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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the creation of this publication so I'm sure that everything from the category names to the books included could be outdated.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.

--- //[[dan.malosh@state.mn.us|Dan Malosh @ MN1A Regional]] 2013/07/10 16:22//

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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• RC 17189

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.

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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• RC 19698

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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• RC 23228
• BR 06235 - 3 volumes.

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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• DB 23902 - IN PROCESS
• BR 06541 - 2 volumes.

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.

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.

• 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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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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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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Author: Pat Collins with John Malone
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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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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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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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Author: Richard Eyre and Linda Eyre
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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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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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Author: Robert Fulghum
Annotation:
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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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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Author: Thomas A. Harris
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A popular approach to psychological self-help based on the theory that each person contains three active elements: the Parent, the Adult, and the Child. The goal of transactional analysis is to achieve a healthy balance of these elements, freeing the Adult from the archaic recordings of the Parent and the Child.
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Author: Naura Hayden
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Self-help work that emphasizes reevaluation of habits that drain physical, mental, and emotional energy. Suggests ways of changing these bad habits and developing a reservoir of energy.
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Author: Laura Archera Huxley
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A practical guide to self-improvement that includes “recipes” for living and loving. The author applies psychological principles and oriental philosophy and other means to spur the reader on to better mental and physical health. The foreword is written by the author's husband, Aldous Huxley.
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Author: Herbert Kohl
Annotation:
The educator and author of //36 Children// provides a look at his painful journey toward personal liberation. He confronts the question of whether one can live a healthy life in an unhealthy society and whether it is possible to change oneself in midlife.
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Author: Earl Koile
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Importance of effective listening in terms of its positive results on both the person expressing thoughts and the person hearing them. Suggestions are offered on ways to overcome barriers and become more sensitive. Available Formats:

Author: Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer
Annotation:
The two social scientists interviewed more than six hundred people to learn how they managed what the Lauers term “watersheds”: unforeseen, life-altering events and experiences. Includes a multitude of examples of how people successfully cope with change.
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Author: Michael LeBouef
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How to get more done in less time and with less hassle. Teaches how to set specific goals on a daily, intermediate, and lifetime basis, and how to analyze and revise use of time accordingly.
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Author: Og Mandino
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At age thirty-five, the author was a derelict who came very close to spending his last few dollars on a gun with which he planned to kill himself. Mandino explains what prevented his suicide, and then offers “Seventeen Rules to Live By” that he hopes will help everyone avoid living even one more day feeling failure, grief, poverty, shame, or self-pity.
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Author: Mildred Newman & Bernard Berkowitz
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How the perceptions and judgments of childhood can be harmful if they are not consciously updated. Advice is given on types of attitudes and how to shake free of them. Includes abbreviated case histories.
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Author: Mildred Newman & Bernard Berkowitz with Jean Owen
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These practicing psychoanalysts believe that everyone can help himself by learning to be aware of his own accomplishments, by having compassion for himself, and by praising himself for achievement. Aims to help the reader feel more responsible for his own fate and more capable of directing it.