Self Help

Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01

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Various


This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

What Dress Makes of Us

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Dorothy Quigley


A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…

Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes


Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

The Golden Gems of Life

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Emory Adams Allen


Life is full of ups and downs, joys and trials. In this work, we are advised on how to deal with what fate deals us, the good and bad, the c…

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Art of Stage Dancing

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Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

Bits About Home Matters

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Helen Hunt Jackson


This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary b…

Nuggets of the New Thought

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William Walker Atkinson


A series of essays by this forceful writer, constituting the cream of his magazine articles upon New Thought topics. The famous "I Can …

Woman as Decoration

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Helen M. Urban


A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

The Will and the Way Stories

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Jessie Benton Frémont


Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…

Spy Proof America!

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J. Francis Logan


A very impassioned piece from the first World War, introducing a volunteer civilian anti-spy organization to root out enemy spies from the U…

The Verbalist

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Alfred Ayres


Osmun arranges usage problems alphabetically and treats certain areas in greater detail as he sees fit. For example, his first entry is A-AN…

The Science of Getting Rich (version 2)

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Wallace D. Wattles


This groundbreaking book uses simple language to bring an astonishing idea to the world. Our thoughts, powered with the emotion of gratitude…

Improvement of the Mind

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Stephen Norris Fellows and Isaac Watts


"No man is obliged to learn and know everything; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons…

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

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Charlotte Mary Yonge


Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)

Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

The Prospective Mother

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J. Morris Slemons


A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …

Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

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Samuel Smiles


Self-Help is the book that gave its name to the whole genre of literature known by that name. It is full of profiles of individuals who, thr…

Calling God and Casting Lots

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Vic Zarley


Calling God and Casting Lots first shares a brief history of the practice of casting the lot by ancient Israelites as told in the Old and Ne…

Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette

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Marion Harland and Virginia Terhune Van de Water


Haven't you always wondered how to properly accept a formal dinner invitation? Perhaps you have a débutante under your wing, in which…

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