Best of
Communication

1991

Take Charge of Your Life


Jim Rohn - 1991
    Jim tells you what you need to do to take charge of your life and how to do it. Recorded before a live audience, this extraordinary program will teach you how to: ? Make your life better by making some small but significant changes ? Become more influential, wealthy, and powerful ? Transform responses into results ? Communicate effectively with everyone you meet ? Choose your attitude ? Affect people with words ? Control your emotions ? Be persuasive ? Refine your sales abilities and leadership skills ? Make the past more valuable ? Be prepared for the inevitable ? Study and analyze possibilities ? And much more! Take charge of your life today and gain the knowledge guaranteed to help you achieve your greatest goals!

Human Relations


Marie Dalton - 1991
    Authors Dalton, Hoyle, and Watts use a unique approach that gives you the opportunity to experience and analyze firsthand the contemporary issues of human relations in the twenty-first century. By weaving their varied professional backgrounds and knowledge into every chapter, they provide the insight and awareness that comes only from experience. Based on the sound content and research of the previous edition, HUMAN RELATIONS, 4th aims to deliver a dynamic and real-world perspective to human relations.

Secrets of Dynamic Communications: Prepare with Focus, Deliver with Clarity, Speak with Power


Ken Davis - 1991
    It takes the reader through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience.  The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery.Author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and he is now bringing those concepts to the wider community as well.  No abstract theories here, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results!  You’ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field.

John Rosemond's New Parent Power!


John Rosemond - 1991
     Now, the author of many best-selling books on raising children has combined his two most successful volumes into a single revised and updated edition for new parents -- and those who need new ideas. John Rosemond's New Parent Power!, presents the renowned family psychologist's complete philosophy and methodology from the original Parent Power! supported by the details of his Six-Point Plan For Raising Happy, Healthy Children. As always, Rosemond delivers with a highly readable and refreshing tone, urging parents to listen to their hearts and their gut.

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion


Anthony R. Pratkanis - 1991
    Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages.Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary research in social psychology, Age of Propaganda shows how the tactics used by political campaigners, sales agents, advertisers, televangelists, demagogues, and others often take advantage of our emotions by appealing to our deepest fears and most irrational hopes, creating a distorted vision of the world we live in.This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, recent election campaigns, talk radio, teen suicide, U.F.O. abductions, the Columbine shootings, and novel propaganda tactics based on hypocrisy and false allegations.

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation


David E. Zulawski - 1991
    However, most cases are still resolved by confession, not forensic evidence. Among the new topics covered in the Second Edition of this bestselling book, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them.Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book expands on the valuable topics in the previous edition to include discussions of:Telephone interviewingFalse ConfessionsField InterviewingSexual Harassment InterviewingConfronting the Alleged HarrasserPre-employment InterviewingNew Legal AspectsFrequently Asked QuestionsCovering the entire sequence of events that occur during the interview and interrogation process, this book provides a realistic building block approach that allows you to move from a preliminary accusation to an ultimate confession by applying practical rules to the process. It gives you the flexibility to select a number of different paths to proceed in an interrogation of a suspect. Useful in both the law enforcement and private sectors, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition allows you to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses, suspects, and even potential employees.

American Sign Language Green Books, A Teacher's Resource Text on Grammar and Culture


Charlotte Baker-Shenk - 1991
    Written for teachers with minimal training in linguistics, it includes many illustrations, examples, and dialogues that also focus on specific aspects of the Deaf community.

Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic


Steve Andreas - 1991
    A verbatim transcript of this master therapist and the author's astute analysis of her techniques, philosophies, and inspired improvisations.

Wedding Speeches and Toasts: Your Indispensable Guide to Writing and Giving the Perfect Wedding Speech


Angela Lansbury - 1991
    Along with sample jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and speeches, she gives advice on preparation, delivery, etiquette, and working humorous stories into the text of a speech. A great guide for keeping on track and in good taste.”—Booklist.

Speaking the Truth in Love


Henry Virkler - 1991
    It attempts to show that setting healthy boundaries is compatible with our biblical calling to love and serve one another. Henry Virkler is a Christian psychologist who has been teaching Christian counseling for the past thirty years. Other books include Broken Promises: Understanding, Healing and Preventing Affairs, Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation, Choosing a New Pastor: The Complete Handbook, and A Christian's Guide to Critical Thinking. Dr. Virkler and his wife have two sons and reside in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He teaches in the counseling program at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Talk, Trust, and Feel


Melody Beattie - 1991
    Ttheir wise observations help us let go of our desire to change the other person and take responsibility for ourselves as continue our journey toward wholeness.

Interpersonal Relations in Nursing: A Conceptual Frame of Reference for Psychodynamic Nursing


Hildegard E. Peplau - 1991
    Her framework suggested that interaction phenomena that occur during patient-nurse relationships have qualitative impact on patient outcomes. While the past four decades have seen a substantial expansion in the use and understanding of interpersonal theory, such as cognitive development and general systems theory, this classic book remains a useful foundation for all nurses as so much subsequent work used this work as its starting point. Springer Publishing Company is delighted to make this book available again.

The Articulate Executive


Harvard Business School Press - 1991
    

The New Era in Religious Communication


Pierre Babin - 1991
    

Love, the Way You Want It: Using Your Head in Matters of the Heart


Robert J. Sternberg - 1991
    "This relationship primer is based on uncanny good sense and shrewd clinical insight".--Publishers Weekly.

Men and Feelings: Understanding the Male Experience


David J. Kundtz - 1991
    David Kundtz, licensed marriage and family therapist. This workbook for men about men and their feelings is designed to help men understand more clesrly whst feelings are, the way feelings work--or don't work--and why.

The Language of Leadership : Sir Winston Churchill's Five Secrets of Public Speaking and Leadership


James C. Humes - 1991
    

Reading the Body: Ohashi's Book of Oriental Diagnosis


Wataru Ohashi - 1991
    Filled with diagrams, drawings, and sample diagnoses, this is not only a practical guidebook, but also a fascinating meditation on how to live.

What To Say To Get What You Want: Strong Words For 44 Challenging Types Of Bosses, Employees, Coworkers, And Customers


Samuel D. Deep - 1991
    What to Say to Get What You Want provides the right words to motivate, convince, or soothe almost any personality.