Collection: Self-Development

Explore the sand dunes of Mars; Saturn's giant moon, Titan; the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, and other distant worlds in this thrilling coloring book, which highlights major milestones in space exploration.
Forty-four carefully researched, accurately drawn illustrations re-create a variety of exciting scenes that chronicle human attempts to explore space -- from the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 to the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986.
Other fully captioned drawings include the start of the "Space Race" with the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 (1957); the U. S. launch of a chimp into suborbital space (1961); first U. S. space walk (Ed White, June 1965); first space rendezvous (December 1965); first men on the moon (1969); Sally Ride, first U. S. woman astronaut (1983); and much more.

Can you find what is round? What is square? In this timeless new split-pageboard book, children can find the bottom half of a page that matches the top half. Find the right pairs, and you will learn to identify all kinds of shapes. From dome-shaped ladybugs to diamond- shaped kites, this clever board book makes learning fun.

Hard on the brain, easy on the eyes!

Challenging, baffling, and absorbing, these cryptograms are easy to read in large-size print. The strings of seemingly meaningless letters are actually carefully coded messages that will test and stimulate your wordplay skills. You don't have to be a professional code breaker or super spy to figure them out, and there's no need to struggle while reading them. All you have to do is enjoy solving the puzzles!

Discover how to turn differences into opportunities with an accessibility expert's worldwide search for belonging.

After a diagnosis of a degenerative eye disease, John Samuel's life-and his chance at success-started to vanish.

In a world systemically unequipped for accessibility, disability inclusion is often left out of conversations about diversity. For people with disabilities, it can feel impossible to adapt and thrive when you're already set up for failure.

A more accessible world is possible-when we see the amazing opportunities in our differences.

From traveling the world and hiking mountains to finding love and raising a family, Don't Ask the Blind Guy for Directions shares Ablr CEO and cofounder John Samuel's inspirational journey against his inevitable blindness as he searched for acceptance. A powerful story for both professionals with disabilities and individuals working to create an inclusive culture at any organization, this memoir will empower you to accept yourself and others, break down barriers, and rebuild a world where everyone belongs.

You'll discover

• A heartfelt, insightful perspective of someone who is visually impaired and his day-to-day challenges.
• How to embrace your diagnosis or disability as an advantage for achieving your dreams.
• The incredible value those with disabilities can bring to organizations, no matter the business or industry.
• How anyone can be an ally and help remove organizational, digital, and performance barriers in the workplace.
• How to plan and implement a disability inclusion strategy within your company.

Embracing disabilities can lead to the greatest triumphs. Get Don't Ask the Blind Guy for Directions and start seeing acceptance as a powerful resource for change.

Child and adolescent psychopharmacology is a rapidly growing field with psychotropic medications used widely in the treatment of this patient group. However, psychopharmacological treatment guidelines used for adults cannot simply be applied for children or adolescents, thus presenting clinicians and nurse practitioners with assessment and prescribing challenges. Based on the best-selling resource Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, this new book provides a user-friendly step-by-step manual on the range of psychotropic drugs prescribed for children and adolescents by clinicians and nurse practitioners. Reviewed by expert child and adolescent psychiatrists, the medications are presented in the same design format in order to facilitate rapid access to information. Each drug is broken down into a number of sections, each designated by a unique color background thereby clearly distinguishing information presented on therapeutics, safety and tolerability, dosing and use, what to expect, special populations, and the art of psychopharmacology, and followed by key references.

Why is my plant dying?

Will Creed answers your indoor plant care questions that are not answered anywhere else - providing real answers to real questions non-professionals have about caring for their plants. Other plant care books perpetuate many of the out-of-date or unrealistic techniques or confusing information that has changed very little over generations.

Included here are specific care requirements for dozens of the most popular house and office plants. Learn to care for your plants properly, from buying the right plant for the right place, to preventing or treating disease.

Don't repot that plant!

Repotting is rarely necessary. A plant may seem rootbound- but it loves its pot just the size it is. It is healthy, it is thriving. Contrary to conventional wisdom, repotting a plant isn't always the answer.

• Get the light right - make sure you have the right light intensity available for the particular plant species
• Learn how much each plant species needs to dry out
• Learn to prune
• Learn to identify plant pests and treat them early
• Don't bother about humidity and fertilizer/plant food

This pack contains 48 high-quality origami sheets printed with 8 different traditional Japanese samurai images.

For the first time, origami papers feature traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints of samurai warriors. These beautiful collections of samurai origami paper prints will add a Japanese flair and authenticity to your folded origami models and paper craft projects like nothing else. They are perfect for origami folding, gift wrapping, and scrapbooking.

This origami paper pack includes:

• 48 high-quality origami paper
• 8 samurai woodblock print designs
• Double-sided color
• Small 6 3/4'' squares
• Origami basics and folding techniques
• Instructions for 6 easy origami projects

This pack contains 48 high-quality origami sheets printed with 8 different Japanese-style bird patterns.

This paper is perfect for any folder who wants to add a distinctive flair to their origami projects.

This origami paper pack includes:

• 48 sheets of high-quality origami paper
• 8 colorful Japanese-style bird designs and patterns
• Double-sided color
• Large 8 1/4'' squares
• Instructions for 7 easy origami projects

The third title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson and aspiring engineer Henrietta Prince in the grand home of Bertram Alfreds, the last surviving child of Lord Byron. After being lured to the residence by an intriguing mechanical music box, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the mansion, foil a deceitful plot to destroy Henrietta's lifelong work - a replica of Babbage's Analytical Engine - and fathom the involvement of Moriarty, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

Picture yourself strolling through a lush and tame jungle loaded with sweet fruit, vegetables, roots, medicinal herbs, flowers and darting butterflies. Now imagine that Eden is your very own Florida yard - it can be if you plant a food forest! By creating an edible forest garden, you'll be working with nature instead of against her. No matter where you live in the state, you can transform a patch of grass or woods into a magical edible Eden in just a few years. A food forest is Florida gardening on the easy setting! Your fight to grow food in Florida is over.

In this massively expanded, revised and extensively illustrated second edition of Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, David The Good shares notes and details on many exciting plants and how to fit them into your Florida food forest system, with both tropical and temperate species recommended depending on your location in the state. Hundreds of original botanical illustrations are also included from over fifty different artists. You'll learn how to start and maintain a food forest in Florida despite the sand, the bugs and the climate by tapping into the bounty of the tropics and the delight of your own imagination.

If you enjoyed the first edition, this new edition will blow your mind. Discover the permaculture breakthrough that may one day feed the world. Start a Florida food forest and build soil, get plants for free and grow more food with less work!

I found it! is a fun find and seek or look and find book with 12 engaging and colorful scenes. Learn new Cantonese vocabulary through this interactive children's book! Learning Cantonese has never been so easy! Written in Cantonese, Jyutping and English, this book includes 12 different scenes with the names of various objects as well as a thought-provoking question per scene. Free audio reading in Cantonese is also provided for correct pronunciation. This engaging bilingual book is also separately available in Traditional or Simplified Chinese with Pinyin and English.

A fantastic Cantonese immersion resource for non-native speakers!

Give your child the opportunity to become bilingual! Research shows that learning a second language can boost problem-solving, critical thinking, listening skills, memory, concentration, ability to multitask, and even unlock more career opportunities. There are so many benefits when you start at a young age. All of Katrina Liu's books are intended for non-native speakers and parents interested in fostering the development of dual-language with their children. Each book contains vibrant full-color illustrations, large Chinese Traditional characters with Jyutping and English for support. They are written in everyday dialog making it easier for beginner learners to pick up the language.

Check out other bilingual books at: minalearnschinese.com

A collection of some of Bowie's most famous and insightful words that will continue to inspire generations

On the January 10th 2016, the world lost a hero. Here are some of his most provocative and memorable sayings to inspire and treasure.

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."

"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir"

This is the perfect memento or gift for any Bowie fan and an affectionate tribute to a true icon.

The essential wedding planner with checklists, schedules, tips, and tools in a keepsake organizer.

Weddings require organization, record-keeping, legwork, logistics. In other words, a planner. From the celebrity wedding planner and author of the The Wedding Book, Mindy Weiss's All-In-One Wedding Planner & Organizer helps couples keep track of every detail leading up to their Big Day. It's the organizer that includes exactly what you need for on-the-go, on-the-ground wedding planning. Includes nine pockets, a zippered pouch, and a business-card holder.

Created as a three-ring binder, it has tabs for each category:
- The Big Picture and Contacts
- Budget
- Location, Location, Location!
- Menu and Flowers
- Rentals
- The Dress! (And What Everyone Else Is Wearing)
- The Guests and the Invitations
- Music, Photography, and Videography
- Making It Official: Rings, Licenses, Vows, Officiants

Packed throughout are tips, tools, checklists, spreadsheets, and schedules to help brides (and grooms) manage everything from building a wedding timeline and organizing the dreaded seating chart to getting the wedding party matched and fitted. From "Will you marry me?" to "I do," nothing will slip through the cracks.

Strategies that successful career changers use--and how to make them work for you.

Nearly all of us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work, unfulfilled, or just plain unhappy with whatever we're doing, we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and different career path. But how do we make this transition successfully?

In this update of the groundbreaking classic, bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"--and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.

Using new examples of people in different stages of a career transition, Ibarra identifies the three critical strategies--experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities--that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these strategies to:

• Explore your possible selves
• Craft and execute "identity experiments"
• Create "small wins" that keep momentum going
• Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
• Arrange new learnings into a coherent story

Now with action-oriented exercises to help you work successfully through your own career transition, this updated edition gives you the tools to discover a new path and find success in your new career.

Healing Your Traumatized Child explains how children (from birth to age twelve) can recover from traumatic experiences with their own parents acting as guides through the healing process. From bee stings and broken bones to wildfires and school shootings, most children experience some type of trauma while growing up. Luckily, children are born with the ability to recover from trauma, but they need help in order to do so. With the information in this book, parents will learn to identify their children's symptoms of trauma and facilitate their children's innate healing mechanisms.

Beginning with background information about pioneers in childhood trauma and ending with two chapters of powerful and inspiring true case histories, this book clearly explains the impact of trauma on children as well as the basic principles of healing. Parents will gain many practical skills to help their children recover, including surprisingly simple play-based activities.

An additional benefit of this approach is that it helps solve behavior problems. Many of children's difficult behaviors are indications of unhealed trauma. Parents will learn to interpret the underlying reasons for these behaviors and find solutions without using punishments or rewards. The author also explains how children's developmental stages affect their reaction to traumatic events and which techniques are most effective at each age.

Based on studies in the neurobiology of trauma, cognitive neuroscience, child development, and psychotherapy, this is a well-researched book with over 100 scientific references. The charts scattered throughout the text provide handy summaries of major points. An additional feature is a useful glossary of terms.

Adventure awaits inside this Hidden Pictures book! It features over 1,800 hidden objects in Highlights' trademark black-and-white puzzles. The imaginative theme will keep explorers 6 and up engaged as they search their way through more than 100 adventurous scenes.

This exhilarating Hidden Pictures collection features illustrations of travelers' adventures, deep-sea escapades, wild creatures and much more. Featuring 1- and 2-page puzzles in a variety of art styles, this 144-page book is great for travel, after-school fun or screen-free play on rainy days. Plus, the black-and-white puzzles double as coloring pages for even more entertainment.

Each puzzle in this book is carefully designed to engage and challenge children while honing their concentration skills, attention to detail and visual perception. Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new challenges. Like all Highlights products, Extreme Adventure Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.