Verbal Judo is the classic guide to the martial art of the mind and mouth that can help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation.
Social conflict
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Auteur:Thompson, George J., Jenkins, Jerry B.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Archer, KatrinaSommaire:Untalented. Unwanted. Unbroken.Saroya: Untalented, a stain on her family's honor. Orphaned and barred from the Guilds, she has nowhere to go when her Talent fails to emerge. Loric: Brother-in-law to the king. Thwarted in his ambitions,...
- Auteur:Abercrombie, JoeSommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything. Chaos...
- Auteur:Birch, TonySommaire:
Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with...
- Auteur:Abercrombie, JoeSommaire:
For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But peace is just another kind of battlefield, and it doesn't last forever.
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Auteur:Archer, KatrinaSommaire:A murky past. A forbidden love. A deathly power.When the river spits Umbra onto its bank, naked and shivering, the only clue to her identity is the arcane brand seared into her skin. A brand hunted by both a murderous necromancer and a...
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Auteur:Gaskell, ElizabethSommaire:Gaskellâ's gothic masterpiece weaves the tale of a lonely old woman whose curse upon the murderer of her cherished dog unleashes unintended consequences. The impulse of revenge is turned to contrition after the discovery of an...
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Auteur:El-Bendary, MohamedSommaire:The author examines how Egyptians have received the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, and its progress in the two years that followed Hosni Mubarak's demise, from the moment the revolution erupted on January 25 to late in February of 2013, when...
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Auteur:Freeman, JohnSommaire:Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen...
- Auteur:Hilderbrand, ElinSommaire:
Elin Hilderbrand's brief, irresistible postscript to her #1 New York Times bestselling novel Summer of '69. Catch up with Blair, Jessie, and Kirby Levin ten years after the summer everything changed. This "Summer of...
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Auteur:ZWI, RoseSommaire:Cultural diversity, short stories
- Auteur:Dorries, Heather, Henry, Robert, Hugill, David, McCreary, Tyler, Tomiak, JulieSommaire:
While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and...
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Auteur:Kwan, KevinSommaire:Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown...
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Auteur:Forster, E. M.Sommaire:In turn of the century England, the Wilcoxes are wealthy, the Schlegels are intellectuals and the Basts are poor. But though they are from three different social classes, they are bound by passions, friendships and the occasional murder...
- Auteur:Franklin, Tom.Sommaire:
In 1897, in the rural southwestern area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered. Seeking retribution, his outraged friends--mostly poor cotton farmers--form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech...
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Auteur:Entel, RebeccaSommaire:Driven by curiosity about her small Carribean island, Myrna secretly excavates the ruins of a former slave plantation. Her investigation into the past will take a deeply personal turn in the present.
- Auteur:Palmer, Phyllis M.Sommaire:
In the era after Suffrage, white middle-class housewives abandoned moves toward paid work for themselves, embraced domestic life, and felt entitled to servants. In "Domesticity and Dirt", Phyllis Palmer examines the cultural norms that...
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Auteur:Kwan, KevinSommaire:When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't...
- Auteur:Schulman, SarahSommaire:
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses...
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Auteur:Badcock, T. C.Sommaire:In the early 1900s, Charles Noble Lewis and his family were prominent members of St. John’s high society. A chief engineer who worked for Bowring Brothers, Charles fraternized with many of the key players who shaped Newfoundland and...
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