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From Rage to Resolution
Every day we hear of another instance of person-on-person violence. We blame lax gun control laws and television violence because they are easy targets. The problem is more complicated than that. Society has denied us the use of coping skills necessary for dealing with righteous anger and frustrations. In From Rage to Resolution, author DeAnne Rosenberg provides tools for legitimizing anger and hostility, making intelligent decisions regarding hostility generating situations, and empowering people to confront conflict effectively. Using real-life situations and anecdotes of people confronted with challenging, anger-producing situations, From Rage to Resolution offers methods to help you reco...
Coaching that Counts
As the field of business coaching has expanded and evolved over the last decade, many different approaches to business coaching have been created. The authors of Coaching that Counts have written a practical, readable guide for developing, delivering and measuring high value business coaching. Coaching that Counts, combines insights and practical experience about how to achieve transformational change through the strategic application and evaluation of leadership coaching. The book provides expert guidance and is organized into three sections: - -Part one looks at proven client-centered approach to coach leaders within an organization with a focus on creating value for the individual. -Part two shows how to effectively manage coaching as a business initiative. -Part three provides knowledge, ideas and tools to evaluate the monetary and intangible value of coaching.
Intellectual Property and Private International Law
This volume examines the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, along with international problems relating to which court has jurisdiction and which is the relevant law in foreign cases and judgments.
Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide
In the United States and most parts of the world, law, policy, policing, and prevention work addressing domestic and intimate partner violence is created and enacted based on a violence model. Likewise, it is generally believed that all victims of intimate partner homicide are victims of intimate partner violence, through physical abuse, prior to the incident of homicide, and that this violence is reported beforehand. Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide takes a critical look at these misconceived notions and sheds light on multiple non-violent forms of controlling behavior that precipitate intimate partner homicide. The book bases its critical examination on a content analysis of court-filed...
Mental Leaps
Analogy—recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones—is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. Keith Holyoak and Paul Thagard provide a unified, comprehensive account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy, including problem solving, decision making, explanation, and communication. Holyoak and Thagard present their own theory of analogy, considering its implications for cognitive science in general, and survey examples from many other domains. These include anima...
By the Way...
The story of life can be greater than the sum of its parts. And so it is with the short life stories of Leslie Herman as he tells it in By the Way.
The Integrity Dividend
Corporate and government scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of leaders. While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and their actions. Now for the first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In The Integrity Dividend, Tony Simons shows how leaders? personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organization. This groundbreaking book is based in on solid research and reveals that businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee commitme...
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The Taylors are moving from Houston to Rio de Janeiro where Mark will head Titan Global Energy's new Brazil affiliate. The high-profile job is an opportunity to reboot his plateaued, twenty-year career with the company. His alluring wife, Sara, is beginning a new phase of life as an empty nester. Both are looking forward to sharing the adventure of a foreign assignment with Norm and Lisa Nielsen, best friends from their early years with Titan and who already live in Rio. The day they arrive, Mark visits the Nielsen home expecting a heartfelt reunion. Instead, he finds their friends brutally murdered. The Taylors are devastated and embark on a perilous journey to discover the elusive motive for the crime. They will need the help of their new friends, the U.S. Consul General in Rio and an FBI Special Agent if they are to survive the effort. As Mark and Sara deal with the risks they face, the reader will vicariously experience living in the beautiful but dangerous city of Rio de Janeiro.
Encyclopedia of Kansas Indians
There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications. Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of the region to fully understand the history and culture of the native peoples that occupied Kansas and the surrounding areas. The first section is contains an overview of early history of the state and region. The second section contains an A to Z dictionary of tribal articles and biographies of noteworthy Native Americans that have contributed to the history of Kansas.
