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'When it comes to books, the best-selling genre is not fantasy or romance or sci-fi but self-help, the closest thing we have to written guides on how we should live our lives. You might say the Bible is the oldest self-help book we’ve got, though it’s rumoured the earliest texts of this prescriptive kind were written in ancient Egypt. (Introduction)' 

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