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With their 1994 international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand, Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner armed a civility-starved world with no-nonsense strategies for dealing with difficult people with tact and skill. Since then, cell phones, the Internet, voice mail, and other technological wonders designed to bring people closer together have only made it that much harder to avoid "people you can't stand;" even worse, they've also created exciting new ways for annoying people to realize their talent for being pains in the butt.

Updated and revised for the digital age, this new edition of Brinkman and Kirschner's bestselling guide shows readers how to successfully combat the whiners, grenades, tanks, snipers, close-talkers, pedants, and other rude, crude, and inconsiderate people who can ruin your day at work, in stores, on the street, in restaurants, at the movies, in waiting rooms, by fax, phone, and E-mail, and in cyberspace..
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When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.

Sala's Gift is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival and love amidst history's worst nightmare..
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National Board Certification is a highly-regarded credential attesting that a teacher has been judged by peers as one who is accomplished, makes sound professional judgments about student learning, and acts effectively on those judgments. More than 23,000 National Board Certified Teachers currently teach in schools across America. You could be the next one. Get a better chance of becoming one with this insider's view of the certification process.

Adrienne Mack-Kirschner's work with the National Board program makes her the ideal person to advise certification candidates. In her book, she virtually unpacks the "box" the National Board sends to candidates with all of the portfolio instructions, standards, and forms needed to apply. Mack-Kirschner makes sense of these materials, particularly those pertaining to the Five Core Propositions at the heart of NB certification. She makes the propositions user friendly, pulling them apart and explaining exactly what they mean. She also discusses classroom practices that are doable and effective, and that meet the criteria of the propositions. Her whole approach is practical, hands on, supportive.

Pick up The Teacher's Guide and begin with any section, read from cover to cover, or turn to specific topics. Discover the premises behind everything the National Board process requires of you, in addition to the nuts and bolts of completing the portfolio. Learn that the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is really not a scary thing, but an inspirational prototype for what accomplished practice can be. It motivates, validates, and ultimately celebrates good teaching. And good teaching is what YOU are all about.

THE MCGRAW-HILL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SERIES

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers

Specific strategies for understanding the 10 types of problem people and influencing them to adopt positive behaviors.

-In the last decade, technology has spawned a whole new breed of annoyances From cell-phone chatters to email spammers to voice-mail hogs, life is now increasingly filled with even more difficult people. -At best, such people make life stressful and unpleasant. At worst, they can keep you from achieving important goals. But it's fully within your power to bring out the best behavior in people who are at their worst. The proven, innovative approach in Dealing with Difficult People will help you to: -Identify 10 bothersome behaviors and deal successfully with each of them Understand why people become difficult Use sophisticated techniques to neutralise whining, negativity, attacks, tantrums and more Cultivate the nine "take-charge" skills that prevent people from becoming difficult

There's no reason to let unpleasant people get in the way of your performance in the workplace or in your life. With the help of these effective approaches to understanding and circumventing disruptive and annoying behavior, you can overcome the obstacles posed by difficult people in every phase of your life..
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