Sticks and Stones helps parents teach kids how to speak up for themselves more assertively, gently, and effectively. Each chapter, based on the characteristics of a particular bird, uses a wealth of examples and imaginative exercises to give kids the confidence to speak truth to power.
This unique guide, beautifully illustrated with line drawings of each bird and informed by the author's gentle humor, will help kids be effective communicators and includes easy-to-follow exercises and sample scripts. Examples include:
Shut down bullies (The Way of the Blue Jay)
Overcome...

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This book discusses the limitations of the practice of imposing no fly zones and considers the potential utility of a no fly zone in the case of Syria.

Imposing no fly zones on governments that use force from the air against their own people has been a practice of the United States since the closing days of the first Iraq war. A no fly zone was imposed on Iraq from 1991 to 2003, on Bosnia from 1993-1995 and on Libya for three months in 2011. No fly zones have come to be viewed as an easily feasible, moderately costly, acceptably risky, essentially nonviolent form of intervention...