books about: cooperation     books:       From Defiance to Cooperation: Real Solutions for Transforming the Angry, Defiant, Discouraged Child6 reviews John F. Phd Taylor Three Rivers Press, 2001 Important wake up call for parents I work with children that have every problem you can imagine and my own issues with one of my own children. It is always the parents that desire to have an outsider "fix" the child, feeling that it is the child who is at fault. Parents that cannot take a good close look in the mirror and embrace the messages that this book exposes and details will miss an opportunity to turn their family around, ...             The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation46 reviews Matt Ridley Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 Good evolutionary explantion of cooperation The subject is cooperation and its evolutionary origins. Fascinating dicussion of reciprocal altruism which is illustrated with games like the Prisoner's Dilema. He introduces the perhaps surprising idea that there are versions of the Prisoner's Dilema where slightly irrational nice people can do better than completely rational players. The ideas continue to build, each chapter expanding the ...             The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation13 reviews Daniel Yankelovich Touchstone, 2001 More Shared Space for Better Alternatives and Cooperation! Think of this book as a work of applied emotional intelligence. Fans of Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence at Work) will applaud this book, for it helps to expand the emotional intelligence of us all in collectively developing and agreeing to better solutions for emotionally and factually difficult issues. For some time, the decision theorists have been ...             After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton Classic Editions)4 reviews Robert O. Keohane Princeton University Press, 2005 A groundbreaking book Robert Keohane is one of the top five International Relations theorists today. His book "After Hegemony", written in 1984, is considered to be the iniciator of the neoliberal institutionalist school of IR. In this book, Keohane shows that although states live in an anarchic world and are racional actors, they can cooperate with each other through institutions. This book revolutionalised the ...             U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation After 50 Years Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2008 As Britain and the United States commemorate five decades of the special nuclear relationship embodied in the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA), two leading research institutes--one on either side of the Atlantic--have collaborated to examine that history. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, enlisted senior officials, scientists, ...             The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration2 reviews Robert Axelrod Princeton University Press, 1997 Fun to read A sequel to his prior book, "the evolution of cooperation". Iterated prisoner's dilemma is the center of this book, with a particular focus on the collaboration in the interests of competiion. No mathmatical background required and usefull referenced included.             Winning Cooperation from Your Child!: A Comprehensive Method to Stop Defiant and Aggressive Behavior in ...3 reviews Kenneth Wenning Jason Aronson, 1999 This book is a MUST for all parents. I have read SO many parenting books and this one rates up in the top 3, along with Parenting with Love and Logic and Raising Your Spirited Child. This book isn't just for parents of defiant/aggressive kids but for all parents. It is comprehensive, but simple to read without alot of redundancy to wade through. The author doesn't have any elaborate, complicated plans for you to follow, just ...             Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging and Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate60 reviews Elizabeth Pantley New Harbinger Publications, 1996 Excellent advice for parents This book is easy to read, in a friendly, conversational tone. I do not find Pantley patronizing or lecturing as a few other readers have suggested. I rather find that she comes across as "a good friend in the same boat". It works fine to read just a little at a time of this book if you are a busy parent with little time to spare for reading. I actually found myself reading it as slow as I could ...             Cooperation under Anarchy Kenneth A. Oye Princeton University Press, 1986             The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition33 reviews Robert Axelrod Basic Books, 2006 A tough slog at times but worth it I'm not the first reviewer so I won't provide a summary. This book can be a bit dense at times, especially if you're not a quant or charts person. I am, but you may not be. If you're not but are still interested in a descriptive discussion then you'd likely give it a 4-star due to skipping over a few sections.             Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations (New Studies in U.S. Foreign ...1 review Phillip E. Myers Kent State University Press, 2008 Diplomacy Controlled The Civil War; NOT The Other Way Around How close did Great Britain and the North come to blows while the American Civil War raged? Not as close as previously though, according to Caution and Cooperation author Phillip E. Myers. In his book, Myers goes against the commonly held belief that British involvement in the Civil War was imminent several times during that conflict. Myers overturns the commonly held assumption that war was ...             From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People's (East German) Army by the Bundeswehr ...3 reviews Frederick Zilian Praeger Publishers, 1999 Required Reading for Contact Teams (and the S. Korean Army) This book was orignially a doctoral dissertation that investigates the processes the Bundeswehr developed to assimilate the National VolksArmee (NVA) when Germany was reunited in 1990. That the plan was an outstanding success is attributed to Auftragstaktik (Mission Oriented Orders) and the idea that equals work with equals. There is a wealth of detail on the mindset of the NVA and what ...             Cooperation Without Trust? (The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust) Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, ... Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007 Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic society. Yet many recent surveys suggest that trust is on the wane in the United States. Does this foreshadow trouble for the nation? In "Cooperation Without Trust?" Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi argue that a society can function well in the absence of trust. Though trust is a useful element in many kinds of relationships, they contend ...             Conflict and Cooperation: Evolving Theories of International Relations Marc A. Genest Wadsworth Publishing, 2003 Designed to acquaint readers with the fundamental principles of and treatises on international relations theory, CONFLICT AND COOPERATION combines a broad range of historical and contemporary readings that provide a thorough, balanced view of International Relations theory.             Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in Business (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics) Robert C. Solomon Oxford University Press, USA, 1993 The Greek philosopher Aristotle, writing over two thousand years before Wall Street, called people who engaged in activities which did not contribute to society "parasites." In his latest work, renowned scholar Robert C. Solomon asserts that though capitalism may require capital, it does not require, much less should be defined by the parasites it inevitably attracts. Capitalism has succeeded not with brute strength or because it has made people ...             Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective Cambridge University Press, 2007 Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others are informal and flexible. They also differ in terms of inclusiveness, decision-making rules and commitment to the non-interference principle. This is the first book to offer a conceptual framework for comparing the design and effectiveness of regional ...             Classroom Management Strategies: Gaining and Maintaining Students' Cooperation1 review James S. Cangelosi Wiley, 2007 An Enjoyable Textbook! For those of you who are education majors dreading having to read yet another book on educational theory, dread it no more! I think this was the most enjoyable textbook I read while in college. It offers practical cases in which the ideal and less than ideal way of doing things is illustrated, which I found very helpful. Some of the advice might be a bit idealistic, but overall I felt that it ...             Aid: Understanding International Development Cooperation John Degnbol-Martinussen, Poul Engberg-Pedersen Zed Books, 2003 In this comprehensive study on global aid, the authors argue that no better alternative exists to replace taxpayer-financed aid as the main mechanism for promoting greater equality between North and South and within the countries of the South. It should therefore be continued while at the same time being made more effective and efficient, and the authors present ideas to achieve this. They conclude by examining new modes of financing development ...             Cooperation in the Classroom David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, ... Interaction Book Company, 1988             The Robbers Cave Experiment: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation. [Orig. pub. as Intergroup Conflict and ... Muzafer Sherif Wesleyan, 1988 Originally issued in 1954 and updated in 1961 and 1987, this pioneering study of "small group" conflict and cooperation has long been out-of-print. It is now available, in cloth and paper, with a new introduction by Donald Campbell, and a new postscript by O.J. Harvey. In this famous experiment, one of the earliest in inter-group relationships, two dozen twelve-year-old boys in summer camp were formed into two groups, the Rattlers and the ...              search for books agent-based, aggressive, british-american, bundeswehr, collaboration, comparative, competition, complexity, comprehensive, confrontation, cooperation, development, developments, discouraged, excellence, experiment, foundation, instincts, institutions, intergroup, international, maintaining, management, perspective, psychiatry, solutions, strategic, strategies, transforming, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: The Heroick Mr. Handel Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox