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  by seas & 4 users

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Type: educational

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Status: finished

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Author: Gary Chapman

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Tags: selfhelp love marriage audiobook

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Description: Quite educational

2007-02-10

  by cubicgarden & 6 users

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Type: scientific

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Status: to read

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Author: Barry Schwartz

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Tags: selfhelp nonfiction poptech choice paradox

2005-10-21

  by reenum

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Type: business

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Status: disliked

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Author: Katy McColl

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Tags: selfhelp career

2005-10-09

  by younglove & 6 users

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Barry Schwartz

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Tags: selfhelp nonfiction

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Description: This book confirmed for me that I'm not insane for going into the grocery store and feelingThis book confirmed for me that I'm not insane for going into the grocery store and feeling completely overwhelmed. I took comfort in the author's advice to not save myself the extra $0.25 a product by wasting an hour trying to figure out which one is the best buy. It's simply not worth my time.

The book is cleverly written, light with lots of entertaining anecdotes and supporting studies. The author divides people into two groups, those who are paralysed by choice and spend hours analyzing each purchase and the potential losses of a final decison. These people in the end are less happy then those who learn to quickly make decisions and be satisfied -- not that they are getting the best deal -- but that they have a less anxious, more fulfilling life....

2005-09-09

  by younglove & 4 users

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Type: educational

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Status: disliked

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Author: Gary Chapman

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Tags: selfhelp nonfiction marriage

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Description: I read this book with my husband at the reccomendation of our therapist. The ideas in it weren'tI read this book with my husband at the reccomendation of our therapist. The ideas in it weren't all bad, however the writing is terrible. I'm pretty hard on self help books though . . ....

2005-09-09

  by aenohe

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Type: educational

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Status: favorite

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Author: Sark

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Tags: selfhelp inspirational

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Description: SARK, an author, artist, and incest survivor with many years of therapy and self-healing behindSARK, an author, artist, and incest survivor with many years of therapy and self-healing behind her, wishes to shine her "beacon of hope to the world" as she encourages and inspires women of all ages to become "succulent." She defines this as transcending past pains and feeling the freedom of full self-expression. Very candidly she shares the tragic, the glorious, the intimate, and the adventurous in her life, dispensing sage advice and a lengthy menu of readily doable suggestions for arousing creativity and nurturing self-discovery....

2005-09-04

  by aenohe & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: now reading

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Author: H. Gunaratana

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Tags: buddhism selfhelp inspirational

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Description: If you'd like to read about meditation and then go back to your regular life, don'tIf you'd like to read about meditation and then go back to your regular life, don't get this book. Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, warns us that vipassana meditation is "meant to revolutionize the whole of your life experience." In one of the best nuts-and-bolts meditation manuals, he lays out the fundamentals of basic Buddhist meditation, the how, what, where, when, and why, including common problems and how to deal with them. His 52 years as a Buddhist monk make Mindfulness in Plain English an authority on a living tradition, and his years of teaching in America and elsewhere give it the clarity and straightforwardness that has made it so popular. If you'd like to learn the practice of meditation, you can't do better....

2005-09-04

  by oohlaphlegm & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Tags: humour selfhelp chicklit

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Description: As the blurb says "Common sense advice, for an uncommon life." I wish I had readAs the blurb says "Common sense advice, for an uncommon life." I wish I had read this book and followed 'the bitch rules' sooner. One for all girls (and guys if they ever want to pull), not just singletons. Very funny and very intelligent....

2005-09-03