The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Barry Schwartz

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock," comes a social critique of the obsession with choice, particularly in the realm of consumer goods, which the author argues is linked directly to the epidemic of anxiety and dissatisfaction in America.

Betty Shine

The Little Book of Cosmic Colour: Secrets for Colour Healing, Harmony and Therapy

This pocket companion shows how using appropriate colours at different times, you can bring balance and harmony to your life. Betty Shine shares the secrets of using colour to stimulate your senses and emotions, heal ailments and improve your confidence. She also shows how to "feel" invisible auras and how to use colour more effectively in the home, at work, and in what you wear.

Wendy Lustbader

Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency

Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.