Self help books for people who like science and hard-won wisdom.
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The Happiness Hypothesis
by Jonathan Haidt
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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
by Tom Rath
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
by Martin Seligman
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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
by George E. Vaillant
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by John M. Gottman
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated
by David D. Burns
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham
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Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without
by Tom Rath
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The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well
by Paula LaRocque
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Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived
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Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
by Christopher Peterson
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The Joy of Sex: Fully Revised and Completely Updated for the 21st Century
by Alex Comfort
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
by Howard Gardner
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The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy
by David Servan-Schreiber
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What You Can Change and What You Can't: Using the new Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
by Martin Seligman
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentnihalyi
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
by Daniel Goleman
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham
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NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
by Shirley Glass
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Listening to Prozac : A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
by Peter D. Kramer
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How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J. Adler
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Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
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The Happiness Myth: Why Smarter, Healthier, and Faster Doesn't Work
by Jennifer Hecht
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse
by Zindel V. Segal
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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
by Neil Strauss
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Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition)
by Robert B. Cialdini
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute)
by Richard Nelson Bolles
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Everything Bad is Good for You
by Steven Johnson
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius
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