Collection: Self-Development

Help teens boost their confidence in social situations

It's normal for teens to struggle with social skills and self-confidence. But with the right tools and a little practice, they can make social situations a lot easier to deal with. Whether your teen is just a little shy or suffers from social anxiety, The Social Skills Workbook for Teens is packed with strategies and exercises to help them thrive. They'll discover simple ways to cope with teen anxiety, build confidence, form lasting friendships, and cultivate kindness in everyday interactions with others.

Inside this workbook designed to strengthen social skills for teens, they'll find:

• An intro to social skills--Teens will learn what social skills are, why they're important, and the connection between self-esteem and social anxiety.
• A variety of exercises--This workbook helps teens develop lifelong skills through journal prompts, quizzes, mindfulness exercises, and more.
• Real-life situations--Teens will find out how to apply the techniques they've learned to real scenarios and feelings, whether it's a fight with a friend, anxiety about public speaking, or a difficult interaction with a teacher.

Give young people effective tools for managing their stress and enjoying social situations with this social anxiety workbook for teens.

Emma Norris guides you in setting purposeful plans that are right for you and nurturing a healthier approach to prioritizing, so you can live a more value-based life.

She'll guide you through monotasking, batch working, productivity, and resting--not quitting.

As we face uncertainty from all directions and new obstacles at every turn, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. This state of mind leaves little room to figure out what we want to do and lots of room to doubt ourselves. We can fill up our days, but it doesn't always mean we are being productive. Or we can have lots of plans and not know exactly where to start to achieve what we want.

Having more mindful productivity habits can combat these challenges by helping you keep track of your goals and accomplish them. You can pick the right methods to achieve things without feeling stress, anxiety, or the pressure of external factors while also improving your focus and living a purposeful life. Life doesn't always go as planned, and when that happens, we want to be prepared to be our most productive selves.

Each chapter of this book is tailored to help you achieve mindful productivity. You'll learn to:

• Pursue progress over perfection
• Embrace the chaos
• Set boundaries
• Create realistic objectives
• Practice mindfulness
• And much more

You'll not only nurture a more stress-free lifestyle, but also learn to embrace the unexpected challenges that may come your way. You will learn how to cultivate productivity into your everyday routine, so you are able to achieve anything you set your mind to without the pressure of doing everything.

With Progress Over Perfection, you'll find the courage and the resolve to do what you want to do without having to compromise your plans to fit the pressures of everyday society. It's possible to be your true self and achieve anything you want, even among the chaos.

The Live Well series from Rock Point invites you to create a life you love through multiple acts of self-discovery and reinvention. These encouraging gift books touch on fun yet hardworking self-improvement strategies, whether it's learning to value progress over perfection, taking time to meditate and slow down to literally smell the roses, or finding time to show gratitude and develop a personal mantra. From learning how to obtain more restful sleep and creating a healthy work/life balance to developing personal style and your own happy place, the Live Well series encourages you to live your best life.

Other books in the series include: Find Your Flow; Be Happy; Seeking Slow; Finding Gratitude; Eff This! Meditation; The Joy of Forest Bathing; Find Your Mantra; It Had to be You; Men's Society; Genius Jokes; The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep; Beating Burnout; Ayurveda for Life; Choose Happy; and You Got This.

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 in the grade 5 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.

A collection of inspiring essays with frank and compassionate advice for those dealing with terminal illness or the death of a loved one, from the pioneering author of On Death and Dying and On Grief and Grieving

As a pioneer of the hospice movement, Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross was one of the first scholars to frankly discuss our relationship with death. By introducing the concept of the five stages of dying, her work has informed the lives of countless people as they face the grieving process. This classic collection of four essays--based on Dr. Kubler-Ross's studies of more than twenty thousand people who had near-death experiences--illuminates her sensitive, original, and even controversial findings on death, dying, and the afterlife.

Now with a new foreword from Caroline Myss offering a personal perspective on Dr. Kübler-Ross, On Life After Death presents writings that challenge and encourage us to approach the end of life not with trepidation, but with clear-eyed, compassionate love.

Shortcuts and brain hacks for learning new skills fast!

Three-time Australian Memory Champion Tansel Ali reveals the secret to learning new skills fast--easy-to-learn memory strategies, including mind mapping, visualization techniques, and mnemonic devices.

If you'd like to study for exams efficiently, speak a foreign language, memorize a speech, learn to play a new musical instrument, or improve your general knowledge, memory-training expert Tansel shows you how to do it quickly and effectively with the aid of a few memory tricks.

Packed with practical exercises for honing memory and training your brain to learn well and learn fast, this is the ultimate book for sharpening your mind and expand your knowledge.

NOW A USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!

What are your limits? Care to break them?

To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down.

In Elevate, award-winning CEO and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles--or capacities--that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, find your core principles, and build more rewarding personal and professional relationships. As we look to elevate ourselves, we must do so much more than beating the competition, because our greatest competition is ourselves! We need to find ways to consistently outperform ourselves and our own expectations.

Robert has built a career on accelerating productivity and careers. Elevate is based on his four foundational elements necessary for elevating our performance:

1. Spiritual: Who you are, what you want most and the standards you live by.
2. Intellectual: How you think, learn, plan and execute with discipline
3. Physical: Your health, well-being and physical performance
4. Emotional: Your ability to overcome challenging situations, your emotional mindset and the quality of your relationships.

Elevate explores each of these elements in detail and offers actionable tips you can use to start improving today.

The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you. It's time to break free of your limits.

If you like playing computer games, why not make your own? This book has all you need to build amazing games, including thrilling racing challenges, zany platform games, and fiendish puzzles.

Follow the simple steps to become an expert coder, using the popular programming language Scratch(TM) 3.0. This updated edition is the first to be tablet-computer friendly, making it even easier to get coding.

Improve your coding skills and create your own games, before remixing and customizing them. Jumpy Monkey will show you how to simulate gravity in your games, or give Dog's Dinner a try to learn about collision detection.

Pick up the fundamentals of computer programming in steps that make even the most difficult coding concepts fun and easy to understand. Don't just learn how computer code works--understand why it's done that way.

Then share your games online and challenge friends and family to beat each other's scores. Once you've whizzed through the book, the possibilities are endless!

An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants--showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today

From sweet violets in spring to rosemary in winter, via marigolds, sage, elderberries, and hops, every season has its own bounty of herbs and plants.

Christina Hart-Davies presents a delightful guide to common plants as they appear throughout the year. Drawing on writers, storytellers, and poets from across the centuries, she examines the long history of herbal remedies. She shows how plants have been used for healing and unearths the stories and beliefs that surround them--including simple recipes for use at home.

Fully illustrated with exquisitely detailed watercolours, this is an inspirational guide to exploring our age-old relationship with plants. Readers will discover the hidden secrets of the plants that surround us and, through this, will be able to reconnect with our place in nature. We have relied on plants throughout our history. We still do, and, with luck, we always will.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game's legacy and its tremendous impact on gaming and popular culture.

In 2024, the enormously influential tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons--also known as D&D--celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, editors Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter, and José Zagal have assembled an edited collection that celebrates and reflects on important parts of the game's past, present, and future. Each chapter in Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons explores why the nondigital game is more popular than ever--with sales increasing 33 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite worldwide lockdowns--and offers readers the opportunity to critically reflect on their own experiences, perceptions, and play of D&D.

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons draws on fascinating research and insight from expert scholars in the field, including: Gary Alan Fine, whose 1983 book Shared Fantasy remains a canonical text in game studies; Jon Peterson, celebrated D&D historian; Daniel Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture; and numerous leading and emerging scholars from the growing discipline of game studies, including Amanda Cote, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, and Aaron Trammell. The chapters cover a diverse range of topics--from D&D's adoption in local contexts and classrooms and by queer communities to speculative interpretations of what D&D might look like in one hundred years--that aim to deepen readers' understanding of the game.

Become an instant expert on all things Dungeons & Dragons with this handy pocket-size guide!

Discover everything you ever needed to know about the world of D&D! What's the difference between a rogue and a ranger? What exactly are the Forgotten Realms? Can a wizard cast more spells than a sorcerer? How many tentacles does a Mind Flayer have? From mighty dragons to powerful bards, and magical elves to fearsome monsters, this pocket guide is just the beginning of your adventure.

Packed with facts, stats, and interesting info about the incredible Dungeons & Dragons universe, the Pocket Expert gives young D&D fans a one-stop source of amazing facts to wow their friends with!

(c) and (TM) 2023 Wizards of the Coast

Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are!With the gut as a central axis of vigour, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic science, modern research and nutrition with a special emphasis on food chemistry.In this comprehensive book, she shares the tools that shaped her life and advises on how you can use food to preserve your health and reverse diseases.

So, you've decided to be an Adventurer. Good for you! Just a warning, though. There are some really horrible things lurking out there...

Things with fangs and glowing eyes. Things that think you look delicious. Not to mention the magical mishaps, erratic wizards, and villainous cutthroats you'll encounter.

Whether you're facing deadly fauna, urban perils, or merciless monsters, this guide will answer your burning survival questions. Want to know which is the best tavern in Baldur's Gate, or have a pressing need for tips on how to escape an ogre's lair? With this humorous handbook in your pack, your adventures will end in fame and fortune, rather than in something's stomach.

(c) and (TM) 2023 Wizards of the Coast

Make the most of your garden's bounty with over 100 vegetable-forward recipes from Lemon Stripes' Julia Dzafic

On her popular blog Lemon Stripes, Julia Dzafic shares her life--motherhood, decor, lifestyle, wellness, cooking, and more--with thousands of readers. Julia's husband Anel is an avid gardener, and over the years, Julia has been taking their garden's bounty and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

The result is Garden Grown, an aesthetically pleasing garden-to-table cookbook packed full with over 100 colorful, easy-to-make, family-friendly, veggie-forward recipes and scattered with gardening tips along the way.

Anel provides gardening tips for each type of produce, while Julia shares recipes near and dear to her heart and tips for how to store overflow to last throughout the offseason. With this book, you'll learn how to make the most of your garden's bounty all year round.

We all need help centering ourselves to serve ourselves and our world. In this small, beautiful book, the Kogi--a remote and ancient tribe in the mountains of Colombia--offer their learnings. They pose nine provocative questions to help people around the planet to spiritual peace.

"Just as we are both sitting here and talking, this is how we can live well. All of this you will write in the book."--Mama Jose Gabriel, a spiritual guide of the Kogi tribe, to author Lucas Buchholz

For centuries, the Kogi have lived in seclusion in Colombia's remote Sierra Nevadas, known as "the heart of the world." But in recent years, concerned by the environmental degradation they have experienced in their villages and forests, a few emissaries from the tribe emerged to bring an urgent and loving message to the West--advice on how to live in harmony with the earth.

Buchholz was invited to their home to receive and transcribe this message. A Book of Balance takes us on a journey into a startlingly beautiful landscape and into a sacred space: the traditional fireside circle held regularly by the tribe. In this circle, members consider key questions essential to their community.

In this slim volume of spiritual introspection, they ask us to share in their practice, posing nine questions that focus our minds and hearts on who we are, who we can become.

Throughout we hear the words of the Kogi elders, wisdom that offers revelations, inspiration, and direction for our everyday lives.

A beautiful book to own, to share with friends, and discuss in community.

Secure your child's bright future by giving them the priceless gift of courage and confidence, and watch them take to the skies!

Your darling child has their own fair share of struggles and worries.

Perhaps they came home with a crestfallen face one day, the ghost of a playground rejection hanging heavy on their small shoulders.

Or maybe they've been trying to learn to ride a bike, and it's just not clicking.

Maybe it's their quiet frustration when they can't write or draw as well as the kid next to them.

Their battles might be different from yours, but they're just as real, just as hard.

And oh, how you wish you could shield them from it all.

But let's face it, life doesn't work like that... You can't and won't always be there.

However, there's something incredible you CAN do.

You can give them a gift.

Not of invincibility, but of resilience, of an unshakeable belief in themselves, and of courage to rise above the challenges life throws at them, so they can find the silver lining in the gloomiest of clouds.

And this storybook will help you do just that.

Filled with golden nuggets that will make your child's spirit sparkle, it's a journey where they'll experience victories, bounce back from defeats, and realize they're not alone.

Here's a fraction of what's inside:

• 21 inspiring tales that'll sprinkle pixie dust of confidence into your kiddo's spirit and wrap them in a cocoon of courage
• A kaleidoscope of themes thoughtfully curated to nurture brave and big-hearted little heroes (this book will quickly become your child's favorite!)
• Practical examples connecting a story's message to real-world scenarios - watch your child's eyes light up as they have their own little 'Aha!' moments
• An engaging writing style that wraps complex life lessons in a blanket of fun - perfect for shared or solo reading
• A lively parade of characters and adventures that mirror your child's own world and inspire them to conquer their challenges
• A delightful mix of stories that will turn bedtime into a magical voyage of giggles, cuddles, and whispered dreams (they'll beg you for "just one more!" before bed)
• Heart-to-heart conversations after each story - make bedtime snuggles even sweeter as you unpack and solidify the values discovered together

And much more.

Your child is in their golden age of development, soaking up every experience like a thirsty sponge. This is the perfect opportunity to seed the essential values that will nurture their growing hearts and minds.

And these stories are teeming with generous pinches of hope, hefty dollops of strength, a healthy splash of courage, and heaps and heaps of love - all designed to fuel your child's spirit and feed their dreams.

Find your inner peace and guide others to theirs with this complete collection of Yoga Nidra resources for all experience levels. The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts is an invaluable companion for yoga teachers, practitioners, healing & wellness providers, and anyone wanting to facilitate Yoga Nidra sessions for themselves or others.

With these 30 Yoga Nidra scripts, each accompanied by beautiful visualizations and complementary Restorative yoga poses, mudras, and mantras, you'll have all you need to lead inspired and fulfilling sessions. Each unique script is designed to guide you into a state of deep relaxation so you can emerge empowered to manifest joy in every aspect of your life.

In this book, you'll have all you need to effortlessly guide meaningful Yoga Nidra practices for yourself or others:

- 30 Yoga Nidra meditation scripts filled with beautiful visualizations and inspiring imagery for practitioners and facilitators of all experience levels

- A wide range of practice session themes, lengths, and scientifically proven techniques

- Easy-to-follow script format for effortless delivery and the flexibility to adapt the scripts to meet your needs

- An introduction to Yoga Nidra and the use of Sankalpa, our heartfelt intention, for manifestation and joy

- Yoga Nidra benefits

- Yoga Nidra posture and prop options for maximum comfort

- How to prepare for the meditative journey of Yoga Nidra

- How to facilitate Yoga Nidra sessions for yourself or others

- Journal prompts for self-inquiry and self-discovery along with encouragements to support your evolving practice

- Complementary Restorative yoga poses, mudras, mantras, and creative activities to easily expand your Yoga Nidra sessions

- Instructions for 9 Restorative yoga poses, including step-by-step guidance and illustrations to support a deeper meditative experience

Heartful and easy to use, these scripts invite you on a meditative journey into yourself for:

Self-Love Embodying Joy Deep Relaxation & Rest Unlocking Intuition Affirming Your Heart's Intention Gratitude Forgiveness Healing Restoring Mental Clarity Manifestation Cleansing Chakra Energy Rejuvenation Sleeping Well Inner Peace Harmonizing with the Seasons and more...