Collection: Self-Development

A modern, photographed directory of over 150 knitting stitches, covering techniques including cables, fair isle, lace, and intarsia.

More than 150 eye-catching, stash-busting stitches to take your knitting to the next level.

Take your knitting to the next level with Knitting Stitches Step-by-Step. Whatever your knitting ability, this essential guide will help you master a huge range of techniques and patterns, including colorwork, fair isle and intarsia, cables and textural patterns, lace knitting, and methods for casting on and off. Find inspiration for your next knitting project or adapt a design you know and love with tips on incorporating different stitches into your work.

Every stitch is accompanied by full instructions, with clear photographs and annotations so that you can follow even the trickiest of methods with ease, while the Tools chapter will help you prepare with the right needles, yarn, and other tools you'll need to recreate each technique.

With an at-a-glance gallery to help you find the perfect stitch for your next project, this modern classic is a must-have for knitters of all ages and abilities.

A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma

Imagine, if you will, a disease--one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice, one that transfers easily between parent and child, one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis.

In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper and more urgent view of trauma. Not only does Dr. Conti explain how trauma affects the body and mind, he also demonstrates that trauma is transmissible among close family and friends, as well as across generations and within vast demographic groups.

With all this in mind, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic proposes a course of treatment for the seemingly untreatable. Here, Dr. Conti traces a step-by-step series of concrete changes that we can make both as individuals and as a society to alleviate trauma's effects and prevent further traumatization in the future.

You will discover:

- The different post-trauma syndromes, how they are classified, and their common symptoms
- An examination of how for-profit health care systems can inhibit diagnosis and treatment of trauma
- How social crises and political turmoil encourage the spread of group trauma
- Methods for confronting and managing your fears as they arise in the moment
- How trauma disrupts mental processes such as memory, emotional regulation, and logical decision-making
- The argument for a renewed humanist social commitment to mental health and wellness

It's only when we understand how a disease spreads and is sustained that we are able to create its ultimate cure. With Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti reveals that what we once considered a lifelong, unbeatable mental illness is both treatable and preventable.

The King of Rock and Roll!!! Take a stroll down memory lane with Elvis Presley.

"Circle It" word search books read like a book and are full of interesting facts, the bold words within the text can be found in the word search puzzle on the opposite page.

UPGRADE your word search and be the one everyone wants to talk with; your friends will wonder, how did you get so smart?

Everyone will really enjoy your conversation when you say, "The other day I was reading and did you know that...."

Typical word searches are just dull lists of words, "Circle It" word search books read like a book and are full of interesting facts.

Each "Circle It" word search book has an interesting subject, like:
* Muscle Car Facts
* Quilting Facts
* Lake Fish Facts
* Dog Facts
* Cat Facts
* Hockey Facts
* ...many many more (200+ titles)

Lowry Global Media, Circle It Word Search Books are all available from your favorite online bookseller.
Just search for "Lowry Global Media" to see all of our word search titles.

Looking for a gift? Our books are great for anyone ages 12 to 99.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Elvis Presley - 2
Life and Career
1935-1953: Early Years
Childhood in Tupelo - 4
Teenage Life in Memphis - 8
First Recordings - 12
1956-1958: Commercial Breakout and Controversy
First National TV Appearances and Debut Album - 24
Milton Berle Show and "Hound Dog" - 28
Steve Allen Show and First Sullivan Appearance - 32
Crazed Crowds and Film Debut - 36
Leiber and Stoller Collaboration and Draft Notice - 40
1958-1960: Military Service and Mother's Death - 46
1960-1967: Focus on Films - 50
1968-1973: Comback - 58
1973-1977: Health Deterioration and Death - 74
Questions Over Cause of Death - 86
Since 1977 - 90
Artistry
Influences - 96
Musical Styles and Genres - 98
Vocal Style and Range - 102
Public Image
Racial Issues - 108
Sex Symbol - 112
Legacy - 114

In this comforting book that will offer relief to anyone moving through intense grief and loss, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, healing words of wisdom to transform our suffering.

In the immediate aftermath of a loss, sometimes it is all we can do to keep breathing. With his signature clarity and compassion, Thich Nhat Hanh will guide you through the storm of emotions surrounding the death of a loved one.

How To Live When A Loved One Dies offers powerful practices such as mindful breathing that will help you reconcile with death and loss, feel connected to your loved one long after they have gone, and transform your grief into healing and joy.

Whether you're trying your hand at painting for the first time or honing your artistic ability, Artist's Painting Techniques is the handiest guide to teach you how to paint.

Starting with the basics such as observational skills and learning how to draw, Artist's Painting Techniques will guide you into working with watercolors, acrylics, and oil paints. Discover everything you need to know about tone, color, pattern, brushwork, and composition to create your own masterpieces with confidence. Learn a range of key watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting techniques, including laying a flat wash, painting fur, and creating impasto sculptural effects. Embark on exciting artistic exercises and projects to discover your style and grow as an artist.

Follow the fully illustrated step-by-step guides and get inspiring advice and encouragement from practicing artists. Kickstart your creativity and develop your own style with Artist's Painting Techniques.

The Kids Book of Sticker Love
A craft book filled with 1,100+ stickers and activities!

Celebrate the relationship between paper and its adhesive best friend--the sticker! Packed with tons of creative ideas, paper goodies, and crafty projects, The Kid's Book of Sticker Love is brimming with possibilities.

With holographic stickers, vinyl stickers, foil stickers, and more--here are projects to craft, like origami finger puppets with sticker faces. Projects to write--use colorful alphabet stickers to compose a note. Projects to play--a zoetrope, tangrams, or a frog vs. toad fly-catching contest. And projects to share--pass sweet ice cream notes with sticker sprinkles on top! It all adds up to hours and hours of screen-free fun.

Sticker-packed papercraft projects includes a dot-sticker necklace; a foldable paper globe; a paper crown with sticker gemstones; tiny rainbow notes and envelopes; and origami finger puppets with sticker eyes.

More than 100 crime-themed brain teasers that will test your verbal, visual, memory, and logic skills.

• Track criminals down through mazes and logic puzzles.
• Unscramble anagrams and decode cryptograms related to historic cold cases.
• Compare DNA sequences to see if they're a match.
• Test your memory with crime scene photos and true crime accounts.
• Solve verbal puzzles such as word ladders themed around crime.
• Spiral-bound, 192 pages.

A perfect gift for the true crime fan in your life!

Grab the colored pencils and take a break from cleaning up your cat's latest redecorating rampage to appreciate the bizarre-but-rewarding adventure of being a cat owner with Caitlin Peterson's coloring book Cats Are A**holes.

Color your cat unimpressed

Life with cats is never boring! From everyday mischief to absolute mayhem, these furry little jerks keep their owners and the millions of cat-video addicts on their toes. With Cats are A**holes, you can relive the laughter and trauma of every unanticipated pounce, usurped piece of furniture, and beloved-possession-turned-scratching post--or just enjoy a little schadenfreude--while you color your cares away.

- Revel in 38 pages of all-too-relatable bad cat behavior
- Color your way to calm acceptance while your cat throws up in your shoes--again
- Create vibrant tributes to these clever, quirky, and commanding creatures (just as they would want)
- Tear out and share your feline-centric masterpieces with your fellow cat lovers

A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically. Apply a couple, and you'll definitely have a few extra dollars in your pocket and enjoy more sunsets. Apply the lot, and you'll wake up one day and realise that you're happier, wealthier, fitter, and more in lust with life than you'd ever thought possible.

Never has such a compelling case been made for putting your wallet away and looking around at every other form of pleasure with freshly attentive eyes.

Annie and Adam are lifelong cheapskates who operate on the principle that enjoying life is a lot more likely to happen if you learn how to do it on little or no money. Decades of this approach saw them realise they also had more free time, savings, and flexibility than many of their more fiscally-oriented peers. Not to mention smaller ecological footprints, and blissful immunity to a raft of common modern ills, from social isolation to obesity.

The Art of Frugal Hedonism reveals their core strategies for lowering your consumption while raising your quality of life. Whether you are already challenging cultural consumption assumptions (but would love a little backup), or are looking for a real kickstart to help you revise your current relationship with spending, there is something in here for you.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and a great gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about camp!

Summer camp was going well, until our counselor started making us VERB! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about campfire stories, hide and seek, and s'mores, there's something for everyone in Camp Daze Mad Libs. Play alone, in a group, or in your camp cabin! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

Camp Daze Mad Libs includes:

- Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories all about days spent at camp!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
- Fun With Friends each story is a chance for friends to work together to create unique stories!

This workbook is meant to introduce your child to the skills her or she will need in kindergarten. By practicing each of the skills taught in this workbook, your child will be ready for academic success.

Filled with over 150 exciting puzzles and quizzes for you to enjoy with friends, family or just by yourself!

Are you a whizz at animal trivia? Do travel facts float your boat? Do you know all there is to know about dinosaurs?

Put your knowledge to the test in this fun-packed book of puzzles and quizzes! Look out for spot the difference, mazes, odd one out and word puzzles - and, of course, bags of quiz questions on sport, geography, space, food and more!

Look out for more amazing puzzle and quiz books:
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 7 Year Old
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 8 Year Old
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 10 Year Old

An International Bestseller -- Rediscover Life's Larger Meaning and Purpose

The 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword and Revisions by Dan Millman.

A book that could change your life: When Dan Millman was a young man, he expected that hard work would eventually bring a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness. Yet, despite his many successes, he was haunted by the feeling that something was missing. Awakened by dark dreams one night, Dan found himself at a gas station with an old man named Socrates, and his world was changed forever. Guided by this eccentric old warrior, and inspired by a young woman named Joy, Dan began a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him.

Inspirational and spiritual saga: This autobiographical novel is one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. For decades, friends and families around the world have shared the book that teaches the way of the peaceful warrior. Life as a peaceful warrior is a life of meditation, mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance.

Help in these tumultuous times: In this 20th anniversary edition, the author offers an updated afterword for a new generation of readers looking for grounding in tumultuous times. Way of the Peaceful Warrior is the iconic first book from Dan Millman. His other guides to peaceful warrior life include The Life You Were Born to Live and The Hidden School.

If you loved The Heart of the Shaman, The Magic Mala, and The Celestine Prophecy, you'll be moved by the inspiration and spirituality of Way of the Peaceful Warrior.

Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.

In the pages of The Cottage Garden, you'll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners, including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, meet modern cottage gardeners from around the globe who combine billowing masses of flowers such as poppies, delphinium, lupines, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lilies, and many more to create dreamy landscapes infused with the romance and wildness of cottage-style gardening.

You'll find no formal lines, rigid rules, or perfect spacing in the cottage garden. Instead, the form is organic and purposefully unstructured. Plants self-sow here and there, bulbs pop up and spread unrestricted, and everything appears casual; though as you'll come to learn through Dalby's words, it is all done with great intent.

Overflowing with textures and colors, the cottage gardens featured throughout this book in hundreds of full-color photographs are found in places as diverse as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, and the United States. The accompanying text is derived from Dalby's personal visits to these gardens, along with his intimate interviews with the resident gardeners.

Dalby provides useful details about the design, development, and continued evolution of cottage gardens. He shares the stories of these breathtaking modern cottage gardens in a way that allows you to glean inspiration you can use to create a cottage garden of your own, whether large or small.

The gardens profiled in these pages exhibit the essential foundational elements and principals of well-designed cottage gardens. Whether home is in the countryside or a suburban subdivision, the profiled gardens will serve as both muse and motivation for the creation of a classic backyard cottage garden in your own space. This gorgeous tome is sure to become the bible of this much-adored classic garden design style.

Also by Claus Dalby: Containers in the Garden

Be the best imperfect person you can be!

Wabi Sabi is the Japanese Zen philosophy that all things are imperfect, unfinished and impermanent. It is a fresh way of seeing and moving through the world when our lives, literally and figuratively, feel cluttered. This book shows us how to apply this concept in the context of daily life and offers ideas on how to see it, embrace it and incorporate it into everyday thoughts, objects and situations.

In a simple and accessible style, Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom in Imperfection shows you how embracing imperfections and impermanence frees you to become a better person, by reevaluating what "better" means--what really matters and what you truly want. A few simple challenges and exercises encourage you to get creative--such as a Wabi Sabi diary, a haiku exercise and a "make art" challenge--plus some tips on minimizing and decluttering (mentally and physically) for a simpler life. It allows you to mindfully make space in your head, home and with your time.

In the foreword, Hector Garcia-- the bestselling author of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life--introduces readers to the Wabi Sabi aesthetic and shares his personal Wabi Sabi journey: from being asked about it on live TV fifteen years ago (before he knew what it was) to today, when it permeates every aspect of his life.

Keep your brain engaged while creating fun, beautiful art, with Sticker by Number Dogs!

• Features 28 adorable pooches to sticker!
• Images range in difficulty.
• Spiral binding and perforated pages make it easy to use!
• Made for adults but teens and kids can enjoy as well!

As in color or paint-by-number, each design is divided into dozens of spaces. Each space has a number that corresponds to a sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Watch as a full colored image emerges from the original unfinished illustration.

** The images in this book also appear in Brain Games - Sticker by Number: Puppies and Dogs (2 Books in 1), 156 pages - ISBN-13: 9781639382071 **