Product Description: Self reinvention has become a preoccupation of contemporary culture. In the last decade, Hollywood made a 500-million-dollar bet on this idea with movies such as Multiplicity, Fight Club, eXistenZ, and Catch Me If You Can. Self reinvention marks the careers of Madonna, Ani DiFranco, Martha Stewart, and Robin Williams...read more

Product Description: Self-Relations Therapy is, in part, a synthesis of theory and practice from various prior traditions. However, the approach is more than an amalgam of ideas; rather, SR offers a meta-framework in which multiplicity – of form, meaning, presence, and so on – can be contained within an actively adaptive, aware, and present relational self...read more

Product Description: Heroic Self is different from other mental health resource books in that it is based on a relatively new discipline, clinical sociology. This broad practice perspective takes social influences on individual behavior into account and uses strategies to develop moral and spiritual aspects of human nature as well as to change personal and social behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the global ramifications of resistance to change, including winning and losing, teambuilding, motivation, management style, materialism, responsibility, and personal development (view table of contents)

Product Description: Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges...read more