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Martin E. Seligman

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Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a past president of the American Psychological Association, is a leading motivational expert and an authority on learned helplessness. His many books include Authentic Happiness and The Optimistic Child. Dr. Seligman's research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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Learned Optimism
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Written by Martin E. Seligman

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.00

Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an... Read more >

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What You Can Change and What You Can't
The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
Written by Martin E. Seligman

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.95

In the climate of self-improvement that pervades our culture, there is an overwhelming amount of information about treatments for everything from alcohol abuse to sexual dysfunction. Much of this information is exaggerated if not wholly inaccurate. As a result, people who try to change their own troubling conditions often experience the... Read more >
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What You Can Change and What You Can't
The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement Learning to Accept Who You Are
Written by Martin E. Seligman

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 24, 1995
Price: $14.95

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What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*
The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
Written by Martin E. Seligman

Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $14.95

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