1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 105 | Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long
past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and
healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple... more
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3. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Daniel Goleman |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 338 | There was a time when IQ was considered the leading determinant of success.
In this fascinating book, based on brain and behavioral research, Daniel
Goleman argues that our IQ-idolizing view of intelligence is... more
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7. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Vintage) Kay Redfield Jamison |  Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 381 | In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a
mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this
book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells
of... more
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8. How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 449 | In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson
team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can
dramatically change our lives. Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover... more
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10. Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression Brooke Shields |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 461 | In 1980, when she was 15, Shields starred in The Blue Lagoon. In the
movie, her character accidentally becomes pregnant, and when her son is
born, he intuitively finds his way to her breast as Shields looks on with
love... more
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13. Boundaries Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend |  Rank: 642 | In order to call themselves good Christians, many people have drawn overly
flexible boundaries (unwilling to say no, always accommodating others'
needs) or overly rigid boundaries (to the point of being righteous... more
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14. Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine Candace B. Pert |  Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 672 | Intrigue at the "Palace": back-stabbing, deceit, shunning, love affairs.
This is not the plot to I, Claudius but the account Pert gives of her time
working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a.k.a. the Palace... more
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16. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 684 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down with the Dalai
Lama and really press him about life's persistent questions? Why are so
many people unhappy? How can I abjure loneliness? How can we reduce
conflict?... more
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17. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Dale Carnegie |  Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 753 | "Those who don't know how to fight worry, die young." This ominous advice
begins Dale Carnegie's bestseller, How to Stop Worrying and Start
Living, an eight-part treatise on the follies of worrying. Like other
Carnegie... more
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18. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Susan Jeffers |  Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 768 | YA Jeffers discusses the crippling effects of fear in her personal life and
explains how she formulated a course of action for conquering it. Her
answers are simple, her course of action difficult only because it
requires... more
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21. Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, Annie Mckee, Richard E. Boyatzis |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 901 | Business leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the work
environment do so at their organization's peril. Bestselling author Daniel
Goleman's theories on emotional intelligence (EI) have radically... more
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22. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky |  Rank: 916 | A hands-on workbook for therapy clients suffering from depression, panic
attacks, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship
problems, using case examples and written exercises to help clients
understand... more
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23. Against Depression Peter D. Kramer |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 1034 | Written as an answer to the question, "What if van Gogh had been on
anti-depressants," Against Depression manages to be more of an
exploration than a polemic, regardless of its title. While author Peter
Kramer (Listening... more
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25. A Short Guide to a Happy Life Anna Quindlen |  Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 1078 | "I'm not particularly qualified by profession or education to give advice
and counsel," confesses author Anna Quindlen, as she begins this tender
little instruction book. "It's widely known in a small circle that I make... more
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