{"product_id":"brief-guide-to-self-help-classics-9781472141354b","title":"Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom Dale Carnegie's\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e How to Win Friends and Influence People\u003c\/span\u003e, published in 1936, which has sold over 30 million copies to date, to the mind management programme of Professor Steve Peters' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Chimp Paradox\u003c\/span\u003e, a concise and insightful guide to seventy of the most influential self-help books ever published\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822721896528,"sku":"9781472141354B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781472141354-l.jpg?v=1785889238","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/brief-guide-to-self-help-classics-9781472141354b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}