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Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon - not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues, relatives, and friends. The Anatomy of Peace asks, What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically...
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c2018
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"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Quinn deals with conflict on the playground: who will get to use the swing? Readers make choices for Quinn and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes five different endings and discussion questions"--
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[2007]
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This unique book supports parents who are struggling with the heartache of having a teenager or an adult child who is troubled, angry, or distant. Such rifts can cause unspeakable sorrow that parents too often must bear alone. Psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship...
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[2019]
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"Against the Wind is a story of six characters' second chances to make things right. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian...
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[2017]
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"Think about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about the issues that matter most. How well did it go? These conversations are vital but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them becasue we fear they might. What if, in these difficult conversations, we could stay true to ourselves while enriching relationships and creating powerful pathways forward? What if our divergent values provided...
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[2019]
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"It's time to take our lives back from a world of narcissism, entitlement, and toxic relationships. "Don't You Know Who I Am?" has become the mantra of the famous and infamous, the entitled and the insecure. It's the tagline of the modern narcissist. Health and wellness campaigns preach avoidance of unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, but rarely preach avoidance of unhealthy, difficult or toxic people. Yet the health...
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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In Resolving Conflict, beginning readers will learn about all the ways they can resolve and handle conflict in their daily lives. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they discover how they can build character by resolving conflict.
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Conflict is a normal -- and unavoidable -- part of friendship. The challenge is in handling fights appropriately. 'Conflict Resolution: When Friends Fight' can help. Chock full of familiar situations and helpful hints, this book gives readers the tools they need to develop this important character strength" --Back cover.
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2017.
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"New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah. Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned...
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[2004]
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Dr. John Townsend introduces a revolutionary approach to resolving problems and moving ahead constructively with those difficult people in our lives. Who's Pushing Your Buttons? takes an in-depth look at the "root" of why difficult people are the way they are, and assists with strategies to navigate these relationships in a way that maximizes change, growth and love between people. Most people have no idea how to reach out to, confront, negotiate...