Self-Help : Personal Growth

In a time of uncommon change and isolation, this book focuses on how to create environments where more individuals can feel cherished, productive, and fulfilled. Strategies are suggested for tapping into one's creative potential and putting that talent to work, resulting in greater health and balance in family, business, school, social, and civic settings. Topics addressed include the power of words, metaphor, natural guides to community building, learning styles, intercultural learning, core personalities, and ways to reduce stress and prejudice. more...

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Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different communication skills in careful detail, the book also contains guidance for the ongoing development of these skills, and is useful for professionals at every level of competence in communicating. Ellis promotes reflection and participation through exercises, encouraging not just passive reading, but active engagement.The volume has wide coverage – from making presentations, producing a concise CV and negotiating and asserting to debate on current issues of the real effectiveness of e-mail and PowerPoint versus face-to-face communication: issues very relevant to the contemporary work place. Drawing from experiences in his own successful communications training and consultancy business, Ellis bases his advice on the most recent developments in communications research, and clarifies with examples of current professional practice, making Communication Skills the essential aid to career advancement. more...

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It really is all about you!. Everyone loves taking personality tests. Presented in an easy-to-read format, this collection of entertaining and insightful self-scoring quizzes lets readers explore different aspects of their personalities with tests such as Am I a Risktaker? Am I in the Right Career? My Flirtation I.Q., and Am I a Spender or a Saver?. •Personality tests are hot—a Google search for “online personality tests” produces over 3,150,000 hits. •Personality tests are a staple in magazines such as Cosmo, Glamour, and Men’s Health as well as online sites. •Facebook and MySpace have recently incorporated interactive personality tests more...

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Part autobiography, part self-help book, part celebrity profile, part meditation on success and emotional health, Walter Anderson?s Courage is a Three Letter Word has been an inspiration to countless people since it was first published in 1986. It begins with a famous interview question directed to John Ehrlichman, a former Nixon aide and disgraced player in the Watergate scandal. With uncommon but characteristic candor, Anderson asks Ehrlichman why he hasn?t killed himself. Ehrlichman takes a deep breath and tells the story of what he went through in the face of national scorn and how he found the will to rebuild his life. more...

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Based on the authors' more than 20 years of research and practice, this unique, seven-step program challenges the conventional wisdom that healing occurs from the inside out. It shows that real change comes from building healthier relationships with other people, our own bodies, nature, and spirituality. The program can be used either without medications or in conjunction with them. more...

Price: $14.95