Collection: Self-Development

Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women.

With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colorism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating beauty standards South Asian women are expected to adhere to, Sharan Dhaliwal speaks openly about her journey towards loving herself, offering advice, support and comfort to people that are encountering the same issues.

This provocative book celebrates the strides South Asian women have made, whilst also providing powerful advice through personal stories by Sharan and other South Asian women from all over the world.

From the author of The Witch's Feast, this is the first fully illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the handicrafts of witchcraft. Through over 60 craft projects, learn all the techniques you need to create your personalized magical toolkit.

Empower yourself as a self-sufficient witch, and become a master of the natural arts!

This in-depth guide, accompanied by step-by-step images, will show you all the craft and design skills you need to make your own, personalized and fully adaptable magical toolkit.

Melissa Madara, magical expert, herbalist and witch, shares 60+ unique projects and techniques, many of which revive spells from the history of witches past. Approachable for beginners and stimulating for established practitioners, the crafts are clearly explained through luscious photographs, detailed research, useful charts, and easy-to-follow instructions. Once you are directly in touch with the power of these crafts, understanding deeply the processes and the associations of magical ingredients, you can be inspired to create all your own unique formulations. Chapters include:

• Incense, including kyphi temple incense, which once billowed from the temples of ancient Egypt, to house blessing incense for cleansing any new home.
• Inks, including dragon's blood ink and botanical drawing charcoals.
• Oils, such as flying ointment or the world's first known chemist Tapputi's royal salve.
• Natural dyes for creating stunning eco-printed ritual gowns or a spring equinox altar tablecloth.
• Papers, like Japanese knotweed paper or autumn equinox corn husk paper.
• Powders essential for rituals and spells such as scrying powder and banishing salt.
• Candles of all shapes and types, including poured, dipped and molded.

With all of this knowledge, you can create altars, rituals and spells that are highly specific, personal and in touch with your natural environment.

In 20 short, gem-like chapters, meditation teacher Tracy Cochran invites us to explore living fully in the present moment as a revolutionary practice.

Tracy's vibrant essays from her storied life give plenty of encouragement to reframe and dive deep into our own experiences.

Mindfulness offers us a way to be fully in the present moment--and as we start to embrace this practice, we learn that our lives are made of present moments. That gift of presence is the palpable experience of awareness that appears when we remember to be mindful of those moments.

In 20 short chapters, Cochran encourages us to see presence as a living force--and to recognize and explore how that shows up in our lives. She offers riveting and relatable stories from her life--a spiritually transformative wine-making trip in France, a near-death experience while being mugged, managing her feisty child while on a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, among many others--and Buddhist teachings to encourage us to see the power of presence to illuminate and transform our past, present, and future.

Cochran's observations and reminiscences are wise and pithy, and she gives us plenty of encouragement to explore and reframe our own experiences.

Add games and learning to get math success!

Discover how to keep building on your child's learning all year round. Packed with engaging exercises that make math fun for 6 to 7-year-olds, this educational activity book is the perfect choice in 1st grade math workbooks.

From counting challenges to fill-in-the-blanks to color-by-numbers, the activities are designed to help kids learn while they play. Go beyond other 1st grade math workbooks with arithmetic, comparison, measurement, patterns, shapes, time, money, graphs, fractions, and more!

This standout in 1st grade math workbooks includes:

• 101 Games and activities-Make the learning last with fresh, colorful activities that both entertain and teach-all 1st grade math workbooks should be this fun!
• Educational and supportive-Watch your little one get absorbed in the games and puzzles as the challenge increases, building their confidence and thinking skills.
• Made for 1st graders-Expand your 1st grader's education with exercises designed specifically for their age group.

It's everything 1st grade math workbooks should be: comprehensive, educational, and lots of fun!

This second edition of the groundbreaking book by acclaimed interventionist and educator Debra Jay celebrates the unique and powerful role families play in successful long-term recovery from addiction. Readers receive tips, tools, and a framework for pursuing the proven path of Structured Family Recovery.

As a companion to Love First, the classic guide to family intervention, It Takes a Family delivers a proven method for families and friends to step beyond the initial intervention and reinvent their relationships as part of a family recovery team. In straightforward, compassionate language, Debra Jay offers readers a structured model that shows family members and friends how they can work together to overcome the obstacles many people with addiction face in their initial recovery. Through easy-to-follow strategies and exercises, family members learn about and address the challenges of enabling, denial, and pain while developing their communication skills and embracing the joy that comes from healthier and happier relationships.

Ten Days In a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly, whose given name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, was a pio-neer of investigative journalism. She died in 1922. Of her many exposé assignments for Joseph Pulitzer's NEW YORK WORLD, her voluntary (and undercover) journey into the "lunatic asylum" on Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island is perhaps the most well known. In previous chapters of the series, she has (without much difficulty) fooled various doctors and authorities into deeming her insane and admitting her tothe asylum, which is located on an island just east of Manhattan. "SINCE my experiences in Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I have received hundreds of letters in regard to it. The edition containing my story long since ran out, and I have been prevailed upon to allow it to be published in book form, to satisfy the hundreds who are yet asking for copies."

Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts provides everything you need to know to start your own herb garden today. From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips to producing high yield quality herbs. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 36 of today's most popular herbs, in addition to a few of her favorite recipes where herbs are the star ingredient including marinades, salad vinaigrettes, infused oils, delicious cocktails or mocktails, herbed and plain focaccia bread, teas and more! You can enhance your crafting projects by adding herbs as well. Herbs include echinacea, St. John's Wort, turmeric, elderberry, ginger, chamomile, Tulsi, anise hyssop and so much more!

The acclaimed author of The Happiness Track maps a bold and fresh, science-backed path to break the bonds of self-destructive patterns and beliefs and live a fuller, more authentic life.

"Sovereign is one of the most influential books I have read in years. It's loaded with ideas that will recharge your life and change the way you think and act right away. By far the most highlighted book in my library!"
-- Tom Rath, #1 New York Times best-selling author of How Full Is Your Bucket? and Strengthsfinder 2.0

In the post-pandemic era of war, polarization, and economic and environmental challenges, is it any wonder that we're questioning a lot of things we thought we knew? We're ready to reevaluate what's important and rethink how we are living our lives. We need a new perspective--and acclaimed psychologist Emma Seppälä offers one.

Sovereign delivers a radically new and enlightening message, made for this age of suffering and confusion. It's a manifesto that awakens us to all the areas in our life where we have subjugated ourselves to self-destructive beliefs and tendencies. And it's a roadmap to reclaim our full psychological sovereignty so we can live free, happy, and authentic lives.

Seppälä's voice is raw and honest, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply reflective, delving into topics ranging from the nature of self-loathing to the nuances of relationship as she shows us how to unbind ourselves in every area:

• In our working life and our family life
• In our physical health and our emotional well-being
• In our minds, our spirits, and our connection to our very selves

Backed by psychological data, neuroscience, and empirically validated methodologies, Sovereign takes us further along the path of personal transformation than we may ever have ventured before--and gives us the true freedom to live life to our fullest potential.

In this contemporary look at the world of workbenches, Lon Schleining takes us on a guided tour of a wide variety of classic, modern, and specialty benches and offers hundreds of options for choosing or building that perfect bench and its accessories.

This is a fresh look at the classic subject with a focus on helping readers find the right bench and accessories for their needs. The object is to guide the reader through making critical choices, including whether to buy it or build it.

Even long-time woodworkers dream of the perfect bench and the time to build it, and for them, the real enjoyment is in the planning. With nearly 300 photos and drawings, The Workbench provides in-depth information along with the inspiration to fulfill workshop dreams.

More than 200 million people worldwide speak the beautiful and alluring language of Brazilian Portuguese. Tapped as a language with the highest possibility for growth internationally, beginners everywhere have begun to study Portuguese, making it one of the most popular languages in the world!

This book is the ideal workbook if you're looking to learn the basics of the language, whether you're a beginner or intermediate student. Featuring interactive exercises and lessons that help you:

• Study nouns, conjugate verbs, and perfect pronunciations
• Learn common words and phrases
• Have a conversation with a native speaker
• Read and write the language
• Master past, present, and imperfect tenses

Complete with a CD of audio exercises and prompts, Portuguese-English glossary, and arsenal of useful vocabulary, this book will have you speaking and writing Portuguese in no time!

Originally published in 2014 in a limited edition of 3,500 copies, Zen Habits is the masterwork of simplicity blogger and author Leo Babauta, who explains how to master the art of changing your life-how to get rid of unwanted habits, deal with major life events, overcome frustrations with others, and much more.In 2015, the author published a new, much-shortened version of the book in a compact, "just do this" format called Essential Zen Habits. As valuable as that is, it lacks the depth and detail you'll find in this, the original, full-length edition.The author writes: "What you'll learn from this book isn't how to make yourself a better person-it's how to remove the things that get in your way. When we do that, we have happiness, peace. We no longer feel anxious, we don't need to procrastinate, we let go of anger and resentment, and we can fully live in this moment, enjoying it.

"With the skills of accepting discomfort and uncertainty, we'll learn to form mindful habits that will make us good at any change we want to make and learn the flexibility we need to stick to that change for the long term. We'll learn to deal with stress and anxiety, with frustration with ourselves and others, with procrastination and debt, and more. We'll become masters of change. This is the Zen Habits Method."

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Pain doesn't have to be normal. Suffering doesn't have to be normal. Feeling unworthy doesn't have to be normal. It's time to change what you have settled for. It's time to build the life you deserve.

With a no-nonsense attitude, author Dena Chernenkoff, RN, BSN uses light humour, her own experiences with childhood trauma, and her background in nursing to guide you through how to:

- Overcome your past traumas and old habits
- Handle the different kinds of negative people you encounter in life
- Take care of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
- Create self-affirming boundaries
- Shift your perspective on your capabilities
- Gain independence, confidence, and trust in yourself

We all deserve to heal and feel fulfilled. For What It's Worth is here to help you on your journey and to remind you that your self-worth is always worth the work.

Are you a parent, guardian, or educator worried about your teen's future? Not sure where they're headed?

Or perhaps you're a young adult striving to carve out your future path?

It's never too early to start looking ahead to the future.

Instead of waiting until the end of high school, imagine the advantage they could have by crafting a secure plan within the next 30 days!

How do you get started, you may ask? The Essential Career Planning Handbook for Teens holds the key.

Ready to empower your teen with the keys to a fulfilling life and the financial security they deserve? Discover our expert guidance, designed to guide them towards a successful career, evoking excitement, calm, and the confidence that their dreams are within reach.

In the Essential Career Planning Handbook for Teens, they will discover:

• 10 powerhouse traits that will propel their career and life to unimaginable heights. What's the one trait that all successful people share? Find out inside!
• The most powerful networking tip that even newbies can use to supercharge their career.
• The one question they should always ask themselves when planning their career.
• The 5 soft skills they need to be a superstar at their next job.
• The 8 most common interview traps and how to dodge and ace them.
• A productivity tool so simple that even a five-year-old can learn it, and it's used by Elon Musk, the busiest billionaire, to handle responsibilities like a boss.

We understand that teenagers have the attention span of a goldfish on a sugar rush (seriously, it's shorter than a TikTok video!). That's why we've ditched the boring textbook approach and injected our book with a healthy dose of fun and engaging content.

No lofty concepts or overloading them with theories here. Only hands-on strategies that will help them find their own way.

We're not here to dictate what career your teen should chase, but we're all about equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and self-assuredness to make savvy decisions about their own future.

So, get ready for a read that'll have your teen laughing, learning, and asking for more!

Click "Buy with 1-click" now to grab a copy today and embark on an adventure that will shape their future for years to come. The journey starts now!

Nothing is the Perfect Teacher

It teaches by example. It is non-threatening, peaceful and tolerant. It holds no grudges and never feels guilty. Always present, it never worries about the future or the past. Nothing is counterbalance to the insanely hectic lives we lead. It will make you happier, healthier, and more successful.

Doing Nothing is the Perfect Technique

Based on the latest scientific thinking, this groundbreaking book will introduce you to the extraordinary benefits of doing nothing. Within these pages a new philosophy of human potential is born. When you explore this philosophy you will find it answers many questions that may have puzzled you personally, and humankind as a whole. When you practice the techniques you will experience improved health, greater fulfillment of your talents and potentialities, and a longer, more rewarding life.

Get Results from Your Very First Experience

You will learn ten practical and immediately effective techniques that require little effort, no knowledge, no mind, no emotions, and not even the belief in the process itself. Results begin immediately and continue to grow long after this book is set aside. Written as if you are right there with him, Dr. Kinslow will enlighten and inspire you to the joys, the possibilities, and the power of doing nothing.

In your hand you hold the answers to these questions:

- Why is happiness so hard to hold on to?
- Can positive thinking actually be negative?
- What can I do to form a perfect relationship?
- Can suffering be reduced or eliminated?
- How can the three phases of transformation enrich my life?
- Is there such a thing as universal love?
- Can I really turn my life around in just 90 days?

This lushly photographed idea book proves that it is possible to create a glamorous outdoor space of ever-changing color, teeming with life, in the smallest of spaces, whether a patio, terrace, or front porch.

This inspirational guide demonstrates how a glorious outdoor space is possible, even with only a small patio and a few pots. Featuring detailed photos and text by Parkinson who has been named a rising gardening star by Architectural Digest, this new book is the key to success with container gardening.

Parkinson shows how to create a veritable paradise in pots with aspirational season-by-season ideas that are easy to replicate in any situation. The emphasis is on creating a small haven for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife--from flowers for pollinators to small fruiting shrubs that provide winter sustenance for birds. Even an upturned pot can create a welcoming space for a mosquito-eating frog.

The book is filled with planting and propagating advice, tips on improving soil, seasonal tasks, and suggested planting ideas that include both flowering and edible plants for a vibrant backyard oasis. This is container gardening at its most romantic and stylish.