This is a great guide for anyone who enjoys life less because they can't eat dairy. Now I can serve and eat meals that appeal to everyone.

Great book for people who cannot eat or drink dairy products

I love this book! Newman has an eye-opening approach to matters of everyday life: my favorite chapters include the Man/Woman Thing, Do Talk to Strangers!, Giving in a Culture of Getting. It's not a problem solving approach - it's more about helping you to see your problems in a different way, in a new light, and that helps to make the problem actually go away. One of the more empowering books that I've read in a long time. I heartily recommend!! Even my husband (!) is enjoying it.

This book is not about self-help. It's about letting go of the things that are making you unhappy. Let's Develop offers individuals tools on how to develop again the way we did as children. That trying to get what we need is what is making us feel so needy.This book offers the only practical guide to gaining higher self-esteem that I have found. The tools in this book can give any person a greater sense of worth right away. You don't have to resolve the past or confront issues to feel better today. Today is about what you make of it. This book gives real guidelines on how to improve your life through giving.

I've read a number of books that claim that they can help you solve your problems. This book makes no such claims. Instead, the author relates stories that are easy to relate too and gives you techniques that you put into practice every day of your life. I have one copy in the office and the other at home, and everytime one becomes a little overwhelming, out comes the book. With each reading the book continues to grow.

If your jaw is wired shut due to fracture or surgery, this is the book that will keep you from bland food!

I'd heard of social therapy from some folks I respect, and wanted to read about it to gain a greater understanding. Unfortunately, this seems hard to do. Apparently, since this approach takes issue with the very concept of "meaning" or "having a point", then it is not conducive to a lucid overview. I found several aspects of this book population, people wishing to better themselves, philosophers, therapists, all of the above? It's hard to speak to so many different audiences in the same book. It seems to presume that the reader has read "Let's Develop", a previous work by the author. There are almost no examples of technique given. This may be in line with what seems to be a general pish-poshing of technique as being just another hatchet-man of categorization. Almost despite itself, the book makes some interesting points, even while denigrating the value of 'points.' Those it does make are not laid out until the last 10% of the book, and some not even there. For instance, there is mention of the value of "Wittgensteinian language games", but never a clear explanation or example of what they are. Again, it may be a function of the approach of social therapy that you have to "perform it" to have any use for it, and that to talk about it logically is to limit and pervert it. Yet it seems to me that some better way can be had for transmitting some of these ideas in book form -- otherwise, why even write a book to begin with? While obviously a very smart man (the preface and cover tell you that), Newman explains his concepts indistinctly over and over and over in a way that left me looking forward to the end of the last chapter so I could get it over with, while not wanting to quit because I kept thinking that there must be "more to it" on the next page. There wasn't. There needs to be a better book written about these ideas.