How To Ruin Your Life Anthology

How to Ruin Your Life is a powerful self-help tool in the form of a work of humor. It is sardonic advice, presented with tongue in cheek, explaining how people can ''ruin' their lives. The essays cover topics such as ''Convince Yourself That Youre All That Matters,' Think the Worst of Everyone,' ''Pour Salt on Those Wounds,' and ''You Can Change People.' Seriously, though, to anyone who reads this book, it is an earnest warning about falling into traps of self-destructive behavior that can ruin any man or womans life. More than that, it comprises 35 steps that - if read and understood - provide a road map to making life work in the most effective way possible. It is humor and self-help all in one, delivered by Ben Stein, a man who has witnessed more than his share of people who did ruin their lives - as well as those whose lives have been wildly successful.

This book is a collection of Ben Stein’s "How To Ruin" Series: How to Ruin Your Life; How to Ruin Your Love Life; and How to Ruin Your Financial Life. These books will not only make you laugh out loud, they will allow you to honestly assess your life. Learn from these books—and for heaven’s sake, do the opposite right now!

Best-selling author Ben Stein brings you all three of his irreverent and humorous How To Ruin books in one anthology; How to Ruin Your Life; This book features sardonic advice on how to ''ruin'' your life, presented with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Topics include ''Convince Yourself You're the Center of the Universe,'' ''Think the Worst of Everyone,'' and ''Make the People Around You Feel Small.'' How to Ruin Your Love Life; The essays in this bitingly humorous book include such masterstrokes as; ''talk about Yourself Exclusively'' and ''Compare Your Love with Lovers You've Dated in the Past.'' This work will allow you to honestly assess how many relationship-killers you (and your lover) are currently engaging in. How to Ruin Your Financial Life; If you do the opposite of what this book tells you, you'll learn how to handle your finances appropriately. Some of the rules include; ''Collect As Many Credit Cards As You Can and Use Them Frequently,'' ''Compete with Your Friends to See Who Can Spend the Most,'' and ''Invest in Penny Stocks.''

Lisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min. Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother Jeffrey, in fact. But something's not right. And when Higgs's girlfriend presents him with a seemingly innocent hypothetical question about whether or not he'd give her a kidney . . . the exposed fault lines reach straight down to the foundations of his life. . . .

In his writing about Sufism, Idries Shah did some revolutionary things. Critically, and almost alone, he said that it was possible to divorce the essence of Sufi philosophy from what he insisted were secondary accretions of islamic culture and religion. Moreover, he said, in making this material available to the West, you could not only do this, you must do it. This is because, he believed, you can only absorb materials that are designed for your own time and place. Sufism as an essence may be 'truth without form' but, in order to penetrate into the human mind, it must be delivered in a package shaped to fit the receiving culture.'When something new enters a culture, there is a period where, like a new object being thrown into the chimpanzee pen at a zoo, all the chimps rush over to touch it, throw it on the floor, fight over it and so on,' he once told me. 'We must wait until the dust settles; only then will people be in a position to assess this material.'My father died in 1996 and the dust is settling fast. He leaves a body of work behind and, on this work alone, he believed, he should and would be judged. This anthology is intended to provide a basic sample of his work, an essential reader, to allow people to do exactly what he would have wished them to do: to think for themselves and to make up their own minds.- From the Editor's Note, by Saira Shah

E-artnow presents to you the ultimate Zane Grey collection, a book set consisting of the most notable novels and stories by this great author of the Western genre. Zane Grey,played a significant role in shaping the myths of the Wild West and paved the way for the western genre as one of its pioneers and the greatest writers of the genre. This edition includes: Betty Zane The Spirit of the Border The Last of the Plainsmen The Last Trail The Heritage of the Desert The Young Forester The Young Lion Hunter Riders of the Purple Sage Desert Gold The Light of the Western Stars The Rustlers of Pecos County The Lone Star Ranger Rainbow Trail The Border Legion Wildfire The UP Trail The Desert of Wheat The Man of the Forest The Mysterious Rider To the Last Man Tales of Lonely Trails Wanderer of the Wasteland Tappan's Burro The Call of the Canyon Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon The Thundering Herd The Vanishing American Under the Tonto Rim Captives of the Desert Wild Horse Mesa The Deer Stalker From Missouri The Great Slave Yaqui Tigre The Rubber Hunter The Ranger Canyon Walls Avalanche Forlorn River Nevada The Shepherd of Guadaloupe Sunset Pass Arizona Ames Robbers' Roost The Drift Fence The Hash Knife Outfit The Code of the West Thunder Mountain The Trail Driver West of the Pecos Raiders of Spanish Peaks Knights of the Range Thirty Thousand on the Hoof Twin Sombreros Majesty's Rancho The Wilderness Trek Valley of Wild Horses Lost Pueblo Black Mesa Stranger from the Tonto The Fugitive Trail Arizona Clan Stairs of Sand The Lost Wagon Train Shadow on the Trail The Maverick Queen The Dude Ranger Wyoming Horse Heaven Hill Fighting Caravans Western Union

In her previous lifetime, they had married for five years. He meant everything to her, but she was thrown away like an old shoe. After her rebirth, she gave him a divorce contract preemptively¡ª ¡°Divorce after one year, the terms of the contract are as follows: husband and wife shall not share a room or bed. Intimacy forbidden?¡± he raised his eyebrow. Who knew that after she got drunk one day, leaning on the headboard, he rested his deep-set eyes on her. "You broke the contract, Mrs, Li."

After a decade as a high-profile magazine editor, 35 year old Elayna now works from home, having traded her glamorous life for raising her daughter Hazel and caring for her lawyer husband, Paul. Two years ago Elayna and Paul lost a child and only now is Elayna's passion for life and sex returning. But with Paul spending long hours at the office, Elayna discovers longings for a young neighbour that could destroy everything she cherishes - even as a threat to Hazel emerges. Hanauer is editor of bestselling essay collection The Bitch In The House, published by Penguin UK.