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  • von Thomas a Kempis
    20,00 - 30,00 €

  • von Dorothea Brande & GP Editors
    19,00 - 28,00 €

    One of the greatest self-help books ever written. More than two million copies sold. Wake Up and Live! is a practical handbook for every man and woman who wants to find success and happiness in life. Simply written and easy to read, it shows you how to overcome the obstacles that are holding you down. It will prove to you that the USE, not the quantity, of your brains is what counts most toward successful living. Wake Up and Live! has opened the eyes of thousands of readers to a whole new idea of living. Here is a book that can revolutionize your entire existence and put success within reach by teaching you to concentrate on the things that really matter.CONTENTS:I. Why Do We Fail?II. The Will to FailIII. Victims of the Will to Fail IV. The Rewards of FailureV. Righting the DirectionVI. The System in OperationVII. Warnings and Qualifications VIII. On Saving BreathIX. The Task of the Imagination X. On Codes and Standards XI. Twelve Disciplines XII. And the Best of Luck!ABOUT THE AUTHOR:American author, lecturer and magazine editor, Dorothea Brande, was the youngest of five children born to Frederick S. and Alice P. Thompson of Chicago, Illinois. Alice Dorothea Alden Thompson was born in Englewood, a Chicago community, on 12 January, 1892. Both of her parents were originally from Maine and had previously lived in Delaware where her three oldest siblings were born. Her father was employed as a manager at local business in the Chicago area. Brande attended the Universities of Michigan and Chicago, earning her Phi Beta Kappa key at the former. She went on to work as a newspaper reporter in Chicago and later as circulation manager for American Mercury magazine during the time of H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. In the 1930s she became an associate editor of Bookman magazine and later its successor (1934), the American Review. In the years to come Brande would also operate a nationwide correspondence school for aspiring writers and tour on the lecture circuit. In 1916 she married fellow Chicago newspaper reporter Herbert Brande. Herbert would later gain some notoriety as an editorial writer. Their marriage ended in divorce sometime before 1930. In 1936 she married Seward B. Collins, who at the time was American Reviews editor. Her inspirational book, Wake Up and Live (1936) was written during the Great Depression and was a best seller and her most successful book. She was also the author of Becoming a Writer (1934), Most Beautiful Lady (1935), Letters to Philippa(1937), My Invincible Aunt (1938) and others.

  • von James Allen
    16,00 - 25,00 €

  • von Al-Ghazzali
    17,00 - 25,00 €

  • von Sigmund Freud
    17,00 - 26,00 €

  • von John Milton Gregory
    17,00 - 26,00 €

  • von Neville Goddard & GP Editors
    20,00 - 27,00 €

    The Power of Awareness allows those who rebelled against a rigid religious upbringing to renew some of the images etched in their consciousness, only in a more loving, positive and universal way. Neville shows how change of consciousness is the critical factor in life, for consciousness is the only reality, the first and only cause-substance of the phenomena of life.Take an internal journey that will transform your daily life! In this, his most important work, he focuses on:*; Consciousness*; The truth that sets you free*; Attitude*; Subjective control*; Free will*; Faith*; DestinyABOUT THE AUTHOR:Neville Goddard is well known as one of the most influential teachers and writers of metaphysical work. Neville was born on 19 February, 1905 in Barbados. He was the fourth child in a family of nine boys and one girl. In 1922, Neville came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen. During his entertaining tour in England as a vaudeville dancer and stage actor, he developed a great interest in metaphysics. Hence, he gave up his entertainment job and devote fully to the study of metaphysics and spiritual matters. Neville gives the readers the necessary tools to understand and manifest what they desire in their lives.

  • von Florence Scovel Shinn & GP Editors
    18,00 - 26,00 €

    In this transformational classic, Florence teaches the power of positive thought. She explains how our thoughts and words affect the experience we have in our daily lives, and uses concrete examples to show how we can use them to bring more of what we want into our lives, including abundance, love and success. A wonderful and simple-to-follow book on the power of right thinking. This little book has inspired thousands of people around the world to find a sense of purpose and belonging. Whatever we send out into the world will eventually be returned to us, which means that if we give love, we will be loved, but if we hate we will in turn feel hated. Through what we give and receive, we shape our reality.The book includes the following chapters:# The Game# The Law of Prosperity# The Power of the Word# The Law of Nonresistance# The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness# Casting the Burden Impressing the Subconscious# Love# Intuition or Guidance# Perfect Self Expression or the Divine Design# Denials and AffirmationsABOUT THE AUTHOR:Florence Scovel Shinn was a woman ahead of her time. To many, she is considered to be among the likes of James Allen, Wallace D. Wattles and Napoleon Hill. She had the ability to explain her success principles and how they work in an entertaining and easy-to-read style. She can be considered one of last centurys most popular success teachers.Florence Scovel Shinn was born on September 24, 1871, in Camden, New Jersey to Alden Cortland Scovel and Emily Hopkinson. She had an older sister and a younger brother. She was educated at Friends Central School in Philadelphia. She later studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897. While there, she met Everett Shinn, a painter of impressionistic canvases and realistic murals. They married shortly after Florence graduated from the art academy. The Shinns moved to New York where both pursued their separate careers, Everett in the theatre while Florence did illustrations for childrens literature in magazines and books.In 1925, Florence decided to publish her first book The Game of Life and How to Play It. After unsuccessfully finding a publisher for her work, she published it herself. Her second book, Your Word is Your Wand followed in 1928 and her final book The Secret Door to Success was published in 1940 shortly before her death on October 17, 1940. A fourth book, The Power of the Spoken Word is a compendium of her notes, gathered by one of her students and published posthumously in 1945.

  • von Dale Carnegie
    18,00 €

  • von Niccolo Machiavelli
    18,00 €

  • von Dale Carnegie & GP Editors
    19,00 - 30,00 €

    How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job will help you create a new approach to life and people and discover talents you never knew you had. This bestseller shows you how to make every day more exciting and rewardinghow you can get more done, and have more fun doing it. Dale Carnegies time-tested advice will help you to:*; Make other people feel important*; Avoid unnecessary tension*; Get people to say yes*; Turn routine tasks into stimulating opportunities *; Smile in the face of criticismA life-changing book that has helped people around the world, How to Enjoy your Life and Your Job is your key to achieving success in your professional and personal life.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Dale Carnegie (18881955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills.He was born in an impoverished family in Maryville, Missouri. Carnegie harbored a strong love and passion for public speaking from a very early age and was very proactive in debate in high school. He went to the Warrensburg State Teachers College and later onwards became a salesman for Armour and Company in Nebraska. He also moved to New York in the pursuit of a career in acting and gave classes in public speaking at the Young Mens Christian Association.During the early 1930s, he was renowned and very famous for his books and a radio program. When How to Win Friends and Influence People was published in 1930. It became an instant success and subsequently became one of the biggest bestsellers of all time. It sold more than 10 million copies in many different languages. He also began work as a newspaper columnist and formed the Dave Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and Human Relations, with several branches globally.Carnegie loved teaching others to climb the pillars of success. His valuable and tested advice was used in many domains and has been the inspiration of many famous peoples success. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other peoples behavior by changing one's reaction to them. The most famous and cited maxims in the book are Believe that you will succeed, and you will, and Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

  • von Dale Carnegie & GP Editors
    20,00 - 35,00 €

    From ways to develop self-confidence and become a good public speaker to the secrets of memory power and good delivery, natural laws of remembering and the essential elements in successful speaking, this book discusses the ways of opening and closing a talk and keeping the audience interested.Drawing on Dale Carnegies years of experience as a business trainer, this book will show you how to overcome the natural fear of public speaking, to become a successful speaker, and even learn to enjoy it.His invaluable advice includes ways to:# Develop poise# Gain self-confidence# Improve your memory# Make your meaning clear# Begin and end a presentation effectively# Interest and charm your audience# Improve your diction# Win an argument without making enemiesIf public speaking frightens you and you're gripped by anxiety when asked to stand up and speak, then this book is right for you! It holds the key to fight away your fears.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Dale Carnegie (18881955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills.He was born in an impoverished family in Maryville, Missouri. Carnegie harbored a strong love and passion for public speaking from a very early age and was very proactive in debate in high school. He went to the Warrensburg State Teachers College and later onwards became a salesman for Armour and Company in Nebraska. He also moved to New York in the pursuit of a career in acting and gave classes in public speaking at the Young Mens Christian Association.During the early 1930s, he was renowned and very famous for his books and a radio program. When How to Win Friends and Influence People was published in 1930. It became an instant success and subsequently became one of the biggest bestsellers of all time. It sold more than 10 million copies in many different languages. He also began work as a newspaper columnist and formed the Dave Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and Human Relations, with several branches globally.Carnegie loved teaching others to climb the pillars of success. His valuable and tested advice was used in many domains and has been the inspiration of many famous peoples success. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other peoples behavior by changing one's reaction to them. The most famous and cited maxims in the book are Believe that you will succeed, and you will, and Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

  • von Emily Brontë
    23,00 €

  • von Robert Louis Stevenson
    21,00 - 30,00 €

  • von Charles Dickens
    17,00 - 26,00 €

  • von H G Wells
    19,00 - 29,00 €

  • von Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    16,00 - 32,00 €

    First published in 1943, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery has been translated into more than 250 languages, becoming a global phenomenon.The Sahara desert is the scenery of Little Prince's story. The narrator's plane has crashed there and he has scarcely some food and water to survive. Trying to comprehend what caused the crash, the Little Prince appears. The serious blonde little boy asks to draw him a sheep. The narrator consents to the strange fellow's request. They soon become friends and the Little Prince informs the pilot that he is from a small planet, the asteroid 325, talks to him about the baobabs, his planet volcanoes and the mysterious rose that grew on his planet. He also talks to him about their friendship and the lie that evoked his journey to other planets. Often puzzled by the grown-ups' behavior, the little traveler becomes a total and eternal symbol of innocence and love, of responsibility and devotion. Through him we get to see how insightful children are and how grown-ups aren't. Children use their heart to feel what's really important, not the eyes.Heart-breaking, funny and thought-provoking, it is an enchanting and endlessly wise fable about the human condition and the power of imagination. A book about both childhood and adulthood, it can be read as a parable, a war story, a classic childrens fairy-tale, and many more things besides: The Little Prince is a book for everyone; after all, all grown-ups were children once.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Antoine de Saint-Exupry was born in Lyons on June 29, 1900. Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the French naval academy and, instead, enrolled at the prestigious art school lEcole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921 Saint-Exupry began serving in the military, and was stationed in Strasbourg. There he learned to be a pilot, and his career path was forever settled. Saint-Exuprys next novel, Wind, Sand and Stars, was published in 1939. A great success, the book won the Acadmie Franaises Grand Prix du Roman (Grand Prize for Novel Writing) and the National Book Award in the United States.On July 31, 1944, he set out from Borgo, Corsica, to overfly occupied France and never returned.

  • von Maxim Gorky
    27,00 - 38,00 €

  • von George Gamow
    16,00 - 28,00 €

  • von Joseph Murphy
    15,00 - 25,00 €

    Wanting money is a fundamental right of every human being. They want to live a decent life which is possible only with money. It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life, and to be happy, radiant, and free. To obtain this wealth, along with the positive actions of your conscious mind, you have to train your subconscious as well. You are here to grow, expand, and unfoldspiritually, mentally, and materially. You should surround yourself with beauty and luxury.About the Author:Joseph Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boys school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.

  • von Joseph Murphy
    15,00 €

    Believe in Yourself by Dr. Joseph Murphy, first published in 1955, shows you how the power of believing in yourself will help you achieve your dreams. He illustrates his points with wonderful stories about how inventors, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs have used this power to reach the highest of heights. The book has proved highly motivational and has enabled many readers to overcome low self esteem and achieve their objectives in life. The author points out various ways by which one can overcome defeat, hardships and keep on the righteous track to succeed by using only fair means.About the Author:Joseph Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boys school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.

  • von Nk Sondhi
    18,00 €

    "My child is notorious, mischievous, stubborn. He is aggressive, disobedient and always in a mood of fight. He does not care for school and study. Remains busy with his smartphone. When obstructed, starts arguing."Generally, these are some of the complaints that every parent is ready to put forward. For every single mistake, parents are quick to scold and rebuke their children but they do not try to find out the reasons for their behavior. It is not that children suddenly develop all these traits in a day. It is a process of learning things that gradually thrives on what is available for them to learn from the people around.In the fast pace lifestyle of modern parents, children are losing not only their childhood but it is getting worse and becoming insecure. In addition to schooling, children should be made aware of qualities such as self-restraint, service-feeling, duty-consciousness, labour, sacrifice, goodwill, dedication etc. Undoubtedly the best school for learning these qualities is their own family.The very purpose of this book is to enable parents to grow their children as a good human being over and above their school education.Contents:1. The Purpose of the Book2. The Family Atmosphere3. School Environment4. Influence of Friends5. The Impact of Modern Life6. Technology7. On-Line Threats for Children8. Video Games9. Blue Whale and other Dangerous Games10. Other Killer GamesABOUT THE AUTHOR:N.K. Sondhi worked as a manager with Punjab National Bank for thirty years. His first book was Management of Banking which draws upon his experience as a Bank Manager. He then turned to fiction writing, bringing forth seen and unseen aftermaths of the partition of India in 1947 in his novel "A Cart Full of Husk" that was published in the USA. He followed it up with a short non-fiction book, "The Forgotten City of Delhi". He wrote his next book, "A Match Made in Heaven"; A 2000-year-old love story, based on the actual life of an Indian princes Suri Ratna, who became the first queen of Korea in 48 AD and founded the Korean Kingdom.Working with young people, as he pursued social activities after his retirement, he sensed the restlessness among youngsters, facing a large number of problems due to stiff neck-to-neck competition in every walk of life. This led him to write a book "Know Your Worth" with the young and enterprising writer Ms. Vibha Malhotra. On public demand, a Hindi version of this book was also published under the title of "Apni Chhamta Pehchaniye".The Advanced Technology and the Modern Lifestyle of parents have not spared even small kids. Following the footsteps of their parents, children have become high-tech children. They are busy with new gadgets then caring for their Education, Health and Physical fitness. This book provides some important measures for parents to save the childhood of their kids before they are lost in the wild and hostile environment of the Modernity. The book is also available in Hindi as "Mat Chheno Bachpan".

  • von Claudie Bristol
    25,00 - 35,00 €

    In this bestselling self-help book, a successful businessman reveals the secrets behind harnessing the unlimited energies of the subconscious. For more than four decades successoriented readers have turned to the nononsense, timetested motivational techniques described in The Magic of Believing to achieve their long and short term goals. Millions have benefited from these visualization techniques, which show how to turn your thoughts and dreams into effective actions that can lead to enhanced income, happier relationships, increased effectiveness, heightened influence and improved peace of mind.

  • von Sigmund Freud
    24,00 - 35,00 €

  • von Neville Goddard
    25,00 €

  • von William Walker Atkinson
    23,00 €

  • von A W Tozer
    37,00 €

  • von Neville Goddard
    23,00 €

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