Collection: Self-Development

Build your LEGOⓇ skills with this bite-size guide!

Become a LEGOⓇ building expert with stacks of facts, tips, and tricks at your fingertips--no previous building experience required! Get out your bricks and be inspired to build your favorite real and fantasy pets, including cats, dogs, rabbits, fish, unicorns, and much more. Plus learn to build homes and accessories for your brick-built buddies.

Each LEGO Pocket Builder book is packed with images of fun-to-make models, building techniques, advice, and inspiration--plus they are perfectly pocket-sized for building anywhere--even on-the-go. Grab your LEGO bricks and get building!

When grief leaves you reeling, struggling not only emotionally but also spiritually, this book offers support from a Witch's perspective. Courtney Weber shares rituals, prayers, journal prompts, and other exercises specially designed to help with all kinds of grief, whether it's from the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a community fracture, or environmental destruction.

Courtney draws on her own experiences with loss, giving you support while you navigate through uncharted territory. She encourages you to incorporate your own spirituality, providing stories that help you process grief in your unique way. Learn how to embrace the gifts that can come from loss, grieve when you can't get closure, and help others who are hurting. This book gives you the strength to move forward and get a little better every day.

Stop Spiraling--Start Thriving!

Embark on a journey of self-discovery, take control of your life, and transform your relationship to stress. Whether your anxiety is an inner request to heal the past or a nudge to change the present, holistic anxiety coach Amanda Huggins can help you fully understand your own patterns and break free of challenging emotional cycles.

Anxiety to Empowerment reveals what powerful information your anxious thoughts hold and how to harness this insight to create a life filled with joy, empowerment, and self-love. Through visualizations and journal prompts, you will identify your own habits, anxiety triggers, and tendencies for self-sabotage. Then, Amanda will gently guide you through exercises, meditations, and other activities to tap into your soul's inherent wisdom. With this book's practical tools, insights, and reflections, you will gain a deeper understanding of your anxiety and cultivate a more empowered way of living.

Get a proven marriage expert-designed formula to help you resolve arguments in a healthy way!

Do you feel like you and your spouse are tip-toeing around each other? When you disagree, do you often find yourselves in one of these common scenarios - walking away completely or blowing up at one another? Haven't found that missing puzzle piece yet, and feel stuck in the same old rut of arguments that go round and round and never get resolved?

It's time for you to have a healthy way of tackling conflict when it arises. Why? Because you deserve to have a respectful, loving marriage where each of you can hold space for different opinions.

Authors Alisa and Tony DiLorenzo are passionate about helping couples create their own extraordinary marriages. They do this through their books and their top-rated marriage podcast, "The ONE Extraordinary Marriage Show," through which they connect with an audience of over 50,000 listeners around the world. The information in The 6 Pillars of Intimacy Conflict Resolution is based on their personal experience and from seeing the marriages of countless people they have worked with improve. They have learned some hard-knock life lessons and discovered key principles that have kept their marriage (and sex life) alive and flourishing... and they did it together. Let them do the same for you!

Inside, you'll discover:

• How to visualize what's actually happening to you and your spouse during the conflict cycle, and know when to stop, reflect, and redirect before a disagreement spirals out of control
• How to understand the key triggers behind the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that typically arise when you are in opposition with your spouse
• How to recognize patterns in 'how' you argue so you can identify a more effective way to interrupt them
• Effective strategies to handle conflict better and recover from a dispute faster
• And more...

Conflict is a natural occurrence in all thriving relationships. And if you weren't taught how to handle it effectively, you're not to blame. Break the cycle of dysfunctional arguments today.

Get The 6 Pillars of Intimacy Conflict Resolution today and learn how to constructively resolve conflict that will deepen your connection with your spouse.

A powerful, fully illustrated guide to using the tools of design thinking to create a more positive and cooperative future, from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

We live in an era of runaway design, where innovations tangle with our lives in unpredictable ways, from the positive and negative consequences of AI and social media to how development has driven climate change. Despite good intentions, the impacts of our actions can be tricky to notice, predict, and repair.

Featuring stunning art, Assembling Tomorrow explains how we can anticipate the implications of what we make before we release those ideas into the world--and how to use the tools of design to both mend the mistakes of our past and shape our future for the better.

This forward-looking guide helps you reframe your mindset to notice and question what you might otherwise have missed. Assembling Tomorrow imagines the future as if it had already happened and considers the past with a critical eye so that each one of us--as designers of our personal and shared futures--can work toward healing and create a better world for generations to come.

In, "Billy and the Anxiety Monster How to Love Your Anxiety and Heal, A Grown-Up Book for Your Inner Child" (BAM), Peter Bedard, takes us through a simple process of working with anxiety and learning to LOVE it.

With any pain, anxiety included, our society historically teaches us to attack it, to be angry with it, to cut it out, shove it aside, medicate it, or run away from it. We become frustrated and bully the parts of us that are suffering. This can create a feedback loop, causing us to feel more anxious, overwhelmed, and helpless.

Inspired by a timeless quote from Rumi, the mystical poet, "The cure for pain is in the pain", Peter takes us on another healing journey full of practical and doable concepts that can help you heal.

Peter's first book, "Convergence Healing, Healing Pain with Energetic Love" inspires the reader to stop running from their pain, to love it, and even nurture a positive relationship with it. In BAM, Peter expands this journey working with his client, Billy, who discovers how his anxiety can work for him.

If you've ever struggled with anxiety, then this book is for you!

Peter Bedard, MA, C.Ht., RScP, is a therapist based in Southern California. He lives with his dog, Mr. Fox, cat, Ash, and of course, Gryllus.

A guide to exploring Badlands National Park for kids ages 7 to 12

Encourage young nature lovers to learn about Badlands National Park. This book is filled with fun and educational activities like mazes, mad libs, word games, and puzzles. Play matching games about the plants and animals that live in the park. Learn about Leave No Trace principles and consider your impact on the land. Unscramble names of fish, decode clues about other national parks, make a packing list for a camping trip, and color some amphibians. Kids will also learn about conservation while using their imaginations to pretend they are a park ranger.

This standout activity book includes:

- 45 pages of independent activities―Unscramble names of native species of fish, decode clues the American Manual Alphabet (ASL), make a packing list for a camping trip, design a poster to protect endangered animals, and more!

- Range of adaptable activities for anywhere―The activity pages offer complementary learning with or without a visit to Badlands National Park. Activities are appropriate and adaptable so all kids can start learning, no matter where they are.

- Important skill-building―By stopping to notice and record what's going on around them, kids will practice important skills like creative thinking, observation, writing, drawing, wilderness safety, and more.

This book is great for long car rides, screen-free time, vacation, camping trips, or to complement homeschool curriculum.

Using Your Head as Well as Your Heart to Raise School-Aged Children

This 4th edition of Common Sense Parenting(R) offers parents of children ages 6-16 a menu of proven techniques to use while facing family challenges: a teen who's defiant; siblings who constantly bicker; a child having trouble in school; and parents and kids who don't communicate or have fun together anymore.

Step-by-step strategies aid parents in building good family relationships, preventing and correcting misbehavior, using consequences to improve behavior, teaching self-control, and staying calm.

This updated edition shows parents how to approach discipline as positive teaching rather than punishment. As each new parenting technique is introduced, the authors explain each step, provide many clear examples, and give you an action plan for implementing it in your home. Also addressed are topics of special interest - how to deal with school problems, computer misuse, and Internet and social media dangers.

Part of a
well-known book series on contemporary art jewelry by jeweler Nicolás Estrada,
this completely new edition of New Earrings (not a single piece from the
2013 edition has been included) highlights the work of some of the most
exciting and innovative international jewelry artists working today. The more
than 550 pieces featured by 198 jewelers from all over the world break away
from the traditional notion of jewelry making to stake out new terrain. They
represent a variety of creative approaches and methods, from more traditional
to strikingly avant-garde creations, that speak and inspire, embodying all the
ingenuity, flair, eloquence, sensitivity and individual freedom of their
diverse creators. Some of the earrings are made using unconventional materials
like porcelain or plastic while others use classical materials such as gold in
ways that provocatively go against the grain of convention, reflecting the
artist's personal identity and tastes or containing a subtle commentary on
contemporary concerns. Aimed at students, professionals and jewelry lovers, this
second edition of the book published in 2013, has a new layout and concludes
with a brief description of the careers and webpages of the featured artists.

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: "Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working." The field of psychiatry requires a completely fresh look, and Bruce E. Levine finds that needed perspective in the seventeenth-century works of Baruch Spinoza. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by his life and the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. With the help of Spinoza, freethinking, and radical enlightenment, A Profession Without Reason untangles and solves the crisis of contemporary psychiatry.

Whatever our situation may be in this life, a life of struggle or comfort, our inevitable fate is the same as the life of this world is temporary.

O believer, this world is not meant to be your paradise, but knowing that Paradise awaits, makes this journey so much more bearable and rewarding. Remember that every difficulty is a right, after all your struggles, all your tests, and trials know that your eternal sanctuary awaits.

Jannah, that is built by your deeds and decorated by your du'as. Chalets of crystals sparkling on the horizon for a soul that gave up sin, tree trunks of green emerald and branches of gold for a simple word of remembrance. Each of your shuddering breaths, every second of discomfort you faced, and every one of your sacrifices, all have been accounted for, repaid with sights and rewards unimaginable and the company of the Most High.

Build your eternal home, decorate your eternal home. Long for your eternal home...

Take a creative walk through the woods without even leaving your home with illustrator Leila Duly's coloring book A Walk in the Woods.

Woodlands are everyone's favorite landscapes, and, from a coloring perspective, they're full of amazing details. Acorns, bluebells, curling ferns, toadstools, and leaves all give the colorist a calming, natural, and satisfying experience.

Meander through this woodland journey of meditative scenes and be inspired by uplifting quotations scattered through the pages.

Nee naw, nee naw! The fire truck is here to save the day. Peek into the cab, roll out the hoses and slide out the ladder to find out how it works. Truck-obsessed toddlers will love all the details to spot, flaps to lift and holes to peek through. An exciting introduction to some of the people who help us.

An inspirational introduction to growing and collecting tulips, set against the backdrop of a beautiful English garden, with expert tips and advice for gardeners

Tulips are one of the world's most popular flowers, with over 2,500 varieties produced in the Netherlands each year. This spectacular book showcases a unique collection of rare and covetable tulips at Blacklands, the beautiful English country garden of tulip expert Polly Nicholson.

Combining the flower's rich cultural history with growing advice, Nicholson provides a comprehensive introduction to cultivating species, historic Dutch and English Florists' tulips, and annual garden tulips. Featuring all types of tulip - from wild, species tulips to old Dutch cultivars, as well as English Florists', and the ever popular annual garden tulips - she also offers modern context and sensible and practical advice for gardeners, based on her personal horticultural experience.

Bringing to life varieties that date back to the 16th century, Nicholson demonstrates how these treasured bulbs and more modern varieties of these enchanting spring flowers can be grown today - whether in herbaceous borders, naturalized in grass, in containers, gravel, meadow settings, or in the garden for cutting.

The Tulip Garden is an essential reference for tulip lovers, florists, and gardeners, but also, with newly commissioned photography by Andrew Montgomery, an inspirational resource, tapping into the zeitgeist for sustainable flowers and organic gardening, focusing on one of the world's most popular flowers.

Get started and learn the basics with this miniature, no-nonsense guide to weaving!

From best-selling author and crafting queen Claire Gelder, this gorgeous mini guide is packed full of weaving know-how, practical illustrations and comes with four simple-but-stunning projects.
Perfect for complete beginners, Claire clearly explains everything you need to know about weaving: choosing and using different looms; how to make and successfully warp a loom; a selection of weaving stitches; and how to remove your material from the loom.

It is structured as a simple 3-step course that will help you progress from bronze to gold as your skills and confidence grow. Before you know it you'll be weaving wall hanging, place mat and coasters on a rectangular loom, and a cushion and bag on a circular loom.

Filled with positive affirmations and beautifully illustrated, this wonderful book is the ideal introduction to weaving for a complete beginner.

Word-writing practice and activities, including That's Silly!(TM) and Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles, combine with digital video tutorials in a practice pad developed with handwriting experts Zaner-Bloser aimed to help kids build vocabulary and handwriting skills, as well as lifelong learning confidence and success.

Highlights infuses Fun with a Purpose(R) into writing and learning new words in this 80-page, full-color pad designed for kids ages first grade and up. It has easy-to-follow instructions and special QR codes on the pages which can be scanned with a mobile device to watch animated handwriting tutorials. The pad's horizontal format provides plenty of writing space for both left-handed and right-handed kids, and also has convenient tear-off pages.