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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!
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the creation of this publication so I'm sure that everything from the category names to the books included could be outdated.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
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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
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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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- BR 06235 - 3 volumes.
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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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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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How to Be a Really Nice Person: Doing the Right Thing--Your Way
Author: Pat Collins with John Malone
Annotation:
Undertakes to replace traditional rules of correct behavior and etiquette with guidelines designed to convey “niceness” without interfering with one's own priorities. “Don't let people take advantage of your purse, connections, talent, knowledge, time, and energy,” she counsels. She believes that nice people have rights too.
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The Sky's the Limit
Author: Wayne W. Dyer
Annotation:
Explains how we can achieve heights of happiness and fulfillment by developing our human potential. Advises that we adopt a no-limit attitude to personal achievement, “accept our animal nature, and retain the fantasy and candor of childhood.”
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You'll See It When You Believe It
Author: Wayne W. Dyer
Annotation:
The author of //Your Erroneous Zones// and //Pulling Your Own Strings// gives the reader a set of directions for personal transformation. He argues that the human being is a spirit in a body, not a body with a spirit, and emphasizes spiritual experience. Using examples and anecdotes, he describes why and how to visualize what you want from life.
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- DB 30718 - Read by Andy Chappell. Reading time: 9 hours, 28 minutes.
Lifebalance: Priority Balance, Attitude Balance, Goal Balance in All Areas of Your Life
Author: Richard Eyre and Linda Eyre
Annotation:
The authors, who have nine children, run several businesses, revel in the arts, and enjoy life, reveal their “secret”–the ability to balance work and family life. The underlying theme encompasses thinking and rethinking one's priorities and suggests innovative approaches to living life to its fullest.
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Talking Between the Lines: How We Mean More Than We Say
Author: Julius Fast and Barbara Fast
Annotation:
Understanding and using metacommunication– how we say what we say. Analyzes the effects of breath, pitch, stress, rhythm, tone, inflection, word choice, and emotional overlay in communicating.
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Author: Robert Fulghum
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A retired Unitarian minister presents his thoughts and observations on the joy of life. The essays cover such topics as: the joys of Crayolas, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, jumper cables, a shoebox of childhood momentoes, and the author's wife. A frequently quoted maxim, from a kindergarten graduation speech, is “When you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.”
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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Author: Robert Fulghum
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From the author who reminded us that all we really need to know we learned in kindergarten. Fulghum writes about the joy of climbing trees; about the things “grown-ups” do (such as cleaning sink strainers and plunging out toilets); about Rosa Parks, a black woman, who began the Montgomery bus boycott; and about children. He advises, “Love them long, and let them go early.”
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