Personal Growth

Are You a Facebook Addict? A New Test Can Help Find Out
by Margarita Nahapetyan
Norwegian psychologists have created a Facebook Addiction Scale test, according to which women are at higher risk of developing unhealthy dependence to social networking. The University of Bergen scientists studied 423 college students

Mama's Boys Become Stronger Men
by Margarita Nahapetyan
For generations, men have been ridiculed for being a mama's boy and criticized for being too feminine. Even Sigmund Freud cautioned about the unresolved oedipal complex in boys, saying that guys who were attached too close to their mothers were destined

Facebook Users Opt For More Privacy
by Margarita Nahapetyan
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, online social network users are getting more concerned about their privacy and online reputation than they did a couple of years ago.

The Self Image: Your Key to a Better Life
Psycho-Cybernetics: A new Technique for Using your Subconscious Power
by Maxwell Maltz
During the past decade a revolution has been quietly going on in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. New theories and concepts concerning the 'self' have grown out of the work and findings of clinical psychologists, practicing psychiatrist

All About Nice Girls
Nice Girls Just Don't Get It: 99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned and the Life You Want
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., Carol Frohlinger
If you often feel invisible, taken advantage of, treated less than respectfully, or at a loss for how to get the things you most want in life - join the club. The nice girls club, that is. Nice girls are women who hold themselves back in life by conformin

Kids These Days
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: ... And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
by Adam Carolla
I have two kids, twins, a boy and a girl. My girl I don't worry about; I'm sure she'll have six-pack abs, be well trained in mixed martial arts and will at least be bilingual, hopefully not bi-curious. My son I worry about.

Life Is What You Make It; Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
by Peter Buffett
This is a book about gifts received and gifts given back to the world, about expectations and obligations, about family and community, and how they shape us. It's about living in a society that lulls us with unprecedented comforts, but also tweaks us

The Five Commitments
by Valorie Burton
The Five Commitments When life blindsides you, it feels like you've been knocked off your path and into a ditch. What determines whether you stay in the ditch or climb out is how you choose to think about your circumstances while you are going through

What Is Wisdom? From Philosophy to Neuroscience
by Stephen S. Hall
The days of our life are seventy years, or perhaps eighty if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away . . . So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. - Psalm 90 That man is best

The Genius in All of Us; New Insights into Genetics, Talent and IQ
by David Shenk
The Kid Baseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most "gifted" hitter of his time. "I remember watching one of his home runs from the bleachers of Shibe Park," John Updike wrote in The New Yorker in

Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
by Kathleen Parker
I know. Saving the males is an unlikely vocation for a twenty-first-century woman. Most men don't know they need saving; most women consider the idea absurd. When I tell my women friends I want to save the males, they look at me as it noticing for the

Different; Escaping the Competitive Herd
by Youngme Moon
When my eldest son was in second grade, he started bringing home poems to memorize. Each week, a new poem. So each night, we would memorize a verse, repeating the words over and over again until they were securely mimeographed into the folds of his

The Social Animal; The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
by David Brooks
This is the happiest story you've ever read. It's about two people who led wonderfully fulfilling lives. They had engrossing careers, earned the respect of their friends, and made important contributions to their neighborhood, their country, and their

Turn My Mic Up!
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy
by Shirley Strawberry
Turn My Mic Up! Steve Harvey and I have been giving advice on his radio show through "The Strawberry Letter" for more than ten years. It started in Los Angeles when our show was local. We decided to have an advice column based on my last name

If You Can't Get a Miracle, Become One
by Nick Vujicic
One of my most popular videos on YouTube shows footage of me skateboarding, surfing, playing music, hitting a golf ball, falling down, getting up, speaking to audiences, and best of all, receiving hugs from all sorts of great people. All in all, those

Love Is Letting Go of Fear
by Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
When I was fifty-four years old, I embarked on a miraculous journey that began with the publication of my first book, Love Is Letting Go of Fear. In fact, in many respects, it was a miracle the book was ever written at all. Dyslexic since childhood, I

American Bar Association Complete Personal Legal Guide: The Essential Reference for Every Household
by American Bar Association
How do you get your legal information? Today many of us surf the Web, moving from site to site as we search for the best information. The Web can be a great place to get information last. Inn ii can also be frustrating. If you're not using the right

Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt - or foil to adapt - to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet; for the most part, books about the world to come

The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood
by Angela Y. Davis
The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood When the influential scholar Ulrich B. Phillips declared in 1918 that slavery in the Old South had impressed upon African savages and their native-born descendants the glorious stamp of civilization

The Archaeology of Knowledge: The Discourse on Language
by Michel Foucault
For many years now historians have preferred to turn their attention to long periods, as if, beneath the shifts and changes of political events, they were trying to reveal the stable, almost indestructible system of checks and balances, the irreversible

Zen in the Martial Arts
by Joe Hyams
Several hundred books have been written about performing the Oriental martial arts, but no more than a handful address the significance of Zen in the martial arts. This is an unfortunate oversight since the martial arts in their finest form are much more

Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
by Peter A. Levine Ph.D.
Giving the Body Its Due Body and Mind Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power

The Art of Resilience: 100 Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World
by Carol Orsborn
"Life moves upward and lets the mistakes sink down behind it." - The I Ching Three thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese understood that every aspect of life is in a constant state of change. At any given moment, certain aspects of our lives

When Old Feelings Discharge
Emotional Resilience: The Unfinished Business of Your Past
by David Viscott, M.D.
When Old Feelings Discharge Complex emotions can be reduced to a simple formula, simple emotions can seem incomprehensible when you are embroiled in your own difficulties. When you hold on to a painful feeling, rather than express it spontaneously, you

Secrets for Success and Happiness
by Og Mandino
January 2 Welcome... Take my hand. Become my companion and friend in these pages. Fly with me to strange cities and follow me onto theater and convention hall stages, before large crowds, when I give my speech on success and happiness. Then relax with me

Thinking
How to Handle Trouble: A Guide to Peace of Mind
by John Carmody
Thinking In this chapter we begin our inventory of how our minds work and how we may best use them to ease our troubles. Nine subtopics engage our attention. First, we consider data - facts, information, what we need to know to get our bearings. Most

Imaging - What It Is and How It Works
by Norman Vincen Peale
There is a powerful and mysterious force in human nature that is capable of bringing about dramatic improvement in our lives. It is a kind of mental engineering that works best when supported by a strong religious faith. It's not difficult to practice; an

What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America
by Tony Schwartz
What does a life of total dedication to the truth meant It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world through our relationship to it... The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation

All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
by Dave Marinaccio
I work in one off the noblest enterprises ever conceived by man, advertising. My work environment is a stress-filled one. About the only thing taken for granted is that today's problems will be completely different from yesterday's. At its best, it can

Maybe (Maybe Not); Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
by Robert Fulghum
A rabbi and I once engaged in a friendly intellectual hockey match trying to choose a single word to summarize human wisdom. He submitted a Hebrew term - timshel It's found in the oldest story in our common literature - in Genesis - the book of