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With a thorough and detailed breakdown of 21 brilliant communication tips and habits, Crucial Conversations provides you with an actionable road map to a more socially-confident you. In just seven weeks, you’ll uncover how to become less anxious, build stronger relationships, become a better listener, supercharge your people skills, and much more.

Copywriting is dead. Learn how to write copy that sells, and stop wasting money on your ads. 

This comparative case study utilized oral histories to illuminate the life stories of three Black men who navigated their way through trauma. The goal of the study was to better understand how they navigated education and life experiences to eventually earn doctoral degrees. The findings affirm and illuminate that despite their academic success, they suffer from residual unresolved emotional scars due to unhealed trauma.

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Indonesian While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Indonesian words and phrases effortlessly.

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Persian While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Persian words and phrases effortlessly.

Want to start speaking Afrikaans in your first lesson? With 3-Minute Afrikaans - 25 Lesson Series audiobook, you will easily learn the basics of Afrikaans conversation with lessons made by real teachers. You learn everything from greetings and talking about yourself, to making conversation and asking for directions or for the check at a restaurant. Plus, you'll get some special tips on how to sound even more natural when interacting with native Afrikaans speakers. 

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Romanian While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Romanian words and phrases effortlessly. 

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Japanese While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Japanese words and phrases effortlessly. How does it work? Just press play, and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher. Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times, so you'll retain them better - whether you're awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep.

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Thai While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Thai words and phrases effortlessly. How does it work? Just press play, and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher. Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times, so you'll retain them better - whether you're awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep.

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Dutch While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Dutch words and phrases effortlessly. How does it work? Just press play, and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher. Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times, so you'll retain them better - whether you're awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep.

Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. Learn easily with the power of pleasant repetition. With the Learn Filipino While Sleeping audiobook, you'll absorb over 430 Filipino words and phrases effortlessly. How does it work? Just press play, and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher. Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times, so you'll retain them better - whether you're awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep.

When children "push our buttons", we find ourselves reacting in ways that are far from our principles, often further inflaming a situation. When our children are at their worst, they need us to be at our best - or as close to it as we can be. Educator and family counselor Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, offers techniques that simply and directly shift these damaging patterns in communication and parental behavior.

Sometimes, in life, we are faced with problems and situations that we are unable to solve, and we waste a lot of time and energy without coming to a decision or solution that satisfies us. The world we live in is getting more complicated every day. You can only cope with our complicated world if you learn to control your thoughts and become a critical thinker.

At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K-12 education today - from school choice to testing to diversity to privatization. 

Learn how to tell a good story with Your Story, Well Told! Jam-packed with some of the best storytelling strategies, this manual gives creatives the confidence bump they need to make the sale, land the client, propose a toast, or impress their date. The following is (not) a work of fiction. We've all got stories to tell - but how do you make your story the best story? In Your Story, Well Told!, The Moth veteran Corey Rosen inspires you to get on stage and tell your story.

In the waning years of the 19th century, women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which many Americans lived and worked. Inventive writers whose in-depth narratives made headlines for weeks at a stretch, these “girl stunt reporters” changed laws, helped launch a labor movement, championed women’s rights, and redefined journalism for the modern age. 

This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate - writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now, there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality.

Learning doesn't only have to be sitting and looking at a page. With the new 2021 NASM Certified Personal Trainer Study Guide: Complete Review & Practice Questions!, it'll be easier. Each chapter is broken down to the key information that you need: tips and mnemonics for you to remember easier and multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter to test your knowledge! 

Are you a new in public speaking or looking to up your game as a public speaker? Are you struggling to get your message out, or not sure how to combat the nerves of speaking publicly? How to Speak in Public is a great guide to help you make a move from an average speaker to being someone who people admire and respect as an effective communicator. Mastering the skills of communication can be a complex and daunting task, but with this, those complexities are broken down into seven easy and actionable steps.

The purpose of this book is to give educators - K-12 and university professors - a practical and tactical method for using virtual reality in the classroom. I want educators to understand why it is important for students to be exposed to virtual reality, even if they’re not able to use virtual reality in the form of headsets or other accessible technological hardware.