Help Yourself
Self help books have been the big publishing success of the past couple of decades but it is not just a recent phenomenon. Back in the 1850s, Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the Origin of Species was outsold by a self help book. In an interview with John Humprhys on the Today Programme Radio 4 documentary presenter Kate Williams emphasized the fact that Samuel Smiles the author of ‘Self-Help’ concentrated on how individuals could improve themselves rather than improve their lives by manipulating others as in many of todays self help books. This immediately brought to mind Richard Denny’s books – Succeed for Yourself and Motivate to Win where he also concentrates on the individual determining their own success and espouses the virtues of Motivation not manipulation
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:51 am
i love to read self-help books on the internet. they can really improve your life.:.`
July 28th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
ther are lots of Self-Help books and programs out there on the internet and i find them very useful too.:..
September 28th, 2010 at 3:47 am
self-help is an interesting topic and i always want to be able to help myself and fix any problems:..
December 22nd, 2010 at 6:54 pm
there are many different book genres online but i would really love to read about self help books ;;`