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Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known. The Mismatch of Conflict Styles: How to Handle It - Doing Life Together. If you’ve taken the FREE quiz on my website, drlindahelps.com, you know your conflict style–avoider, reactor or negotiator.

The Mismatch of Conflict Styles: How to Handle It - Doing Life Together

Now the issue is, does your style match with those with whom you are intimate? What happens when there is a mismatch of styles, e.g., you avoid and the other person reacts? Conflict can get stuck! The problem hits a stalemate or it doesn’t get resolved. In order to work with different styles of conflict, we need to learn to accommodate and make a few modifications in our own styles. If you avoid and you are with a reactor, you develop the classic pursue-distance pattern in a relationship. The reactor needs to be aware of how uncomfortable this if for the avoider and make efforts to calmly present their emotions and not overwhelm the avoider.

If you are a reactor with a negotiator, agree that emotion is important, but needs to be controlled. Amazon. Amazon. Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes:Amazon:Books. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit: Therese Borchard, Ronald Pies : 9781599952994: Amazon.com: Books. PERSONAL STALKER WILL FOLLO... Health & beauty — DIY STENCILED CORK NOTEBOOK  Visual Dictionary Online. GoodReads. Scholastic: Children Book Publishing. Catalog your books online. How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytelling. As an appreciator of the art of visual storytelling by way of good information graphics — an art especially endangered in this golden age of bad infographics served as linkbait — I was thrilled and honored to be on the advisory “Brain Trust” for a project by Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, New Yorker writer, and Scientific American neuroscience blog editor Gareth Cook, who has set out to highlight the very best infographics produced each year, online and off.

How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytelling

(Disclaimer for the naturally cynical: No money changed hands.) The Best American Infographics 2013 (public library) is now out, featuring the finest examples from the past year — spanning everything from happiness to sports to space to gender politics, and including a contribution by friend-of-Brain Pickings Wendy MacNaughton — with an introduction by none other than David Byrne. Accompanying each image is an artist statement that explores the data, the choice of visual representation, and why it works. Books About Rock 'n Roll Covers. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternativ... via | buy on eBay.

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Bijoux, Accessoires, Cheveux et Beauté pour toi, ta famille et tes amis. Chronicling the Worst Break-Ups in History. Throughout the history of mankind, few near-universal experiences have caused as much weird behavior as breakups have.

Chronicling the Worst Break-Ups in History

Ending a relationship is hard in the best of circumstances, but every now and then one (or both) parties will indulge their worst impulses and get really, really weird. In her new book, It Ended Badly, writer Jennifer Wright compiles some of history's worst breakups, resulting in a how-to guide to love gone wrong and a history book you'll want to gossip about. The table of contents lays it all out for emergency breakup situations. Family knew better than you did? Favourite books - Mem Fox.

Nineteenth century Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and PersuasionCharlotte Bronte: VilletteCharles Dickens: Dombey and Son and A Tale of Two CitiesGeorge Eliot: Silas Marner and Adam BedeThomas Hardy: The Mayor of CasterbridgeNathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet LetterBalzac: Lost IllusionsTolstoy: War and PeaceFlaubert: Madame BovaryStendhal: Scarlet and BlackEmile Zola La Bete HumaineDostoevsky: Crime and Punishment and The Idiot Later English books: D.H.Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, and the poem called SnakeVirginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One’s OwnDaphne du Maurier: RebeccaDavid Lodge: A Small WorldBarbara Trapido: Brother of the More Famous JackA.S.Byatt: PossessionJeannette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit … and whatever I have read and enjoyed most recently, a huge list that I cannot control, so I won’t try, but last month (August 2013) I did adore “We need new names” by NonViolet Bulawayo, and i’m currently swooning over “A History of Silence” by Loyd James.

Favourite books - Mem Fox

Like mud, not fireworks - Mem Fox. The Place Of Passion In The Development Of Literacy What has passion to do with literacy?

Like mud, not fireworks - Mem Fox

What has hairdressing to do with literacy? What has literacy to do with ironing? Can a three year old begin to learn to read in fifteen minutes? Do the Beatles have a message for teachers of reading? When, as teachers of literacy, we stand at the crossroads of conflicting pedagogies and ask ourselves which road we should travel on, it seems to me that we always look in the same direction for the answers.

“I stopped him” [she said] “and asked him if he was lost. “Tell me when you see your mum,” I said to him. Title Trader - Book Swap and trade your used books, DVDs, CDs, and textbooks for something new, for free. (i was listsandmasterposts) Catalog your books online.