Collection: Self-Development

Barry Long's right meditation is a five-step guide to the art of spiritual life. It's the product of the author's vast knowledge and his own practice during more than forty years as a spiritual teacher. In his plain-spoken, accessible way, he takes us through the five essential steps that lead away from emotional pain into the sensation of the body, towards fulfilment and freedom and finally to a reality beyond life and death.

These teachings are about no longer being a slave to your emotional self. They are about your reality as an individual, being alive with sensation and accelerating your intelligence, until finally you overcome your attachment to existence and the fear of death.

"This whole meditation is about you, your deeper reality."

Identifying as a trans and/or non-binary person in today's society can be a daily challenge. However, these challenges can also lead you to experience a spectrum of emotions and experiences others can only dream of, and untold strength and power - if you know how to harness it!
Drawing upon the author's personal experiences as a trans man, and using life-coaching and mentoring techniques throughout, this workbook will give you the tools to defeat imposter syndrome, nourish your relationships, make strides in your career, and exercise safely, without compromising on that tuck or bind. With activities, tips and self-reflective exercises to enable you to reflect on your goals, challenges and life experiences, as well as your self-limiting behaviours, this workbook is here to support you during transition, on coming out, in your relationships, at work and with your physical and mental health. Trans joy is real - so seize every opportunity that comes your way.

A heart-warming journey of learning to love the hair you have, and the person you are.

Follow Kyra as she shares her thoughts and feelings about her amazing Afro hair, and the facts she learns about all kinds of hair types and styles. After a trip to the hairdresser's, Kyra's school friends have lots of questions for her, and she has lots for them too. Learn about straight hair and coily hair, red hair and black hair, cornrows and french braids and more in this celebration of all things HAIR.

Knit a glorious Moomin sock collection for the whole family with 29 unique, intricately-designed Fair Isle sock patterns, charts included.

Inspired by Tove Jansson's Moomin books, each pattern is a loving homage to Jansson's beloved characters, brought to life by the artistry of top Finnish knitwear designers.

You're invited on an enchanting knitting adventure deep into the heart of Moominvalley, which will capture your heart and spark your creativity. All of the characters you love are beautifully represented in these designs. You'll find practical guidance on finding the perfect fit for every member of your family, and detailed instructions on checking your tension ensure that you create the perfect knits every time.

• Each of the delightful patterns tells its own Moomin tale:
• The Hemulen Collecting Flowers pattern whisks you away on a floral adventure
• The 'Dancing in the Rain' socks transport you to a playful and carefree moment in Moominvalley
• Cozy up with the 'Happy Sniff' socks that capture Sniff's contentment and joy
• The Moominhouse design invites you into the cozy embrace of the Moomin household itself: agreeable Moomintroll, pensive Moominpappa, calm, caring Moominmamma, timid Sniff, and fearless Little My
• When it's time to unwind, let the 'Zzzz... time for a snooze' pattern lull you into a state of tranquillity

Whether you're curled up with a well-loved copy of Finn Family Moomintroll, or exploring the great wide world, these socks will keep you and your family cozy and warm.

More about the Moomins:
The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books and comic strips by Swedish-speaking Finn Tove Jansson (1914-2001), a painter, illustrator and writer. The Moomins are a family of white and roundish fantastical characters, with large snouts. After the first Moomin story published in 1945, Tove Jansson went on to write another eight books, four picture books and numerous comic strip stories about the Moomins. The Moomins have inspired numerous television series, films and theme parks. There is a podcast devoted to Moomins hosted by Lily Collins and Jennifer Saunders - the Moomin Phenomenon podcast, which launched in March 2023.

Moomins are a beloved heritage brand; the first book of eight was published (in Swedish) in 1945 and since then, have sold millions of copies worldwide, in over 40 languages.

Step into the remarkable world of the honeybee in this illuminating and delightfully illustrated pocket guide.

For budding apiarists, this introductory book offers fascinating information about honeybees and everything you need to know to begin your own beekeeping journey. For example, did you know that from birth, female bees are promoted through roles such as nurse, baker, and guardian of the hive? Or that male bees' primary purpose is simply to mate with a queen, but only 0.1% of them ever will?

In these pages, you'll discover the inner workings of the beehive, the properties of honey, the basics of keeping bees, and the joys that come from this meditative hobby, including a thriving garden, environmental stewardship, and a supportive community (not to mention delicious honey!). A whole world awaits--and it's just outside your door.

FOR BEEKEEPERS AND BEE ENTHUSIASTS: This petite and brightly colored book will appeal to anyone interested in bees and beekeeping, whether they're just starting their journey or well on their way. Don't let the size fool you--this compact bee book is packed with insightful information and helpful tips for novices and experts alike.

WHY BEES MATTER: We need bees. According to Greenpeace, bees are responsible for one in every three bites of food humans consume. Without them, Earth, and our daily existence, wouldn't be the same. The active Save the Bees movement that has erupted in recent years shows that people are adamant about bee justice and committed to spreading awareness and knowledge about bees. This pocket guide is a practical and inspiring addition to the cause.

HIGHLY GIFTABLE NATURE BOOK: Filled with appealing illustrations, calming meditations, and tidbits about honeybees that will make your jaw drop, this is a lovely gift for bee lovers, nature enthusiasts, and others who want to learn more about these incredible specimens. Pair with jars of honey or other books in the Pocket Nature series to delight a friend, colleague, parent, or sibling--anyone who loves learning about our amazing natural world.

Perfect for:

• Bee enthusiasts, apiarists, and beginner beekeepers
• Nature lovers and hikers
• Mindfulness practitioners
• Followers of @bowserbee on TikTok
• Birthday, anniversary, housewarming, or seasonal gift for nature lovers

Is love about chemistry or do biology, evolution and psychology all have a part to play?

Love is one of the most complex and confusing emotions in the human experience. It consumes so much of our lives and yet we don't truly understand it - what it is on a biological, chemical and evolutionary level. This book takes you on a fascinating journey to explore the science of love, looking closely at the interplay between genes, hormones, emotions and relationships.

Discover everything you need to know about why you are attracted to certain people, the brain's role in your emotions, how to pick "the one" and how to preserve that love over time. Learn how to have better, healthier and more loving relationships by understanding the inner workings of love in your body.

Elevate your personal style based on iconic advice from Coco Chanel with this beautiful and practical guide to dressing your best.

There is no one more synonymous with style than Coco Chanel. Her pillars of simplicity, elegance, comfort, nautical, monochrome, and the iconic little black dress remain relevant today. Coco Chanel: The Style Principles gives you ideas to elevate your everyday outfits with wise, fashionable, and accessible tips. Throughout these pages, you will find photography of the timeless and classic looks that embody the beloved Chanel brand, while simultaneously learning how to tailor these looks to your own closet and personal style.

Not only will you learn how to dress in the Chanel-style, but you'll also learn about the extraordinary legacy behind the prolific French fashion creator. This handy little book has everything you need to know about the guiding principles that make her influence iconic.

Aprende a cambiar tu forma de pensar y desarrolla el potencial que posees para generar la riqueza que siempre has deseado.

Este libro te llevará más allá de esos miedos y tropiezos que bloquean tu éxito financiero. La autora utiliza su propia vida, llena de calamidades y humor, para explicarte cómo tú también puedes comenzar a viajar, comer, y vestir como un verdadero millonario. Disfruta los lujos que mereces.

Con el estilo desenfadado que catapultó a su anterior libro ( Eres un chingón!) a convertirse en un bestseller, Jen Sincero explica de manera sencilla cómo remover los bloqueos mentales que se interponen para que accedas a la verdadera riqueza.

Te ayudará a:

• Descubrir qué te detiene y te mantiene alejado del dinero.
• Exorcizar dudas, miedos y excusas.
• Relacionarte con el dinero desde un enfoque distinto y novedoso.
• Destapar tu habilidad natural para generar riqueza.

Lo único que necesitas es decidir ser rico. Casi todos crecemos en familias en donde se cree que la riqueza es la raíz de muchos males o que debemos trabajar muy duro en cosas que odiamos para conseguirla. En Eres un@ chingón@ haciendo dinero!, conocerás cómo superar esos pensamientos y dar el primer paso a tu nueva vida.

Difícil? Sólo pon en práctica los consejos de Jen Sincero.

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From the author of Eres un ching@n! /You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed of.

This book will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach.

Drawing on her own transformation--over just a few years--from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels her inimitable sass and practicality and combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results.

From spiritual teacher Tammy Mastroberte comes an indispensable guide for supercharging your manifestation practice with guidance from the Universe.

If you're struggling to see the changes you desire in life no matter how hard you try to manifest them, it may be time to put down this stressful burden and try something new. There is an easier way to create positive change, and it starts with no longer trying to do it alone. Instead, you can ask the Universe for help and place it in charge to guide you.

In The Higher Help Method, award-winning author Tammy Mastroberte affirms the Universe will support you to create what you want--or something even more incredible when you ask it to partner with you and harness its energy. To access the full potential of manifestation, we must learn to invoke the aid and wisdom of the Divine with confidence, receptivity, and trust. Here she shares her tried-and-true system for:

- Framing your intentions with clarity--express what you want, why you want it, and how it will make you feel
- Calling in specialized higher help--including angels, guides, saints, and loved ones
- Shifting your energy--attune to and maintain a higher vibration that magnetizes positive change
- Receiving and acting on guidance--recognize how the Universe answers and guides you, and follow its lead

You'll learn how to dive deeper into your practice with specific tools such as custom prayers, exercises, crystals, and rituals for manifesting in seven key areas: money and abundance, health, emotional well-being, relationships, career, parenting, and spiritual connection.

"The Universe always responds when you ask for help," says Mastroberte. "When you learn to trust it as a partner, creating positive change becomes easier, more effective, and much more fun." With this indispensable guide, you'll soon become an effective cocreator of your reality, supported by Divine forces to consciously create a life you love.

Surviving and thriving in the real world-the complete guide to adulting

You might be an adult now, but sometimes you want a little help figuring the whole thing out. How to Adult, A Practical Guide provides you with easy-to-understand strategies for figuring out, well, everything-or at least the stuff you need to pay your bills and not annoy the IRS.

Whether it's handling the challenges of maintaining adult relationships or managing (and hopefully excelling) in the workplace, How to Adult, A Practical Guide offers funny, actionable, and step-by-step guidance that makes maturity more manageable. There are even short activities and opportunities for reflection throughout.

How to Adult, A Practical Guide includes:

• Everyday adulting-Learn how to take care of adulthood's biggest challenges-like careers, finances, and relationships-through practical advice and guidance.
• Skill tests-Examine your abilities with a pair of how to adult quizzes designed to help you measure your knowledge and maturity-before and after you finish the book.
• Fun and funny insight-Make it easier to tackle credit cards, debt, and more with help from lighthearted advice that teaches you how to adult while entertaining you.

Enjoy preparing yourself for the next chapter of life with How to Adult, A Practical Guide.

​​From beautiful botanical latticework to chickens laying eggs, here are 42 inspired patterns and creative projects embracing the endless possibilities of designs that connect and repeat.​

With twenty-one new guided embroidery patterns and corresponding projects, crafters old and new will find in this book a fresh set of decorative stitchwork by cherished designer Yumiko Higuchi to follow or be inspired by. Stitch flowering apple trees, colorful intertwining ribbons, carousel horses, budding plants, European-style houses all lined up in a row, and more--all in the spirit of weaving together seamlessly repeating patterns suitable for projects small and large.

The guided projects for each pattern play on the fun, whimsical nature of the repetitive motifs. Fabric book covers with fences and fall-colored trees, a decorative vine crown, roses trailing down the sides of a tote bag, intricate floral bracelets--these projects and more will give any crafter plenty of creative space to bring these beautiful designs into their home. Each pattern and project comes with step-by-step instructions displayed in beautiful full-color photography, including stitch types, thread colors, stitch order, and various material suggestions.

Whether coming to embroidery for the first time or approaching it as a longtime friend, all crafters will find joy in these charming, connecting designs.

Buddha's core teachings explained in accessible, everyday language

- Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life

- Shares the author's secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental Buddhist ideas

During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha lived, his teachings have spread widely around the globe. In each culture where Buddhism was introduced, the Buddha's teachings have been pruned and modified to harmonize with local customs, laws, and cultures. We can refer to these modifications as "gift wrapping," translating the gifts of Buddha's teachings in ways sensible to particular cultures in particular times. This gift-wrapping explains why Indian, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian Buddhism have significant differences.

In this engaging guide to Zen Buddhism, award-winning actor, narrator, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote helps us peer beneath the Japanese gift-wrapping of Zen teachings to reveal the fundamental teachings of the Buddha and show how they can be applied to contemporary daily life. The author explains that the majority of Western Buddhists are secular and many don't meditate, wear robes, shave their heads, or believe in reincarnation. He reminds us that the mental/physical states achieved by Buddhist practice are universal human states, ones we may already be familiar with but perhaps never considered as possessing spiritual dimensions.

Exploring Buddha's core teachings, the author shares his own secular and accessible interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, and the Eightfold Path within the context of his lineage and the teachings of his teacher and the teachers before him. He looks at Buddha's teachings on our singular reality that appears as a multiplicity of things and on the "self" that perceives reality, translating powerful spiritual experience into the vernacular of modern life.

Revealing the practical usefulness of Buddhist philosophy and practice, Zen in the Vernacular shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of everyday life.

The story of one man's journey to go beyond self awareness and the science of how to actually change your mind.

In his groundbreaking, seminal book, visionary leader and transformational teacher David Bayer offers a revolutionary approach to personal growth and spiritual evolution, taking complex concepts from the fields of behavioral psychology, neurophysiology, quantum field theory, and spiritual tradition and distilling them into a powerful, practical, integrative framework for reclaiming personal and emotional sovereignty and having what Bayer calls "a powerful living experience."

Through the authentic and vulnerable sharing of his own story of struggle, childhood trauma, addiction, and burnout, Bayer takes the reader on a journey of going beyond self awareness and self help to learn how to actually rewire your brain, downregulate your nervous system, and consciously create an extraordinary life.

A Changed Mind is an instruction manual for understanding the human being operating system and how to reclaim control over your thoughts, emotions, and life at a time when emotional intelligence, self awareness, and spiritual connection are essential skills for navigating the increasingly complex and uncertain external dynamics of modern-day life.

Whether you are new to personal growth or have been on a journey of growth for decades, wanting to overcome depression and anxiety or perform at a higher level, connect more deeply with a power greater than yourself or free yourself from the incessant negative chatter of the mind--A Changed Mind is the missing piece every growth-oriented and spiritually minded individual needs in order to achieve sustainable health, happiness, joy, and prosperity, and ultimately realize their full potential.

Elevate Your Sewing is comprehensive book featuring more than 30 different techniques from changing design lines to honeycomb smocking. Includes clear and easy instruction with illustration or photo step outs to guide you as you work. Includes a stitch dictionary for both couture work and unique embroidery detailing including monograms and a chart for handling and sewing a variety of couture fabrics. Nothing is forgotten in this comprehensive book. Chapters include zippers, edge finishing and embellishments, beading, bead and sequins, stitches and seams, and more! There's even a new stitch dictionary for couture work and unique embroidery detailing including monograms. Revisit some well-known techniques with a new twist on style.

Even during the carefree months of summer, children can be preparing for the next grade with Daily Summer Activities! It's packed with engaging activities that will build learners' confidence for the next grade level by practicing essential skills. Activities offer practice of essential skills across subject areas, including reading, math, and writing

With just one or two activities per day over a 10-week period, Daily Summer Activities helps to keep skills sharp without getting in the way of vacation time.

Recipient of the 2020 Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids, Daily Summer Activities provides fun skill practice to help children discover a love of learning and reach their educational goals.

This Daily Summer Activities workbook also includes delightful artwork and reward stickers.

10 weeks of instruction cover the following skills:

Alphabet awareness:

• practice for two or three letters of the alphabet each week
• tracing the letter
• listening for the letter sound
• sequencing events
• one word to spell each week
• simple picture directions to complete a drawing

Oral language:

• responding to pictures
• words and stories

Mathematics:

• number recognition
• counting
• patterns
• sorting
• beginning addition
• recognizing shapes
• pennies

About Evan-Moor

A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

Draw, sticker and play (and learn!) your way across the USA! Word searches, matching games, letter scrambles and more, highlight everything from state mottoes and famous monuments to natural wonders and roadside attractions to make this a road trip to remember!