books about: confrontation     books:       Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations Value Pack2 reviews Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ... McGraw-Hill Read this book This book is great at pointing out the subconscious decisions that we make during encounters with others. After reading the book and analyzing how you react in certain situations, you'll be able to improve the quality and effectiveness of your "high stress" conversations. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wishes to be a more effective communicator.             The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad9 reviews Walid Phares Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Incisive Information a Clear Expert So often our world is muddled with noise about terror. Walid Phares is a name I respect, read his earlier book, and this new one, The Confrontation allowed me to understand yet another layer. Generalities are out the window when you read his specifics. His command of the Arab language and his ability to navigate the subtleties is of course imperative.             The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America456 reviews Bill O'Reilly Broadway, 2003 Good criticism of the spin people First of all, Bill tells you what the book will be about. Then he proceeds to give you the important parts of the coversations with these so-called celebrities. I wouldn't want him to report every boring word in the conversations. This book is the opposite of liberal. I enjoyed the book every much. Bill is a good thinker and he says what he thinks. Read it and get smart. If you don' like it, ...             Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation10 reviews Yoshiyuki Tomino Stone Bridge Press, 2004 Gundam the way it was meant to be, at last. I must start this review by stating my bias. I love Yoshiyuki Tomino's work, and Gundam is my favorite saga of anime. This book, in my opinion, is the best piece of Gundam fiction hands down. As the original Gundam series neared it's end, Sunrise pulled the plug. The series was cut by almost a full season, forcing an entire story arc to be squished into a handful of episodes. About this time ...             The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need to Know to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home and in ...8 reviews Barbara Pachter, Susan Magee Da Capo Press, 2001 Very helpful Excellent summary of basics that are desperately needed by all of us. Steps are simple enough that people can actually practice and use them at home and at work.             CONFRONTATIONS: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact4 reviews Jacques Vallee Anomalist Books, 2008 A sober warning of the dangers of UFO contact. Now retired from the UFO scene, Jacques Vallee was one of the most sober, perceptive, and scientifically astute observers of the phenomenon. "Confrontations" is the second volume of his great trilogy ("Dimensions" and "Revelations" are the other two) which summed up his 40-odd years of research. As the title suggests, this book focuses on the dangers - physical, psychological, and even ...             Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior34 reviews Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ... McGraw-Hill, 2004 Recommended for Everyone After a very mild, but poorly handled (by me) confrontation at work, my boss recommended that I read this book. He felt it would help me learn tools to deal with the little squabbles that happen everyday in a hospital environment. It did- and also helped almost immediately with a personal problem as well. I had an altercation with a landlord soon after completing this book. He kept trying ...             Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-103 reviews D. A. Carson Baker Books, 2004 Two great books in one volume This book contains Carson's book on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) from 1978 and his 1987 _When Jesus Confronts the World_ on Matthew 8-10. Both books are excellent, and it's nice to have them in one volume. The original Sermon on the Mount book discussed some historical, critical, and theological questions within the main text, and Carson has now separated that material into appendices, ...             SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Confrontation Signature Series Guide BradyGames BradyGames, 2008 Team Up & Dominate! Are you ready to take part in up to 32-player battles and crush the opposition? Are you ready to eliminate the mercenaries and save the hostages?   Map-Specific Strategies Each map has its own secret sniper nests, choke points, and ambush locations. Uncover the best tips and tricks for each map!   Mode-Specific Tactics Control, Escort, Extraction, Breach, Demolition, Suppression, and Elimination ...             Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Handling Conflict, ...2 reviews Susan Benjamin McGraw-Hill, 2007 Great product and service This is an excellent book for the management or human resources professional who has to deal with problematic personalities on a regular basis. It is highly recommended!!             A Divine Confrontation12 reviews Graham Cooke Destiny Image Publishers, 1999 This book can be life changing! This particular book helped explain so many things that have gone on and are going on in my life. What excitement you can have when you understand the processes of transition and the symptoms! It really allowed me to comprehend moments of confusion and frustration in a positive light. Unbelieveably helpful. Four other friends got the book at the same time and it is a blast to understand what ...             Self-Confrontation : A Manual for In-Depth Discipleship8 reviews John C. Broger Biblical Counseling Foundation, 1991 Excellent resource This is a terrific book -- not just for the pastors or counselors who may use it with people seeking advice. It is, as the title suggests, a resource with which to confront *yourself.* Included in the lessons are plans for daily devotions. By using those plans, or perhaps expanding them over a longer period of time than just the week per lesson the book suggests, you could be prepared for ...             Making Sense of Suffering: The Healing Confrontation with Your Own Past8 reviews J. Konrad Stettbacher Plume, 1994 A healing book I discovered this book many years ago while I was undergoing psychotherapy for depression and anorexia nervosa. Contrary to another reviewer, this book does not propose a therapy that is merely talking into a tape recorder. With the aid of J Konrad Stettbacher's book you can learn how to help yourself become your own advocate and by doing so help your inner child recover from it's past ...             Clashes of Will: Great Confrontations That Have Shaped Modern America8 reviews John Broesamle, Anthony Arthur Longman, 2004 Public Policy brought to life Broesamle & Arthur's Clashes of Will is an exceptionally fine book. It embeds some of our most complex current policy issues in both historical context and in the life experience of some of our nation's most famous figures. This little volume addresses foreign policy concerns about promoting democracy abroad and controlling nuclear weapons, domestic policy debate about the proper role of ...             Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation3 reviews James L.; III Holloway US Naval Institute Press, 2007 Aircraft Carrier Operations Admiral Holloway's story begins with a destroyer torpedo attack on a battleship during the Battle of Suriago Strait in WW II. At the time Holloway was a lieutenant assigned as the gunnery and torpedo officer in the destroyer USS Bennion. There is a rule of thumb in the Navy that a destroyer making a torpedo attack on a battleship in a sea battle has a life expectancy of less than five minutes ...             Managing Difficult Interactions (Pocket Mentor) (Pocket Mentor) Hbsp Harvard Business School Press, 2008 In the business world, confrontations are inevitable -- whether they're with your employees, peers, bosses, or even suppliers and customers. Ignored or handled badly, confrontations can damage workplace relationships and ruin careers. This volume helps you master the art of effectively managing difficult interactions. You'll learn how to: Determine which confrontations are worth an investment of your time and energy Understand and ...             I Hate Conflict!: Seven Steps to Resolving Differences with Anyone in Your Life7 reviews Lee Raffel McGraw-Hill, 2008 Transforming Conflict through Courage & Grace When I picked up Lee Raffel's book "I Hate Conflict" and started reading it, I felt like she must have written it for people just like me. After 22 years of marriage, I found myself, my husband, and our interactions and behaviors on page after page. We were living in a toxic relationship, and our efforts-to-date had been ineffective. I knew there must be a better way for us to relate to each ...             It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal: How to Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive5 reviews Andrew T. Wainwright, Robert Poznanovich Hazelden, 2007 This is a must-read for EVERY parent As a father of 5 children I want to encourage all parents with young children (and those who are still in the planning stage) to read this book. Yes, the book is all about addictions and actually says very little about parenting, per se. But here's what it DOES describe: the seamy underside of life no one wants to talk about until it's (sometimes) too late. I hope none of my children (and none of ...             The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America Bill O'Reilly Broadway, 2001             Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice3 reviews William H. Riker Waveland Press, 1988 A great introduction to public choice theory Public choice theory is just full of interesting and counterintuitive results. It's most famous result, Arrow's impossibility theorem, says that democratic decision making over a fixed set of choices cannot be guaranteed to produce rational results--majorities might just prefer A to B, B to C, and also C to A. Furthermore, the only way to guarantee rational results is a dictatorship. These are ...              search for books addiction, aircraft, awakening, behavior, carriers, challenging, conflicts, confrontation, confrontations, conversations, democracy, differences, difficult, discipleship, escalation, expectations, exposition, handling, interactions, liberalism, personalities, promises, ready-to-use, resolving, retrospective, scientist, self-confrontation, signature, suffering, violated books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes we recommend Good criticism of the spin people leave a comment home  impressum - about us