Sentence examples for self-help bible from inspiring English sources

In the United States, land of the self-help bible and the group-encounter television show, repression and denial are close to cardinal sins.

Dr. Buxton, who has a doctorate in education, wrote the self-help bible on the subject, "The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families" (John Wiley & Sons, 1991).

Putting the canon aside, for the last few years I've had a self-help bible of sorts: a book that seeks to explain why, in the face of the dedicated assault on the values, people and places we love by forces indifferent to that fact, our immediate reaction is not always to put up a fight, but to curl into a ball and retreat.

Mr Moreno, author of a spiritual self-help book known as the Family Bible, was tracked down after organising a lavish party that the police got wind of.His death on December 9th rounds off a year during which senior members of almost every big drug gang in Mexico have been locked up or killed.

In many cases, people are reading the Bible or other religious titles, such as Father Marcelo Rossi's Catholic self-help book Agape, a publishing phenomenon that sold 7.5m copies in Brazil last year.

A self-help book?

Come To Win, out this month, is part self-help and part business bible.

In offering these assurances, our self-help manuals are the bibles of an age that likes to think of itself as democratic.

This time, the Coens expressed open affection for their lunkheads: Hi and Ed talk in moralistic platitudes culled from the Bible and self-help manuals, and, loving their snatched quint, they desperately want to do what's right — that's the comedy built into their outrageous behavior.

The resolve to make life better here is reflected in such volunteer organizations as the Newtown Action Alliance, Sandy Hook Promise and the local library's free "Books Heal Hearts" program that offers everything from the Bible to self-help books on tragedy and even primers for worried children like "A Terrible Thing Happened".

The most famous example was the translation (1870) of Samuel Smiles's Self-Help; it became a kind of bible for ambitious young Japanese eager to emulate Western examples of success.