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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society.

Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries.

SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the “empowering” message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help’s “Recovery” movement.

SHAM also reveals:

• How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over—without ever helping them

• The inside story on the most notorious gurus—from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray

• How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, “executive coaches,” and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale

• How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything—from drug abuse to “sex addiction” to shoplifting—a dysfunction or disease

• How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good

• How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools

• How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will

As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done.


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Following the critical acclaim of his first book, The Miradors—Descensions of a Man, we arrive at Toolkit in Paradise, a decade of the best in American seriocomic reportage Finally, we have “the last thing we thought we’d ever need in the last place we thought we’d ever need it.” Fine-tune your wit and wisdom, laugh until it hurts, and cry until it hurts less as you travel through these painfully funny passageways to our most intimate inner selves—from the domestic front to the world stage—and beyond. And, yes—you CAN take them with you when you go. .
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Have you always wanted to fill your summer with flowers, herbs and vegetables, but feel cursed with a brown thumb? Do you think about turning that empty corner of your yard into a cultivated delight, but don't know where to start? Clueless in the Garden will help you quickly reap the rewards and pleasures of gardening. Clueless in the Garden is a simple and easy-to-follow introduction to the growing arts for the horticulturally challenged or the time-pressed, weekend gardener. Whether your interest is flowers, herbs, vegetables or trees, a balcony flower-box or a walking garden, everything you need to know is here. Flush with illustrations, diagrams, easy-to-follow charts, and numerous tips, Clueless in the Garden is your first reference for preparing the soil, choosing your plants, watering wisely, weeding effortlessly, the handiest tools, composting, fertilizing, and more. Written by gardening expert and enthusiast Yvonne Cunnington, Clueless in the Garden will help you understand balancing shade and sun, taking care of perennials, bulbs, and seeds, what to do and when through the gardening calendar, and how to turn the 'chore' of keeping your garden beautiful into a healthy, rewarding pasttime..
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Kintetic City Super Crew is a group of kids who receive a distraught phone call at the beginning of each adventure (here, ``. . .it is I, Claude Cloules, with a whale of a problem!'') and then ride the Kinetic City Express to the rescue. The Express is a train developed by the Defense Department as a fast reconnaissance vehicle which was donated to the kids of Kinetic City when it became politically unpopular with Congress. It includes a Cyber Car (for virtual investigations) and a Club Car (for 24-hour parties)..
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