A Wide Range

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James Marcus Bach

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar

Scribner/Simon & Schuster

With only an eighth grade diploma, twenty-year-old James Marcus Bach became the youngest technical manager at Apple Computer and has since become an expert in the field of computer software testing.  In Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success, Bach discloses the innovative and unconventional personal philosophy that ensured his success.  

Pat Love, Ed.D. and Steven Stosny, Ph.D.

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

Broadway/Random House

In this guide to more connected and loving relationships, renowned therapists Pat Love and Steven Stosny instruct couples on ways to get closer without all of the discussion.  How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It has been featured in O and Elle, and praised by Michele Weiner-Davis, Harville Hendrix, Scott Haltzman, and John Gray, who calls it “inspirational…a practical guide for men and women to overcome their challenges and come together outside and inside the bedroom.”

Cloe Madanes

Relationship Breakthrough

Rodale

Cloe Madanes, an internationally renowned innovator in family therapy, has helped thousands of couples and families repair broken relationships and build strong, deeply satisfying bonds. With Tony Robbins, she has developed a unique system of techniques that anybody can use – in any type of relationship—to break through negative patterns and create new strategies for fulfillment. As Tony Robbins says in his introduction, “Whatever your challenges are, this book will bring you to a place of clarity, insight, and results.”

Judith Wright

The Soft Addiction Solution

Tarcher/Penguin

In The Soft Addiction Solution, self-help guru Judith Wright reveals methods for letting go of “soft addictions,” habitual activities like shopping, overeating, and watching television that steal time and energy from our lives.  Deepak Chopra says that The Soft Addiction Solution “reminds us that the physical, emotional, and spiritual nourishment we seek can be ours if we let go of habitual behaviors.”  Judith Wright has also been featured on “Good Morning America” and “20/20.”

Dr. Ellen Wachtel

We Love Each Other, But...

St. Martin's

This practical how-to guide by a leader in the field of marriage and family therapy presents simple and oft-overlooked methods for improving struggling relationships and enhancing devoted marriages. Harriet Lerner calls it “a gem of a book!  Run with the advice on these pages and your marriage will take a giant leap forward.” Sharyn Wolf says “We Love Each Other, But… is as warm as it is wise.…  You don’t need to have problems to benefit—this book will make a good relationship even better.”

Nanette Gartrell, M.D.

My Answer Is NO--If That's Okay With You

Free Press/Simon & Schuster

Using humor and insight, Nanette Gartrell, associate clinical professor at the Center for Excellence in Women’s Health, guides women from reluctant capitulation and bogus excuses to a short, sweet, and unarguable “no.”  My Answer Is NO has been featured at length in Ladies’ Home Journal, and Patti Breitman attests to the book’s “sound advice and fascinating insights on why we have trouble setting limits as women.  Dr. Gartrell shows us that even the most accomplished women in a countless variety of careers are challenged by saying no, and that they, like the rest of us, can learn to do it with conviction and joy.”