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Thousands of books have been written offering the secrets to personal fulfillment and happiness, but which ones can really change your life? In 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life, Tom Butler-Bowdon has sorted through the bewildering array of self-help books to bring together fifty of the most important works on personal development and self-motivation. Representing the very best of the genre and appreciating that each of us is inspired by different underlying philosophies, Butler-Bowdon summarizes each writer's background, the book's primary concepts, and who benefits by reading it. Time-strapped readers can easily compare ideas to enrich their understanding of self-awareness and self-improvement with the likes of: Marcus Aurelius; The Bhagavad-Gita; The Bible; Robert Bly; Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers; Deepak Chopra; Paulo y Coelho; Stephen Covey; The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Viktor Frankl; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Moore; M. Scott Peck; Ayn Rand; Henry David Thoreau The classics examined here represent the very best of self-help-works that have captured the imagination of millions and inspired readers everywhere to follow their dreams.
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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.