Download or read book Sham written by Steve Salerno and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Also available as an eBook
Download or read book The three shams the sham Peter called the pope the sham Church called infallible the sham Bible Douay and tradition three lectures written by Brewin Grant and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sham Squire written by William John Fitz-Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sham Squire and the Informers of 1798 written by William John Fitz-Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sham Squire and the Informers of 1798 written by W. J. Fitz-Patrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book The Sham robbery Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge on His Own Person in Newbury Near Essex Bridge Dec 19 1816 written by Joseph Jackman and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kenniston brothers were in trial for the robbery of Elijah Goodridge.
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Download or read book The Sham robbery Committed by E P Goodridge on His Own Person with a History of His Journey and His Trial with Mr E Pearson Whom He Maliciously Arrested for Robbery Also the Trial of Levi and Laban Kenniston written by Joseph JACKMAN and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sham Squire written by W. Fitz-Patrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Sham written by Stella Gray and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our marriage is a sham. I'm the first to admit it. Only privately, of course. Notorious playboy Luka Zoric needs a wife, and the good PR it brings. I just need the career boost being his top model will give me. It's a win-win--on paper. But since when has real life been simple? His jealousy makes me crazy. The control he maintains over my body is unacceptable. I really shouldn't be so turned on by it. But there's more to both me and my husband than meets the eye. And it isn't long before I'm wondering--which of us has made the bigger mistake? Book one of three.
Download or read book Rock the Sham written by Anne Maguire and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hammaming in the Sham written by Richard Boggs and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend has it that Damascus once had 365 hammams or 'Turkish baths' one for each day of the year. Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, hammams were absorbed by Islam to such an extent that many became almost annexes to nearby mosques. For centuries, hammams were an integral part of community life, with some fifty hammams surviving in Damascus until the 1950s. Since then, however, with the onslaught of modernization programs and home bathrooms, many have been demolished; fewer than twenty Damascene working hammams survive today. In Hammaming in the Sham, Richard Boggs travels the length and breadth of modern Syria, documenting the traditions of bathing in Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere, and his encounters with Syrians as they bathe. In his portrayal of life in the hammams he reveals how these ancient institutions cater for both body and soul, and through his conversations with the bathers within he provides insights into the grass roots of contemporary Syrian society. Approximately 140 color photographs accompany the text, portraying the traditional neighborhoods of Damascus and Aleppo, and the almost religious feel of the hammams. The author's intimate portraits of the baths' employees and bathers show a unique side of Syria rarely exposed to the outside world.
Download or read book Sham Great Was Second Best written by Phil Dandrea and published by Acanthus Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sham was a horse that seemed destined for greatness. He boasted a winning pedigree, a sleek and muscular frame, experienced trainers, and talented jockeys. Early races validated his potential, as he ran to victories by as many as fifteen lengths. After he defeated the mighty Secretariat in the Wood Memorial, many turf writers were touting Sham as the Kentucky Derby favorite. The stage was set for Sham-mania to sweep the country at a time when the nation needed a hero. But it was Secretariat who won over the nation. Despite impressive victories and record-breaking performances, Sham's popularity paled in comparison. If Secretariat was America's horse, Sham might well have been everyman's horse, a working-class hero who couldn't get the recognition he deserved. This is the other side of the story of Secretariat's famous Triple Crown season and of his remarkable challenger who found that great was only second best.
Download or read book Tale of a Great Sham written by Dana Hearne and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-nineteenth century Ireland, an agrarian revolution was brewing, spearheaded by the 1879 formation of the National Land League, who sought to a pathway for impoverished tenant farmers to own the land they worked. The ideas of the all-male organization were so incendiary for their time that, in 1881, its leaders created the Ladies Land League so "that the women might carry on the work after the men were imprisoned" and appointed Anna Parnell--sister of Land League president Charles Stewart Parnell--as its head. Tale of a Great Sham is Anna Parnell's account of the work of the Ladies Land League, as well as a detailed analysis of what she saw as the shortcomings of the National Land League's executive members. Anna was a committed radical and remained one even after her brother Charles had dropped his most progressive views in favor of what she saw as a watered-down compromise--the so-called "great sham" of the Kilmainham Treaty, which did little to alleviate the injustices suffered by tenant farmers. Featuring an introduction from the renowned feminist historian Margaret Ward, Tales of a Great Sham is a comprehensive study of an important group overlooked for too long in the chronicles of Ireland's radical past.
Download or read book Sam Spiegel written by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is the story of how a bankrupt refugee without a studio managed to produce several of the greatest films of all time: "The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, " and "Lawrence of Arabia." Film credits aside, Sam Spiegel led a flamboyant and uncompromising life, and the full story has never been told--until now. of photos.
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