Top Interpersonal Relations eBooks

Dealing with Difficult People eBook by Brinkman, Rick, Kirschner, Rick

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Dealing with Difficult People

Dance of Connection, The eBook by Lerner, Harriet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

In her most affirming and life-changing book yet, Dr. Harriet Lerner teaches us how to restore love and connection with the people who matter the most. In The Dance of Connection we learn what to say (and not say) when:

We need an apology, and the person who has harmed us won't apologize or be accountable.
We don't know how to take a conversation to the next level when we feel desperate.
We feel worn down by the other person's criticism, negativity, or irresponsible behavior.
We have been rejected or cut off, and the other person won't show up for the conversation.
We are struggling with staying or leaving, and we don't know our "bottom line."
We are convinced that we've tried everything -- and nothing changes.

Filled with compelling personal stories and case examples, Lerner outlines bold new "voice lessons" that show us how to speak with honor and personal integrity, even when the other person behaves badly.

Whether we're dealing with a partner, parent, sister, or best friend, The Dance of Connection teaches us how to navigate our most important relationships with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction.

Calling the Circle eBook by Baldwin, Christina

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

Christina Baldwin is the author of Calling the Circle, Seven Whispers, and most recently Storycatcher, which won a 2006 Books for a Better Life Award. She teaches and lectures extensively through her educational company, PeerSpirit. She lives outside Seattle, Washington, on Whidbey Island.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity eBook by Robbins, Mike

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

A guide for being a truly authentic (and happy) person by the bestselling author of Focus on the Good Stuff

''Authenticity,' says Mike Robbins, ''is enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who you really are, yourself, natural and without a mask in relationships, work, and life.' In Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken, Robbins offers the five principles of authenticity: know thyself, transform your fear, speak the truth, be bold, and celebrate yourself. He then provides action plans, exercises, resources, and anecdotes that demonstrate how to apply the principles at work and at home. Written for people who want to improve their personal lives and relationships, the book brims with inspiration and practical help, all grounded in cognitive and positive psychology.

Mike Robbins (Concord, CA) delivers motivational keynote addresses, personal development workshops, and coaching programs for individuals, groups, and organizations such as AMS, Apple, BMW, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, BP, Chevron, Yahoo, Visa, Netscape, Lucas Films, PayPal, and others. He has appeared in more than 100 television and radio interviews, including ABC News, Oprah and Friends (on XM radio), Forbes, Ladies' Home Journal, Washington Post, and others. Prior to becoming a professional speaker, author, and coach, Mike played baseball at Stanford University and then professionally with the Kansas City Royals. He is the author of Focus on the Good Stuff (978-0-7879-8879-1).

Church of Lies eBook by Jessop, Flora

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

From the Preface:

"My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe it's because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I'm saving a little piece of me, too.

I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didn't last long. While still a child, I understood that the church of the righteous was nothing but a church of lies.

When I was eight years old my father sexually molested me for the first time, raping me when I was twelve. I tried to kill myself. Beaten, molested, taunted, and abused by family members alleging they only wanted to save my soul became a daily routine, I ran from this abuse more than once in my early teens--even attempting to cross the desert on foot. My family hunted me down. I thought government agencies would provide me safety if I reported my father. Instead, police and social services colluded with the FLDS to return me to my family and I ended up back inside polygamy, right where I started."

Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS. It's a story you can't put down.

Antisocial Personality Disorder - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References eBook by Health Publications, ICON

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

Antisocial Personality Disorder - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry eBook by

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 51:11:52 GMT

"The next best thing to not having a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers."-Gay Talese

Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked.

Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Brothers examines and explores the experiences of love and loyalty and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassion-the confluence of things that conspire to form the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother.

"Brother." One of our eternal and quintessential terms of endearment. Tobias Wolff writes, "The good luck of having a brother is partly the luck of having stories to tell." David Kaczynski, brother of "The Unabomber": "I'll start with the premise that a brother shows you who you are-and also who you are not. He's an image of the self, at one remove . . . You are a 'we' with your brother before you are a 'we' with any other." Mikal Gilmore refers to brotherhood as a "fidelity born of blood."

We've heard that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But where do the apples fall in relation to each other? And are we, in fact, our brothers' keepers, after all?

These stories address those questions and more, and are, like the relationships, full of intimacy and pain, joy and rage, burdens and blessings, humor and humanity.