Collection: Self-Development

"What are you, really?"

A heartbroken boy begins a life-changing journey when a menacing guest disturbs his dinner. Confronted one-by-one by the sources of his torment, the boy is forced to consider some of life's key questions:

1. What makes one thing vile and another sacred?
2. What decides how I experience life?
3. What am I?

With a surprising and simple message, How to Hold a Cockroach is a moving love letter to humankind, a book for all who are free and don't know it... yet.

42 Beautiful Illustrations

The hardcover edition is 7x10 inches and contains full-color illustrations.

The paperback edition is 6x9 inches and contains black-and-white illustrations.

The eBook edition contains full-color illustrations (or black-and-white if color is not supported on your device).

For All Ages

A children's book for adults, How to Hold a Cockroach may be enjoyed by everyone.

Rediscover the simple pleasure of coloring!

• Features 31 relaxing images of garden scenery to color.
• Large-print images range in complexity.
• 8 x 10 inch, perforated, one-sided pages are easy to tear out and frame.
• Spiral binding allows pages to lay flat while coloring.
• This coloring book is made for grown-ups but all ages can enjoy!
• 64 pages

Bring the pixelated adventure of Minecraft to life with this unofficial cookbook featuring 30 recipes from the world of your favorite video game!

"This could be the cookbook to inspire young gamers to put down the controller and head into the kitchen[.]" Library Journal

Featuring 30 recipes for all difficulty levels, this is the perfect guide for an afternoon of cooking with kids under adult supervision. Whether you're making food for a Minecraft-themed party, or your gamer likes to cook, The Unofficial Minecraft Cookbook has something for everyone. Recipes include:

• Square cheeseburgers
• Poisonous mushroom meringues
• Spider eye cookies
• Grass block brownies
• The creeper's milkshake & more!

From 100% square menus to reproductions of the game's iconic dishes including starters, main courses, desserts, and drinks, there's something for all tastes!

A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.

This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.

The Mindset of a Sales Warrior encompasses Jason Forrest's 40 years of learning and experience. Through 42 transformational strategies you'll learn the beliefs of how you can become a true sales warrior. Each life changing strategy comes with real world application and dives into what it means to think, act, and sell like the top 1%.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect 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 baseball!

Hey batter-batter-batter, VERB! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about home runs, clutch bullpen pitching, and stolen bases, Home Run Mad Libs has something for every fan of America's favorite pastime! Play alone, in a group, or at Wrigley Field! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

Home Run Mad Libs includes:

- Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories all about baseball!
- 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!

Bright, punchy artwork makes every page an adventure in the latest title in the best-selling Shine-a-light series. A hidden world of snow-covered Arctic foxes, tree-trunk hiding owls and perfectly camouflaged butterflies will be revealed as you hold the pages to the light.

Take your toddler on an ocean adventure with this interactive pop-up book that inspires hands-on learning. Tactile elements and delightful imagery will encourage the development of motor skills and early learning.

Bold, brightly colored pictures, lift-the-flap pages and entertaining rhymes, Pop up Peekaboo! Shark provides lots of opportunities for parent-and-child interaction and hours of animal entertainment. This interactive toddler book for 2 year olds helps teach young children object permanence, which is an important step in childhood development.

Babies and toddlers can lift big flaps and see five peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages: a humpback whale blowing bubbles, a sea turtle in the colorful coral reef, a clever octopus hiding on the sand, a playful dolphin splashing on the surface, and Sally Shark playing hide and seek with her friends. Curious little ones can join Sally the shark as she swims around her ocean home to find her four best friends! Babies and toddlers will be enchanted by finding the surprises behind each flap. Turning the pages and moving the pop-ups help toddlers learn motor control for improved dexterity.

Inside the pages of this pop-up adventure book, you'll find:

- Hands-on play that builds confident book skills
- Look-and-find peekaboo games that reward curiosity
- Rhythmic, read-aloud text that aids language development
- Rounded edges and chunky pages, protecting babys and their growing teeth!

This pop up book has been designed as an all-round activity learning experience, to get the most out of story time. Read aloud the lively rhymes that create the amusing story for your kids to follow, and play a guessing game of who is behind the flap! The rhymes and the easy-to-read text help preschoolers remember the new words they are learning for early language development.

Complete the Pop up book series! Surprise! The peekaboo fun doesn't stop here! Your little one will enjoy hours of hide-and-seek surprises with the My Pop-Up Series. Find your farmyard friends with Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm, search the oceans in Pop-Up Peekaboo! Under the Sea and travel back in time to find dinosaurs in Pop-up Peekaboo! Baby Dinosaur and more!

Burnout is rampant. Recognize the signs and make the right changes.

The always-on workplace and increasing pressures are leading to a high rate of burnout. Unmanaged, chronic work stress doesn't just lead to lower productivity and negative emotions—it can have dire personal and professional consequences. Are you and your team at risk?

The HBR Guide to Beating Burnout provides practical tips and advice to help you, your team, and your organization navigate the perils of burnout and rediscover healthy engagement at work. You'll learn how to:

• Understand the difference between normal stress and burnout
• Keep your passion for work from leading to burnout
• Avoid working from home burnout
• Protect your high performers from burnout
• Help prevent burnout on your team—even if you're burned out
• Bounce back and regain your productivity and effectiveness

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"
- Epictetus, Stoic philosopher

Where can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts?

While traditional schooling doesn't address such questions, it's exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don't exist anymore, you and I and most people are in as much need of a philosophy that guides us through life as we ever were.

This compelling, highly actionable guide shows you how to deal more effectively with whatever life throws at you and live up to your best self.

A mix of timeless wisdom and empowering advice, The Little Book of Stoicism will point the way to anyone seeking a calm and wise life in a chaotic world.

Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for decades. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds, and lots of them.The techniques and tools for growing cannabis have changed over the past five years. Ed shows you the most productive and easiest methods in his new, most comprehensive book. Cannabis Grower's Handbook features the latest innovations in marijuana cultivation that will save you time, money, and energy, including:

How to set up different types of
home gardens, indoors and out
The newest, most efficient LED
lights including adjustable spectrum fixtures
How to use sustainable regenerative
gardening techniques
Fast, reliable drying and curing
methods
Comprehensive integrated pest
management
Choosing what to grow--find out more
about high THC, autoflowers, and CBD varieties
Many more tools, tips, and
techniques!

Cannabis Grower's Handbook is the definitive guide for all cultivators. First-time home growers will learn how to get started and enjoy a successful first harvest. Experienced growers will find new information about lighting, flowering, outdoor CO2, stimulating growth, and harvesting. This book is an essential reference for developing standard operating procedures, whether for micro-operations or large-scale commercial cannabis operations.

600 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOS, DIAGRAMS, AND CHARTS.

ED ROSENTHAL is a legend--a veteran educator and an outspoken proponent of Full Legalization and The Right to Grow. His books are beloved by growers for their accessible style, accuracy, and innovative content. Ed wrote Cannabis Grower's Handbook with a team of botanists, industry consultants, and scientists to ensure that you have the most up-to-date, accurate information to help you grow. This is the most extensively researched book about marijuana cultivation available. It will be your handy guide, like having an expert in your garden.

More than 250 rooms by iconic designers--the definitive illustrated handbook on timeless, traditional decorating for modern living

Chintz, wicker, ruffles, and skirts: Old-school decorating details are making a comeback in a fresh, new way thanks to a crop of designers putting their own unique spin on the classics. Join Schumacher, the legendary design company, for a tour of spaces that meld an appreciation for the past with an eye to the future. Incorporating many of Schumacher's iconic textiles and wallcoverings, luminary interior designers illustrate how to breathe new life into traditional design to create chic, modern, swoon-worthy rooms to inspire and emulate. From cozy canopied beds to cheeky needlepoint pillows, it's granny-chic for the next generation.

Charm School features rooms by contemporary icons of interior design, including Miles Redd, Celerie Kemble, and Mark D. Sikes, as well as storied decorators like Mario Buatta, Sister Parish, and Billy Baldwin.

Chapters comprise visually exuberant explorations of topics such as chintz & florals, wicker & rattan, bed hangings, skirts, decorative painting, treillage, collecting, table settings, and more.

A creative and mind-blowing coloring book by YouTube and Instagram artist, Vexx

Explore your creativity in this incredible collection of critters and creatures, featuring the signature street-art style of popular artist, Vexx. From fierce tigers to serene turtles, there are dozens of pages to get crazy with color--and there are even a few collaboration pages for aspiring artists to doodle-in and share.

Fans of adult coloring books will love the combination of intricate line art with bubbly characters, all on single-sided pages. Equal parts relaxing and challenging, this book is perfect for zenning out and inspiring your inner artist.

Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth.

"Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer."--Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising

The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention.

Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape.

Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair's Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.

Challenge your brain with engaging word puzzles.

• This book filled with word fill-in puzzles: Each puzzle will have words, phrases, and acronyms to use to complete the clueless crossword grid.
• All the fun and mental dexterity of crosswords, without needing to know sports, history, or TV.
• There are over 70 word fill-ins inside the book.
• Spiral bound, 192 pages.

An unruly cast of emotions come alive in this romping dreamworld, a place Maurice Sendak's Wild Things could call home

Curiosity, a lithe and floppy-eared creature, perches above the open world and gazes out with a zippy blend of hope, wonder, and longing. From the tip of a chimney, we bound into the quiet and mischievous world of feelings, meeting a troupe of tufted creatures as we go. Sympathy helps snails cross a sidewalk to safety, fear pirouettes in an attempt to camouflage with wallflowers, and pleasure reclines across a doily-donned reading chair, sipping a cup of tea. Elsewhere, our insecurities - pesky, cavorting beings - build intricate cages and stride about with clattering sets of keys. Tina Oziewicz's words hum with truth, and Aleksandra Zajac's illustrations bloom and burst with charming details like a sail constructed out of a pair of billowing long johns or a red slipper falling from a contented paw. Taking in the perfect harmony of this book is like taking a long gulp from a trusty thermos and filling up with warmth. What Feelings Do When No One's Looking surprises and soothes, inspires us to feel.