas estilográficas o ceras de colores.
• Comparte tu pasión por colorear. Ofrece a tus amigos un regalo relajante o sentaos y disfrutadlo juntos.
• No hace falta tener experiencia creativa previa. Si te resulta difícil descubrir a tu artista interior, este libro te ayudará a hacerlo. Colorear es relajante, tan solo tienes que añadir color!

* Por favor, ten en cuenta que, si utilizas rotuladores o bolígrafos de gel, colocar una hoja detrás de la página que vas a colorear para que la tinta no traspase a las demás hojas es una buena idea.

Never garden alone! The Month-By-Month series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year. Written by authors in your state, the information is tailored to the issues that affect your garden the most.

From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: this book answers fundamental existential questions with practical benefits for enlightenment, peace, and fulfillment.

"In this landmark book, Dr. Tony Nader presents ideas that can change the world. He proposes profound solutions to questions that have long fascinated and intrigued philosophers and scientists. What is Consciousness, do we have freedom? How to get the best out of life, fulfill wishes and create peace and harmony among peoples and nations? He offers these solutions, based on a simple underlying paradigm, that unifies mind, body, and environment into an ocean of pure Being, Pure Consciousness. A must read for any seeker of answers to the mysteries of life, the absolute and ultimate truth." -- David Lynch

Is there some hidden purpose in life, a secret design, a meaningful logic, a goal to be achieved? Where do we come from and where do we go after we leave? Why should we be fighting? Can we choose? Are we free or slaves of destiny, of the laws of nature or of God?

As sentient beings who wish to take control of our lives, we end up making assumptions about these fundamental questions or strongly subscribing to beliefs about them. Those convictions become our underlying "cosmovision" that influences everything we do.

Dr. Tony Nader originally turned to the study of medicine, psychiatry, and neurology to try to understand why, despite being so similar, we can be so different in our opinions, mentality, and points of view. But the answers to his fundamental questions were too complex and abstract for scientific investigation. It was Transcendental Meditation that allowed him to explore them through direct experience, rather than analysis and deduction. This book is dedicated to all seekers of knowledge, scientists, philosophers, teachers, wise leaders, and guides who investigate the secrets of how nature works and who seek to improve life on Earth.