50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life (edition 2003)

by Tom Butler-Bowdon

Series: Butler-Bowden's 50 Classics

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Explore the life-changing ideas and words of some of our deepest thinkers, teachers, and sages. A brand new updated edition of the only book to distill the classic, life-chaging texts on happiness and fulfilment. New chapters include The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and The Power of Habit. Thousands of books have been written offering the 'secrets' to personal fulfillment and happiness: how to walk The Road Less Traveled, Win Friends and Influence People, or Awaken the Giant Within. But which are the all-time classics? Which ones really can change your life? Bringing you the essential ideas, insights and techniques from 50 legendary works from Lao-Tzu to Benjamin Franklin to Paulo Coelho, 50 Self-Help Classics is a unique guide to the great works of life transformation.… (more)

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Title:	50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life
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This is a great book because it manages to be entertaining and it introduces you to 50 different self-help authors and if you happen to like any of them, you can make a note and then take a deeper dive so this really helps because if you’re looking for a self-help book there’s so many books it’s almost impossible to decide where to start in with self-help. (

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laurelzito | Nov 4, 2023 |

Author offers great insight into different books but unfortunately, a summary only offers the essence but not enough meat to help you internalize. Still a good book to have to get a quick recap. (

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Wendy_Wang | Sep 28, 2019 |

Author offers great insight into different books but unfortunately, a summary only offers the essence but not enough meat to help you internalize. Still a good book to have to get a quick recap. (

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Jason.Ong.Wicky | Oct 9, 2018 |

Inside 50 Self-Help Classics, discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions, the proven classics of personal transformation.

Explore the life-changing ideas and words of some of our deepest thinkers, teachers and sages:
James Allen, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Paulo Coelho, The Dalai Lama, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Viktor Frankl, Benjamin Franklin, James Hillman, Abraham Maslow, Thomas Moore, Ayn Rand, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Florence Scovell Shinn, Henry David Thoreau.

Experience the inspiring wisdom of ancient philosophy and religion:
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Bible, Buddha's Teachings in the Dhammapada, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Way Of Power), Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

Gain insights from the gurus of personal transformation and the psychology of happiness:
Martha Beck, William Bridges, Alain De Botton, David Burns, Richard Carlson, Dale Carnegie, Deepak Chopra, Stephen R Covey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Wayne Dyer, Shakti Gawain, Daniel Goleman, John Gray, Louise Hay, Susan Jeffers, Richard Koch, Ellen Langer, Maxwell Maltz, Phil McGraw, Joseph Murphy, Norman Vincent Peale, Carol Pearson, M Scott Peck, Anthony Robbins, Martin Seligman, Samuel Smiles, Marianne Williamson

rajendran | Jul 20, 2008 |

An abridged collection of self help books and review given by author. (

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Fourborne | May 15, 2007 |

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Explore the life-changing ideas and words of some of our deepest thinkers, teachers, and sages. A brand new updated edition of the only book to distill the classic, life-chaging texts on happiness and fulfilment. New chapters include The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and The Power of Habit. Thousands of books have been written offering the 'secrets' to personal fulfillment and happiness: how to walk The Road Less Traveled, Win Friends and Influence People, or Awaken the Giant Within. But which are the all-time classics? Which ones really can change your life? Bringing you the essential ideas, insights and techniques from 50 legendary works from Lao-Tzu to Benjamin Franklin to Paulo Coelho, 50 Self-Help Classics is a unique guide to the great works of life transformation.

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