A snappy book of simple conversational swaps that reveals how to talk so everyone will listen Words matter. They can inform, soothe, sting, reverberate, and leave scars. And the wrong words can turn off--literally-- the listener, transforming what should be an exchange of information, feelings, and ideas into dead air time. So many of our dialogues with others are like scripts--we say the same things, ask the same questions, react in the same ways, and get the same (predictably bad) responses. Our verbal interactions with others often illustrate that famous...
A snappy book of simple conversational swaps that reveals how to talk so everyone will listen Words matter. They ca...
"On a handshake, I've trusted Donald Dell with my life." -Arthur Ashe, U.S. Open champion Good negotiators know the rules. Great negotiators know when to break those rules. And then there are the true master dealmakers, like the pioneering sports lawyer Donald Dell. Over the last four decades, he has fought for some of the biggest stars in the world-Michael Jordan, Jimmy Connors, Patrick Ewing, Andy Roddick, Stan Smith, and dozens of others. Dell is tough enough to look the general manager of the L.A. Lakers in the eye and say, "We can talk about the weather or the movies or...
"On a handshake, I've trusted Donald Dell with my life." -Arthur Ashe, U.S. Open champion Good negotiators know the rules. Great negotiat...
John Boswell s National Book Award winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church s past relationship to its gay members among them priests, bishops, and even saints when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a...
John Boswell s National Book Award winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking wor...
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. This insightful work will interest scholars of interpretive policy studies, critical public health and science and technology studies.
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. This insightful work will interest scholars of in...
