TY - BOOK AU - Butler-Bowdon, Tom TI - 50 self-help classics : : 50 inspirational books to transform your life, from timeless sages to contemporary gurus SN - 1857883233 U1 - 016.1581 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Nicholas Brealey Pub., KW - Self-help techniques -- Bibliography KW - Life skills -- Bibliography KW - Self-help devices for people with disabilities N1 - 1. As a man thinketh (1902) / James Allen -- 2. NLP: the new technology of achievement (1994) / Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner -- 3. Meditations (2nd century) / Marcus Aurelius -- 4. Finding your own North Star: how to claim the life you were meant to live (2001) / Martha Beck -- 5. The Bhagavad-Gita -- 6. The Bible -- 7. Iron John (1990) / Robert Bly -- 8. The consolation of philosophy (6th century) / Boethius -- 9. How Proust can change your life (1997) / Alain de Botton -- 10. Transitions: making dense of life's changes (1982) / William Bridges -- 11. Feeling good: the New Mood therapy (1980) / David D. Burns -- 12. The Power of myth (1987) / Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers -- 13. Don't sweat the small stuff ... and it's all small stuff (1997) / Richard Carlson -- 14. How to win friends and influence people (1936) / Dale Carnegie -- 15. The seven spiritual laws of success (1994) / Deepak Chopra -- 16. The alchemist (1993) / Paulo Coehlo -- 17. The 7 habits of highly effective people (1989) / Stephen Covey -- 18. Flow: the psychology of optimal experience (1991) / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- 19. The art of happiness: a handbook for living (1998) / The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler -- 20. The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings) --; 21. Real magic: creative miracles in everyday life (1992) / Wayne Dyer -- 22. Self-reliance (1841) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 23. Women who run with the wolves (1993) / Clarissa Pinkola Estš -- 24. Man's search for meaning (1959) / Viktor Frankl -- 25. Autobiography (1790) / Benjamin Franklin -- 26. Creative visualization (1978) / Shakti Gawain -- 27. Emotional intelligence: why it can matter more than IQ (1995) / Daniel Goleman -- 28. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus (1992) / John Gray -- 29. You can heal your life (1984) / Louise Hay -- 30. The soul's code: in search of character and calling (1996) / James Hillman -- 31. Feel the fear and do it anyway (1987) / Susan Jeffers -- 32. The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1998) / Richard Koch -- 33. Mindfulness: choice and control in everyday life (1989) / Ellen J. Langer -- 34. Tao Te Ching (5th-3rd century BC) / Lao Tzu -- 35. Psycho-cybernetics (1960) / Maxwell Maltz -- 36. Motivation and personality (1954) / Abraham Maslow -- 37. Life strategies: foing what works, doing what matters (1999) / Philip C. McGraw -- 38. Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life (1992) / Thomas Moore -- 39. The power of your subconscious mind (1963) / Joseph Murphy -- 40. The power of positive thinking (1952) / Norman Vincent Peale --; 41. The hero within: six archetypes we live by (1989) / Carol S. Pearson -- 42. The road less traveled (1990) / M. Scott Peck -- 43. Atlas shrugged (1957) / Ayn Rand -- 44. Awaken the giant within (1991) / Anthony Robbins -- 45. The game of life and how to play it (1925) / Anthony Robbins -- 46. Learned optimism (1991) / Martin Seligman -- 47. Self-help (1859) / Samuel Smiles -- 48. The phenomenon of man (1955) / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 49. Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau -- 50. A return to love (1994) / Marianne Williamson ER -