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This book could be either great or just OK, depending what you expect or want from it. What it delivers is an index of 50 top self help books. It gives you a brief outline of the books, with some key points from each text. In a sense it is giving you a brief introduction to each book. If this is all you want, then it is a great book. The problem I have, is the brief synopsis of each book, is not enough for you to understand each book and its theories. Some reviewers seem to think it is. Since 1985, I have read 100's of self help books. I am now a business consultant and life coach. I have developed my in depth knowledge, not by reading books like this, but by reading the full texts of books. Whilst there is nothing wrong in reading this book and using it as a tool to buy the books reviewed, that you like, it simply does not go into each book in enough depth, to change your life. So use this book as an index tool to find books you may like, but the information contained in it, will in itself not change your life or beliefs. Great book as far as it goes.
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50 Self-Help Classics First published in Great Britain and USA by Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2003 3–5 Spafield Street PO Box 700 Clerkenwell, London Yarmouth EC1R 4QB, UK Maine 04096, USA Tel: +44 (0)20 7239 0360 Tel: (888) BREALEY Fax: +44 (0)20 7239 0370 Fax: (207) 846 5181 http://www.nbrealey-books.com © Tom Butler-Bowdon 2003 The right of Tom Butler-Bowdon to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN 1-85788-323-3 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Butler-Bowdon, Tom, 1967– 50 self-help classics : 50 inspirational books to transform your life / Tom Butler-Bowdon. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-85788-323-3 1. Self-help techniques—Bibliography. 2. Life skills—Bibliography. I. Title: Fifty self-help classics. II. Title. Z7204.S44 B88 2003 [BF632] 253.5’3—de21 2002040774 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the publishers. Printed in Finland by WS Bookwell. 50 Self-Help Classics 50 inspirational books to transform your life, from timeless sages to contemporary gurus Tom Butler-Bowdon N B I C H O L A S P L R E A L E Y U B L I S H I N G O N D O N YA R M O U T H , M A I N E Ellen J. Langer Richard Koch Alain de Botton William Bridges Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Henry David Thoreau Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner Marcus Aurelius Lao Tzu Wayne Dyer The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Maxwell Maltz Anthony Robbins Thomas Moore Paulo Coelho Martha Beck Carol S. Pearson Norman Vincent Peale The Dhammapada Stephen Covey Shakti Gawain The Bhagavad-Gita Ralph Waldo Emerson Florence Scovell Shinn Daniel Goleman James Allen Boethius The Bible Abraham Maslow David D. Burns Robert Bly Deepak Chopra Viktor Frankl Philip C. McGraw Joseph Murphy M. Scott Peck Cla