Useful NON Fiction books
Discover the best non-fiction books that educate, inspire, and transform. Explore our curated list of must-read titles across self-help, history, science, and more for lifelong learning.
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Growing Free
by Wendy Deaton
Break the pattern of abuse--safely! Battered women often become so frightened, isolated, and self-doubting that they don't recognize they are being victimized. They may minimize the seriousness of the abuse and make excuses for the abuser. The checklists, questionnaires, and personal stories in Growing Free can provide the shock of recognition they need to be able to say, "This is wrong. It has to end." Combining psychological insight with practical safety information, Growing Free helps the reader to understand--and end--the vicious cycle of wooing, tension, violence, and remorse that characterizes all levels of domestic violence. It outlines a series of steps abused women can take to ensure their emotional and physical safety. Growing Free offers both practical and psychological resources, including: lists of abusive behaviors from ridiculing family members to physical violence common rationalizations for abuse used by both victims and perpetrator detailed discussions of protection orders and other legal matters detailed preparations and safety precautions that may make leaving less dangerous advice on what to take with you when you leave guidelines for establishing safe relationships in the future Growing Free provides readers with a straightforward, action-oriented approach to the problem of domestic violence. A companion volume available separately, A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free, offers therapists a comprehensive outline of the issues, tasks, and goals involved in treatment with victims and survivors.
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Will Our Love Last?
by Samuel R. Hamburg
The author explains how compatibility is the key to lasting love and elaborates on three major dimensions: practical, sexual, and wavelength.
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You Can be Happy No Matter what
by Richard Carlson
Many people believe they can only be happy when their problems are solved, relationships improve, and goals are achieved. In this simple guide, Dr. Richard Carlson shows readers how to be happy right now - no matter the situation. His plan, based on the principles of Thought (thoughts are voluntary, not involuntary);Mood (thinking is a voluntary that varies function varies from moment to moment and these variances are called moods); Separate Realities (everyone thinks in a unique way and lives in separate psychological realities); Feelings (feelings and emotions serve as a barometer for when one is "off-track" and headed for unhappiness); and the Present Moment (the only time when genuine contentment, satisfaction, and happiness).& This timeless book guides readers through life's challenges and restores the joy of living along the way.
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Get Your Share
by Julie Stav
Financial planner and broker Julie Stav has been helping women get rich for years through her network of investment clubs and her media and speaking appearances. Now, for the first time, she offers her hands-on techniques and inspiring advice in a book that does the seemingly impossible: It simplifies the stock market and puts a new world of wealth within reach. The stock market has come a long way since the days of blue bloods, blue chips, and blue suits. Today, everyday, ordinary people of all backgrounds and income levels -- including millions of women -- are investing in the American Dream, and even more are wondering whether now is the time to get their share. You don't have to be a mathematician or a money expert to make a profit in the stock market, says Julie Stav -- all you need is your initial investment (whether large or small) and a sound grasp of some basic principles that can help you pick winners, recognize great opportunities, and ditch the duds before they drain your funds. In addition to guidance on getting started, she offers tips on finding (or founding) an investment club -- a support system that, properly managed, can give you a major advantage in the market. If you're already investing -- or interested in finding out how to do it -- Julie Stav can make it easier than you ever imagined. Smart, sensible, and down-to-earth, this book is the ideal guide for women who want to invest in their dreams.
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The Personality Compass
by Diane Turner
This exciting new system equates the four points of the compass with four fundamental types of human nature: Assertive Norths, Analytical Easts, Cooperative Souths & Creative Wests.
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60 Seconds & You're Hired
by Robin Ryan
A practical job seeker's guide combines helpful advice and simple-to-follow techniques for mastering the interview process and landing the perfect job.
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How to Win a Local Election
by Lawrence Grey
"This is the most practical, most detailed handbook ever published on the techniques and approaches you need to run a successful campaign for any local office." "More of a "must-do" book than a how-to book, How to Win a Local Election guides readers through the campaign process detailing what they need to accomplish along the way in order to be victorious."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Choice Theory
by William Glasser
Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship鈥揹estroying external control psychology. For example, if you are in an unhappy relationship right now, he proposes that one or both of you could be using external control psychology on the other. He goes further. And suggests that misery is always related to a current unsatisfying relationship. Contrary to what you may believe, your troubles are always now, never in the past. No one can change what happened yesterday.
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I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You
by Roger R. Pearman
Discover startling new perspectives on personality type.
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Unlock Behavior, Unleash Profits
by Leslie Wilk Braksick
The founder of The Continuous Learning Group, a consulting firm to the "Fortune" 100, shows step-by-step how to apply behavioral psychology in the workplace to improve leadership, productivity, and profitability.
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Change the World
by Robert E. Quinn
In this empowering book, Robert E. Quinn, author of the highly successful and influential Deep Change, gives readers the courage to use personal transformation to positively impact their home life, work life, and communities -- to be what he refers to as "inner-directed and outer-focused." We are all potential change agents, but most of us are trapped by belief that we as individuals cannot make a difference. Informed by the teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- three of the most successful change agents ever -- Quinn outlines eight steps each of us can take to move ourselves and others to the highest levels of excellence. Following his advice, each of us can access and apply the power that lies within us in ways that will change our world for the better.
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Self Creation
by George H. Weinberg
A psychotherapist's explication of the key principle underlying personality formation and transformation brings to light the origins of feelings, attitudes, and beliefs and ways of freeing oneself from depression, anxiety, shyness, fear, and other destructive tendencies
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Lifeskills
by Dr. Redford Williams
Here are the eight skills this book will help you master: 1. Identify your thoughts and feelings: how to tap into your feelings, especially the negative ones 2. Evaluate your negative feelings, negative thoughts, and options: how to decide when to take action 3. Communicate better: how to be a more effective listener and speaker 4. Empathize with others to understand their behavior: how to appreciate a situation from someone else's point of view 5. Do problem-solving: how to define the problem, generate alternatives, and evaluate the outcomes 6. Practice assertion: how to get others to do what you want 7. Practice acceptance: how to back off without feeling like a failure 8. Emphasize the positive: how to build better relationships using a proven ratio of positive to negative interactions Lifeskills shows how building better relationships is an essential part of preserving health--and offers eight clear steps anyone can use to make that happen.
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Why Can't We Talk?
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Teen contributors write about those things they can't talk about with their parents: sex, drugs, and drinking, but also the need to be believed, trusted, and loved.
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The Ultimate Office Survival Guide
by Leonard Rogoff
Business communication essentials, with 50 sample business letters.
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How to Say it from the Heart
by Jack Griffin
Those times when saying the right words really matters are often the times we find ourselves with no words at all! Now a guide exists that teaches the reader to properly place emphasis and focus on the emotional side of communication. How to Say It from the Heart offers practical advice and time-saving model conversations, letters, and e-mails that鈥檒l help you speak and write with conviction, sincerity, and compassion to the people who matter most. Whether you want to encourage a friend through hard times, ask someone out on a date, comfort a grieving co-worker, or just let someone know that you care, this entry in the How to Say It series provides all the words you need to express your feelings beautifully. You鈥檒l find a wealth of ready-to-use models and guidelines covering 30 difficult to express subjects, including: 路 Making graceful apologies 路 Expressing sincere thanks and appreciation 路 Offering meaningful sympathy and condolences 路 Writing romantic love letters 路 Providing truly constructive criticism鈥攁nd real encouragement 路 Motivating your employees to work harder 路 Speaking to your children about death, divorce, drugs, and sex Filled with illuminating examples and telling notes, How to Say it from the Heart will become the one source to turn to when you鈥檙e looking for just the right words.
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Other People's Habits
by Aubrey C. Daniels
Applying the powerfully positive, groundbreaking system laid out in "Bringing Out the Best in People", Daniels shows how to use positive reinforcement to live a life filled with harmonious relationships.
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The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have
by Laura Gauld
The president and director of family education at the Hyde School, which emphasizes attitude over aptitude, effort over achievement, and character over talent, demonstrate how parents can enhance their children's education by improving family dynamics.
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Why Does He Do That?
by Lundy Bancroft
In this groundbreaking book, a domestic violence expert uses his unique perspective as a therapist to take women inside the minds of abusive and controlling men to teach them how to free themselves from the chains of abuse.