It turned out to be partly a self-help book, partly a management manual, and partly a treatise on the principles of natural selection as they apply to business.

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As a self-help book author and Spirit Junkie, I found this behavior quite alarming.

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Nobody took his tales of bug eyed space aliens seriously but then he wrote a self-help book ?

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Mr Moreno, author of a spiritual self-help book known as the Family Bible, was tracked down after organising a lavish party that the police got wind of.

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She combined them into a new self-help book aimed at Milllennials, Generation WTF.

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It sounds like a bad self-help book, but what can you do?

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For those not put off by its remorselessly chirpy tone, this book contains some valuable self-help advice, not least in a discussion about luck, which, apart from the dumb kind, the authors believe is something that can be influenced.

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