Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement pro
Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf w
This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their rea