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Document Type

Forum Theme 2

Abstract

People buy and read books to gain something they lack in their lives. One might read a novel to have fun, one might read a philosophy book to rethink his/her worldview, or one might read a how-to book to learn an easy process for self-improvement. Self-help books, in particular, are explicit instruction manuals for achieving personal and relational well being (Zimmerman, Holm, and Haddock 122). By analyzing popular self-help books, one can discover what people believe they might be lacking.

Publication Date

Fall 2009

Journal Title

UNIversitas

Volume

5

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

30

Comments

Celebrating Excellence in Traditional Research in the Humanities: Selections from the Third Annual College of Humanities and Fine Arts Graduate Research Symposium. Each piece of student work is paired with an introduction written by the student's faculty mentor.

Edited by

  • Samuel Lyndon Gladden

Selected by

  • Tristan Abbott,
  • Kenneth Atkinson,
  • Betty DeBerg,
  • Kevin Droe, and
  • JoAnn Schnabel

There was a presentation that was included with this entry, but it was missing from the site on October 14, 2021 when UNIversitas was archived in UNI ScholarWorks.

Copyright

©2009 Kaori Yamada

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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