Explores what Proust had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive. This book also contains the author's own commentary on Proust.

Teaches you: how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for per hour and do whatever you want; and how blue chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs. Thsi book also shows how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist.

The latest book by Greg Behrendt, author of the multi-million plus copy bestseller 'He's Just Not That Into You', is another hilarious, wry and wise take on relationships and how to move on when one goes sour.

A self-help book for people who feel and act as victims, and that their lives are not really their own. The author argues that, by learning to take control over fears, weaknesses and negative feelings, a person can achieve freedom, and acquire the benefits that it brings.

In this book, the author presents a program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community. He proves that you don't need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain success - but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.

By examining the seven essential aspects of Da Vinci's way of thinking, this guidebook gives you the tools you need to enhance aptitude in every area of your life. Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help you master these techniques to create a personal and professional renaissance of your very own.

This psychology title explains how, by altering our perspective, we can achieve happiness, dispel disharmony and enter a state of perfect equilibrium - a state of flow .

In this book David Allen tries to make us work better, not harder. He offers over 50 productivity principles to help you clear your head and focus, enabling you to identify what drives you, what holds you back and how to be ready for anything.

A guide to transactional analysis. In non-technical language, it offers advice on gaining control of yourself, your relationships and your future, no matter what has happened in the past.

In February 1986 Byron Katie woke up one morning to a fundamental, luminous state of being. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realised she developed a simple method of self inquiry called The Work , based on four simple questions.

The classic guide to understanding and controlling one of the most common and frustrating behavioral problems. Based on years of counseling, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and sometimes humorous look at the problem that troubles everyone.

In this work, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in our lives, and awakening us to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment. He shows us how this simple meditation technique can enable us to be truly in touch with where we already are.

Few of us are armed with the powerful negotiation skills that prevent stubborn haggling and ensure mutual problem-solving. This title presents a few easily remembered principles that will guide readers to success, no matter what the other side does or whatever dirty tricks they resort to.

Psychiatrist Gerald Jampolsky's timeless message may be even more timely today - the only thing that stands between us and the awesome energy of love is fear. To live without fear, we must stop analysing it, stop agonising over it, stop fighting with it, and let it go.

Offers a set of practices for creativity in various human enterprises. This book provides readers with a sense of the role that the notion of possibility can play in different aspects of our lives. It shifts readers perspective with stories, parables, and anecdotes from the authors' personal experiences as well as from everyday heroes.