Collection: Self-Development

Dr. Lawrence Murray lays it on the line in this Psychological and Sociological probe

into Sex, The Sexless Marriage, and Marital Satisfaction in the 21st Century. Dr. Murray's Interest in Sex and Satisfaction began early as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA! Dr. Murray was privileged to work directly with Dr. Gail Wyatt and Community Based-Organizations, health departments, and HIV clinics in facilitating interventions. Dr. Murray states, "It was the 8 sessions I facilitated in sexual risk-reduction intervention (the Eban I Program) that led to Close Conversations." He currently serves as Associate Professor of Psychology and Faculty Senator at Langston University; He also is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Central Oklahoma's Jackson College of Graduate Studies. His Multicultural Clinical Counseling and Teaching career includes 20 years of close conversations about the depths of relationships, identity, satisfaction among many other topics considered taboo. Dr. Murray uniquely combines 30 years of marital and pastoral experience and maintains that Psychology, Sociology, and Spirituality are inextricably intertwined. In this conversation, Dr. Murray challenges millions to consider their own sexuality, identity formation, sexual script, and satisfaction; including investing in individual, couples, and relationship dynamics to help his audience arrive in safe spaces in these conversations. Dr. Murray brings the real conversations to the forefront for you to consider as conversation starters in your relationship. If you are a person of faith, no faith, single, married, divorced, widowed, or in the realm of pre-marital counseling, this read will assist you in your process of lowering the shame and stigmata of discussing sexuality. Dr. Murray's sessions are in high demand because he thoughtfully and honestly engages individuals, audiences, and academic communities to get close.

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

"Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."--New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert

Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.

Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home.

This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:

• Examining your own white privilege
• What allyship really means
• Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
• Changing the way that you view and respond to race
• How to continue the work to create social change

Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change.

"Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."--Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility

For the first time ever, America's Test Kitchen Kids is bringing their rigorous testing, kitchen knowhow, and hands-on learning to teenagers in the kitchen. Fiercely independent and searching for culinary adventure, teen chefs are ready for exciting, global recipes made to share with friends and family--with the support of fundamental kitchen techniques and approachable instruction. Set for release on March 1, 2022, The Complete Cookbook for Teen Chefs offers just that, filled with over 70 recipes that have been tested and approved by thousands of teens from across the country.

Whether a teen is looking to make Tik Tok-worthy sticky buns or a simple egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches before school, The Complete Cookbook for Teenage Chefs has something for everyone. With recipes ranging from Biang Biang Mian (Hand-Pulled Noodles) to Steak Tacos with Charred Corn Salsa, Arepas to Congee, French Fries and Cheeseburger Sliders to Apple-Cider Donuts, this book features helpful sidebars to ensure that teens can learn more about why a recipe works, and how to take their recipes to the next level.

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories--and her own life experiences--to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness).

The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts.

In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the "emotional inheritance" we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny.

90 Puzzles, Logic Riddles & Brain Teasers to Exercise Your Mind

From New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Small - an expert on neuroscience, memory, Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, anxiety and human behavior - Brain Games to Exercise Your Mind: Protect Your Brain from Memory Loss and Other Age-Related Disorders will keep your mind sharp and in-shape.

Memory loss and age-related dementia illnesses are among the most frightening diagnoses in the US, affecting nearly six million adult Americans.

Dr Small provides over 90 puzzles, logic Riddles and brain teasers to exercise your mind, and have fun while staying sharp.

Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober.

Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober. Basic, essential information from Alcoholics Anonymous. As the book states, "Anyone can get sober. . .the trick is to live sober."

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Discover the twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity and a sense of possibility into all of your endeavors in this bestselling guide from the author of Pathways to Possibility

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.

Someone pushes your buttons. You feel rage, fear, sweaty palms, unbidden tears--you feel like a kid.

We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to the general reader, bestselling author John Lee identifies the circumstances that cause these seemingly uncontrollable feelings and shows how they are directly tied to our experience as children.

No adult, explains Lee, need ever experience the helpless feelings of childhood again. Here are his proven methods and visualization exercises, developed in his popular workshops, for recognizing, preventing, and diffusing regression in ourselves and others. He teaches, for example, that adults cannot be abandoned, they can only be left; if we're feeling abandoned we're regressing. He also reminds us that no matter how overwhelmed we are, adults always have options; if we believe we don't, we're in a regression.

Growing Yourself Back Up will show you how to:
* develop strong emotional boundaries and convey them to others
* learn the Detour Method that reverses regression
* confront without regressing
* communicate with the authority figures who push your buttons
* minimize regression at family functions

Lee offers hope--as well as practical strategies that work--for conquering those childlike feelings of powerlessness that are almost always rooted in regression.

Grief hurts. Don't do it alone. Learn to navigate any loss--a parent, a friendship, a job, a miscarriage--at your own pace with the help of a licensed grief and trauma therapist.

"A must read. Help your mind feel less heavy and open the door to deep personal growth" --Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lighter and Clarity & Connection

After nearly two decades of clinical experience and her own journey after losing her mother to cancer, Gina Moffa, LCSW offers knows all too well how disorienting, painful, and lonely grief can be.

In Moving on Doesn't Mean Letting Go, she offers a heartfelt, practical map through loss--one that can shift the pain of your grief even when things feel unpredictable and overwhelming. With her help you'll learn to:

• Navigate the initial shock of the "griefall"
• Recognize your unique grief rhythm
• Get in touch with your needs, feelings, and boundaries
• Mange social media and interactions with the outside world
• Connect mind and body through somatic exercises and self-reflections

"A lifeline to the exhausted treading water in an ocean of loss" (Rabbi Steve Leder), Moving on Doesn't Mean Letting Go is warm, compassionate, and perfect for readers of Grief Day by Day or It's OK that You're Not OK.

From Debbie Macomber, the beloved author and queen of Christmas stories, comes this enchanting adult coloring book featuring all-new festive illustrations inspired by her treasured holiday novels.

Debbie Macomber invites you to join in the holiday spirit with a collection of forty-five gorgeous black-and-white ​drawings ready to be brought to ​colorful life with your creative flair. Now you can escape to the peaceful, snow-covered settings and revel in the festive celebrations signature to her Christmas stories. Debbie Macomber's Very Merry Christmas Coloring Book is perfect for anyone looking to experience the comfort and joy of the season.

Written by Grandmaster Daniel King, How To Win At Chess is the essential guide to the game for young players. It introduces each piece and its moves, explains key principles such as check and how to open a game, before exploring tricks such as forks, pins, and skewers.

With a fresh, contemporary new design, it's packed with graded test positions and training exercises to help young players improve their game as they progress through the book. What's more, readers can brush up on the fascinating history of chess, with features on legendary matches and the greatest players, including the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen.

Chess has been revolutionized in recent years--thanks to the success of Netflix's world-beating The Queen's Gambit, the rise of chess streaming on Twitch, the desire for self-improvement during lockdown, and the global appeal of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player ever to top the world rankings--and its newfound popularity with young and old alike shows no sign of waning.

Sticker by Number: Garden Blooms is a compelling activity to keep your brain engaged to create totally cool art. Similar to color or paint by number, this sticker activity book features designs that are divided into spaces, each with 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.

• Includes 10 garden themed images to sticker.
• The wire spiral and perforated pages make the book easy to use!
• 8-1/2" x 10".
• 52 pages.

The most comprehensive guide to marijuana gardening ever written is back with all new information and updated advice for cannabis enthusiasts. Over 200 additional pages of all new information are included in this book, from all new lighting equipment and techniques, to highly advanced cannabinoid extraction techniques and detailed, step-by-step gardening guides for novice and professional growers alike.

This book contains over 700 pages, with all new photos and step-by-step guides to every aspect of marijuana horticulture, plant breeding, and hash production. Featuring a handy quick start guide at the beginning to allow growers to get started right away, and hone their techniques as they read the later chapters in more detail. The biggest, most comprehensive, and straightforward guide to marijuana horticulture ever published.

This interactive board book in the new First 100 Lift-the-Flap series is the ideal tool to help babies and toddlers learn all about their first animals. Organized into categories such as pets and on the farm for ease of use, there are over 50 flaps to lift which reveal hidden photographs of animals underneath.

Thirty-one realistic illustrations feature all kinds of felines in a variety of beautiful backgrounds. From elegant and sleek to cute and fluffy, the ready-to-color cats are pictured amid flowers and lush gardens as well as in other natural settings. Many images include decorative borders. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Cats and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

*** OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD ***

Imagine meeting someone for the first time and within minutes--without a word being said--having the ability to tell what that person is thinking. Magic? Not quite. Whether people are aware of it or not, their body movements clearly express their attitudes and motives. These simple gestures, which most of us don't even notice, can communicate key information that is invaluable in a range of situations.

How to Read a Person Like a Book is designed to teach you how to interpret and respond to the nonverbal signals of business associates, friends, loved ones, and even strangers. Best-selling authors Gerard Nierenberg, Henry Calero, and Gabriel Grayson have collaborated to put their working knowledge of body language into this practical guide to recognizing, understanding, and using nonverbal communication. With ​​How to Read a Person Like a Book, you will learn:

* How to tell if someone is not being truthful.

* When to push forward or back off during a negotiation.

* How to identify an aggressive or submissive handshake.

* When someone has lost interest in what you are saying.

* How to put people at ease by mirroring their gestures.

* Why your body language can make or break a deal.

Whether in an office, on a date, or on a family outing, the simple technique of reading body language is a unique skill that offers real and important benefits--and How to Read a Person Like a Book will help you hone that skill.