Collection: Self-Development

Succeed in business with practical career strategies and communication skills from the world's greatest leaders in 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication.

Effective business communication is a skill that anyone can develop. From interview strategies to high-stakes negotiation tactics, 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication offers practical strategies to improve communication skills and help you succeed in your career.

Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world's most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios. With step-by-step guidance and simple exercises, you'll learn why, how, and when to use fundamental communication skills to successfully navigate any situation.

Learn how to listen from a Microsoft CEO, or gain the confidence to network your way into any room with advice from a renowned venture capitalist--10 Skills for Effective Business Communication teaches you these skills and more, with:

• 10 essential communication skills that empower you to masterfully handle pivotal moments in your career
• Actionable exercises to practice and improve your communication skills right away
• Clear explanations of the social psychology behind communication skills
• Inspirational success stories that highlight communication skills from some of the world's greatest business leaders including Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Tony Robbins, and more

Advance your career and set yourself up for success with effective communications skills from 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication.

The Perfectionism Workbook offers actionable exercises to help you overcome the barriers created by perfectionism and develop skills for living a healthier, more gratifying life.

The desire to continuously improve can be a positive trait that fuels success. However, those same aspirations can also turn into perfectionism, which causes us to put unrealistic pressure on ourselves and set impossible standards that negatively influence how we think and act.

In his work as a clinical therapist, Taylor Newendorp has successfully used cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help countless patients who live with the immense pressure of perfectionism and other related issues such as OCD, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, or depression. In The Perfectionism Workbook, Taylor delivers practical, effective exercises to help you change the way you view yourself, set healthy goals, and find contentment in your daily life.

The Perfectionism Workbook is a hands-on guide especially designed to identify and resolve the root causes of perfectionism. It these pages you will find:

• A perfectionism overview that will help you understand the illusion of perfectionism, why it doesn't work, and what you can do to treat your perfectionism.
• The 5 tendencies of toxic perfectionism: Need for approval and pleasing others; Procrastination, inaction, and paralysis; Fear of making mistakes; Highly self-critical; Judgment of self and others.
• Practical strategies based on the principles of CBT, mindfulness, and acceptance that will help you quiet your critical inner voice, conquer procrastination, and develop true self-worth.
• Real-world examples of perfectionism that will provide meaningful opportunity for insight and reflection into your own perfectionism.

Perfectionism can have serious consequences, both mentally and physically. But there is a solution--and it can be found in the pages The Perfectionism Workbook.

"Spiritually, We is a must-read for anyone who feels lonely and disconnected."
--Dr. Nicole LePera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work

"We need each other," says internationally bestselling author Sah D'Simone. That's the unapologetically loving message at the heart of Spiritually, We, a moving manifesto for an increasingly "me, me, me" moment.

In this bold call to action, Sah maps how contemporary spirituality has become an increasingly self-centered project, only exacerbating the loneliness that plagues modern life. Brilliantly illuminating not only why connection is a fundamental piece of a deep spiritual practice, but how to connect with others authentically, Spiritually, We is the essential field guide to deepening friendships, building community, and ultimately healing not only yourself but the whole damn world.

Drawing on the insights and tools he has developed as both teacher and student--as well as the expertise of researchers, journalists, and healers across diverse fields--Sah holds nothing back as he invites us to release an "us vs them" mindset, cultivate radical compassion, and creatively transform our struggles into opportunities for awakening.

Full of Sah's trademark candor and sass, Spiritually, We is the wake-up call for our times, a deeply felt and necessary reminder that you aren't alone, that you aren't meant to be alone, and that it is side by side with others where true wisdom flourishes.

Encourage kids to explore their emotions through engaging activities for ages 4 to 8

When children can identify their feelings, they're better able to work through them and express them in a positive way. Help kids build essential social and emotional skills with this constructive approach to feelings books for children. It's filled with activities that teach kids to understand their feelings and practice healthy methods for managing them. Kids will discover what happens to their minds and bodies when they experience emotions like happiness, anger, and embarrassment-and how to cope with big feelings when they arise.

This standout among feelings books for children includes:

• A balanced approach-Investigating all of their feelings without judgment will show children how to handle a wide spectrum of emotions.
• Real-life situations-Realistic examples encourage kids to think about how they'd feel and react in different scenarios, helping them develop empathy and manage their emotions in new situations.
• A wide variety of activities-This fun choice in feelings books for children keeps kids engaged with coloring, drawing, writing, solving puzzles, and more.

Give kids the tools to deal with their emotions in a healthy way with this colorfully illustrated entry into feelings books for children.

Organized into five levels of difficulty, Brain Games(R) Sudoku Puzzles is perfect for both seasoned puzzlers and new enthusiasts alike.

• Find 162 engaging puzzles in this classic collection that range from easy to expert.
• If you get stuck or need a hint, no need to worry: an answer key is found in the back of the book.
• 192 pages, spiral bound.

Sudoku puzzles are not only fun and addictive, they also work to maintain good mental fitness, building logic and boosting problem solving skills!

Just add water! This fun (and mess free!) paint with water activity book for kids features super cute ocean creatures and scenes. All kids need is a little water and the included brush to bring out the colors. Just simply brush over the black dots or lines in each design and watch the colors appear. Kids will be amazed to see a black and white scene filled with vibrant colors that are secretly hidden in the black line art. The paper is thick and perforated for easy removal and display! 12 watercolor for kids designs include a giant whale and shark, starfish and crabs, submarines and seagulls.

Give young children a path to academic success with Top Student!

Recipient of the 2020 Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids, the Top Student series empowers children to be active learners, problem solvers and creative thinkers.

Each full-color Top Student workbook provides hundreds of engaging full-color activities that practice the most important skills at each grade level and offers opportunities for critical thinking and creativity.

Core subject areas and topics for the grade 4 edition include:

• Grammar and punctuation
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Reading
• Writing
• Math
• Computer science
• Science
• STEM
• Social studies
• Mindful moments
• Social and emotional learning

These robust workbooks also include:

• Informational posters
• Mindful moments meditations and activities with downloadable audio*
• Information and activities about a variety of countries, cultures, and global communities

*Mindful moments with audio help children incorporate reflection and meditation into their academic life.

Includes answer key.

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.

Learn how to process your own grief--as well as family, community, and global grief--with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world.

In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives. But in order to heal, we must make space for grief and prioritize our wholeness, our humanity, and our inherent divinity.

In Finding Refuge, social justice activist, social worker, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers those who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate the tools they need to be present with their grief while also remaining openhearted. Through powerful personal narrative and meditation and journaling practices at the end of each chapter that explore being present with your heart, Michelle empowers us to see that each of us has a role to play in building enough momentum to take intentional action and shift what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Finding Refuge is an invitation to pick up the shattered parts of yourself and remember your strength, wholeness, and sacredness through this practice of presence and attending to your grief.

Do you dream of running your own business? Are you bursting with creativity? Learn how to test your ideas, stand out from the competition, become a great manager and give back to the world through the activities in this book.

The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path.

Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Presenting the unique perspective of respected analyst and author James Hollis, Ph.D., What Matters Most helps readers learn to appreciate (even be amazed by) events unfolding within, even as the external world creates constant struggles.

Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage readers to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés. Instead, Hollis guides readers in uncovering the heart of the matter, discovering what it means to truly live life to its fullest, most meaningful state--as fully engaged citizens of the world.

When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, Danny now offers readers a program for reconnecting to their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs us in the art of allowing ourselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfection and opening our eyes to the beauty around us. The result is the permission to express ourselves fully and take part in the creative process without fear. Artist or not, readers of all stripes will find inspiration in this unique and beautiful book.

Discovering that your teen "cuts" is every parent's nightmare. Your most urgent question is: "How can I make it stop?" Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for information and practical guidance about the growing problem of teen self-injury. Dr. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), the most effective treatment approach for cutting. Vivid stories illustrate how out-of-control emotions lead some teens to hurt themselves, how DBT can help, and what other approaches can be beneficial. You'll learn practical strategies for talking to teens about self-injury without making it worse, teaching them skills to cope with extreme emotions in a healthier way, finding the right therapist, and helping reduce stress for your whole family. Incorporating the latest research, the second edition offers a deeper understanding of the causes of self-injury and includes new DBT skills.

In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip and Nancy Garrido, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment. In A Stolen Life Jaycee told the story of her life from her abduction in 1991 through her reappearance in 2009. Freedom: My Book of Firsts is about everything that happened next. "How do you rebuild a life?" Jaycee asks. In these pages, she describes the life she never thought she would live to see: from her first sight of her mother to her first time meeting her grownup sister, her first trip to the dentist to her daughters' first day of school, her first taste of champagne to her first hangover, her first time behind the wheel to her first speeding ticket, and her first dance at a friend's wedding to her first thoughts about the possibility of a future relationship. This raw and inspiring book will remind you that there is, as Jaycee writes, "life after something tragic happens...Somehow, I still believe that we each hold the key to our own happiness and you have to grab it where you can in whatever form it might take." Freedom is an awe-inspiring memoir about the power we all hold within ourselves.

Breaking the Surface

Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? Surface Treatment Workshop has the answer! The authors of Image Transfer Workshop are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that will add depth and texture to your artwork. These techniques are the perfect jump-off point for creating art you will love to look at, and, in some cases, touch!

In this comprehensive guide, youÃ+ll find:

- 45 techniques. Exciting new applications such as the use of WonderUnder, pulled paper and plaster-dipped gauze will provide you with fresh ideas--many previously unpublished.
- Multiple variations. Each technique features swatches and descriptions to take the techniques in multiple directions with multiple mixed-media products.
- Inspirational style. Fully stepped-out projects from two artists will show you how to combine the techniques into finished works of art that can go in any artistic style.

Take Surface Treatment Workshop with you on your artistic journey for beautiful beginnings.

Edades y prioridades es una referencia de procesos dinámicos de pensamiento, capacidad, movimiento, afecto y relación social por los que atraviesan los niños desde el nacimiento hasta los cinco años de edad. Edades y prioridades se diferencia de otros libros de desarrollo infantil porque que hace énfasis en expectativas realistas, las mismas que proveen un marco de referencia a cada etapa para el establecimiento de límites y el acompañamiento sensible por parte de los adultos en los aspectos relacionados con el desarrollo social, emocional, cognitivo, motor y de lenguaje de los niños. El lector se sentirá identificado y aliviado al saber cuándo y cuánto exigir, qué esperar, qué hacer y cuándo no hacer nada en cada fase del desarrollo infantil los cinco primeros años.

Bestselling sewing author Gretchen Hirsch returns to her roots with a fresh look at fashion classics--how they were made then, and how modern day sewists can re-create them now--in Gertie's Charmed Sewing Studio.

Gretchen Hirsch, aka "Gertie," returns to her roots with a dive into beloved fashion classics, including the mermaid gown, the structured sheath (think Elizabeth Taylor), the Rose Marie Reid swimsuit, and more--plus a little fashion history, to inspire modern-day style mavens. Sewists, thrift shoppers, and fashion collectors will love making the book's three downloadable patterns, and learning how to reproduce favorite vintage looks that fit modern figures.
The first half of the book is a journey through pattern and couture sewing techniques and iconic designs. Gretchen combines a bounty of sketches, historic images, process photos, and clear instructions to create an irresistible sewing guide and lookbook for the vintage fashion enthusiast.
In the second half, Gretchen deconstructs three intricate garments, the Madeleine dress, the Camille sheath, and the Lillian princess coat: Focusing on just three designs offers a sewing and design foundation in a full range of sizes--from 2-20 and 18 to 34, with separate A-H cup sizes. This wide range is not easy to find in other sewing books, and more important than ever for body inclusivity. Each garment (two dresses and a jacket) is shown with detailed instructions and links to download and print full-size patterns.

Featured garments:
The Structured Tropical Dress
The Rita Blouse
The Night and Day Dress
The Lilli Ann-Style Princess Coat
The Rose Dressing Gown
The Tropical Mermaid Gown
The Marilyn Jeans
The Rose Marie Reid Swimsuit
The Cummerbund Bubble Dress
Plus full-size patterns (to download and print) for:
The Madeleine Dress, the Camille Sheath Dress, and the Lillian Jacket

From Gretchen Hirsch:
Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing
Gertie Sews Vintage Casual
Gertie's New Fashion Sketchbook
Gertie's Ultimate Dress Book
Gertie's Charmed Sewing Studio