Collection: Self-Development

"Although Alan Watts' famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." --Publishers Weekly

Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion presents six powerful essays by Alan Watts, the guru for an entire generation of 20th century thinkers, writers and poets. Watts was an engaging speaker and an icon of America's Beat and Counterculture movements. His friends included Aldous Huxley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Cage and Joseph Campbell.

In this book, Watts explores all aspects of Buddhism--from its roots in ancient India to the explosion of interest in Zen and Tibetan Buddhist thought in the West.

The fascinating topics covered in this book include:

• Finding a Middle Way: How a spiritual path to awakening is formed not just by avoiding extreme indulgence but extreme denial as well
• The Religion of No-Religion: How Buddhism eschews any particular dogma and instead acts as a guide to understanding oneself
• Buddhism as Dialogue: How Zen teaches us that we are one with the world and so as we learn to navigate the world, we must also learn about ourselves

Watts traces the early beginnings of Buddhism, outlines the differences between Buddhism and other religions, and reviews the Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path. Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion is a valuable reminder of the peace to be found by looking inward.

In My Very First Book of Words, children can match the picture in the bottom half with the word in the top half. Which one is the car? Which one is the fish? Only you can match them. Children will love solving the puzzles of these clever, vibrant books.

Learn the hottest new painting technique in 22 step-by-step projects! Use an art squeegee and acrylic paint to scrape and swipe your way to gorgeous abstract art.

Clara Cristina de Souza Rego (@aclaracris) first went viral for a squeegee painting video that she posted on social media. Her hundreds of thousands of followers frequently ask for her for tips and techniques. In Squeegee Art Revolution, Clara offers them in abundance so you can learn to make abstract art in her signature style.

Complete instructions for making 22 finished pieces are included in the book, as well as tips throughout, suggestions for creating a balanced artwork, ideas for what to do with leftover paint to reduce waste and cost, how to know when you're done painting, and much more. Each project can be done in minutes using affordable, accessible materials and makes perfect gifts and home decor.

Clara's pieces are beautifully photographed and styled in this highly visual book that includes projects for painting:

• Dynamic shapes
• Pop art
• A sunrise over a mountain
• Rays of color
• Miniatures
• A black hole
• Words of encouragement
• And much more

Clara has learned from her own mistakes when starting to paint with a squeegee and has perfected the technique so that you don't need to make the same mistakes she did. Squeegee Art Revolution features easy-to-follow instruction, beautiful photographs, and vibrant artwork from a pioneer in the fun, abstract squeegee-painting technique.

Join the squeegee art revolution!

You′ve probably heard about the benefits of meditation: Sharper thinking, reduced stress, improved concentration, lower blood pressure, even increased sexual pleasure, all of these positive effects have been confirmed by science. In this uniquely accessible guide, Lorin Roche shows that meditation is that easy, and pleasurable.

Roche answers questions and debunks meditation myths, and gives three easy-to-follow techniques for getting started 塴he Do Nothing Technique," "Salute Each of the Senses," and "Feeling at Home Exercise". He and shows you how to integrate "mini meditations" into spare moments of the day, from savouring morning coffee to taking advantage of the five minutes before a meeting. He explains how to overcome meditation obstacles, customise meditation to your own needs, and use your breath, voice, and attention as meditation aids. And he shows how meditation will give you the power to explore your inner passions, and enrich your sense of self.

International bestselling author and Stanford University professor Tina Seelig adapts her wildly popular creativity course to a practical guide on how to put your best ideas into action.

For the past fifteen years, Professor Tina Seelig has taught her Stanford students how to creatively unleash their unique entrepreneurial spirits. In Creativity Rules, she shares this wisdom, offering inspiration and guidance to transform ideas into reality.

Readers will learn how to work through the four steps of The Invention Cycle: Imagination (envisioning things that do not yet exist), Creativity (applying your imagination to address a challenge), Innovation (applying creativity to generate unique solutions), and Entrepreneurship (applying innovation, to bring ideas to fruition, where our ideas then gain the power to inspire the imaginations of others). Using each step to build upon the last, you can create something much complex, interesting, and powerful.

Creativity Rules provides the essential knowledge to take a compelling idea and transform it into something extraordinary.

'Everything you could ever want for any age of woman. This book will change your life.' - Davina McCall

Trinny has one goal - to give everyone the tools they need to feel their best.

FEARLESS is a collection of everything Trinny has learnt throughout her life and career, and it will empower you to feel confident at every stage of your life.

This manual can be used as inspiration to challenge yourself; whether you need help with putting together an outfit that will make you feel great, knowing how to care for your skin, finding the colours that suit you and choosing makeup that enhances your natural beauty, FEARLESS includes all the tools you need to understand what suits you and will bring you joy.

Trinny also covers all the elements that will make you feel more confident on the inside, including different methods to navigate life's challenges and help build faith in yourself and your choices.

It is time to fear less and be more.

Trinny Woodall's book 'Fearless' was a No.2 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2023.

Heal and align the body layer by layer through sound healing

- Shows how sound, even humming, can change the body's tissues, rearrange posture, and release long-held emotional trauma and stress

- Explains how to listen deeply to the body and discover the rhythms of the areas to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing

- Offers practices to help you immediately release tension and explains how to use your voice to release emotional conflicts so your body can naturally heal

You are made of sound. By listening deeply, you can hear the rhythms and stories of the audible body. With the power of the voice, you can heal the body layer by layer, awakening your cells while releasing long-held tensions, stress, and emotional trauma.

In this guide to sound as bodywork, sound healer Vickie Dodd shares her system for addressing trauma locked in the physical body with the healing power of sound. Touching on the function of the nervous system and the parasympathetic breath, she reveals how sound travels the inner pathways of the body, eliciting responses from the body memory of tissues and muscles while bypassing the mind. Sharing examples from sessions with her clients across five decades, she explains how sound can change the body's tissues, rearrange posture, and release undigested emotional experiences. She teaches how to prepare the body for the work of sounding and releasing and explains the vocabulary of healing sounds, in particular the power of vowels to start the healing process.

Presenting experiential exercises, the author explores how to listen deeply and precisely to the body's stories and discover the rhythms of the areas to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing--your unique soundprint. She offers practices to help you immediately experience a release of tension and stress and explains how to use your voice to release emotional conflicts so your body can naturally heal. She explores how to sing love songs to your shadow, transform negative patterns into harmonious ones, and discover the grace and peace that arise as your body's stories and tissues come to rest.

Revealing the vast potential of sound to heal and transform, Vickie Dodd shows how each of us can dialogue with our own body for release, restoration, and vitality.

Your #1 Resource for Harvesting Edible Mushrooms

This trusty guide will help you break into the world of mushroom foraging with confidence. With in-depth profiles of 25+ mushrooms, you'll learn to identify prized specimens like chanterelles, king boletes, lion's mane, morels or chicken of the woods. Each profile details the species' unique features, as well as where and when it grows, so you have all the information you need to begin correctly hunting these fungi. And with a host of beautifully detailed photos, including images of poisonous species to steer clear of, you'll have a key visual reference to ensure you are foraging accurately and safely. Accompanied by rustic recipes to cook up your finds and a fascinating history of fungi, as well as expert, up-to-date research, this incredible resource will guarantee a successful start to your mushroom foraging journey.

What do gnomes and crochet have in common? They both bring you happiness! And not just in the holiday season: gnomes make a perfect project all year round, from the Christmas cheer and spring splendor to the summer fun and autumn coziness. This colorful collection will surprise you with 24 brilliant characters. Mufficorn has made 12 smaller and 12 bigger gnomes, proving that cute and cuddly go hand in hand. They make excellent gifts, soft toys for tiny hands and fun home decor. Each one is sure to bring smiles and cheer! With step-by-step pictures and video tutorials for all stitches used, beginners as well as advanced crocheters can make the sweetest gnomes. Make your very own variations on this classic design and unlock the whimsical world of amigurumi gnomes.

For families looking for an interactive reading for their bitty babes, this bilingual book creatively uses a guessing game format to engage readers in figuring out which favorite food is being steamed in the steamer, all while highlighting Chinese culture!

Use the clues to guess which food is steaming in the steamer!

Interactive books for children are so much fun. Foodie Detectives introduces children to various steamed Asian snacks and dishes in both English and Chinese through a guessing game. Children and adults alike will be delighted to read the clues on the menus and try to guess which steamed food will appear when they turn the page. The book is full of eye-catching and vibrant pictures that improve observation skills, build vocabulary, and encourage reading.

Foodie Detectives squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as practicing using questions and making predictions or guesses, utilizing adjectives and descriptive phrases, and critical thinking in English and Chinese.

Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Chinese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture paired with the interactive game element that children love - guessing! The vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork make learning so much fun for everyone!

Peg dolls are small, enchanting, and easy to make. They are a perfect craft for children and can become the inspiration for endless play and storytelling. Margaret Bloom invites you to enter the tiny magical world of peg dolls.

Coming from the Waldorf handcraft tradition, these irresistible dolls encourage creative play and promote the emotional and imaginative development of young children. Peg dolls can be made from natural materials to reflect the seasonal cycle, favorite fairy tales and festivals from around the world.

Inside Making Peg Dolls, you will find patterns for creating bluebirds & butterflies, flowers & fairy-tale figures, gnomes, winter angels and more:

√ Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for children and crafters of all levels and experience

√ Beautiful color illustrations and photos

√ More than sixty designs and patterns for peg dolls

√ Ideas for peg dolls as gifts and toys, for seasonal nature tables, or for fairs

√ An inspiring section on storytelling with peg dolls

Making Peg Dolls is a valuable resource for families and classrooms with young children.

The first and second edition of But I Didn't Say Goodbye are being replaced by the 3rd Edition ISBN 9781892906021. The 3rd Edition reflects everything you need to know when providing support to suicide loss survivors.

What do you do when your father dies by suicide while you are in the hospital awaiting the birth of your triplets?

What do you do when you can't attend your father's funeral because physician orders include complete bed rest?

What do you do when you realize that you experienced a devastating loss and that you are not alone in that experience?

You write a book and dedicate your life to helping others affected by suicide!

Barbara Rubel's fictional characters in But I Didn't Say Goodbye are a compilation of what individuals may experience throughout their lifetime as a suicide loss survivor. But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide tells the story, from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy, Alex, and his family, as they are rocked by suicide and reeling from the aftermath. Through Alex's eyes, the reader will see the transformation of feelings after going through a death by suicide.

New to the third edition, each chapter ends with Alex reflecting 10 years later on his experience, introducing family members and friends in his recollections. Barbara Rubel has combined our modern academic theories of grieving, and the research that supports those theories, and then translated them into a readable story for anyone bereaved by suicide. The revised edition is an evidence-informed and contemporary treatment of a devastating form of loss that uses the artful device of a hypothetical case study to render it in human terms.

Through the story, the reader will understand what losing someone to suicide might be like for a family, how to make meaning in the loss, and ways to experience personal growth. This self-help book was revised to provide guidance and education for clinicians (e.g., mental health providers, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, and case managers) and families to help suicide loss survivors.

Part 1 offers a basic understanding of suicide postvention, suicide loss survivors, complicated grief, mourning theories, the American death system, and the impact on clinician survivors. Chapters have been substantially updated, based on mourning models and the latest research. The chapters in Part 2 build upon one another sequentially, from the day of the suicide to the anniversary of the death. At the end of each chapter, there are follow-up questions to explore in counseling sessions, support groups, therapy sessions, or at home. Also, at the end of each chapter, Alex, at the age of 21, reflects back on how his father's death by suicide has changed his life, wounding him, but also helping him to grow.

Young children will enjoy using the special pen to join the dots, circle differences, solve mazes and trace over the dotted lines. The engaging activities give plenty of practice in pen control - an essential skill children must learn before starting to form letters and numbers. They can then wipe the shiny pages clean and do them again.

Go exploring with 50 outdoor activities for toddlers!

Nature is full of sights, sounds, and textures to fascinate toddlers and engage their growing minds. Encourage them to discover the world around them with this book of hands-on nature activities. From Rainy Day Puddle Stomping to Rock Stacking and Creating a Bird Feeding Station, your little one will practice key skills as they build a love of the great outdoors.

• Learning in action--Watch as your toddler begins to ask questions, recognize cause and effect, sort objects, and develop their motor skills.
• Anytime and anywhere--Most of these activities only take about 20 minutes, use basic household items, and can be done in your backyard, your local park, or around the neighborhood.
• Every part of nature--Dig into activities that teach toddlers about weather and seasons, soil and rocks, creatures and critters, and green things that grow!

Get little ones excited to get outside w ith The Nature for Toddlers Activity Book.

Discover the versatility and timelessness of the granny square, with 52 granny squares to take you through every week of the year!

Kylie Moleta has designed these colorful, creative, and diverse squares with the changing seasons in mind. From lacy, lightweight summer squares to heavier, textured designs for when it gets chilly. From charming florals to geometric patterns, each granny square is a mini-masterpiece waiting to be brought to life by your skilled hands.

4 seasonal projects are included, with the flexibility to use many of the 6 x 6in. (15 x 15cm) squares in them. Here, you'll find designs for all skill levels, written patterns, and corresponding charts to suit every kind of crocheter. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced crocheter, there's something for everyone in this captivating collection.

Featuring clear instructions, detailed stitch diagrams, and stunning photography, "A Year of Granny Squares" ensures that you have all the tools you need to embark on your crochet adventure with confidence. Expand your skills, learn new techniques, and watch your crochet expertise grow throughout the year.