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Coping Skills

We (in Minnesota) have been wanting to see an update to the fantastic //Coping Skills// publication (ISBN: 0-8444-0799-2) that the NLS put out in 1993, so I thought I'd attempt to re-create it here. All are welcome (and encouraged) to participate. I could certainly use the help!
Coping Skills cover page I have listed all of the categories as they were in the publication, but I am not tied to them. It has been 20 years since the creation of this publication so I'm sure that everything from the category names to the books included could be outdated.

NOTE: I have created a format that I would like to retain if possible (for example, category name = Headline level 2; book titles = Headline level 3). That said, I'm open for suggestions and corrections.

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Self Development

Playing the Game: A Psychopolitical Strategy for Your Career

Author: Raymond Blank
Annotation:
The author contends that ability, dedication, and competence are not sufficient to guarantee success or even survival in the work world. He sets forth the essential political and interpersonal skills an employee needs to manipulate subordinates, peers, and supervisors successfully.
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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

Author: John Bradshaw
Annotation:
A counselor, theologian, and television personality claims that many people harbor a wounded inner child with leftover feelings from past hurts. This inner child can contaminate an individual's life and cause overreactions, marital problems, addictions, toxic parenting, and destructive relationships. He describes how to heal the wounded child within.
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  • DB 31960 - Read by Bill Wallace. Reading time: 12 hours, 33 minutes.

The Magic of Believing

Author: Claude M. Bristol
Annotation:
A hard-headed businessman and skeptical newspaper man tells how to get whatever you want in life by harnessing the unlimited power of your subconscious mind.
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Intimate Connections: The New and Clinically Tested Program for Overcoming Loneliness Developed at the Presbyterian - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Author: David D. Burns
Annotation:
A self-help manual for achieving self-confidence. Assuming that thoughts have an impact on the way we feel and behave, the author suggests ways to overcome shyness and depression and explores the role of intimacy in our lives.
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Bus 9 to Paradise: A Loving Voyage

Author: Leo Buscaglia
Annotation:
The author celebrates the here and now with the ultimate message that “life is wonderful, joy is our birthright and love is what it's all about.”
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Living, Loving & Learning

Author: Leo Buscaglia
Annotation:
Series of lectures originally delivered between 1970 and 1981 on the need of people for one another. Includes stories and anecdotes illustrating the joys and pitfalls that the search for love entails in these troubled times. Reassuring self-help philosophy.
Available Formats:

  • DB 17739 - Read by Bob Askey. Reading time: 8 hours, 14 minutes.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Author: Dale Carnegie
Annotation:
Originally published in 1937 and revised in 1981 to “clarify and strengthen the book for a modern reader,” this guide provides fundamental techniques in handling people. Includes how to make people like you, how to win them to your way of thinking, and how to be a leader without offending or arousing resentment.
Available Formats:

  • DB 53469 - Read by Jack Fox. Reading time: 8 hours, 28 minutes.

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

ADDED 2013
Author: Brent Cole; Dale Carnegie & Associates
This update to //How to Win Friends and Influence People// (DB 53469), offered seventy-five years after the original was published, incorporates successful use of social media. Details easy-to-employ strategies for productive conversations and collaborations in business and personal life. Discusses ways to communicate, lead, and work well with others.
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  • DB 75355 - Read by Jeff Allin. Reading time: 7 hours, 24 minutes.

Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

Author: Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter
Annotation:
Account of how the former president and first lady made the transition from the White House to Plains, Georgia. In this joint narrative with individual interjections when recollections or interpretations differ, the Carters tell of their involvement in a host of projects and volunteerism.
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  • DB 25995 - Read by Mitzi Friedlander. Reading time: 7 hours, 1 minute.

The Inner World of the Middle-Aged Man

Author: Peter Chew
Annotation:
A journalist examines the numerous problems and pitfalls that confront men in their middle years and suggests positive ways to face the future.
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Relationships
Marriage and Divorce
Families
Child Abuse
Health and Healing
Alcohol, Drug, and Other Addictions
Aging
Disabilities: General
Disabilities: Visual Issues
Disabilities: Mobility Issues
Providing Care for a Loved One
Death and Bereavement
General
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