Product Description: BE HAPPY WITHOUT BEING PERFECT is about learning how to reset unrealistically high expectations and replace them with realistic, attainable goals - for your home, family, relationships, job, body and bank account. Dr Alice Domar will share lessons such as: * Why we expect so much of ourselves and how failure to live up to our own expectations can have an adverse affect our emotional and physical health * How to stop being so hard on yourself when you fall short of your own expectations * How to alleviate the guilt and shame that perfectionism can trigger * How to accept inadequacies in the areas in which perfectionist thinking is particularly prevalent and damaging BE HAPPY WITHOUT BEING PERFECT provides the keys to releasing women from the straitjacket of stress and worry, showing them how to relax, enjoy and embrace what they have...read more

Product Description: Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound. Governments warn that no alternative exists to taking the bitter medicine they prescribe.Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse-on the left and right, in the environmental movement, and from capital and the state-and examines why the lens of catastrophe distorts ourunderstanding of the dynamics at the heart of numerous disasters and fatally impedes our ability to transform the world...read more

Product Description: We know that our beliefs influence our behavior and people's responses to us. Now, Dr. Richard Gillett explores the psychological origins of our belief system, explaining how self-limiting beliefs can be dislodged and replaced with positive beliefs that can, in fact, change our world...read more

The best of the letters from the Web site FutureMe.org, where anyone can write a letter to himself or herself to be delivered in the future, are presented in a collection that offers an insightful study of our culture and society. Original.

'Lynn Grabhorn's wildly popular book, Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, offered four fundamental principles for attracting what we desire most in life. Now Doreen Banaszak has created a sequel that not only presents a convenient review of Grabhorn's four basic tenets but also offers overwhelming evidence--from an assembled collection of personal accounts--that these principles really work'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: This volume brings together critical analysis of the phenomenon called interpersonal expectations--a sub-area of social psychology that studies how the expectations of one person affects the behavior of another in an interactive setting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How our fast-forward minds make something out of nothing We all know expectations matter—in school, in sports, in the stock market. From a healing placebo to a run on the bank, hints of their self-fulfilling potential have been observed for years...read more

Product Description: This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual tools for the prediction and explanation of social behavior and for designing behavior change interventions...read more