Lists of Bests: Saafir's "Chicken Soup for the Skeptic's Soul" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/14666 Self help books for people who like science and hard-won wisdom. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:19:04 GMT en-us 0 50 36 0 0 The Happiness Hypothesis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89906 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89906"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465028012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1137445149_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Haidt</div> How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32899 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32899"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595620036.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Rath</div> Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14246 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14246"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465024114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi</div> Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20898 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743222989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Seligman</div> Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6876 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316090077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George E. Vaillant</div> The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17006 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17006"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609805797.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056460421_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Gottman</div> Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9807 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9807"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380810336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44270802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David D. Burns</div> First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19489 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19489"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684852861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Buckingham</div> Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222770 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222770"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595620079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Rath</div> The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236152 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236152"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0966517695.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula LaRocque</div> Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264950 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1557989303.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256710 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256710"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195167015.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Peterson</div> The Joy of Sex: Fully Revised and Completely Updated for the 21st Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29043 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140004958X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067452512_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Comfort</div> Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6929 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6929"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316172324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134626342_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Wright</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51649 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51649"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465026087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056445258_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Gardner</div> The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1900755 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1900755"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1579549020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Servan-Schreiber</div> What You Can Change and What You Can't: Using the new Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352381 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352381"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671885294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Seligman</div> Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/770476 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mihaly Csikszentnihalyi</div> How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333813 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333813"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0606325565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61542583_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwin B. Nuland</div> Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529259 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/529259"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553803522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Goleman</div> Now, Discover Your Strengths http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20764 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20764"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743201140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Buckingham</div> NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148554 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148554"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743225503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Glass</div> Listening to Prozac : A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2571453 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter D. Kramer</div> How to Read a Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567310109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mortimer J. Adler</div> Mindfulness and Psychotherapy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/520535 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/520535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593851391.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Happiness Myth: Why Smarter, Healthier, and Faster Doesn't Work http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021891 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Hecht</div> Happiness: Lessons from a New Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972775 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972775"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CC49FI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133614221_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Layard</div> Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31132 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31132"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1572307064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zindel V. Segal</div> Stumbling on Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2605847 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2605847"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400077427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Gilbert</div> The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59021 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59021"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060554738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Strauss</div> Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7191 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7191"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0321011473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert B. Cialdini</div> What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017477 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017477"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580087949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Nelson Bolles</div> Everything Bad is Good for You http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2843561 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2843561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/012NZZM4YVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Johnson</div> The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774844 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774844"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000OS889S.01-A2LRVD5RJFT04B._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24533002_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Aurelius</div>