Charm is the ultimate social lubricant. It puts people at ease and soothes tensions in any situation. Charm can stop feuds, create friendships, and even spread joy. It's what makes people laugh and want to be around you. With enough charm, you'll move forward in academia, achieve business success, and enjoy happier, more satisfying relations with loved ones.

"The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm" breaks down the individual components of the sometimes elusive trait of charm and reveals the secret to putting it to work for you. With his unique brand of humor, author Nick Casanova delivers examples of how different personalities-a stiff, a boor, and a charmer-would react in various situations and shows you how to harness the power of charm by focusing on five key elements: Flattery Empathy Self-deprecation Humor Calmness

It's entirely possible for anyone to master the art of charm. The principles outlined in "The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm" are timeless and can be tailored to fit every individual.

Susan Michaels tells about her life and how she survived through sheer willpower. Susan went on to develop a unique psychological theory that took her from the dark world she lived in to a world filled with light, love, joy, and happiness. Here she breaks through the problems and experimented with an idea. It worked in a way that was astounding She hopes others will experience great change and joy in their lives with the ideas presented in Out of the Darkness Came Light. Susan Michaels lived most of her life in Indiana. After retiring from teaching, she moved to Los Angeles, California and lives with her cat, Siah. Writing, painting, drawing, tutoring, and reading are a few of her favorite things to do.

What if you could see around the corners of your life? Wouldn't it help to know what the most challenging days of your life would be like BEFORE they hit?

There are certain days in life that stand out because they are among the toughest that you or someone you love will experience. Your quality of life and your experience on the journey through this world are a function of how you handle these days when they arrive. Will you be ready? Will you be strong? Will you survive and be better for it, or will you cave?

In "Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life," bestselling author and talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is here to help you prepare to confront what he believes are the seven most common critical days that you or a loved one are likely to face. This book helps make it possible for you to be there for yourself or to be the calm in the middle of the storm for someone you love when any of these difficult days arrive. Loss -- the day that you or someone you love has their heart shattered by death, divorce, or losing something of great value. Fear -- the day that you realize you have lived your life as a sellout and that every choice you have made up until this point was dictated by other people's expectations, not based on your own goals and desires. Adaptability Breakdown -- the day that the pressures of balancing your responsibilities and needs, along with life's demands, have become way too overwhelming, and you realize that you are in way over your head. Physical Health -- the day that your body or that of someone you love breaks down because of illness, trauma, or disease. Mental Health -- the day that the mind breaks down and betrays you or someone you love. Addiction -- the day that addiction takes over, and you or your loved one look a powerful destroyer in the face and realize that you are not in control. Existential Crisis -- the day that you or someone you love lose the purpose, compass, and connection to meaning in life and have no answer to the question "Why?"

Encountering these days can feel like hitting a brick wall. But while they will change your life, they do not have to ruin it. Dr. Phil's step-by-step plan for getting through the worst days is designed to help you feel prepared when it really matters -- in the midst of a crisis. Dr. Phil provides wisdom and resources that will guide you toward a solution that is right for you, showing you how to minimize disruption and maximize the recovery.

This book is not just about giving you a crisis-mode plan. It will also show you how to change your life now, before you get into a crisis, so that you are not behind the power curve when any of the seven days hit. You will be able to be a leader to someone you love during their crisis because you will know what to do. Dr. Phil says there are no exceptions: with the right attitude and the right information, every challenging day can be turned into a valuable life experience.

The balance and fulfillment you need is already present around you. You may have passed it by without recognizing it, and only need to turn around and start being more open to truth and reality. REVERSE is an inspirational and action driven approach to personal growth, with real-life success stories on overcoming adversity and obstacles, which sometimes turn out to be our very selves. This book gives you three simple steps on how to live a balanced, happy and more productive life. 1) Appreciate and value yourself as a person. 2) Identify what is not working in your life, so you do not repeat the same mistakes; set new goals, create new priorities. 3) Apply exercise, nutrition, and spirituality as a lifestyle for balance, and celebrate every victory as you experience your newfound peace and happiness within. "Simply a new vision, for a new world, with effective and applicable lifetime values" -Dunia magazine "REVERSE to see the fun and value in making smart choices for food and fitness on a daily basis" -Steven Koller, actor-Mad Men "Thought-provoking, inclusive of every culture and origin, with simple answers to complex and challenging life questions. An easy read with a positive, result-driven finish." -Dr. Nicoline Ambe, PhD, speaker and author of A Teacher's Note "An entertaining, powerful, and effective recipe on how to start living a life of balance, from an inspiring young author on his way to become a voice of motivation for a worldwide audience." -Martina Darnell, president, Society for Conscious Living

The heart is our most important - and perhaps most mysterious - organ.

Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this so?

Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre - each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint - heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in The Beat of Life he shares his discoveries, using riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche.

We each have a personal narrative about our life that incorporates stories within a larger whole. One or more of these stories may reveal roots of traumas or life-changing events that have impacted how we define ourselves-traumas or events that may affect our relationships today. In "Family Stew," author Anne Salter shows how we are created emotionally and demonstrates how we often form dysfunctional belief systems and relationships from legacies of relationships with family, religion, school, and other early experiences.

Salter presents a full examination of the relationship with our individual "self," from the time it first develops in family relationships and as it proceeds into all patterns of animate and inanimate relationships. She includes insight into forming associations with other people, ourselves, and our sexuality, as well as forming relationships with inanimate items, such as money, home, work, religion or spirituality, and government and politics. She also helps the reader to identify dysfunctional behaviors, beliefs and patterns of functioning.

"Family Stew" includes real stories of people and the ways in which their adult relationship choices directly reflect their childhood experiences. Salter presents a guide and tool to help you learn how to reclaim a healthy relationship with your individual "self" and with all of the other connections in the world.