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A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help.
Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book: 2013 Diane Muldrow: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: 1948: Dale Carnegie: optimism How to Win Friends and Influence People: 1936: Dale Carnegie: success I Will Teach You To Be Rich: 2009: Ramit Sethi: success I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: 1992: Wendy Kaminer: anti ...
The Pact (2002 book) Perfect Combination (book) The Positive Quotations Series; The Power of Habit; The Power of Now; The Power of Positive Thinking; The Power of Truth; The Power (self-help book) The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts; Psycho-Cybernetics; The Purpose Driven Life
In the preface to his 1880 book, Duty, Smiles wrote of Self-Help, "In America, the book has been more widely published and read than in Great Britain". The three didactic self-help juvenile novels published by English author G. A. Henty in the 1880s shows Smiles' influence. Each was an exposition of the philosophy of self-help as expressed by ...
Before How to Win Friends and Influence People was released, the genre of self-help books had an ample heritage. [citation needed] Authors such as Orison Swett Marden and Samuel Smiles had enormous success with their self-help books in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [citation needed]
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by the author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book outlines a code of conduct (supposedly) based on Toltec teachings that purport to improve one’s life. The book was originally published in 1997 by Amber-Allen publishing in San Rafael, California. An illustrated edition was ...