Hardcover Nonfiction

by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey · Grosett & Dunlap

by Thomas Merton · Harcourt, Brace

Contains primary source material.

by Fulton J. Sheen · Whittlesey House

by John Gunther · Harper

by Fulton Oursler · Doubleday

by Clare Barnes · Doubleday

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall

"Change your thoughts and change your life". Dr. Norman Vincent Peale demonstrates how you can think your way to success and happiness with his amazing time-tested techniques. Step-by-step, in clear readable language, Dr. Peale shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment and to open the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

by Billie Burke · Appleton-Century-Crofts

by Vincent Sheean · Random House

by Joshua Loth Liebman · Simon & Schuster

by Earl Wilson · Doubleday

A round up of various types of jokes, stories, quips and ad glibs by Earl Wilson.

by H.L. Mencken · Random House

A selection of choice passages from H.L.M.'s out-of-print writings.

by Lewis Gannett · Viking Press

by Dale Carnegie · Simon & Schuster

For the first time in trade paperback comes Dale Carnegie's classic, six-million copy bestselling guide to taking action and reducing life's worries.

by John Gould · Morrow

by H. Allen Smith and Ira Smith · Doubleday

H Allen Smith has sometimes been referred to as "the best-selling humorist since Mark Twain". Considering that he wrote against the likes of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, and S. J. Perelman, that's quite a statement. And probably true. He sold a million copies of each of his first several books, starting with Low Man on a Totem Pole. In this book, which might be called a fraction of his memoirs (Mr. Smith claimed he could have filled twenty), he recounts the high points of his life amid the human race -- a race he appreciated and observed with a keen nose for the humor hiding in the most unexpected places. Here is a panorama of unlikely people who really existed, of inconceivable things that actually happened, of the commonplace rarities of our frenzied epoch. Among others, there is the newspaperman who suffered under the delusion that Herbert Hoover had bladders on his feet: the man who thoughtfully and perpetually bounced turtle eggs on a bar: a deaf dentist who trained his dog to act as his receptionist; a child prodigy who couldn't talk any too well, but appeared to know more about swing music than the head usher at the Paramount Theater -- all these are part of Mr. Smith's life and times.