Collection: Self-Development

The 12 Step Program is based on old spiritual ideas and good medical treatment. People say it's great because it really helps.

Gamblers Anonymous wants to make it clear that they're not trying to get more people to join. They want to point out that for some folks, gambling can be a serious problem called "compulsive gambling." Gamblers Anonymous says there's a way to beat this problem, and it's through their program.

Lots of people in Gamblers Anonymous used to have the same issue but got better by quitting gambling and living a regular life. These people are here to support anyone who comes to Gamblers Anonymous for help.

A portable puzzle book with a built-in spinner is a brand-new way to enjoy Highlights activities and games whenever you are traveling!

Designed for one or multiple players, kids can play more than 20 games--from Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles to fill-in story challenges to silly brain-teaser games--with this innovative puzzle book that includes a built-in spinner. Each game challenges players to think creatively and fosters fun competition. It's perfect to take along on airplane or car trips, as a rainy-day activity, and makes a spectacular gift for any occasion.

For kids ages 6 to 10, this nature activity guide is the perfect companion for every child's next outdoor adventure, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees and Can You Hear the Trees Talking?.

An excellent resource for parents, teachers, and curriculums ranging from outdoor education to homeschool and forest school.

Whether you are in the forest, in your own backyard, or in the city, there are so many exciting ways to engage with nature--and forester Peter Wohlleben has the best ideas for doing so. With Be A Nature Explorer!, kids will learn how to press flowers, harvest algae, skip stones, observe spiders, and even how to build their own tiny sailboat.

This ultimate kids' nature book features:

• 52 short, fun, and hands-on activities to help kids explore and discover the outdoors--one for each week of the year.
• Portable format: This lightweight paperback is designed to easily throw in a backpack and refer to on adventures.
• STEM learning and outdoor skill development: Kids will learn how to decode nature's messages, identify plants and animal tracks, record and preserve their finds, and more.

Packed with activities that will fill kids with wonder and confidence in the outdoors, readers will be dipping in and out of Be A Nature Explorer! all year round.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Paint Your Way Around the World in 24 Beginner-Friendly Landscapes

Indulge your wanderlust and create breathtaking watercolor landscapes with ease under Hannah Pickerill's expert instruction. Learn all the techniques needed to capture your favorite landscapes on Earth (and beyond) with clear instructions, step-by-step illustrations and sample swatches to guide your every stroke. Travel through varied climates and compositions as you paint everything from scorching Moroccan Sand Dunes to Snow in the Sierras, the mysteries of a Misty Forest to the wide-open Oregon Plains. With Hannah's guidance, you'll find yourself mastering color gradients, atmospheric perspective and realistic highlights and shadows in paintings like:

The Secrets of Stonehenge
Violet Nafplio Sunset
Autumn Reflections
Great Smoky Mountains
Yellowstone Bison
Motion of the Ocean
El Capitan
Colorful Galaxy

Whether you are a beginner just picking up your first brush or a painting enthusiast, this book brims with vibrant inspiration for navigating the wonderous world of watercolor.

Give Your College Graduate the Gift of Lifelong Success

Make The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Graduates the perfect college graduation gift.

Equip your college graduate with the essential life skills for success. Based on Stephen Covey's bestselling classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (over 40 million sold), this special edition book empowers graduates with timeless wisdom, positive affirmations, and thought-provoking questions to cultivate highly effective habits, maintain focus, and stay motivated. From conquering challenges to embracing growth, this book provides the guidance needed to navigate the post-graduation journey with confidence and build a fulfilling life.

The perfect graduation gift idea that will leave a lasting impact. Celebrate your graduate's milestone achievement with a gift that inspires and empowers. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Graduates offers practical advice, inspiring quotes, and daily motivation for teenagers entering adulthood. Help them build a growth mindset, challenge their beliefs, and develop the habits necessary for success in various aspects of life. Whether it's finding their career path, building strong relationships, or staying resilient during setbacks, this book provides the tools to thrive.

Inside, you'll find:

• Practical guidance to help college graduates develop highly effective habits
• Thought-provoking questions to challenge and shape their beliefs
• Daily inspiration with powerful quotes and affirmations for motivation and positivity
• A proven framework based on Stephen Covey's international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

If you enjoyed books like The Graduates Handbook, Need to Know for Graduates, Navigating College With the 7 Habits, or The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make, you'll love The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Graduates.

Create the Cosplay Dress of Your Dreams

Design and sew a ballgown fit for cosplay royalty! A crucial part of any cosplayer's wardrobe, the right ballgown can transform you into an elegant princess or a dramatic sorcerer. But it takes more than just magic to create jaw-dropping gowns and ball-worthy dresses. Follow along with world champion cosplayers Cowbutt Crunchies as they walk sewists of all skill levels through building a ballgown with all the flourishes. This book contains everything you need to know about silhouette, planning, patterning, construction, corsets, hoop skirts, and trims. Craft your own magical fairytale masterpiece from start to finish!

• Curtsy with confidence! Sew elaborate cosplay ballgowns from scratch
• Take your builds to the next level with tips from award-winning cosplayers Regan and Kelley
• This complete guide helps new and experienced sewists build stunning showpiece gowns

An inspiring book for young adult readers that Kirkus Reviews says offers "many inspiring, resilient role models along with encouraging advice to take away."

A fascinating group of women from all walks of life share their inspirations, advice, and what they wish they'd known when they were younger.

If you could go back and share words of wisdom with your younger self, what would you want to say? Thirty-five barrier-breaking women answer that question in the empowering new young adult anthology Dear Younger Me: What 35 Trailblazing Women Wish They'd Known as Girls. Emmy Award-winning journalist Elisa Boxer delivers in-depth profiles of these inspirational women, detailing their struggles and achievements and featuring a personal message from each woman written just for this book. The women include activists, entrepreneurs, a Holocaust survivor, WWII code breaker, author, educator, musician, athlete, politicians, scientists, and more.

Featuring well-known trailblazers such as Nancy Pelosi, Gabby Giffords, and Sheryl Sandberg alongside lesser-known yet equally important women from all walks of life, Dear Younger Me will inspire readers of all ages to tap into their courage, find their voice, embrace failure as an opportunity to grow, stand up for what they believe in, and be the best version of themselves.

Bring comic adventures to life! This engaging 96-page activity book offers plenty of kid-favorite Highlights puzzles plus prompts for kids to create their very own comics. Creative kids ages 6 and up will enjoy doodling, solving action-packed puzzles, completing comic stories and placing over 200 included stickers.

The perfect activity book for kids to practice cartooning and storytelling, Make Your Own Comic Adventures is packed with over 65 comic-themed activities like superhero word searches, monster riddles, Hidden Pictures cartoons and more. Guaranteed to delight, this unique puzzle book is organized into kid-friendly themes like monsters, superheroes, space, robots and animals. Kids can doodle what happens next in comic stories, use over 200 stickers to complete exciting adventures and create their very own comics on the blank panels provided.

A perfect boredom-buster, this book combines the joy of reading comics with brain-boosting activities and puzzles. Kids will love the opportunity to get creative and express themselves on every page.

In this 80th volume of delightful cross stitch publications, Paula Vaughan has outdone herself to bring you a selection of 9 breathtaking floral pillows. Zinnias, magnolias, roses, and more will become the most elegant needlework treasures in your home.

Learn the Basics of Animal Tracks!

Kids are curious about the natural world, and few discoveries stir their curiosity more than animal tracks. It's a thrill to come upon mysterious tracks and learn what critter made them. The Animal Tracks Activity Book by takes those feelings of wonder and delight to the next level. It's the perfect introduction to some of the country's most common and interesting mammals, highlighting their tracks with coloring pages and activities.

Features:

• Coloring pages
• Mazes
• Dot-to-dots
• Word finds

The legendary Dolly Parton shares her heartfelt hopes and dreams for everyone.

Expanding on the popular commencement speech Dolly Parton gave at the University of Tennessee, Dream More is a deeper and richer exploration of the personal philosophy she has forged over the course of her astonishing career as a singer, songwriter, performer, and philanthropist.

Dolly elaborates on the four great hopes she wants us all to embrace: Dream more, Learn more, Care more, and Be more. She offers examples from her own life, from her childhood in the hills of eastern Tennessee to her life as the iconic performer she is today.

From one of the legends of our time, Dream More is an honest, funny, and uplifting anthem for all who want to take charge of their lives and forge a future on their own terms.

This first-of-its-kind book of 111 oracle card spreads is separated into common topics--general, love, career, spiritual, and astrology--and offers readers creative, magical ways to work with their intuition and their favorite oracle deck to find guidance and inner wisdom.

Practical, insightful, and magic-infused spreads for oracle card deck readers at any point in their journey with divination: from seasoned pros to newbie readers learning to read using their first deck.

The book is not connected to a particular deck, but like books of tarot spreads, it is something any oracle reader can use: from the seeker who has just purchased their first deck to someone who has a collection of decks piled up to their ceiling.

Some examples include: the Attraction Spread, which helps the reader sort through what energies they are attracting both consciously and subconsciously; the Spirit Guide Spread, which calls in messages from the reader's guides; and the Mercury Retrograde Spread, which encourages the reader to reflect on the challenges and opportunities in this unsettled period.

Take your gardening to the next level...with flowers! After learning how to manage their houseplants and grow their own food, this highly stylized, fully illustrated, modern guidebook teaches reluctant green thumbs to brighten up their gardens with flowers.

Did you know that begonias can be dug up in the fall, stored indoors in the winter, and be ready to be planted and bloom again in the spring? That daylilies need to be divided every three to four years to produce more blooms? Or that marigolds can be both a beautiful and helpful addition to a vegetable garden as a natural deterrent to common garden pests?

Whether you're a first-time gardener or an experienced green thumb looking to learn more about flowers, this book is your must-have guide! How to Grow Flowers in Small Spaces features 40 beautiful flowers (from smaller pincushion flowers to towering lilacs) that can all be grown in containers or small spaces. Along with detailed care instructions and beautiful illustrations of each plant, you'll also find everything you need to know for your floral garden to flourish, including:
-How to establish a garden bed (no matter the size!)
-How to determine which flowers are best grown from seeds or from transplants
-How to water your flowers for optimal growth (whether they're in the ground or in a container)
-How to turn those blooms into a beautiful home-grown bouquet
-And much more!

No more trips to the florist--with How to Grow Flowers in Small Spaces, your home and garden will be bursting with color to keep you healthier and happier than ever. From peonies and marigolds to snapdragons and foxgloves, grab your gloves and get to gardening!

The Seven Hermetic Principles is a book written by Three Initiates that explores the teachings of the ancient Egyptian philosopher Hermes Trismegistus, also known as the ""father of alchemy."" The book explains the seven principles of Hermetic philosophy, which are believed to govern the universe and all of existence. These principles include mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, cause and effect, and gender. The book delves into each of these principles in detail, providing examples and explanations of how they operate in the natural world and in human experience. The Seven Hermetic Principles is considered a classic text in the field of esoteric philosophy and has influenced many modern spiritual and metaphysical movements.THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, by Three Initiates . To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766100804.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress--one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.

You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; stress causes insomnia; stress is bad for you! But what if changing how you think about stress could make you happier, healthier, and better able to reach your goals? Combining exciting new research on resilience and mindset, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, proves that undergoing stress is not bad for you; it is undergoing stress while believing that stress is bad for you that makes it harmful. In fact, stress has many benefits, from giving us greater focus and energy, to strengthening our personal relationships.

McGonigal shows readers how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain's natural ability to learn from challenging experiences. Both practical and life-changing, The Upside of Stress is not a guide to getting rid of stress, but a toolkit for getting better at it--by understanding, accepting, and leveraging it to your advantage.

Share in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming, illustrated memoir for young middle grade readers.

Growing up in Inner Mongolia, Jin Wang was rambunctious and boisterous and did not always listen to her Ma. Jin and her family were poor, but like kids everywhere, she still found a way to have fun and get into lots of mischief climbing trees, digging for mushrooms, and even looking for wolves.

Paired with delightful, kid-friendly illustrations, this early middle grade memoir invites readers to join Jin and her family in the outskirts of Inner Mongolia to remind us that though we all have different customs and traditions, we are more alike than not, and that mischief lives within all of us.