August 2011 | Self Reliance Summary

Pete's Angel: A Story of Self-Love Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an incredible book! Hunter Darden is an amazing woman! She brought her book to our school to share with us. We all fell in love with it and her. She also came to our school when she published THE EVERLASTING SNOWMAN. She touched all of hearts with both books. The pictures are wonderful and the...

Raising Self-Reliant Children Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I first discovered this book by Dr. Stephen Glenn and Dr. Jane Nelsen just before my son was born in 1988, when my daughter was three. I was very impressed with their ideas and have consistently used them ever since, with excellent results.Glenn & Nelsen state that self-reliance and self-responsibility...

Smart Moves: A Kid's Guide to Self-Defense Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It seems that life in North America gets more violent each day. It was refreshing to read "Smart Moves: a kid's guide to self-defense" by Christopher J. Goedecke and Rosmarie Hausherr because they don't try and sugar-coat reality. We have to be honest with children, and unfortunately, that includes teaching...

Phileas's Fortune: A Story About Self-Expression Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I can't recommend this book enough to parents who seek to teach their children that less is more and that it's not who you are, but what you do (and how you do it) that matters most. A lovely story. It was a little shorter than I expected, more of a picture book, but the illustrations are stunning. I...

The Real 13th Step : Discovering Confidence, Self-Reliance, and Independence Beyond the 12-Step Programs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is the "Missing Link."Dr. Tessina is absolutely correct in observing that yes - the 12 steps are an incredibly valuable program - in fact, perhaps even the only way to stop drinking. However, one does eventually "grow out" of them in some sense. That is, drinking has stopped for a long period...

Self-Reliance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Self-Reliance" is Ralph Waldo Emerson's most famous essay and is rivaled only by "Concord Hymn" as his most famous work. It is also his masterpiece; one often hears - sometimes disparagingly - that Emerson tried to fit his whole philosophy into each essay, and this comes remarkably close. There is far...

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY : Self Reliance and the Accountable Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The word "responsibility" carries an unfortunate moralistic implication, which Branden takes pains to dispel repeatedly throughout this book. Nevertheless, a light reading of this important work may create a false impression in the reader that Branden's term "Self-Responsibility" does in fact mean a...

Selections from Self-reliance, Friendship, Compensation, and other great writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." ~Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was...

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We must all, each and every American, thank Penguin for assembling this great collection of historic American essays and speeches, above all the charter our President has made with our people.President Barack Hussein Obama pledges: "We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has...

I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It is rare that a book comes along that all children will love. I say love all children because we have wee ones who are hearing or sight impaired and its nice to see a book that these children as well as able bodied children can enjoy. For the hearing impaired child the illustration will bring the book...

Affirmation Weaver: A Believe in Yourself Story, Designed to Help Children Boost Self-esteem While Decreasing Stress and Anxiety. (Indigo Ocean Dreams) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This wonderful book by Lori Lite offers children the chance to learn relaxation skills and a postive psychological outlook like no other work I am aware of. The beautiful illustrations and engaging dialogue surpass any other resources I have come across in my field of psychology. I look forward to utilizing...

Being Me: A Kid's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Self-esteem Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I wish this book was around when I was a kid. In a conversational manner, this author communicates specific tools that kids can use to feel better about themselves and about how they relate to others. There are also examples of how kids have already addressed issues of confidence and self-esteem. It...

The Economic Dependency Trap: Breaking Free to Self-Reliance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We all need someone in our lives that will tell us the truth, especially when they see us headed for danger. Calvin Helin is that person for anyone who is not where they want to be in life and want to make changes.Through the book THE ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY TRAP, Helin shows us how easy it is for us to...

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This illustrated book has been published chiefly for those who are new to country living, and/or who have an interest in self-sufficiency and in retrieving some of the "lost arts" which are appurtenant to traditional country life. The information is mostly introductory and rudimentary... a good start...

Self Reliance and Other Essays Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I know that many people don't like to read essays of any kind, but all I can say is that Ralph Waldo Emerson is simply different! Nobody has the gift to write essays and analyze life like him.His words and ideas are so powerful and deep that we soon...

Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We bought this tome just a few weeks before moving from the city where we'd lived our entire lives to a 20-acre rural country place miles and miles from any city limits. For the first year especially, we kept this book out. You would be astonished at its contents. It describes the pros and cons of water...

Compensation and Self-Reliance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This collection has two of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays. The first, "Compensation," is not one of his best or most famous but is one of the most representative. The staunch optimism so essential to his thought was perhaps never shown so clearly or thoroughly elsewhere. Emerson begins by saying he had...