A Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics: From How to Win Friends and Influence People to The Chimp Paradox...

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James M. Russell

A Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics

From How to Win Friends and Influence People to The Chimp Paradox

James M. Russell

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29 January 2019

Psychology; Popular psychology; Bargains

From Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, which has sold over 30 million copies to date, to the mind management programme of Professor Steve Peters' The Chimp Paradox, a concise and insightful guide to seventy of the most influential self-help books ever published

An entertaining, accessible companion, for readers of self-help books and sceptics alike. The titles include classics on achieving success, confidence and happiness, mindfulness, how to change your life, self-control, overcoming anxiety and self-esteem issues and stress relief.

The chronological arrangement of the titles reveals the intriguing story of how early self-improvement titles were succeeded by increasingly personality-based, materialistic titles and shows how breakout classics often influenced other titles for decades to come. Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what it has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each writer is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question.

This is a work of reference to dip into, that acknowledges that some of the most powerful insights into ourselves can be found in texts that aren't perceived as being 'self-help' books, and that wisdom and consolation can be found in the strangest places.

By: James M. Russell
Imprint: Robinson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781472141354
ISBN 10: 1472141350
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 29 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JAMES M. RUSSELL has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, a post-graduate qualification in critical theory, and has taught at the Open University in the UK. He currently works as director of a media-related business. He is the author of Brief Guides to Philosophical Classics, Spiritual Classics and Business Classics. He lives in north London with his wife, daughter and two cats.