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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.
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 ...
Your Erroneous Zones is the first self-help book written by Wayne Dyer and first issued by Funk & Wagnalls publishers in April 1976. [1]It is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. [2]
A self-help group from Maharashtra, India, making a demonstration at a National Rural Livelihood Mission seminar held in Chandrapur. Self-help or self-improvement is "a focus on self-guided, in contrast to professionally guided, efforts to cope with life problems" [1] —economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
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
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(WQAD) An Iowa lawmaker said a photo that was taken of him reading during a debate on the Iowa House floor doesn't tell the whole story. A photographer snapped a photo of Representative Ross ...
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 ...