Collection: Adult

Explore the wild world of dinosaurs with this delightful book of more than 500 stickers from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Ignotofsky.

Dinosaurs! Stickerology is a fun and colorful exploration of all things dino. With artwork from Rachel Ignotofsky's book Dinosaurs, the stickers inside take you on a journey through the incredible plants and winged insects of the Paleozoic era, the gigantic dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era, and the mammals that emerged in the Cenozoic Era. The 40 sheets of stickers (20 designs that repeat) offer hundreds of possibilities for personalizing your belongings. And the back sides of the sticker sheets include facts and history about the dinosaurs featured in the stickers so you can learn more about these fascinating creatures while enjoying the colorful artwork.

From the ferocious T-Rex to the placid Plateosaurus and everything in between, you can bring color to your journal, water bottle, laptop, and more with the amazing stickers from Dinosaurs! Stickerology.

For fans of Joan Didion and anyone fascinated by true crime, a daughter's raw and unflinching account of California's infamous murder trial of her mother, Lucille Miller--and the decades of emotional wreckage it left in its wake.

On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller's life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only fourteen years old, Debra becomes a ward of the court, grappling with the unfathomable trauma of watching her mother's trial and conviction--a devastation that is only amplified when her family's tragedy is splashed across headlines nationwide and featured in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

Desperate to escape the notoriety of her family and utterly ill equipped to face the world, Debra spends her young adulthood sinking into mental illness, toxic relationships, and substance abuse. Meanwhile, her unrepentant mother, Lucille, uses Debra to supply contraband in prison. When Lucille is released, twentysomething Debra, seeking the love and support she so desperately desires, moves in with her--only to find herself constantly manipulated and dragged into her mother's illegal activities. Torn between love and survival, Debra spends years trying to escape her mother's vortex even as she battles her own demons. Ultimately, it's only when Lucille passes away that Debra finally frees herself from her grip--and realizes she needs to change her life.

In this raw and poignant memoir, Debra Miller bares the scars of an adolescence and adulthood shaped by the impact of a destructive mother and demonstrates that healing is always possible--even in the face of a past that just won't let go.

2014 Reprint of 1926 Printing. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "On Being Ill" is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's "The New Criterion" in January 1926. The essay sought to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes, "Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light...it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature. Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no; ... literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear." Woolf explores the taboos associated with illness, and she discusses how illness transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us.

Hungry bridge trolls, limousine werewolves, and other absurd characters populate these delightfully irreverent gag cartoons from the golden days of webcomics.

Beginning at the dawn of the new millennium, the animator Brad Neely materialized as one of the funnier voices on the internet. Youtube hits like the foul-mouthed George Washington, his demented audiobook retelling of Harry Potter in Wizard People, Dear Readers, and the alarmingly prescient Adult Swim TV show China, IL (starring the voices of both Greta Gerwig and Hulk Hogan) all reveal how Neely captured a kind of freewheeling online spirit that is fading fast.

During this ascent, Neely was also quietly mastering another form, the webcomic, where he spliced together historical figures, fairy tales, wildlife, and absurd gag setups into truly laugh-out-loud cartoons: hungry bridge trolls ready to devour local "chappies"; Caesar's real killer (Jeffrey); the Boo-Boo Maker; limousine werewolves; superheroes trying and failing to rescue Christ; and more eye-blasting thrills.

Gathered here for the first time along with Neely's reflections about his work, Creased Comics is a portal into a truly individual creative mind, and a snapshot of some of the best days for webcomics.

A ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in the age of AI

"This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I've seen."--Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity

You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make.

Choose well, and you can have a more rewarding life, discover new interests, and help solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Choose poorly, and you could waste decades.

So what should you do? Most modern advice is based on no research, instead offering misleading platitudes like "follow your passion." It's surprisingly out-of-date, focusing on traditional paths rather than those most likely to thrive in an age of AI. If you want to help others, you're often simply told to choose a career in medicine or education, despite the existence of many other paths where you can also save lives. In fact, some careers have hundreds of times more impact than others, but most of us have no idea which ones.

Benjamin Todd is the founder of 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit that has spent more than ten years researching how to have a meaningful and impactful career that still pays the bills. In this book, he introduces a tried-and-tested toolkit that has already helped thousands of people change their career paths. It covers:

• What really makes for a dream job, and why finding it probably doesn't involve "following your passion"
• How to identify which global problems are most pressing, and why they might involve unregulated AI as much as climate change
• Which roles are likely to be automated, and how to ensure yours isn't among them

It's also full of practical tips and tools. You'll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that's rewarding and fulfills your potential to make a difference.

Teach students to use AI tools in a thoughtful, critical, and ethical way during reading and writing instruction.

The relationship between AI and literacy education isn't simple. Every tool that makes work more efficient also requires careful consideration. In this measured look at the powerful capabilities of artificial intelligence, literacy experts Mary Ehrenworth and Philip Seyfried take K-12 teachers on a tour of what's possible when AI tools are seamlessly integrated into literacy teaching and learning.

Each chapter examines AI's potential to expand literacy instruction, deepen student understanding, and make the teacher's role more interesting and satisfying. You'll find both theoretical approaches and practical examples to help you - Understand and feel at ease with current AI tools. - Create AI-enhanced spaces in your classroom. - Harness AI as a writing coach. - Develop students' reading comprehension with digital texts and tools. - Extend multilingual competencies using AI-powered translation tools. - Build and use engaging text sets. - Teach students to think critically about and with AI.

Using AI tools to improve reading and writing instruction can feel overwhelming, but it is a critical skill for today's literacy teachers. AI-Enhanced Literacy illuminates a strategic and successful path toward wise and seamless AI use--your own and your students'.

When one FPS gamer clumsily falls off the map of his MMORPG, he finds himself transported to a totally different world! Can he use his shooter skills in a world of magic and fantasy? Light novels also from Seven Seas!

Schwarz, a die-hard FPS gamer, was in the middle of a Virtual Reality Multiple Battlefield match when one wrong step sent him tumbling off the map. He expected "Game Over" -- instead, he woke up in a world of swords and sorcery. With no way home and no magic to his name, Schwarz is quickly branded a "dud" by the locals... until his modern rifle proves more than a match for spellcraft. But in a land where magic reigns supreme, what happens when the man with the gun runs out of ammo?

Identify West Virginia birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.

Make birdwatching in West Virginia even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guides, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. The Birds of West Virginia Field Guide features 124 species of West Virginia birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you'll see them in nature, and a "compare" feature helps you to decide between look-alikes.

This second edition includes 8 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab the Birds of West Virginia Field Guide for your next birding adventure--to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

Inside you'll find:

• 124 species: Only West Virginia birds!


• Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section


• Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts


• Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images

An evocative work of historical fiction, Vivian's Decision is an all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one's own.

Vivian Jacobson is distraught to be pregnant again. Already drowning in the demands of her four young children, she can't imagine adding a fifth to her brood. Her husband, Mel, is a devoted partner, but he works long days in his family's Maxwell Street tavern--leaving Vivian isolated and overwhelmed in their suburban Chicago home.

When Vivian pleads with Mel to let her ask her trusted obstetrician for an abortion, Mel reluctantly agrees. Her doctor won't risk his license, but refers her to someone who will. Once she finds herself in the sleazy abortionist's disgusting makeshift flat, she can't go through with the procedure. As she flees, the man warns her that the clock is ticking: If she wants this abortion, she must return within one week.

As Vivian struggles with what to do, she is buffeted by a series of revelations, including her Jewish immigrant mother's parallel secret. Ultimately, she must find the courage to make the decision that is best for her family--and her own fulfillment.

SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET--AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! AT LAST--THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK!

From the honestly pretty impressive mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and breakout artist Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) comes the SHOCKINGLY TRUE, TERRIFYINGLY HILARIOUS, AND ONLY MODESTLY EXAGGERATED tale of how one stand-up comedian forged a secret online identity as America's first true black metal icon . . . and accidentally started an international incident that almost wiped Gary, Indiana, off the map!

Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his first band set out to rock their high school auditorium in a fury of heavy metal hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a new life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scene--a career where getting laughed at on stage is the entire point and not just a tragic consequence. But when Dave's metal ambitions are reawakened by the über self-serious "satanic" genre of Norwegian black metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a band to match that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten rock 'n' roll fantasy. But when Dave's internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint--a metal band "so extreme that you must remove all sharp objects from the immediate area" when their music is played--spreads all the way to Europe, his story will spiral dangerously out of control as Norway's most extreme black metal butchers come to reap their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave holds dear in the crosshairs (of their axes, which, truth be told, don't actually have crosshairs, but hey, it's a metaphor).

Collects Dark Regards #1-4.

Emotional Support Animals is a collection of comics and worksheets featuring adorable and irresistible emotional support animals offering words of compassion and wisdom, delivering smiles along with experience, strength, and hope.

What if your therapist was a cardigan-wearing walrus sipping a cup of coffee? Emotional Support Animals answers this question in a series of sweet comics and engaging worksheets. Nicole Georges presents small doses of therapy in the form of humorous illustrations about serious subjects. Picture a pug assuring you that it's not cruel to say no or hold a boundary, or a crocodile reminding you that when you take care of yourself, you have more capacity to give. Inspired by Nicole's experiences with grief and healing, her Anonymous Fuzzball comics touch on themes of self-worth, boundaries, and balance. Using quirky animals as her subjects, she proves that hard truths are easier to digest in an adorable package.

Affirmations include:

• "Just because someone's having a big reaction doesn't mean I did anything wrong."
• "You're not going to mess up something that's meant for you."
• "As I love myself more, I demand less of others."
• "What people say is just information. You don't have to take it personally."
• "I don't need to achieve anything to be lovable."

An empowering, guided journey to discover and charge up your most precious inner resource, your energy, by introducing the new concept of Light Work--from Keila Shaheen, the international bestselling author who helped introduce shadow work to a new generation.

Your energy is your power source. This book will show you how to claim it, protect it, and radiate it.

Preparing for an interview that could change everything? Light work helps your confidence feel natural, not forced.

Craving a relationship that honors your needs? Light work helps you stay grounded in your worth and unshakable in love.

Ready to make an impact in a world that needs it? Light work helps you radiate the clarity and optimism that inspires others to act.

Light Work begins with a choice: to live a lighter, more radiant life and, in doing so, become a more magnetic human. With insight and clarity, this journal invites you to meet yourself fully and, from that place, live more honestly and consciously. Rooted in Depth Psychology, profound spirituality, and Carl Jung's concept of individuation, this journal offers tools to help you recognize when you're acting from your conditioned self--whether that's your ego, your persona, or your shadow--and begin making daily choices that reflect and inspire your True Self.

Rather than waiting to feel good, this journal invites you to step into your power now. The result is a life lit from within--one where you feel emotionally grounded, spiritually empowered, and fully alive.

For these two typecast actors, love can't always be black or white.

Shin is an actor whose awkward personality has gotten him typecast as the villain, whereas his secret lover Shige garners all the prime princely roles. As their careers advance, can these two endure all eyes being on them not just in public but in private too?

After discovering the secret his live-in boyfriend Shige has been keeping from him, Shin decides he needs some space so he can think things through on his own. But space alone doesn't help to clear his mind, so he talks things over with Hanasaki, who convinces him to let go of his doubts and return home. Shin apologizes to Shige for leaving and tells him that no matter what it may cost him, he'll never let Shige go. Realizing they can't deal with the gravity of their situation on their own anymore, the two head off to Shin's agency for support!

One hot guy, one funny-looking guy, one hilarious couple!

Awkward Yoshida's life got flipped upside down when the hottest guy in school started going out with him. Things should be easier for Yoshida now that his whole class knows about his relationship, but it's never that simple with Sato as a boyfriend.

It seems like high school life is finally going well for our wacky couple, until one day Sato suddenly vanishes. A confused Yoshida decides to go on a search but quickly gets more than he bargained for...