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Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence , we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of... (more)

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

by David Bach

What’s the secret to becoming a millionaire? For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich , Smart Couples Finish Rich, and The Finish Rich Workbook , what’s the real secret to getting rich? What’s the one thing I need to do? Now, in The Automatic Millionaire , David Bach is sharing that secret. The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story... (more)

Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

by Michael Quinn Patton, Frances Westley

A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in... (more)

Thinking as a Science

by Henry Hazlitt

1916. Mr. Hazlitt, journalist, literary critic, economist, philosopher, was one of the most brilliant public intellectuals of our century. At the age of 20, when he finally got a job at the Wall Street Journal as a stenographer, he had already finished his first book, Thinking as a Science. Contents: The Neglect of Thinking; Thinking with Method; A Few Cautions; Concentration; Prejudice and Uncertainty; Debate and... (more)

How to Speak How to Listen

by Mortimer J. Adler

Adler here gives the listener a short course in effective communication. Both instructive and practical, this work is invaluable to professionals as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

by David Richo

Using the metaphor of the heroic journey--departure, struggle and return--the author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health.

The Power of Mindful Learning

by Ellen J. Langer

Presents the concept of mindful learning, that is the continuous creation of new categories, openness to new information, & an implicit awareness of more than one perspective. Paper. DLC: Learning.

Happier

by Tal Ben-Shahar

Can You Learn to Be Happy? YES . . . according to the teacher of Harvard University’s most popular and life-changing course. One out of every five Harvard students has lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar’s insightful and inspiring lectures on that ever-elusive state: HAPPINESS. HOW? Grounded in the revolutionary “positive psychology” movement, Ben-Shahar ingeniously combines... (more)

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? In this delightfully witty, provocative... (more)

Get Smarter : Life and Business Lessons (Hardcover)

Get Smarter : Life and Business Lessons (Hardcover)

by Seymour Schulich

This is a mentoring book primarily for the 20-to-40-year-old with entrepreneurial aspirations. Many older folks will also derive considerable inspiration from the life and business lessons contained in Get Smarter. In examining his own life Seymour Schulich, a Canadian billionaire and philanthropist, realized that at age 20 he-like others his age-knew very little and was aware of that fact. At 30, he writes, one... (more)

The Way to Will Power

by Henry Hazlitt

What a thrilling little treasure this is, a completely rediscovered book by Henry Hazlitt from 1922 This is Hazlitt before he became an advocate of the Austrian School, and here he is not writing on economics but personal ethics as informed by ancient principles. But the pre-Austrian in him shines through, because it is an application of the theory of time preference he picked up from his reading. ... (more)

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Key to a Fuller, Richer Life

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Key to a Fuller, Richer Life

by Arnold Bennett

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day has helped millions manage their lives and their time by making the most of "the daily miracle"—the fresh allotment of time we receive every day of our lives.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to... (more)

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by William Strunk

The hardcover version of the most indispensable writing resource! Features a new Glossary of grammatical terms Includes a new Foreword by Roger Angell Retains the classic principles of English style You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style , the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to... (more)

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading,... (more)

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Emotional Intelligence

Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

by Daniel Goleman

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

by David Bach

Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

by Michael Quinn Patton, Frances Westley

Thinking as a Science

by Henry Hazlitt

How to Speak How to Listen

by Mortimer J. Adler

How to Be an Adult: A Handbook for Psychological and Spiritual Integration

by David Richo

The Power of Mindful Learning

by Ellen J. Langer

Happier

by Tal Ben-Shahar

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

Get Smarter : Life and Business Lessons (Hardcover)

by Seymour Schulich

The Way to Will Power

by Henry Hazlitt

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Key to a Fuller, Richer Life

by Arnold Bennett

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by William Strunk

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren