Best books by genre: Health, Mind & Body

One of the representatives of the New Thought Movement was an American author Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924). He was not only a writer but also a doctor and a prosperous hotel owner. When being a student, he worked in a hotel and then purchased several hotels and a resort. He had some financial problems and had to give up this job. In 1893 he started working again and gained a position of a hotel manager in Chicago. It was at the time when many tourists from all over the world used to come to Chicago to see the World's Columbian Exposition. At that period of time he started to note his philosophical ideas as he wanted to inspire others like Samuel Smile gave inspiration to him. In 1894 Pushing to the Front, Marden's first novel appeared. His next several books were devoted to the questions of success, will-power and positive thinking. In 1897 Swett Marden started Success Magazine and for the next 23 years he wrote regularly for Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine Nautilus.

The main ideas of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's book are rather simple. But one shouldn't underestimate the meaning of her style. This is a "thought" about a young man, who is learning secrets of a wonderful mythical science - alchemy, which helps to transform stones into gold. It is a metaphor - the author wants to say that if we look in our own soul, we will discover just an enormous fount of strong spirit, will and power - one just should be able to see and develop it. If you are lucky enough to cope with them - you will take the treasure any alchemist ever had.
Ms. Wilcox explains why we need to work over our mind, our thoughts and how we are able to get the desirable thing. She shows how after a serious work on it one would be able to rather effectively and simply hurt, heal, conceal, using the facets of the human mind. The simplicity with which she narrates shouldn't confuse you, as every word she uses with definite purpose and deliberately.
The book can be considered as a perfect companion. It is simple, fair and wise. It is like a close friend who is able to touch your heart and it teaches us to be ourselves instead of pretending someone else. Withal the book can be regarded as a sincere conversation with a man who can give an advice, who has a wisdom to share with. That's why it is not amazing that one would turn to this masterpiece again and again and may be held it near to have an opportunity to reread it once more.
Ms. Wilcox experiences us, in the same time she shows the edges of our individuality, bringing it to the surface; simultaneously mocking at our light-mindedness and opening our potential Power and strength of Spirit. So, she gets an incredible effect playing on contrasts.
Ernest Holmes used her studies while working on his Science of Mind Philosophy. May be well-known motto comes it - change your thinking, change your life!
Anyway it is that sort of things one should think over!

Thomas Troward in his classic work The Creative Process in the Individual tries to explain the phenomena of reality speculating and using logical deduction and the law of cause and effect. He manages to convey his ideas and concepts to the reader very clearly and accessibly. The author states that there are two main factors: the individual consciousness and energy-matter. He gives explanations to such notions as Freedom, Joy, Light, Life, Love, Peace, Power, Truth, and Beauty. Thus Troward suggests that heaven is a state of consciousness, so that we don’t need to delay a heaven of joy, love and abundance…

This volume recounts a theory of rebirth and the principles of spiritual cause and effect. The author study traces the belief in the theory of reincarnation in different cultures and cast light upon the principles that carry this concept through thousands of generations.A fascinating and insightful document by William Walker Atkinson (1862 –1932), an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

"Your Forces And How to Use Them volume 1" is written by legendary author Christian D. Larson. This book is considered to be one of the bestselling in the world. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. The author describes various approaches to getting what you want, using metaphysical forces to your advantage. "Your Forces And How to Use Them volume 1" is recommended for everyone who enjoy reading gems of a classic literature. "Your Forces And How to Use Them volume 1" would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

This book shows intelligent ways of using our energies and forces. Already evidence is coming in from all sources, revealing results that frequently border upon the extraordinary. People can do much more with their life than they used to think; they can call into action, and successfully apply, far more ability, energy, and worth than his forefathers ever imagined. The aim of this book is not only to discuss human’s greater powers and possibilities, but also to present practical methods through which they may be applied, and to support as many as possible to study and apply these greater powers within them so that they may not only become greater and richer and more worthy as individuals, but may also become the forerunners of that higher and more wonderful race of which we all have so fondly dreamed.

This is a wise and fabulous story about love, passion and intrigue. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was at the height of her literary career. She still makes the same impression of a strong woman as she did a hundred years ago. Every page of her books still amazes readers. If you like stories in the style of Jane Austen, then you will definitely enjoy reading ‘Three women’!
In this book, Wilcox tells about a rich young man named Maurice Somerville, who comes to visit an old college friend, Roger Reese where he lives with his sister Ruth. Maurice falls in love, not with his friend’s sister Ruth, but with Mabel Lee, a neighbor. The things get more complicated with the fact that Roger is also in love with Mabel. Thus begins the incredible love story, full of difficulties, jealousy and passion.

A pioneering, positive book by Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924), an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. Considered to be a missionary of success doctrine the author offers readers to see the light sides of everything, avoiding irritation, nervousness and being in a stew, to enjoy every single day, learn to speak more pleasant words to each other. Marden makes believe that cheerfulness, optimism and good nature are the guarantee of success, health and happiness. Learn just how valuable happiness is.

An early feminist novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 –1935), a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. A pioneer of the twentieth-century feminism Gilman tell a story of women, who escape the repressive traditions of their small English home village in search of the opportunities for self discovery by moving to a progressive west. It is actually an essential reading, where the author touches upon the reformist complicated ideas of gender relations, social organization, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD. She is probably the first true industrial psychologist. Gilbreth's work is straightforward and contains many scientific facts. The book provides a real sense of industrial organization thinking in 1914, more than 100 years ago.