found: Work cat.: Sincero, Jen. You are a bad ass : how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life, ©2013:p. 14 ("If you're new to the self-help world, I'm hoping this book will ease you into some of the basic concepts that totally changed my life so you can have a breakthrough, too") p. 15 (self-help books) p. 4 of cover (You Are a Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it.)
found: ODLIS: online dictionary for library and information science, Oct. 30, 2016(self-help publication: A book, audiotape, or videotape intended to assist the reader, listener, or viewer in solving a personal problem, for example, finding the best treatment for a physical illness/condition or the answer to a legal question without having to pay for professional services. Some publishers specialize in self-help publications (example: Nolo Press, providing legal books for laypersons). Compare with how-to publication.)
found: The book genre dictionary website, Oct. 30, 2016(Self-help; self-help genre; Books in the self-help nonfiction genre are based on one's own effort and resources to achieve things and goals without relying on the help of others. The books in this genre can be about self-guided improvement in one's economic standing, their intellectual state of being, and in their emotionally and self-worth state of being. They can also be about support groups, how to find them, and what they're about. The support groups provide encouragement and techniques to assist people with similar goals and needs achieve them successfully.)
found: Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2016:Self-help book (A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century.)
found: Whitbourne, S.K. Five things you need to know about self-help books, via Psychology today website, posted May 22, 2012, viewed on Oct. 30, 2016(Self-improvement books now account for at least a 2.5 billion dollar a year industry in the U.S. alone, increasing since 1972 to at least 2.5% of the total number of books in print; a good self-help book follows the principles of good therapy; a successful self-help book author establishes a relationship with you by writing a book that's relatively easy to use, makes you feel that there's hope for you, shows you that the author understands your problems, gets you to commit to working with the book, and gives you at least some advice right away)
found: 2005002017: Dolby, S.K. Self-help books : why Americans keep reading them, ©2005.
found: Copeland, M.E. Making and keeping friends : a self-help guide, 2005.
found: 2007037770: Laddon, J. Sally : the older woman's illustrated guide to self-improvement, ©2008.
found: Koay, D.L. Self-improvement books : a genre analysis, 2015.
